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Hello Union,

I've just started playing this game last Christmas, and a few friends have joined me. We had started on Infinity but have decided to move to Union as we're all from the Netherlands.

We're part of a large internet gaming community, The Conclave, and I'm trying to get a few more members to join us, but we'll see how that goes.

For now we've started a Super Group on the Villain side named "TheConclave" and are trying to find our bearings in the game. Our highest level characters are now level 21.

We might get more involved in the community once we've settled in a bit. Given that some of us are pen-and-paper role players we might also get involved in that. I already got some pointers from when I made a thread on the European Lounge subforum.

In this respect it would help if someone could explain to me what things like "Sewers blue side" and such mean. People have already asked me to join that but I have no clue what it is or what would be expected.

I've been told to get on global channel "Union Chat", which I probably will do once I get the chat interface completely figured out. (I haven't used chat much yet, some of the buttons seem awfully small).

Any advice is welcome at this point.


 

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Hi and welcome to the game,I mostly play on the Defiant server but i can help you out about when people post a blue side sewer.It is the new low level TF/Trial it is the Death from Below it starts at level 1 you have 4 temporary powers to collect,which you should be able to attain in4 runs as long as no one charges off doing their own thing.
You can also do this red side as you are playing villains,blue being hero side,if you want I can tell you the order to do things to get the 4 badges in 1 run,but will not as I do not want to spoil things if you want to play without it being spoiled.


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In this respect it would help if someone could explain to me what things like "Sewers blue side" and such mean. People have already asked me to join that but I have no clue what it is or what would be expected.
Before issue 21 there was a zone called the sewers filled with large mobs of low level enemies, as such people street sweeped the sewers from level 1 - [roughly] 7 to get past the first few levels quickly.
With issue 21 they created an actual sewers trial so people can do these more organised and have better rewards. If you join a sewers team, once the leader is happy with however many he has in team [max of 8] he'll click to enter the sewers trial in which a popup box will appear asking you to either enter or decline the trial.

If you click enter you and your team will be zoned into the trial and its basically fight your way to the finish through each level. There are 4 levels in total with an AV at the end of each level to test you. Its a very easy trial and does give great experience Also as a side note that you dont need to only do this as a low level, you can do this at any level however you'll be exemp'd down to the level of the trial but still get the xp as if you was fighting your own level mobs.

Im going to be ingame now for a bit so if you do have more questions simply ask on Union Chat since thats the channel i tend to live on

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Given that some of us are pen-and-paper role players we might also get involved in that.
While i aint one, i know that there are quite a lot of people on union who do do this kind of thing


@Damz Find me on the global channel Union Chat. One of the best "chat channels" ingame!

 

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I first need to figure out the chat interface. I find it confusing. I probably just need to get the hang of it.

I have some other questions:
I was unable to register our Super Group as "The Conclave" because it already existed. If I search for it, it only has 80000 reputation. It looks like it's never been used with only 4 characters in it. Is there a way to find out who might own this and if they might be willing to give it up? As we're new players we wouldn't have anything to trade for it I think. Given that our community has been called "The Conclave" since 2002, I was wondering if there is a way.

Thanks for the explanations on the Trial. Is it similar to the Story Arcs in how it works, or is it more like a single mission with multiple elevator levels?

In general, what would be expected when joining a trial as far as archetypes performing different roles? I'm used to the traditional Tank/Healer/DPS groups from WoW. It seems to map onto some of the Archetypes, how does this work? Does the Archetype matter or start to matter from certain levels.
I notice that even within an Archetype there are big differences in how well you can play a role. For example my Fire/Fire Brute is much more single target dps than a tank than my SuperStrength/Regeneration Brute. This might change at higher levels and depending on what Powers you choose in the PowerSets.

Do you need to have 8 members in the team? I often see 6/8 or something like that advertised in Help. Do you need a full team, I was under the impression that the spawns scale with the size of the team.

Me and a friend had a look in Pocket D yesterday evening, but it seemed there were only a dozen or so level 50's idling there around DJ Zero. Is that the place to go, or are there other places, like the Atlas statue seems to be for Heroes? Is the dance floor area what's referred to as "Blue side in Pocket D"?


 

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Originally Posted by RogerWilco View Post
I first need to figure out the chat interface. I find it confusing. I probably just need to get the hang of it.

I have some other questions:
I was unable to register our Super Group as "The Conclave" because it already existed. If I search for it, it only has 80000 reputation. It looks like it's never been used with only 4 characters in it. Is there a way to find out who might own this and if they might be willing to give it up? As we're new players we wouldn't have anything to trade for it I think. Given that our community has been called "The Conclave" since 2002, I was wondering if there is a way.
None that I know of. Perhaps someone else has an idea.

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Thanks for the explanations on the Trial. Is it similar to the Story Arcs in how it works, or is it more like a single mission with multiple elevator levels?
The latter mainly although some trials can have several missions, such as the Terra Volta trial (respec)

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In general, what would be expected when joining a trial as far as archetypes performing different roles? I'm used to the traditional Tank/Healer/DPS groups from WoW. It seems to map onto some of the Archetypes, how does this work? Does the Archetype matter or start to matter from certain levels.
I notice that even within an Archetype there are big differences in how well you can play a role. For example my Fire/Fire Brute is much more single target dps than a tank than my SuperStrength/Regeneration Brute. This might change at higher levels and depending on what Powers you choose in the PowerSets.
Roles are a lot more fluid than in some other games, although as a tank you will be expected to jump in first.

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Do you need to have 8 members in the team? I often see 6/8 or something like that advertised in Help. Do you need a full team, I was under the impression that the spawns scale with the size of the team.
Not for normal missions. Trials/TFs require a minimum number of people ranging from 3 for Positron up to 8 for some higher level TFs. Some incarnate trials require multiple teams.

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Me and a friend had a look in Pocket D yesterday evening, but it seemed there were only a dozen or so level 50's idling there around DJ Zero. Is that the place to go, or are there other places, like the Atlas statue seems to be for Heroes? Is the dance floor area what's referred to as "Blue side in Pocket D"?
Sounds like an incarnate trial was forming. I'm not sure that people hang out in there so much but there are several global channels used such as Union Chat.

Hope this helps.


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Originally Posted by OV_ohms View Post
Roles are a lot more fluid than in some other games, although as a tank you will be expected to jump in first.
Would a Brute be considered a tank? I had the feeling is was kind of the Villain counterpart of the Tanker, but I'm not sure.

I joined Union Chat yesterday evening, there were just over 50 people in it, but it seemed rather quiet.


 

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Biscuits Deluxe and amazing flame have just made some ZOMG amazing inf. donations.

And Happy Birthday to Biscuits Deluxe!



I will use these donations to further the goals of Dr. Augmented and The Conclave SG, and hopefully be able to do the same some time in the future.

In the mean time I just want to say thank you this way. :-)


 

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Aw, thankies, Rog. ^_^


 

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Welcome to Paragon City RogerWilco, welcome to Union.

Please feel free to contact me ingame for any channel invites, help, or indeed any questions you may have about the game.

@Mothers_Love



I look forward to seeing you (and indeed the rest of The Conclave) on-duty!.

.o>


 

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Welcome to Union!

Got some serious love for our server, defo the best by far

Give me a shout @Black Assassin or @Royal Assassin if you need a hand with anything


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Send me a tell on @elizabeth Bathory, I add you to global. Can help you around a lot.


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