As nice as a all Tank Dr Q would be, it will run to late for me. Sunday is fine, just need a time.
Are these weekend-only TFs? I showed up on Monday night and couldn't get enough to form one up so we ran some missions in the shadowshard until we dropped.
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Tomorrow is October 1.
Tomorrow signals the dawn of the final SHARDTOBER.
The rules are simple: once you hit Level 40, you venture into Peregrine Island, then into Portal Corp., and then into Firebase Zulu, the first of the Shard realms.
Once you're in, you can't get out. Well, except for the occasional trip back into Paragon City for a door mission. Thank Faathim for Ouro portals and Team Transports: before those shortcuts it would take HOURS to travel back and forth.
The first TF is [a href="http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Quaterfield_Task_Force"]Dr. Quaterfeld[/a], stationed to the right of Gen. Hammond as you enter the FBZ. The Task Force requires 8 players to start (full-team), so you need to line up people well ahead of time to make sure you can get going as soon as possible.
EDIT: damm, will somebody fix the link for me!
Team balance is nice but not entirely needed: there are no AVs to face. Still, wouldn't hurt to have buffers/debuffers and an aggro taker on the team.
Most of the missions will be in the Firebase zone. Flight is a must-need power due to 1) the floating space islands you need to reach and 2) nobody ever figured out the silly jump jet geysers positioned everywhere. There's a temp jet pack vendor in the zone, costs about 5000 credits I believe.
The plan for Shardtober runs is usually for the weekends: when we can best be certain we can get enough players online. For Dr. Q, that's Oct. 6 and 7 (Sat. and Sun.) this weekend. But given the nature of this year's event (a thousand game crashes are not enough for NCSoft!), whenever you can get a team lined up, the better. I recommend planning to run the Dr. Q TF in about 4 hours as it's one of the longest-timed TFs in the whole game (some teams have gotten it down to 2 hours, but let's be reasonable).
Please do take pictures during the TF run as THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME SHARDTOBER EVER HAPPENS WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHhhhhh sniff whimper.
I personally will be on for a Tuesday night Dr. Q Task Force because it will be TANKER TUESDAY, and I am quite quite mad. I also aim for running a Dr. Q TF for Sunday afternoon, lemme know what starting time (EST for me, please) you all want.
SHARDTOBER! NCSoft, time to see things eye to eye with us...
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