Luna de Nocturne

Note: Due to popular request, we are adding a Statesman TF after this Respec. The start time depends on how long it takes to finish the Respec. Please let me know if you want on just the respec, or both. Thanks!
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Mission: Terra Volta Respec # 3
Contact: Major Richard Flagg
Location: Portal Corp in Peregrine Island

Date & Time: Monday, July 13th @ 10:00PM Eastern/9:00PM Central/8:00PM Mountain/7:00PM Pacific.

Level Range: 44-50

Villains: Rikti

Named EB's and AV's: None

Current Team Roster:

1:DarkestFrost: Dark/Ice Defender
2:Phanta-Rad: Illusion/Rad Controller
3:Xort: TBA
4:Flames of Mr. E: Fire/Shield Scrapper
5:King Sac: Energy/Energy Blaster
6:FreezeUnder: Ice/Kin Controller
7:Max Shields: Shield/SS Tank
8:Grimnor: Fire/MM Blaster
9:Frost Victim: Ice/Ice Blaster (iffy)
10:Roxona: TBA (Iffy)
11:Paragon's Wrath: Plant/Rad Controller
12:Myrdinn: Energy/Energy Blaster
13:Flu-Shots: Empathy/Archery Defender
14:Venomshot: Archery/MM Blaster
15:Radio-Octave: Rad/Sonic Defender
16:General Gintoki: WP/SS Tank
17:Crimson Alchemist: Fire/Fire Scrapper
18:Fire con: Fire/Kin Controller
19:Drogoh: Broadsword Scrapper
20:Sevenpenny: Katana/WP Scrapper
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Task Force Stats & Info:

<ul type="square">[*]This task force requires at least 4 to start. We will be running 2-3 teams depending on how many people show up.[*]We will wait to form teams until close to 10pm Eastern. This will allow us to get a better idea of what builds we have present. Anyone not at the contact, or that has not sent me a tell letting me know they are on their way will not be included.[*]We have use of the chat channel Freedom TF Chat for these TF's. [*]Sidekicks and Exemplars are welcome![*]5 Missions total: 1 Hunt, 1 Patrol, 2 Defeat All's[*]Badge: Transmogrified (if you have not done ANY of the respec trials) and the Freedom Cross (if you choose the respec recipe as your reward for the third time) [/b] [*]Merit Reward: 20 Merits OR a Respec Recipe[/list]Come &amp; join in the fun! Sign-up here or send a global message to @Luna de Nocturne

Red Tomax Guide: Terra Volta: Rikti
Paragon Wiki Guide: Terra Volta: Rikti

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Mission: Statesman's Task Force
Contact: Statesman
Location: Independence Port

Date &amp; Time: Monday, July 13th After the Respec Trial. Approximately @ 11:15PM Eastern/10:15PM Central/9:15PM Mountain/8:15PM Pacific.

Level Range: 45-50

Villains: Arachnos, Circle of Thorns

Named EB's and AV's: Arbiter Sands, Regent Korol, Viridian, Shadow Spider, Magus Mu'Drakhan, Thorn Tree, Silver Mantis, Barracuda, Ice Mistral, Wretch, Dr. Aeon, Lord Recluse, Black Scorpion, Ghost Widow, Captain Mako, Scirocco

Current Team Roster:

1:Fire Con: Fire/Kinetic Controller (Leader)
2:Max Shields Shield/SS Tank (I assume that is who you're bringing)
3:Flu-Shots: Empathy/Archery Defender
4:Tarquin: Fire/Devices Blaster
5:Mr. E: TBA and (Iffy)
6:Drogoh: Broadsword Scrapper
7:Venomshot: Archery/MM Blaster
8:Myrdinn: Energy/Energy Blaster
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Task Force Stats &amp; Info:

<ul type="square">[*]This task force requires 8 to start. We will be running 1-2 teams depending on how many people are interested.[*]We will wait to form teams until all three respec teams are done. This will allow us to get a better idea of what builds we have present. [*]We have use of the chat channel Freedom TF Chat for these TF's. [*]Sidekicks and Exemplars are welcome![*]5 Missions total[*]Badges: Saved the World, Peerless, Diplomat, Heat Seaker, plus work on the Venemous, Tarantula Gladiator, and Mu Guardian Gladiator badges.[*]Merit Reward: 38 + 2 for the Arachnos Flyer[/list]Come &amp; join in the fun! Sign-up here or send a global message to @Luna de Nocturne

Red Tomax Guide: Statesman's Task Force
Paragon Wiki Guide: Statesman's Task Force

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I would have said I would lead/join, but it is going to depend on how I am feeling Monday - I've been getting tired a bit earlier than normal for the past week or so.

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Just a lot going on with work lately?

Want me to put you down as an iffy for it?

Luna

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If I'm not mistaken, I tried to join that channel the other night &amp; it was maxed out.

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You probably tried to join the "Freedom TF" or "Freedom TFs" channels. They are maxed out I think. The most a channel can have is 2500 people.

Our Channel is "Freedom TF Chat" (boy I wish I had picked a different name now) and has around 60-70 people in it. Should be plenty of room left in there.

Luna

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I can lead it Luna.

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You're a brave man Alt

I'll update the sign up list in a little bit to add the Statesman sign up sheet to the bottom of it.

Luna

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I'll bring fire con along for this one and the STF if there are enough people wanting to do it. I'm still not sure if I want to bring a blaster,scrapper, or bubbler for the next set.

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If I can get someone willing to lead, I'm sure there is enough interest in that Statesman. I've asked MB, just not sure if he's interested yet or not. I'm so unfamiliar with this TF (only done it 4-5 times so far) that I don't feel ready to lead again in it's current "bugged" state . I was relying on Mr. E very heavily for advice last week when we ran it.

Once I get someone willing to lead the team, I'll add a signup sheet to this thread for Statesman as well that night.

Luna

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Also, if you have to go afk unexpectadly, you can also say afk and exit to desktop. You should still be on the team when you log back in. Plus if you exit to desktop, it's a lot quicker than trying to log off.

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oh sorry, Freedom TF Chat

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It's a small channel, but it's full of most of the people that run each week on the TF's.

Myself or MB also keep the message of the day up to date with events happening over the next week.

Luna

Yeah as I mentioned further down in my post, some of the shorter TF's will have to be followed by whatever you all want to run afterwards.

Your team had such a time on the Eden trial last time, that I figured we would break it out to it's own night instead of pairing it with the Cavern Trial.

Luna

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I could join up for the stf and think i may be useful to keep those healers away from the towers, I'll just constantly spam bonfire and caltrops. So I'll sign up for the stf but have no one in the lvl range that needs a respec at the moment.

Tarquin Fire/devices blaster

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You can also get 20 merits for the task force instead of a respec recipe. Just sayin ...

I assume that MB was lead tank with Teal Tabby... my words of advice to anyone joining Teal Tabby on an ITF....

KEEP UP! When you get to a bigger room, hang back a sec to let him pull the crowds to the door. Otherwise, keep up. Keep moving. Hustle! Accept the fact that you will probably die, and bring lots of awakens.

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Sounds great, Luna!

Can we also have a special night focusing on the Portal Jockey and Freedom Phalanx reserve accloades? I think the Atlas Medallion is too easy but maybe we can add it as an item to work on if your team finishes early ...

Flu

PS. Thanks for being so organized. I can say that the Horde activites make this game have real staying power for me. You guys make me want to keep working on my toons so they can perform well when they show up for our events.

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If I do a Portal Jockey run again, I think I'll split it up over two nights. The one night marathon run we did last time was just too much It's also a lot of work to get it set up "Just So" to have the exact missions to make it a speed run. So instead we'll do what I did last time, and run the two arcs that are needed for the badges. That way you can also get merits for running the arcs through Ouroborus.

As for the Freedom Phalanx Accolade, yeah I just took a peak at it, it's not a problem. Probably wait until about half way thru the run so that anyone interested can get into some of the level restricted zones for the exploration badges and plaques. The Freakshow Tanks and Fake Nemesis are also easier if you hunt in Crey's Folley and FBZ.

Luna

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The last one before the new run starts. How sad. Is the STF fixed yet? I was thinking that since the 3rd repsec is on the shorter side that some people would want to run A STF after the respec. I need my revenge and the badge and merits of course.

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Since there has only been one minor patch to correct crashing issues since the new issue came out, I doubt that it is fixed yet. I've heard a few reports of it being finishable, but it is definately not working as intended. If some of you all are brave enough to attempt it again, go for it

Luna

Edit: I just don't think my leadership skills are good enough to figure out "how" to beat that TF in the way that it is currently broken. Maybe Someone else would like to step up and lead and give it a shot for next Monday night after the Respec. Just not me

Ok, Boring day at work, So I finally figured out what order we are running the next round of TF's in.

You can find it here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dhf...3qcv&amp;hl=en

I moved the Cavern Trial forward, worked in the new TF, moved Statesman to the end and moved the third respec earlier into the list. Like last time, we have a few weeks where there are back to back TF's on that Monday night for the shorter TF's. Some of the other shorter TF's don't have anything else scheduled for those nights, but we might get together last minute TF's as we see fit.

Once we start, I'll keep the list updated with my team's completed times.

Luna

Edit: We'll be finishing round two the Monday before Christmas. I'll probably take the following week off because of people gone for the holidays, and restart Round 3 (yeesh) the first Monday in January 2010.

Quick note to the Freedom Horde "regulars":

I put the usual list of suspects on the sign up sheet. If you don't want to do this TF ( how boring after the past few weeks!) then please let me know and I"ll take you off the list.

Thanks!
Luna

Mission: Terra Volta Respec # 3
Contact: Major Richard Flagg
Location: Portal Corp in Peregrine Island

Date &amp; Time: Monday, July 13th @ 10:00PM Eastern/9:00PM Central/8:00PM Mountain/7:00PM Pacific.

Level Range: 44-50

Villains: Rikti

Named EB's and AV's: None

Current Team Roster:

1:DarkestFrost: Dark/Ice Defender
2:Phanta-Rad: Illusion/Rad Controller
3:Xort: TBA
4:Flames of Mr. E: Fire/Shield Scrapper
5:King Sac: Energy/Energy Blaster
6:FreezeUnder: Ice/Kin Controller
7:Max Shields: Shield/SS Tank
8:Grimnor: Fire/MM Blaster
9:Frost Victim: Ice/Ice Blaster (iffy)
10:Roxona: TBA (Iffy)
11:Paragon's Wrath: Plant/Rad Controller
12:Myrdinn: Energy/Energy Blaster
13:Flu-Shots: Empathy/Archery Defender
14:Venomshot: Archery/MM Blaster
15:Radio-Octave: Rad/Sonic Defender
16:General Gintoki: WP/SS Tank
17:Viral-Titan: Katana/Regen Scrapper
18:Tarquin: Fire/Devices Blaster
19:Fire con: Fire/Kin Controller
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Task Force Stats &amp; Info:

<ul type="square">[*]This task force requires at least 4 to start. We will be running 2-3 teams depending on how many people show up.[*]We will wait to form teams until close to 10pm Eastern. This will allow us to get a better idea of what builds we have present. Anyone not at the contact, or that has not sent me a tell letting me know they are on their way will not be included.[*]We have use of the chat channel Freedom TF Chat for these TF's. [*]Sidekicks and Exemplars are welcome![*]5 Missions total: 1 Hunt, 1 Patrol, 2 Defeat All's[*]Badge: Transmogrified (if you have not done ANY of the respec trials) and the Freedom Cross (if you choose the respec recipe as your reward for the third time) [/b] [*]Merit Reward: 20 Merits OR a Respec Recipe[/list]Come &amp; join in the fun! Sign-up here or send a global message to @Luna de Nocturne

Red Tomax Guide: Terra Volta: Rikti
Paragon Wiki Guide: Terra Volta: Rikti

** Sign-up layout stolen from Mr. E! Thank you! **

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So how long did the first ITF run go? Just curious.

Luna

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Right around 50 minutes.

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Not bad at all. Congrats you all I never would have made it. I passed out almost as soon as I laid down in bed

Thank you to everyone that came out last night!

We had everyone that signed up, show up for once! Woohoo! Plus we had a couple last minute additions, so I decided at the last minute to split us into 3 teams instead of 2. We were able to recruite Marvel, Earthmender and Angelic Goth in for the teams. We started out with 3 teams of 6-7. Captain Power showed up right when we got started, so Joe's Team restarted to pick him up.

My team was:

DarekstFrost: Dark/Ice Defender
FreezeUnder: Ice/Kin Controller
Flames of Mr. E: Fire/Shield Scrapper
Thorium 232: Rad/Rad Defender
General Gintoki: WP/SS Tank
Frost Victim: Ice/Ice Blaster
Grimnor: Fire/MM Blaster

My team was officially the lowbie team with 4 of our 7 members below 50. I had hoped to get 2-3 of you all to 50 last night, but we only got one. I guess the lack of patrol xp hurt us.

I would like to take this time to say:

CONGRATS to Mr. E-Man for hitting 50 on Flames of Mr. E Congrats my friend! Woohoo

Because we had lowbies on the team, we decided to clear to the objectives intead of hopping straight to them.

We finished in 1:15:08 with 30 deaths.

The biggest problem we had was Scirocco. He was in the mob right next to Black Scorpion, and we ended up aggroing both mobs at once. Needless to say we had a team wipe.

Thanks to everyone that came last night, especially those kind enough to join us at the last minute to help fill out the teams.

Next week will be the third Hero Respec. Yes, I know that's not nearly as exciting, but there you have it. I'm just doing it to say, yes we've done them all

Later next week, either Thursday or Friday (the 16th or 17th) I'll be running the Dr. Kahn TF again. The day of the week will depend on whether Mr. E is running a MoLRSF that week.

Finally, on Monday July 20th, we restart this nuttiness all over again with Positron.

Luna

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I totally forgot to get everyones powersets while running back and forth from pc and kitchen. But I got the names from my logs. So here goes.


1: Joe Glow: Defender
2: Cristalina: Scrapper
3:Paragon's Wrath: Controller(Wannabe Tank)
4:Myrdinn: Blaster
5:Omegafox: WS
6:Earthmender: Controller
7:Ms. Freedom: Tank (Was unable to play due to work, but that's ok)

2:01:18
57 Deaths

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Ok let me see if my notes help fill in the AT's:

1. Joe Glow: Empathy/Rad Defender
2. Cristalina: Claws/Regen Scrapper
3. Paragon's Wrath: Plant/Rad Controller
4. Myrdinn: Energy/Energy Blaster
5. Omegafox: WS
6. Earthmender: Earth/Emp Controller
7. Ms. Freedom: No Clue/Tank

I'm sorry you all had problems on the spider. That guy can be pretty tricky.

Thank you so much for leading the team Joe I really appreciate it! Trust me, I know how it is to lead a team when you don't quite know what's going on. It's a whole new step up from playing on a team, to leading a team. Thank you, and I'm sure you are doing a fine job . It'll get easier the more you lead. Just be up front with your team if you are unsure of something. That works for me

Luna

So how long did the first ITF run go? Just curious.

Luna

Good luck on the ITF everyone

I've got a bit of husband aggro tonight, and I'm so sleepy my eyes are burning, so I think it's a good night to head off early.

Night all!

Luna

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Missed it by 1:16. Grr. ;-)
But, we lost our tank, and kudos to 'Fox for tanking as the Super Lobsterfox.

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Thank you all for sticking it out through a rough night Sometimes those things happen.

Luna

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Woot ... looking less IFFY for me ...

PS. Happy Birthday Roxona

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Ooohhh, I missed that earlier,

Happy Birthday Roxona

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Hi Luna! Would you please add me as an iffy? I love this TF and haven't done it in so long! My BF might want to get together tonight, but since I saw him last night, I should be in the clear.

Edit: Doh! Nevermind!!! I just saw my name on the list. Thanks Luna!

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lol Gotcha already. Like I promised, I've been listing you as an iffy each week. If you show up great, if not, that's cool too

Luna

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Ouch, how did I get dragged into this? I just asked if anyone wanted to do it. Lol.

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Sorry, didn't mean to sound so cranky. Just saying, everyone should bring whatever the heck they want to.

Luna

Edited to sound less cranky &lt;sigh&gt; I need a nap!

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My stalker needs a respec for pvp action I would love to join.
Name TREVOR spines/nin. I don't know where this guy is so I'll send you a global to invite me to the team so I can find it.

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You can also give out a yell in the global chat channel, and someone there will snag you if Mr. E is busy. A few of us have teleport on our toons on Villain Side.

Luna