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Originally Posted by ItsJustJake

Darn. I missed both the Freedom and Virtue ones ... Darn my workplace for blocking the Forums.

Originally Posted by Sprite Fire

WP just cruses through hami. hell i've seen a godly WP tanker tank hami without using EoE (granted he was getting emp backup, but it was still impressive)

I've seen stone tanks do alright with hami as well.


if you've got a few emps around and a handful of EoE any tanker can tank hami. if you don't have emps who know what they're doing and are low on EoE, you probably will need a WP... or a really godly Stone to pull it off.

Originally Posted by Umbral

on the last raid I was in, there was a Stone tank that swore he wasn't the cause of the yellow team wipes when he was standing less than 20' away from the mito and simply refused to admit that he was too close; as soon as I fired him and got a tank that knew more than just "stand still and auto-taunt with Granite on" (which always made me wonder why he left it on when it did absolute nothing for him except for debuff his recharge), the rest of the raid went quite smoothly.

Originally Posted by Postagulous

So, all I need is a 50 to do this? And this is where all the HOs come from?

[sorry for the 18 mo vet newbie question, but I've never even seen Hamidon except for the Weakened Hami in the Shard-something TF]

Originally Posted by destiny_morna

There's a hami channel run by @leandro who runs weekly raids w/ the Ultra SG/coalitions. Its usually announced on the global channels as well--but @leandro can get you an invite to the Essence of earth channel if you want to keep up w/ freedom's raid schedule.

There have been other raids as well--Tammy recently ran one at the same time as Leo's raid..so freedom was raiding 2 hives at the same time this past saturday! I know that I managed to hit both hives for an HO in one (darn centriole) and 53 merits in hive 2!

Originally Posted by Umbral

If you play with intelligently, you can get away with baseline range on the taunt with no problem. The simplest way would to simply find the exact maximum range outside of the goo and simply stand there and taunt. If you play more intelligently, you can get away with it still and manage to keep yourself even further away from them by running just barely into range right as Taunt recharges and then backing out again to a "safer" distance: because the Mitos have massively huge ranges, you'll still keep aggro even outside of your normal Taunt range. If you play like a crazy ******* that enjoys doing things that he has no right doing, you can tank multiple yellow mitos simultaneously with baseline range in Taunt by simply alternating targets and backing away from both of them while Taunt is recharging.



Assuming that the 400 damage every 4 seconds number is accurate (it seems about right in my experience), it means that yellow mitos have a dps of 100. When you pop an EoE, you take this down to a dps of 10 (100 * (1- .9)). Assuming you have Health with a single, even level SO and no other sources of +hp (like the passive accolades) or +regen (like Rooted, Physical Perfection, or Fast Healing), a Tanker will recover 12 hp/sec. As long as he's chugged an EoE, any tank with Health can tank a yellow mito indefinitely (as long as that EoE is still active).

In order to tank a mito without an EoE, you need to manage more than 100 hp/sec, which excludes a large number of builds out there: willpower and dark regen wouldn't be able to because you can't be in melee with a mito when you're tanking it.

A well built Fire Tank can manage it because of Healing Flames: with 3 Heals and 3 Rech SOs, Healing Flames provides 913.3 hp every 23 seconds (20.5 sec recharge + 1.716 sec animation), which equates to 39.7 hp/sec, so that the Fire Tank only needs to find ~60 hp/sec from other sources in order to accomplish this (which isn't hard to do with +regen and +hp set bonuses, procs, and passive bonuses), not to mention that more recharge would actually make it even easier (with roughly 150% global +rech, Healing Flames would provide 70 hp/sec, and 30 hp/sec regeneration is a pittance for an IO build).

An Elec tank could manage it with a bit more work, relying upon Energize to provide ~40 hp/sec (~25 from the heal and 15% from the +regen). Getting the remaining 60 hp/sec isn't impossible, but it would definitely be hard.

If you really wanted to devote an entire build to tanking mitos without EoEs, though, you could always go with Aid Self slotted out for interrupt reduction: well slotted, you'd be getting roughly 700 hp every 12-15 seconds or so (~5 sec animation) for 45-60 hp/sec and would have to make up substantially less regeneration otherwise.

Originally Posted by Ignitros

When are the Hami raids held on Freedom? It's been years since I have been on one. Returning player here.

Originally Posted by Quatermain

and that was just lsk around the "girl" characters