deepstryker

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Fellow villains and evil-doers!

I wish to move myself, a Fire/Rad Corrupter, from Liberty to Justice or Triumph... but my name has been taken by some no-good heroes on those servers!

I globally contacted the Justice owner, but the Triumph owner gives no /getglobalname return... very odd (so I cannot contact them). Jaunts across the way being free now, I'd like to take that opportunity whilst available, and who knows if I will hear back from the name-holders before the end of the opportunity, so I am most likely due for a rename.

I am the villainous version of Virtue Rad/Rad Defender Burning Skies, a messenger sent to the past to try to get Earth residents to clean up their polluting ways and prevent nuclear destruction of the planet. No one believed me, of those that listened. I was shamed and scorned, mocked and ignored. So I set to scorch the earth myself!

Anyhow.

I implore your assistance in coming up with a new designation for myself. I would like to have some allusion to my past heroic self in this name. My Fire blasts are the same irradiated green-yellow that my Radiation powers are, and this is my appearance.

So I just had an odd team breakdown moment, and I wanted to take the opportunity to poll the comm about the situation that caused it . . .

I was playing an AR/Traps corruptor on Triumph (a redside ghost town at the best of times), and had teamed up with a Dark Brute to run radio missions. They had all gone fine, and we had seemed pretty well in synch with only occasional strategizing required. I should probably mention that I'm used to playing with familiar LJ teammates much of the team, where a basic follow-the-leader, one-group-at-a-time strategy is pretty consistently followed. And even more of the time I'm playing in a duo where we have nearly identical play styles, and can more or less read one another's minds in terms of strategy, so I occasionally err on the side of too little communication when PUGing.

( The saga continues . . . )

As discussed in the thread/post here, there is going to be a slight change in plans this week, for Sunday Team. In order to capitalize on the Lord Winter event before the shiny wears off, we're going to start on redside and try to get Lord Winter and the badges associated with it. If there is time, we'll switch over to blueside and do the same thing. We're starting on redside because the server population is smaller there, and thus far, it's been more of a challenge to get enough people pulled together to take down the boss.

(for those who haven't had a chance to experience the joy that is Lord Winter: The event is similar to the Halloween banner event, in that you need at least 2-3 well-balanced, full teams to pull it off. First, you need to spawn a Winter Lord GM in one of the city zones by opening giftboxes around that zone, and defeating the snowbeasts that spawn (see shewolfe's comment below). After he's defeated, a special giftbox spawns, and you have approximately 2-5 minutes to pull together as many teams as possible before it opens. The giftbox is a portal to Lord Winter's Realm, where you have to defeat Lord Winter, and his three Winter Guardians, which spawn at 75%, 50%, and 25% health on the big guy. It's actually not that difficult to do, IF there are enough teams in the zone)

The informal plan is to bring in your current team toon, but if there is a different toon whom you want to get those badges instead, feel free to bring them in. There should be time to swap out other toons for those that need the badges, as well.

BNY mishes will be saved for next weekend, since they run for the full event and can be done at any time. We'll be doing a limited run of those, for badges and such. If giving Lord Winter the smackdown goes really well and there is time, we'll run regular missions after we're done, depending on what everyone would like to do.

I think that's everything...

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I'm currently building a Crab Spider VEAT that won't be taking any of the Crab attacks.

Crazy, I know, but there's a story reason for it (I have 3 other Crab toons that take full advantage of the attacks, pets, or little of both).

He joined Arachnos to pay off his bills and be able to legally blow stuff up.

But he was assigned to a supply base and was bringing and sending equipment to bases all around day in and day out.

Kinda like an Arachnos version of a convenience store delivery man; forever putting stuff on the shelves and taking down what's no longer usable.

But he worked hard, and after years of getting nowhere he was finally promoted to be a Crab Spider! :D

. . . .And was promptly assigned to another supply base.

Worse, his Crab Armor isn't even armed with the basic weaponry they get; it's loaded with low-grade low-yield gravity beams to assist in lifting crates.

. . . .at least his paycheck is better.

Anywho, that's why he'll be a Crab with no backpack attacks. He'll be taking nothing but the rifle attacks, Crab secondary and all 3 pets available to Crabs.

I've got the majority of what I want him to take planned out in Mids, but what I need help with is a couple powers.
How well would a Wolf/Crab build function with Combat Training: Defense (3 slotted with Karma) and Fortification 4 slotted, or trading CT:D for Pummel, and shifting 2 slots away from Fort so Pummel can have 4 Mako's Bite and the Pounding Slugfest: Chance for Stun proc.

The tightness of the build requires not taking Bayonet, which isn't too much of a loss for a ranged Wolf build; my Wolf/Bane toon is doing quite well without it and having his own Pummel on Auto (I love the Webby'nade, Venom'nade, Frag'nade, Heavy Burst combo, it makes so many mobs melt!).

But I'm not sure what would provide a better mostly-solo/light teaming toon, the melee attack or extra ranged defense.

Can someone see whether their Sunday team members (both sides) have done the Winter Event in 2008?

If both teams have already done Winter Event last year, then we're not doing it again this year. I can miss doing the BNY missions again ;) and the Winter Lord event is not bad, but not something I want to build Sunday night around.

Therefore, unless we NEED to do BNY for a team, we're doing regular Sunday night missions, and everyone can do Winter Event stuff on their own time with whatever characters they desire.

Everyone frosty with that?

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We will be doing the Winter Events on Sundays for the next two weeks (12/20 and 12/27), to get the badges and goodies before the time runs out. Get your alts in during the rest of the event (starting today) for them badges and candy canes and stuff!

In my free transfer induced glee, I logged in to check my Virtue characters and there are several villains I'd like to transfer. Here's the problem: Where do I put them?

Widow Gabrielle (50 NW) is moving to Infinity so I can get in on Pentacle goodness.

Operative Hesson (33 CS) and Electric Play (25 COR) could both get me a leg up on doing high level content with friends. I've rolled characters on each side for every server but the only ones I've leveled very far are both sides on Virtue and red on Liberty.

So, friends, what servers look good to people who've also played with me (@Captain Bishie) on Virtue? Or are there any servers where people who like to team in the 6:30pm-10:30pm EST range are wanting for DPS?

ETA: Looks like Justice for OpHess and Triumph for Elec, based on the amount of activity said to be on those servers. Thank you, hive mind. ^_^

From the boards:

( Merry Happy! )

Now I can finally move some characters en masse like I've been wanting! Happy holidays, everyone!

Comments open at the city_of_heroes post here.

Tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT I'll be hosting a:

Lady Grey Task Force
Level 45-50, Apocalyptic badge and 37 merits.

I dunno who I'll be bringing yet, but I'm leading toward Spente le Stelle, my 47 Rad/Pain Corrupter.

Meet in the bay by the shooting range. It has target practice dummies! (Also, Serpent Drummer.)

If you want Vanguard merits, make sure you've done Levantera's first mini arc; it shouldn't take you more than 10mins. I'd like to get rolling close to time, so start arriving 10-15mins before go time.

This is a co-op TF, so both factions welcome. It's a pretty heavy endeavor tho', so I hope to see a mix of support and damage on the team.

No sign-up required, but it does require 8 to start. Feel free to comment. Come get yer fill of Rikti!

x-posted to city_of_heroes

I almost forgot about this. ^^;;;

Sunday night is Villain Night!

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