Villainish Drift

After running this gem complete from start to finish, I have to say that it is a lot of fun. Five missions, most with longish maps, and all Rikti to fight through. This was mostly a PuG, but I’ve played with a couple of the teammates before on other alts, so there was a good chance that this wouldn’t suck. and it didn’t, even with one teammate logging in and out for a bit due to power outages, and another dropping after the second mission due to time constraints. From start to finish, it took almost 3 hours to complete.

There weren’t any total wipes, but deaths here and there. Rae was the alt of choice for this beast, and oddly enough the only villain on a team of heroes. It was fun, the group consisting of one tank, one scrapper, one blaster, Mind/FF ‘troller, rad/rad ‘fender, Emp ‘fender, and the lone dom. There was a kin ‘fender, but he was the one who left. And on the base difficulty we were zipping straight through.

I can definitely see where Emps are going to be popular for this as the Rikti now mez frequently and hard. Both Stormy and Rae were being chain mezzed right and left, and this was through the mez/psi IO that has mez protect /and/ 20% duration reducer. Carrying a tray of break frees is now a must for the Rikti content.

All I need to do is run Frost through the initial tutorial arc to unlock merits and then respec her and she should be good to go for this beastie. Same with Radi.

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I spent last night fooling around on CoH and I10, lagginess and all. Storm was the guinea pig, participating in the RWZ zone raid. I finally found where the vents to get bombs are, managed to click a bomb and start on that badge. The nice thing is that the clicking of the bomb counts for team credit. The bad?? The timer is set to once per half hour that anyone on the team can click. And oh, you need 25 bombs for the badge.

The good news is that the zone invasions go by fairly quickly. Two of the three badges for that progress fairly quickly if you have someone who can do lots of AoE DoT. 100 Rikti and 10 EB’s. You seem to get kill credit on the Rikti if you hit them, and as for the EBs? I think they follow the 10% damage for credit rule. I know I didn’t kill any soloing, but the badge progress bar moved, and the next thing I knew I had the badge. The bombs are another story entirely, and will take time to complete.

The Lady Grey Task Force? Lots of fun, especially with the new mapsets.If you have a bad PuG, I can see how this will draw on and on and on. But with a more cohesive team? Two hours on the high end of time.

The RWZ raids seem to be the best way to get Vanguard Merits as they drop with all the Rikti killed on the ship. The bad thing is that you need over 1000 merits for a complete costume and 500 for the “salvage bag”. This isn’t includinf the temp powers that can be gained from merits.

Next up is starting the badgering process on Rae. I dont know the spawn points for the Rogue Isles yet, this will be a learning experience until I do.

What are the chances of getting the same exact recipe on back to back RSF’s? Insane I bet. Radi got a Freebird:Stealth drop at the end of her RSF run and then Rae got the same an hourish later. I should go back to collecting SHO’s for a bit on em – maybe I’ll get two micro’s back to back. Heh. At least I know the Freebirds will sell for a decent amount.

Oh, and 45 minute RSF runs? Rock mightily. Seeing the dialogue “Positron has defeated Manticore” rocks even more. Damn I love Seeds of Confusion. Having the competing team wipe in the last mish due to a frisky cat? Not as much fun as they were literally a minute or so behind us.