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Quote:The fifth and final mission.
You take
the helicopter behind Statesman to the final mission In this mission,
you end up on a ship docked in front of a long double corridor. Clear
all the mobs on the ramps and on both sides of the corridor. There’s a
courtyard beyond the corridor where you’ll find 4 AV’s; Mako, Black
Scorpion, Sirocco & Ghost Widow. All 4 are level 54. You want to
try to pull one at a time, but that is often difficult to do. The best
solution to them is to have a blaster snipe ONE of them and then accept
a TP back to the head of the corridor where the rest of the team is
waiting. Here’s a brief strategy for each of the 4 AV’s.

• Mako:
  Mako
  is an AV level Stalker. Have the tank keep his attention while everyone
  drops debuffs on him and takes him down. At about 20% health, he will
  hit Elude; you must have enough tohit buffs to overcome this. Three
  stacked Tactics is enough, but if you don’t have Tactics, then everyone
  should eat a few yellow inspirations. With tohit buffs, Mako is easy to
  handle and goes down quickly -- without them, he’s nearly impossible.
  
• Black Scorpion:
  Black
  Scorpion is an AV brute. Other than his hit points and resistance, he’s
  pretty ordinary as AV’s go -- taking him out is usually a non-issue.
  
• Sirocco:
  Sirocco
  can be dangerous to squishie AT’s. He summons multiple tornadoes and
  has other AOE damage. Have the tank hold his attention and he goes down
  very quickly, the fastest of the four. If his aggro gets loose,
  however, he can quickly kill off defenders, controllers or blasters.
  Tanks and/or Scrappers shouldn’t have much problem with him, though.
  
• Ghost Widow:
  Ghost
  Widow is unquestionably the most dangerous of the four AV’s. She has a
  MAG 100 hold that WILL hold any tanker thru his shields, and the hold
  does enough damage to one-shot a tank with DOT once his armors drop.
  She also has a melee heal that will heal off of all characters in melee
  range, and it will take her from 10% to full health by hitting 3
  characters.
  With all this, you may wonder how you handle her?
  Actually, if you’ve prepared ahead of time, she’s easy. Here’s the
  secret -- defender mez resist buffs. One kinetic can, if he does
  nothing else, keep 15 Increase Density buffs on the tank; a Stone tank
  running Granite and Rooted needs 6 of them to resist the hold; any
  other primary needs 8 of them. You can substitute Clear Mind from
  empathy or Clarity from sonic for Increase Density, but remember, your
  tanker needs 8 of them at all times.
  Now about her heal? Well,
  if the tank is taunting GW from range, she will never use her heal --
  she’ll be content to stand there and blast away at the tank, freeing up
  the rest of the team to dogpile on her and take her out with impunity.
  A tanker with 8 mez resist buffs can stand at range and taunt her
  safely, possibly assisted by an occasional heal. She will, however,
  occasionally get tired of blasting and decide to come into melee range
  of the tank. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! Either the tank will need to
  continue falling back or you need to immobilize Ghost Widow.
  Fortunately, she’s easy to immobilize. I’ve seen two blasters manage it
  with their tier one secondary powers, and a controller or two can do it
  even easier. She has the cycling high hold resistance of all AV’s, but
  you only need a MAG 5 immobilize on her.
  

OK, we’ve taken out all 4 of the AV’s and watched Lord Recluse rant in his cutscene, now what?
Well,
there’s a trick to Lord Recluse . . . his towers buff his accuracy,
damage, regeneration and defense to ridiculous levels, but there’s
currently a loophole in his buffs. As long as nobody EVER gets into
aggro range of one of his towers, you can pull him all the way back to
the boat where his buffs go away, and the Longbow and Turrets can help
take him down. Here’s the method that we use for LR:
Everyone
EXCEPT for the tank and a blaster goes back to the ship and waits. The
tanker is at the head of the corridor, the blaster moves just barely
into snipe range of LR. At this point, someone at the boat starts TP on
the blaster. When the blaster sees the TP prompt, he starts his snipe.
As soon as it fires, he accepts the TP. LR comes running, the tank
taunts him at the head of the corridor and then also runs back to the
ship. Once LR reaches the gangplank of the ship, the tank goes to the
other side of LR to get LR to face away from the ship and the team. The
tank then moves into melee range and taunts. As long as the tank is
taunting in melee range, LR doesn’t summon his elite boss minions. The
tank turns LR away from the ship because LR has a nasty cone attack, so
you need to keep it away from the team. At this point LR has lost his
buffs and becomes relatively easy to take out. Remember, when he hits
roughly 15% health, he WILL summon hordes of minions – stay on LR and
he’ll fall quickly. At this point, the mission ends and you get your
reward screen, where you can choose between a synthetic HO, a rare
recipe or various SO's. If anyone needs the Aracnos Flyer badge, you
can go and kill it off at this point.
That’s the fastest and
easiest method for taking out Lord Recluse. If you insist on taking out
the towers, here’s a method for that, but it will take considerably
longer and lead to more debt. I’m listing it here in the interest of
completeness and in case the loophole of pulling him to the boat gets
closed:
OK, you’re gonna take the towers first, then LR . . .
well, I recommend having the tank and one empath pull LR to a corner
behind the red tower while the team takes down the red tower, followed
by the others. The tank taunts LR in melee range, pointing him away
from the team, while the empath heals the tanker and everyone else
kills the tower. LR’s damage is insane as long as the red tower is up,
so kill it quickly. While taking down each tower, the tower's repairmen
will spawn when the tower drops below 50%. Kill them before they can
heal the tower. The repairmen are only level 40, so they’re easy to
kill, but they can repair the towers VERY fast. Powers like Bonfire,
Hurricane, Ice Slick and Earthquake can help keep the Repairmen away
from the tower. Once all 4 towers are gone, you take out LR as in the
pulling method. The Arachnos Flyer can be a problem as it comes close.
It’s easiest to simply time your attack for just after the Flyer moves
past LR’s platform. You can safely engage the back two towers at any
time without drawing Flyer aggro, but for the front towers, you’ll need
to wait until the Flyer moves away. Taking out the flyer is a
possibility, but it respawns quickly, so this may not help.

Bob? What is with these stupid ads? Time to go nuclear on these bozos, I think.

As many folks know, my father is taking online courses and driving me crazy.

He is currently in the throes of his final projects.

Pray for me?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I got malwared - Virtumonde, they call it.

Spybot S&D took care of business for me, though it took 4 repeats, a couple Safe Mode reboots, and some blind luck..

be careful out there.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

And it's good news. Check out this http://chud.com/articles/articles/15570 ... Page1.html]report on a set visit from Chud.com.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Some of you might have noticed that I've been saying that I'd finally be able to come back to City of Heroes fairly soon. Well, I've discovered
today that I can't count on the customer giving me valid information that I MUST have and it's not the first time that same customer has managed to
foil my attempts at getting the job done so I have no idea when I'll be done. And once it IS done, there's other people I have to do before the end of
the month so I don't think I'll have much free time for at least a few more weeks.

Out of curiosity, how many days has Yukiyo not been online for according to the super group window?

... or, how I learned to hate Positron with the passion of ten billion exploding supernovae.

Ahem. Actually, it's not all that bad, now that I've managed to complete it -- with much thanks to Ankh, Sweno, and OpMegs, who kept Onyx from
aggroing everything in sight with her mass holds. (Frankly, Sweno tended to aggro everything before Onyx could, at which point Ankh and Ops would leap in...
Onyx rarely had to worry about it. Now THAT's teamwork! *grin*)

Anyway, the Posi TF went smoothly enough, and is much more
manageable as a 3 or 4 man TF than as an 8-man clusterf*** (which is the only way I'd attempted it before). Now it's time for me to make good on my
promise to run Posi with others. This
here's the sign-up sheet, as it were. I can bring a variety of alts, including a tank, healer, debuffer, etc.; and I'd like to complete it on all of
them at some point, so no problem bringing whichever is needed to balance the team.

Schedule-wise and stuff, I'm free for at least a couple hours most weeknights, but not until late (server time; between 7 and 9 Pacific); weekends I can be
available at any time day or night.

Aside from that, I have one rule that I will stick to: I will -notnotnot- run Posi with more than 4! I'll shoot myself first.

Alrighty then! So, who wants to run Posi? Line forms down below.

Edit to add:

Looks like Foxboy and Acyl may have already signed up (see other thread); you guys want to confirm? If we don't have any other interest by this weekend, a
Posi TF during double-XP weekend might be cool...

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Well, it's that time of the year once more -- the middle of July, which means beach house on LBI with Peggy's family for a week. Nail onto that a day
spent helping my family out, and I'll be off the Net from this Friday (18 July 2008) to Saturday 26 July. If I'm not mistaken, though, they rented the
same beach house as they have the last few years, and I know where the nearest Internet Cafe is. So I'll probably slide on at least once, if only to clear
out my email inbox.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

No, really. There's a limited-edition San-Diego-Comic-Con-only http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/15 ... n_toaster/]Cylon toaster out there. (Or, at least, there will be at the end of the month.)

I know it's a collectable, but $65 for a toaster seems a bit steep to me...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

She couldn't see anything.

Then suddenly she could see everything.

The walls around her were stark metal and hardpoints, designed to be rebuilt quickly for whatever need was in them. Around her were medical diagnostics showing
a dozen different things she didn't quite understand. It reminded her of the hospitals on the other end of the medicomm. Had she gotten in over her head
with Crey? Finaly come to? Where was the doc...tor...

Her eyesight caught the bulky image of a Crey tank, an armored figure wearing the red pauldrons of a Power model. She'd had a run in with Crey,
alright...and they'd captured her. Oddly, she didn't seem to be restrained, even if her costume felt different. Maybe they expected she wouldn't
wake up yet.

"What's the readings?"

"Full integration seems to have taken hold. It'll take a couple more tests and we'll know for sure."

Vivian (that was her name...why'd she have trouble remembering that at first?) began the breathing exercises she'd learned a long time ago, building up
power for her nuke. After that, focusing the power into her body should provide enough time to escape this place before Crey knew she was gone in the chaos of
the explosion. However, one of the scientists looked over at a monitor as she neared release.

"Wait...no...she's awake! And focusing power!"

"Power dampeners are green, locking onto wavelengths....no effect?!"

"Powers are in the wrong spectrum!" the aide said, going pale as he checked the scanner

"Wrong spectrum?! You idiot! Didn't you check the gene coding?! Do you know what'll happen when she loses control?!" the scientist managed a
split second before Vivian let loose.

Instead of the blinding burst of light and energy she'd expected, Vivian felt her entire body drop five degrees as darkness poured out of her. The creeping
fog coated everything as it flooded along the floors, walls, and ceiling, extending outward. Vivian didn't know what was happening but the scientists fled
in terror as moaning, shrieking tentacles, jaws, and various other spikey extensions that denied easy classification began sliding out of the expanding
darkness.

Vivian, however, could hear the moans....and make sense of them for the first time, unlike when she'd fought alongside other heroes with dark based powers.

This one is strong, but untrained....we are free! Free to do as we wish with this place...with this world!

Yes...but first....so hungry....

All around the facility, gaps in the space of reality opened up as the darkness flooded in, drawing its strength from the very powerful but barely trained
heroine deep within...

***

John Wilkins was just putting up his smock and cryo-rifle, ready to go home and watch some football before coming back in the next day for another shift of
walking around Brickstown performing field medic duties. He didn't even see the rift forming behind him before tentacles with razor tips shot out, punching
through his chest and killing him instantly. The leaking blood didn't even spill into his cup of coffee as the tentacles gorged on it, soaking it up like a
sponge.

***

Sam Verner was testing out the new battery upgrades to his Power Tank suit in the armory when the rifts opened in the target bullseyes. His eyes widened as
moaning expanses of pitch black darkness surged towards him. Firing several blasts, he watched in horror as they sank into the mass with no effect, then
grunted as he felt an impact against his stomach. Looking down, he started screaming when he realized that there was nothing where his waist had previously continued to his legs. The darkness surged forward, ready to glut itself on the feast.

***

The first warning in the break room was, ironically, the coffee machine stopping in mid-cycle. One of the janitors got close enough to see the coffee congeal
into pitch black emanations of madness before it pulsed and shot out, punching through his skull and beginning to wriggle towards the others. Samantha Evertt
got out of the room in time as her coworker was snatched by the heel in mid run. She continued running, but unfortunately looked back in time to see the office
girl the next cubicle over get torn in two by tentacles that seemed to be arguing over her. Her glance was ill timed. She ran into a solid wall of blackness
and didn't come out. Red fluid leaked out of the base onto the floor....

***

At ground zero, Vivian Tucker curled into a ball, unwillingly tied to everything that was going on and hearing every blood-stained minute...
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."