Time Manipulation Superteam

Hi all,

I will not be able to make it tomorrow (Friday, the 23rd) night. I will be heading out of town to see family. I may be back in time for Sunday, but not 100% sure.

If I don't see you on Sunday, happy playing and hope to see a few new 50's next week.

Apparently I'm not making it tonight either. Hadn't even realized the time until just now, and I still have a long list of things I need to do tonight. Too bad, I haven't logged in Chronosian since 2xp weekend. I have some new powers to play with now!

Another great night last night.

Thanks to all who showed up and the final few that put Perpetual Cold over the top and newest 50 of the group.

This has to be the fastest I've gotten to 50 ever. The buffs/debuffs from multiple time characters is crazy. We are mowing them down.

Now, it's time to help everyone else level up, then take on the incarnate content with extreme prejudice.

Thanks all, and see you soon.

-PC, aka Perpetual Time, Penubral Current (Dark), Proton Chill (Rad), Particle Combat (Gun), Clay Pebble (Stone) and Talon Spirit (Blade)

So, the WST is finally one we can do (Kal). Maybe start with that on Friday, then finish off SSA #7?

And Dark Astoria on Sunday?

Protonic Reversal is 2 bubs into 49 so should hit 50 regardless of what we do. That's my only real goal for Friday. I will be on early and ready to roll out on something right at 8:00. I will miss Sunday and the following Friday (4/6) for yet another vacation (Vegas, baby!) I'll be back on Sunday 4/8, but it's Easter, so I may be late from family obligations.

As I mentioned last Sunday, I was hoping for a +4 LRSF/STF. I'd really like to see what we can do on some more challenging content now that most of the regulars are 50 and starting to get some incarnate work in. I was planning on a warm up with some of the mayhems I'm still missing (Bricks, FF, PI), hammering out a LRSF/STF, and then running the Ramiel arc for the newly minted 50s (I think Slider is also close and PC just hit 50 at the end of Sunday - big grats).

However, I'm not tied to that plan and can certainly be convinced to do both LRSF/STF and a WST, though I think most of us have done Kal so I'd push for Sutter, although it's a bit longer.

We'll probably have to make a gametime decision. If we don't get 8 45+, then high level TF is out (or will have to fill/pug). If we get heroes, then LRSF/Kal is out. If we get 12+, then we'll probably need to run both anyway.

On a different note, we seem to be steamrolling through most +4 content fairly well with large teams. Outside of large damage spikes (like from 54 Recluse), we're nearly undefeatable when together, buffing, and paying attention on all content so far. One thing that is noticable is that bosses take a while to go down, especially when we start running on smaller teams. Now, these are still +4/5 to most of us, so it is somewhat expected. +0/1 do melt like butter when we bother with them. In other words, we don't have huge weaknesses, but if I had to choose one it would be damage output. To this end, I have 3 ideas I'd like to submit to the group for thoughts:
1. Assault - I have this power, but often notice mine is the only one running. I've heard endurance issues as a reason for skipping it, but hopefully, we're now mostly out of the woods on that front with cycling Chronoshifts and well slotted powers. If anyone respecs (or hasn't picked up a power at level 49 yet), I suggest you try to incorporate this into your build. Perhaps, by this point, you have a power that you just don't use that much or was a novelty pick that can be replaced. It is slot-light as 1 or 2 EndRdx are all that is needed for most and can be selected by itself nearly at time. 15% damage from me doesn't have much impact, but 120% from all of us (18.75 from the defenders!) will.
2. Musculature Alpha - Our buffs pretty much take care of just about everything else I need so this is a no brainer for me. I think Persona went Intuition as a controller, but I'm going all damage on my corr - Core Musculature is a no brainer.
3. Interface is a little less clear - I'll probably go with the obvious stand by of Reactive for the -res, but how do Degen's -Max HP and Diag's -regen compare on team DPS? Anything that helps us kill faster sounds good.

These are the routes I intend to take to help our kill speed a bit. This is certainly not a "you should do this too", but more of a "What do you guys think? Any alternate ideas?"

BK

PS - Mezzes are also a bit of an issue for us, but I see those as an annoyance more than something that truly degrades our performance. I plan to combat that annoyance with Clarion, but doubt we'll need a lot of those for most things.

quick random question: who was it that was looking for a hamidon goo? did you get one? if not, i have one on a toon on justice...i know i do cause i remember seeing it, but now i don't remember which toon...but once i find (again) i can email it to myself or whomever once i know who you are...i want to say it was PC...but not sure.

It was me, but I'm all set now. I had one on another toon too, but was trying to "craft on the fly" during team night. I got it emailed over on Tuesday. Thanks anyway!

k, just wanted to make sure. i was checking in on a couple of toons, and i was like hey someone needed that. but anywho, glad that issue is solved.

I won't be on Friday night, real life issues to deal wth. But, will see you Sunday.

-PC

UPDATE - turns out I will be able to make it tonight!

I got the Dark Astoria explore badge for the SG and the Dark Astoria beacon. However due to my inept base editing skills, the beacon is stuck to the wall instead of the teleporter like the rest of them. I assume you have to do something sneaky to get it there. Please feel free to fix!

I'll be on a bit late tonight. Have some errands to run.

Friday saw our visit to IP to say farewell to Statesman. It went smoothly even though I forgot to throw my Phantom Army at Recluse so MP had to do it all.

For Sunday, we could do another 45+ TF if people are collecting for their Alpha slot. Or maybe the WST if people need to be Noticed by the Well. Or I think someone said they still had some missions at the end of the DA arc. I like the grand finale, personally. The opening scene reminds me a lot of that great part in Tin Mage TF where everyone's assembled in the portal room.

I did a few trials on Zeleia and learned two things. (1) With seven of them, and that I haven't done any in a few months, they don't feel like a grind anymore. (2) I also forgot details of what to do in a couple places and had to wander around like a n00b.

How about doing Lord Recluse's strike force this friday (tomorrow)?

10joy

Lord Recluse sounds good to me. We won't be able to put the smackdown on States for too much longer.