Its that time again : Avoids the Green Friday, June 22, 8:00 PM EST

Now that Issue 23 has been conquered, Tyrant spanked like a petulant child, and the Night Ward thoroughly explored, its high time to get back to the important business of failing this badge run on a weekly basis.

I will run it a couple of times with a team of 12, each run takes between 20-25 minutes, since we have gotten it down to a science.

All that matters is the end fight, where you must avoid the obliteration beam during the fight with Uncle Matter at the end.

Hope to see you there, and I hope we finally beat this @#$#@$#@ challenge.


Confirmed Attendees Thus Far:

1) Atomic Saint
2) Yat Man
3) Caliburst
4) Exchanger
5) Lucrezia via hamster powered laptop
6) Viper Kinji
7) Ion Sky
8) Solo Kitty
9) US Customs Agent



Alternate if needed : Lil Bug.



I have 6 Ultimates in my tray, can buy more if needed. if you are plus 3 great, but not required. No alt is verbotten, but you MUST be able to pay attention at the end, as this is tricky as hell.

Put me down. Yat Man 53 Warshade. Can switch to a fire/rad, ill/time, MM, Dom, or Fire/kin.

I should be able to make this.

I need this on my stone brute Exchanger

You're going to run it even though I'm out of town? That's cold. :c

I'll load COH on my laptop and try to make it.

I can help out if you need to fill up slots, but I don't want to take a badgers spot. Its best to just keep this as small a team as you can. Just go for the one badge avoid, so don't really worry to much on team make up, just people that can listen.

Have someone call out when the beam is firing, no long animating attacks, best to use range attacks, and no flying. Pets help out really good since they can get hit by the beam and you still get the badge, so highest damage lore pets out.

Thx for the tips and signing up, guys.

I should be able to help this time around.

Are you using incand? Or still not?

I have it at tier 4, but I didn't get enough people to really make it work, and it seemed to be confusing as hell. What happened was people would rush right back in as soon as they were teeped and then get hit by the beam. I believe its just a matter of awareness and team make up more than anything else, and I usually have to fill just to start this puppy, resulting in a successful trial, but a badge fail.

Yaknow, some people might say its a cheat, but I think everyone bringing 2 ultimates would make this go a lot faster, which would result in less oblit beams having to be dodged.

If everybody attending could bring at least 2 of these that would be super. Ill convert some Astrals, so I have a few extra lying around.

Whatever we can do to reduce the exposure time of the Green Beam is good. If that means jacking levels and kicking Tony Stark Jrs **** quicker, Im all for it.

I'd like to bring Ion Sky, my fire/fire dom, for this. I even have some leftover Ultimates. I can bring a different character if needed, though this badge seems more about timing and paying attention than anything else.

Yat Man and Turg are right. The faster you take him down, the fewer beams you have to avoid. If you want to stack the deck in your favor, use Ultimates, use level 53 chars, use Kins to increase the team damage, use Resistance debuffs, and use Lore pets. Say there's a 5% chance on any one beam that someone messes up. If there are 10 beams, there's a 60% change to succeed. But if there are only 5 beams, there's a 77% chance to succeed.

Yeah, I've been on three previous badge attempts, and I don't think any of them made it past the first time freeze.

I was thinking about this earlier. Since there is a countdown timer for the obliteration beam, and it appears to center on a random player, maybe we could use a variation on the strategy used to deal with Tyrant's Flow Lightning on the Mag trial. When the countdown timer reaches 5 seconds or so, have everyone (except perhaps the tank) stop attacking and back far away from AM. When the beam starts, everyone can move back in and start attacking AM again. The idea is to make the beam spawn away from AM. Also, stopping attacks several seconds before the beam starts would reduce the chance of dropping AM's HPs below one of the Time Freeze thresholds at a bad moment. At the very least, it would encourage players to be more proactive about avoiding the beam, instead of scrambling to react to the beam once it has started.

My hand and the rest of my joins have recovered almost completely. I'll be by as usual.

I can be there with whatever AT you need...just as long as this mickey wears off before then.

Ok, looks like we have an (almost) full team of pros to try this.

Remember, It doesn't matter what type of toon you bring, just your expertise. So if you need this on an alt, please bring that character.

ILooking forward to giving this a real shot.

You can add me too, I would love to come avoid green
Trans

The Transcendent One
Level 50+ PB (Badge Count 1404)

And we spanked it!

Congrats to everyone for the badge. it ends a year long drought for Luc and Atomic Saint on that badge. Glad to have helped you guys get it!

OMG, thank you SO MUCH for helping us get taht badge.

Next week, I help Exchanger get the TPN Mo, so look out for that thread.

Again, my thanks. Freedom rocks!