I'm in for the earlier runs. I need all three of those Magi badges on Bionic, but can bring others as needed.
50s: Inv/SS PB Emp/Dark Grav/FF DM/Regen TA/A Sonic/Elec MA/Regen Fire/Kin Sonic/Rad Ice/Kin Crab Fire/Cold NW Merc/Dark Emp/Sonic Rad/Psy Emp/Ice WP/DB FA/SM
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Sounds good to me.
I might be a few min late; if you're ready to roll and I'm not on yet I'll catch the next one.
I should be able to make it.
My secondary badger on Justice is a Brute, I would like the badges on him.
However, having been thru some successful RHW runs I know what 'bring some effin' -res and debuff' means so I can switch to a Fire/Rad Corr instead.
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Really Hard Way is the last badge FemFury needs. Ever! 
So, any attempts, I'll be making it to as many attempts as I can. With Ultimate inspirations, and maybe some of those Amplifiers from the Paragon Market. And some team inspirations. Whatever it takes.
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Thursday is my Saturday, so I will attempt to be around for this!! I know my badger would love to score these before the end!
I'll try to make it as well. Besides BAF and TPN Onibi need most the other trial badges too sadly.
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I could still use ready to rumble and really hard way on Electroanagesia, but Femfury's been chomping at the bit for RHW; I'd be willing to bring a debuffer for that.
Ready to Rumble conquered! Triple Threat, here we come!
Thanks, Uber.
50s: Inv/SS PB Emp/Dark Grav/FF DM/Regen TA/A Sonic/Elec MA/Regen Fire/Kin Sonic/Rad Ice/Kin Crab Fire/Cold NW Merc/Dark Emp/Sonic Rad/Psy Emp/Ice WP/DB FA/SM
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No RHW, but by switching to my Kinetic, I helped other people get Ready To Rumble. So I feel accomplished and useful!
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I thought by crashing and being bugged so I couldn't get back in I guaranteed you guys the RHW badge...I tried 
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Well, we had some success, but it was kind of painful. Let me thank everyone who came, and Ullikummis, I'm really sorry I couldn't get you back in on the last run.
We ran three times, and got Hard Way on the last two, and Ready To Rumble on the third.
Every time, someone different ran into the zone early on the IDF. That was really frustrating.
We really didn't make a dent in Really Hard Way. I think the lowest we ever got his health was 20%, and that was super brief. Most of the time he was in the 35-40% range and we couldn't really move it lower for any meaningful duration.
I still need Triple Threat on my badger.
I'm going to start another thread for the next run. We're going to have to be smarter about Really Hard Way. I think am going to be more hard-*** than I usually like to be about what characters come on the trial.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Thanks, Uber. I hope to be around for the 3x badge, but who knows. Life is fluid and unpredictable.
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Well, we had some success, but it was kind of painful. Let me thank everyone who came, and Ullikummis, I'm really sorry I couldn't get you back in on the last run.
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That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.
Hey, all. Tying in to @Redshadows' thread on Master runs, I would like to try and get some Magi badge runs together this Thursday.
Unfortunately, Red and some other folks I want to help get this badge have some fairly incompatible on-line times. (Red can't be on until 9 Pacific, which is midnight Eastern.) However, I am also willing to make a go multiple times. I would like to initially shoot for an attempt around 8 PM Eastern, 7 PM Central, 6 PM Mountain which is only 5 PM Pacific.
I know I need Ready To Rumble (Defeat the 4 AVs within 8 minutes of the 1st teleport in) and Triple Threat (defeat the 1st 3 AVs within 5 seconds of one another). My understanding is that these may be best done in separate attempts, with different strategies. After attempts on either or both of those, we can go for at least The Hard Way (close no more than 12 Lights of the Well) or (if we're really hot stuff) The Really Hard Way (close no Lights). Achieving RHW gives you HW automatically.
R2R is a high DPS challenge. I've been on a lot of leagues that have likely had the raw DPS to take down big sacks of HP like AVs fast enough for R2R, but they often lose too much time taking out the 250 IDF. We need to be smart about pulling, debuffing and AoEing the IDF to speed this up. If your contribution is single-target damage, bear in mind that minions and LTs count towards the 250, and are far faster to defeat than bosses. I recommend prioritizing those foes defeat unless there is just nothing but bosses in sight. (I have read that Battle Orbs count for the 250, but have not confirmed it. If anyone can confirm here, please do. These are very fragile. AoEs usually kill them fast anyway, though.)
While I do not wish to be exclusionary, these badges really call for +2 and +3 characters as much as possible. Assault Hybrid is very helpful for DPS, as are -Resistance debuffs and of course things like Kinetics. -Regen is very useful against the 1st 4 AVs, but Tyrant is immune to it.
If you can, I recommend bringing Ultimate inspirations. While we may not need them, having them is still a good idea. Each one grants a +1 level shift, additive with any other shifts you have. Each Ultimate lasts 3 minutes, during which you can't use another one. Ultimates are very expensive on the Auction House / Black Market (10-20M), but "only" cost 2 Astral Merits at Astral Christy in Ouroboros.
My goal in posting this in advance is to try and get folks to set aside time to attend. For obvious reasons, iTrial attendance is a bit thin currently. I'm sure that in addition to less people being on due to general malaise, folks who are playing are also busy trying to achieve other goals. If we cannot get enough people, or if we do but don't get the badges on Thursday, I would like to try again on the weekend, probably Saturday evening.
Please reply here if you're interested, so we can get a sense of how may people might come.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA