Minotaur

Any team that can do Cuda can do Kahn, the reverse is not true, Cuda is much more difficult, we failed one because a team that could easily cope with Kahn, had no MM/def, and insufficient debuffing to take more hits off Reichs than he could get back in his invulnerable period, but enough to take him out otherwise and shut his regen down if not invulnerable.

Cuda should award more merits, period.

I think I've quit 3 TFs in 7 years and thousands of TFs.

One, somebody back in the day insisted on running posi on invincible, and when my level 12 tank realised he couldn't stand up to 1 level 17 vahz minion, that was time to get out when the leader refused to turn it down and reform.

Another I had warned the leader before I joined I had a problem with storm graphics particularly hurrincane in that they make me ill. The stormie seemed to delight in standing next to me and hurricaning so I quit.

The third, yesterday, we'd done a barracuda after I warned the leader that we had no MM/def and very little debuffing, so would struggle with Reichs, and after we'd fought him for the best part of an hour, got rid of all the ambushes, and found we could take him down to half hits, he'd go invulnerable back up to 3/4 rinse repeat 6 times with no overall progress, I gave up.

Yesterday 11 Kahns, all 27-37 mins. Best time for STF was 47 mins, I did about 11 of which we succeeded 8 not always with appropriate teams, although one of the STFs succeeded only due to raiding a couple of bases for every sensible size orange and purple

Not crazy fast but reasonable.

Going to take me a long time to get my chosen 25/61 50s incarnated out.

One of my SG experienced this on Victory, forget exactly when, maybe 2pm Eastern.

Has it been explained exactly when the clock ticks over from one WST to another ? Midnight Eastern, midnight Pacific ? does it require maint to do ? While this may not be relevant to Americans, it certainly is to those of us who play when most sensible Americans are asleep.

Also depends on your level. I quite often run levels 1-10 in AE. The only sensible use of tickets at level 10 is to bronze roll them, because the -KB IOs are a relatively common result and sell well, and you have a small chance of the regen tissue and kismet uniques. Just roll the tickets, delete the crap unless you have a lot of patience, and craft the good ones.

At 50, you have the full choice, bronze roll at 10-14 (lvl 30 steadfast res/defs, the two -KBs and a few other useful things), 30-34 (what you can get from 10-14 plus some other useful things that start at 15 or 20, but in a larger pool of recipes), or 35-39 (to get a load of useful uncommon IOs that you might want to use, and where the average non stellar uncommon will sell for more.

A-Merits if you have the patience, I feel it's most lucrative to buy the PvP 3%def IO. I bought 3 of these for 30 A-merits each, and sold them for 4BN each via the market forum. To make the same $/merit off LotGs, you'd need to be selling them for 295M or so with market fees.

Ordinary merits, either roll them or convert them to A-merits.

If you decide to get into bronze rolling, I'd recommend levelling a load of alts to level 10, not necessarily on the same server you normally play, and using them to sell the loot. You can either use SG storage or email to get stuff to them, and they can send the cash back.

So last night we're trucking through an STF, (not hurrying, we'd already spent maybe 75-90 mins) get half an hour's notice of the hotfix, finish the mission we're on and it being 2130 here, abandon CoH for the night.

We reassemble tonight to find that the power of the thorn temp required to damage Doc Aeon has disappeared, it's set to expire in 5 hours of real time not 5 hours in game unlike most temps.

So giving us inadequate notice of the downtime (if they'd told us an hour earlier we could have speed run or abandoned), just meant we had a completely wasted evening.

I also play in a set group that not infrequently pauses TFs part way through to continue the following week, why is the STF designed so that you can't ?

The WTF is no longer ITF for next week, look here:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=251519

I wouldn't mind the option of taking 2 or 3 slots depending on level instead of a power, some of my toons would happily do that.

The other thing I wouldn't mind them doing is moving the first epic/patron power to 38 so you can pick all 5 if you want them. This would help out toons whose level 38 power is rubbish, and would not cause a problem with villains as they get granted a respec when they acquire their patron powers, and having powers you can't access at the level you can use them without a respec already exists in game with VEATs.

We don't need more slots, even if we'd like them.

Has anybody tested this scenario ?

I am not level 50 yet, I run the weekly TF. I get the bonus double merits and XP.

I run it again having hit 50 and unlocked my alpha slot, I understand I don't get double merits again, but do I now get my notice of the well ? or have I already had my weekly TF special reward.

Final tally:

Yeti's Bride (ice/MM blaster) 1-50 and incarnate unlocked
Neptunium Knight (rad/fire bla) 42-47
Wind up merchant (KM/shield scrapper) 1-10
Stone cold kitty (stone/cold troller) 46-48

And about 1.5 BN made on the markets.

Not bad, and I was out most of Saturday.