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His 'Punching the ground' attack is Hammer of Justice, which you may recognize from Statesman's attack, only it has longer range and he can use it in midair. :3

The general tactic we seem to have worked out for the last phase is:

1. After nuke hits, everyone is gathered together. Stay together so the people with heals or rebirths can heal you. Buffs may or may not happen at this point, if they don't, they'll be activated around Tyrant
2. Regardless of what AT you are, go into melee range against Tyrant (if he's not making the air crackle). This is so buffs and heals can reach you easily.
3. Every so often, a group of Olympian Guards will be spawned to attack the league. Unlike normal EB Olympian Guards, these are boss-class, but they can fly and still pack a hefty punch. Since everyone is together next to Tyrant, AoEs and PBAoEs are usually enough to take them out before they start hurting the league too much.
4. Tyrant's Beam Sweep attack is autohit, but is a cone in front of him. Since everyone is together, people can usually survive it and get healed and continue attacking.
5. Tyrant's Hammer of Justice is a 60ft PBAoE which can be used in midair and deals quite a bit of damage. There's no message for it, so don't bother attempting to fly out of range if everyone is fighting him in melee range. Buffs and heals will hopefully keep you alive, and if you fall, hopefully someone has a resurrection power to use.
5. As soon as Tyrant makes the air crackle (big message) every 35 seconds, everyone without exception must move. Not only is this to avoid the initial PBAoE from Tyrant's Zeus' Lightning Bolt, but also to spread out the Flow Lightning which will spawn at player locations away from Tyrant. Since people should be moving, at most, they'll take around 1-2 ticks of damage and survive it. If everything went as planned, no Flow Lightning should be around Tyrant, and so everyone immediately goes back to smack him. This is also a good time to save range judgement and normal range attacks for attacking Tyrant at range when nobody should be in melee. Flying is fine here as long as you flew away from him (and other players). Pets appear to be immune to Flow Lightning, but not to the initial PBAoE, but leave them to attack anyway.
6. Go back to step 2. :3

The bit about Tyrant having extra regeneration if people go hospital, we're not too sure of that and testing it. But regardless, if you go hospital, you'll have to help the doctor break the portal open which takes time, and means you do 0 DPS against Tyrant. So if you fall, try to wait a little if your league has Barriers with rez or rez powers that you know of.

As mentioned, Ultimate inspirations will help a bit due to Tyrant's level shifts. You can buy them from Ouroboros from the astral vendor for 2 astrals. Lore pets will also help when Tyrant hits 30% health, make sure you're under the influence of an ultimate inspiration before using Lore.

Regarding incarnate powers:
Destiny: We had a mix of Barrier, Rebirth and Ageless which seems to work well.
Interface: Since Reactive is still the most common one, we had people switching to Degenerative (not sure if that's really effective or not) and some such as Diamagnetic to help against his regen.
Lore: A lot of people were busting out Longbow pets for the Cataphract boss with it's insane -regen power, but don't try to make one before the league starts if it won't give you a level shift, which is more important. :3 Cimerorans obviously deal the best damage, but they might find it hard to hit Tyrant due to the number of people in melee range. People were also bringing out Warworks, Robotic Drones and other pets which can do -regen, so that's something to consider.
Hybrid: I don't know enough about this yet, I don't think many people on the league really took this into account, haha. The Support and Assault ones should probably be the best ones to use at the 30% health mark.

This and Avoids the Green Stuff are probably the toughest trial badges.
Well, bombs in Underground too for timing.

GG on making these.

It certainly wasn't trivial. Quite a few resources went into this.

Congratulations.

btw. what´s it about these stars? I´ve never seen those before.

If you right click a player, then click add note, you can click up to 5 stars and create your own rating system. In addition, you can add a note to remind you something about that player.

You have to then go into menu : options : windows and make sure that it says show always on the player rating part

That is hilarious! Boy, you really know who your friends are when they POST SCREENSHOTS OF YOUR RATING TO THEM!!!

Have you TRIED to get it on live? o_O

Put it this way, so far as I know, and nobody's popped up yet to claim otherwise, we are the only league to get the badge yet since i23 went live.

Yes, it was apparently bumped up the difficulty scale quite a lot going from beta to live.

Also, note to self: next time taking a screenshot to post to the boards, turn off player ratings as apparently they get more attention than getting one of the hardest to acquire badges in the game does <grin>

Nope, which is why I asked. It's pretty obvious my account is f2p right now, so I can't do trials.

AFAIK, you're the only ones that have actually tried. Number of successes is only important relative to the number of attempts. I haven't really been keeping up so I didn't know either, hence why I asked.

Let's not sell the efforts of those on beta short, now. There was around the same level of planning and buffs as on live; the people involved in beta were willing to move quickly, avoided lightning strikes, and worked together - all still critical in getting this badge on live. The only thing we weren't stressing was stacking ATs, and we still had a nice selection of buffs and debuffs anyway.

Congratulations again to those who have this on Live. You guys really earned it.

thank you

Was a great team, and everyone did a great job. Glad to finally have it!

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