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A small turnout but fun time for Tanker Tuesday on Indomitable tonight. There were two teams running, with thank to @wittylibrarian for starting off the mission team. The Stone Armor challenge ran a speedy Moonfire TF to start and then faced down Neuron & Antimatter (thanks to @MsAligned for that mission) and then merged the teams and ended the night with a few radios and ToT doors. And congratulations to @Waraxe and @Xterra for getting their Stone Armor tanks up to 50 tonight! Next Tanker Tuesday event will be this Saturday, November 1st, on Victory. 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Miss Lib and Sewer Trial will still be the WST November 4th TT will return to Excelsior. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Citadel TF and Eden Trial will be the WST. The Energy Aura challenge tanks will continue there, I believe they are at Synapse or Yin in the TFC run. Excel is always a busy server, so volunteers to lead teams are always required and appreciated. If you have something special you would like to run or would like lead an all tanker team, please let me know. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Time to make sure your preferred tank for that is ready. We will require a number of tanks with a few hold powers for the green mitos. Additional temp powers like Golden Rings and Taser Dart are also helpful. If a few tankers want to bring Warburg nukes as well, that would be a bonus. See you all in the City

A good run for the tanks on Everlasting tonight, there were 3 full teams running. Many thanks to @Oterra for leading the mission team and to @PLVRIZR for leading the non-Electric Melee Yin TF. As for Electric Melee challenge, we had a couple lower level EM tanks join us so we pivoted from a Numina TF to a Yin TF as well and then to some Tina Mac missions. The Numina TF for that group will go next month. The next Tanker Tuesday event will be October 28th on Indomitable. Miss Liberty TF and the Abandoned Sewer Trial will be the WST. Stone Armor challenge will be in the home stretch there. Meet up in Kings Row. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Time to make sure your preferred tank for that is ready. We will require a number of tanks with a few hold powers for the green mitos. Additional temp powers like Golden Rings and Taser Dart are also helpful. If a few tankers want to bring Warburg nukes as well, that would be a bonus. - The next challenge set will be running on Torchbearer and starting in Jan/Feb 2026. It will be Psionic Armor for the Primary, any secondary. Make a fresh tank, no higher than level 4. - This weekend for SNS on Torch we are looking at an all Shield Defense Tank team. Launch is around 5:00 pm PT, but the team usually fills fast. Meet up on the wall north of Synapse in Skyway. See you all in the City

A small but mighty turn out for Tanker Tuesday on Reunion today. We started off with ridding Kings Row of three roaming Paladins and a rouge Eochai. Then six intrepid tankers ventured to Cimerora to assist Imperious in purging the past of 5th Column time travelers, Nictus and local Cimeroran Traitors. After that was completed in fine fashion the tankers headed to Dark Astoria to take care of a problem for Heather Townsend. All in all a fun time was had, many levels gained and even a few purple recipes dropped. Next Tanker Tuesday will be October 21st on Everlasting. Faathim and Yin TFs will be the WST. Electric Melee challenge tanks will be finishing off the TFC run with a Numina TF. Meet up in Kings Row by the IP Gate. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET See you in the City

It was a good time on Torchbearer tonight for Tanker Tuesday. We had three teams running tonight with dueling ITF teams lead by @PLVRIZR and @Pep Rally and a mission team lead by @MsAligned. Many thanks to each of them for taking on the stars tonight. Apologies for the lack of an update last week, But many thanks to @wittylibrarian for leading a Sara Moore TF, @Kilo for taking the mission team, PLV again for leading the Synapse TF and @Warboss for taking the helm of the Energy Aura challenge team through Positron 1 & 2. This Saturday, Oct 18th, Tanker Tuesday will return to Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm CET. I'm thinking an ITF is likely so bring a 35+ tank if you can. Next week, Oct 21st TT will be on Everlasting. The Electric Melee challenge will be looking at a Numina TF if memory serves. For non- challenge tankers the WST will be the Faathim the Kind and Penny Yin TFs and missions of course. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. Questions have been asked about the Tanker challenge sets and future challenges, so let me give brief rundown of where those stand. The challenge sets started off on Reunion first with a free for all set in 2023 and then with Bio Armor restriction in 2024. Those are both considered complete. Current challenges: Stone Armor/Melee Weapon on Indomitable - started in January 2025, TFC run is complete, most are in 40-45 level range, currently running through Tina Mac/MJ AV arcs Electric Melee on Everlasting - started in April 2025, about to finish off the TFC run, most in early 40s Energy Aura on Excelsior - started in August 2025, in the Synapse/Yin range, most in mid 20s Future challenges: January 2026 will see the start of the Psionic Armor challenge set on Torchbearer. Please start this one with a new tank at level 1-2. Build now if you see fit. (will be running a Psi/Axe for this myself) A Regeneration Tank challenge has been requested as well. Start date for that is penciled in for March/April 2026. Currently the home for this is up in the air. Victory is a possibility as it has not had a challenge run yet. As is a return to Reunion. However, since those are lower pop servers and weekend TT runs we can look at doing Regen on one of the other servers once the current challenge on that server is complete. Suggestions and discussion always welcomed. If there is any other power sets or combos that anyone thinks would make for an interesting Tanker Tuesday Challenge run, please leave a comment or send me a message and I'll figure out the when and where for other challenges. (I have my suspicions that someone we all know would like to see a Radiation Armor or Fire Melee challenge in the near future.) As always, this is a community event and you all are the community, if there is any type of event, mission arc, uncommon task force or strike force you would like to see run (or maybe lead) please let me or Warboss know and we will do our best to help you achieve it. Thank you all for making Tanker Tuesday the great event that it is and keeping it going. See you all in the City.

Next Tuesday on Excel will also be the continuation on the Energy Aura tank challenge. I think most got to the 12-14 level range, so not quite able to to a Synaspe TF which means Positron TFs are likely to be run for them.

I took a look at this and tested it with someone with only 21% Alpha progress. It seems it is a LFG Teleport Glitch. Apex and TinMage II TF don't unlock in the LFG window until you unlock the Alpha slot, however you can walk up to either of them and start the TFs if you are in the zone already. Unfortunate for last night, but good knowledge to have going forward.

There was a fun night of tanking on Victory tonight for our first prime time run there. We had 3 teams running with @PLVRIZR boldly leading 5 tankers though the Apex and Tin Mage II TFs, reports are they were a little slower than usual but got it done in style regardless. There were also 2 mission teams going with @Warboss leading one to take care of some business for Unai Kemen and with those that came along with me to run Max's Dark Astoria arc. Many levels and face plants happened along the way. This Saturday, October 4th will be the usual Victory run. 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Meet up in Kings Row and we will find something interesting to tank. Next Tuesday, October 7th, TT returns to Excelsior. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Synapse and Sara Moore will be the WST. Volunteers to lead teams are always appreciated. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. Tell your friends as the more tanks for this the merrier. See you all in the CIty

A good night on Indomitable tonight. Had 11 Stone Armor Tanks joining in our challenge tonight and a few Standard tanks that filled out the teams. Many thanks to @PapaSlade for leading the Positron 1 & 2 TFs for the lower level tanks. @Warboss & @X'terra decided to duo a Synapse TF, which they completed in 1:48:28 (with an assist on Babbage from the mission team). And the mission team ran through most of Tina Macintyre's Anti-Matter Collision/Instant Army arc, temporarily chasing off Anti-Matter. Will finish his take down next month. This September apparently has five Tuesdays, which I spaced on and did not have a special event planned. But as a change of pace, we will do a special prime-time run on Victory next week, September 30th. Meet up in Kings Row 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Dr Q and ApeMage will be the WST and of course there will be a high level mission team. This will be a great time to make a new tanker on Victory if you don't have one there, or transfer one over to join in. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the City

A fun run on Reunion this morning. We had nine tankers show up through the event but managed to fit all onto one team. We started off taking care of 3 Paladins in Kings Row before heading off to PI to do the second half of the "A Hero's Epic" arc for Maria Jenkins for a whole bunch of AV fights with Battle Maiden, Black Swan, Malaise, Mother Mayhem, Infernal, Diabolique, Marauder, Dominatrix & Olympian Guard. A bunch of levels for the couple of low level tanks and good progress on the Dimensional Warder badge for the rest. Next Reunion Tanker Tuesday will be on October 18th. Our next event is Sept 23rd on Indomitable. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Posi 1&2 is the WST. Stone Armor challenge will be continuing as well. See you in the City

A fun night of tanking on Everlasting tonight, with a lot of new faces standing on the wall. We had four teams running with Great Thanks going to @StarForce Centurion aka Ion Marvel leading a RiktiSpec (TV3) trial for us and @Elltenia DelGanis aka Iron Golem Geralda taking on a mision team. @Oterra overcame her "star allergies" to lead another mission team with E'lla Trik. The Electric Melee challenge continued it's run, first with a Freakspec, then fighting the Clockwork King and then thwarting a Nemesis invasion in PI. Thanks to @MsAligned for leading the team for the challenge. This Saturday we will return to Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET. No set plan at this point but if someone needs a specific TF or badge run done, let me know and we will set that up. Next week Tanker Tuesday will be back on Indomitable. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. The new cycle of the WST begins again with Positron 1&2. The stone armor challenge will be in it's final stretch working Tina Mac or MJ arcs I believe. See you all in the City

It was a busy night on Torchbearer for Tanker Tuesday tonight. Good to see lots of new faces and lower level tanks getting involved with the joy of Tankering. There were four teams running tonight, two of which were mission teams, a level 50 one lead by @Agoogala and amid 30s one lead by @Warboss. Many thanks to @echoes aka Echo of BA Brawler for volunteering to lead a Cavern of Transcendence trial and having the guts to attempt it at +2 with tanks capped at level 15. Sadly, I am told this did not succeed and Sam Wincott is still in danger. And thanks to those that joined me in taking on the Dr Kahn TF. We dropped the diff to +2 for the Reichsman fight and ended up finishing in 1:02:32, 32:19 minutes of which was the just fighting Reichsman. Next week, Sept 16th, we will be back on Everlasting. It will be Respec Week for the WST and the Electric Melee challenge will be continuing there. The challenge tanks are up to Numina I think, or will go against the Freaks in the Terra Volta Reactor. Meet up in Kings Row beside the IP Gate. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Also September 20th we will be on Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET. December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the City

It was an interesting Tanker Saturday on Victory today. We had 10 tankers that started off cleaning up the Paladin trash in Kings Row. We then split into two teams to take care of tasks for Numina and Katie Hannon. Many thanks to Sol Ring aka @Basilisk for leading the Numina TF. And special thanks to Tilde aka @MsAligned for leading us through a 2 hour "conversation" with Mary MacComber, who we finally defeated with just 3 tankers and then sped through the rest of the TF in 10 minutes. Next Tanker Tuesday is September 9th on Torchbearer. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Meet in Kings Row on the wall beside the IP Gate. Dr Kahn and Cavern of Transcendence will be the WST. December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the City

Big fun and a busy time to start off September for Tanker Tuesday on Excelsior tonight. We had 5 teams running with many thanks to Fate's Captain @ultraamann for running the Numina Taskforce, and to Captain-Crusader - @Patriotic American and Bonnie Balderdash @PapaSlade for running mission teams. PapaS apparently did his best to ensure his teammates got most of their Debt badges completed. There were also two teams running on the Energy Aura Tank challenge with @PLVRIZR and @Warboss leading those teams each through a DFB and then through the Hollows to finish the night beating up Frostfire. I think most got to the 14-15 range so Energy Aura challenge will continue Oct 7th on Excel when Synapse is the WST. If you missed out on the start you have time to get a new Energy Aura tank to 15 to join with us next month. This Saturday, September 6th, we have our run on Victory. Meet up in Kings Row, 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Numina and Katie will still be the WST or we can continue with the Dark Astoria arc run. Next Tuesday, September 9th we will be on Torch. Dr Kahn & Cavern of Transcendence will be the WST. Usual place and time for that. December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the City

A good night on Tanking on Indomitable today. We had 3 teams running with a Market Crash lead by CyberSmasher aka @Nattuo being run for the 50+ tankers. and @Warboss running a Moonfire TF for the Stone Armor Challenge tankers. The late comers and stragglers joined me running Tina Macintyre missions where we took out an alternate universe Clockwork King, started the war against the Praetorian Clockwork, and beat up a rogue Adamastor. Next week, September 2nd, we will return to Excelsior. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Meet up in Kings Row by the IP gate. Numina, Katie Hannon and Dr Aeon TFs will be the WST so plan accordingly. This will also be the start of the next challenge set. Energy Aura for the Primary, any secondary. Make a fresh tank, try and keep it to under level 5 for the start. December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the CIty

It was a full night of tanking on Everlasting tonight, with many new faces and first timers. Three teams running with thanks to @Oterra for taking the mission team lead and @PLVRIZR for running a regular Manticore TF. The electric melee challenge ran a Manticore as well, thanks to @MsAligned for taking the lead on that. Next week TT will be on Indomitable and will continue with the Stone Armor challenge set. I'm fairly certain most are done the TFC for that so we will start work on the Dimensional Warder badge by running Tina Mac's arc. For other tanks, the Moonfire TF and Market Crash trial are the WST. Meet up in Kings Row at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. - September 2nd on Excel will be the start of the next challenge set. Energy Aura for the Primary, any secondary. Make a fresh tank, no higher than level 4. - December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. See you all in the City

Much fun on Torchbearer tonight for Tanker Tuesday. We had four teams running with @Felix9 leading the mission team while @PLVRIZR and @MsAligned both took out teams to tackle the Ernesto Hess TF. Many thanks to them for doing that. And thanks to the great team that joined me on the Lady Grey Task Force. We finished that in 1:24 if memory serves, with about 9 deaths. It was useful practice for our upcoming event. Speaking of which, December 30th, TankHQ will run an all Tank Hamidon Raid on Torchbearer. Regular start time but we will be running in the Abyss. Lots of time for you to get an appropriate tank up to 50+. More info on this will be posted as we approach the event. This Saturday, August 16th, will be Tanker Tuesday on Reunion. Meet up in KR as always. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET. Hess and LGTF will still be the WST. Next week, August 19th, TT will be on Everlasting. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Manticore and Sutter will be the WST. The Electric Melee challenge will still be going. I think that group is at Manti range. September 2nd on Excel will be the start of the next challenge set. Energy Aura for the Primary, any secondary. Make a fresh tank, no higher than level 4. and as a side note, this weekend for SNS on Torch, Warboss will be running an all Fiery Aura Tank team. Launch is around 5:00 pm PT, but the team usually fills fast. Meet up on the wall north of Synaspe in Skyway if interested See you all in the CIty

Very busy night on Excel for Tanker Tuesday with 5 full teams running. Many thanks to @MsAligned and @Agoogala for leading the missions teams tonight, and to @PLVRIZR & @Warboss for each leading a Citadel TF, both getting done in 53-54 minutes with PLVs team having the slight edge in the finish. And thanks to those that joined me on the Prisoners of Eden Trial, We had some massive herds for DE and took out the Crystal Titan in about an hour. Next week, August 12th, we are on Torchbearer. Meet up in Kings Row, 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Hess and Lady Grey will be the WST. I will be looking to run the LGTF if there is interest, If you want to join that foolish attempt, make sure to bring a tank that has a hold or two. See you all in the City

Hmmm... good point, we'll have to check with other who do that method regularly and see if there's anything they do. After talking to some more knowledgeable people, it may have been an issue with "Locking" the league prior to launch, which I did to prevent non-tanks from sneaking in. The next one we do we can try with an open league and just boot any interlopers. Sounds good, what timeline are you looking at for this one? As we discussed at SNS, let's aim for December 30th on Torchbearer for this. Should give us enough time to get the proper folk involved and plan it out. We will need at least 32 Incarnated tanks for this to work, but as always, the more the merrier. Will have to determine our Hami tanking strategy as well, I'm fuzzy on how we arranged that on previous ones. Like our prior All Tank Hamidon Raids, we should run this in the Abyss as to not conflict with the regular daily raids on the server.

We had a good run on Victory yesterday. A team of 8 tanks took on 3 Paladins in Kings Row before heading to Talos Island to assist Citadel with his Task Force needs. A couple of new level 50 tanks resulted from that and many Council were defeated. Next Tanker Tuesday will be August 5th on Excel with Citadel and Eden being the WST. Meet up in Kings Row as usual, 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET.

We can try that for the next one, could also be an issue with locking the league, which I did to restrict non-tankers for sneaking in. That being said, we should probably look at doing a all Tank Hami again soon. Looking at Torch for that, I think.

A grand old time was had on Everlasting tonight, 27 tankers joined forces to kick the Rikti off the planet in a Mothership Raid despite a crash on the initial attempt to launch the attack. Many thanks to those that came out for the event. Special thanks to Rotalas for getting the killshot on U'Kon Gr'ai and to Matteus for getting the drop on the Dropship. The next Tanker Tuesday will be this Saturday, August 2nd on Victory at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Meet up in Kings Row by the IP Gate and we will find some tanking to do there. August 5th, Tanker Tuesday will return to Excel - 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Citadel and Eden will be the WST. See you all in the City.

I'm open to suggestions from those partaking in the challenge for how to start this run. We did DFB for the start of the Stone Armor challenge on Indom and an old school sewer crawl to start the Electric Melee challenge on Ever. Could just get some regular low level contacts and run their missions. The newer Shauna Stockwell-> Eagle Eye arcs unlock at level 7, could be fun to run those with a full team of tanks for a change.

I have an /ice melee and a /spines built for this now. Not sure which one I'll actually use for the challenge run since both could do well in different ways. Guess I'll find out in September.

We had a fun time on Indomitable tonight with three teams running. Many thanks to @wittylibrarian for starting off the mission team tonight for those not doing the Stone Armor Challenge. For the stoners, we had two teams going with @Warboss leading a speedy Yin TF for most of them and @PLVRIZR leading a Numina to get the TFC accolade for the last few tanks on the challenge that needed it. With that done for most, next month we can do the big push to get these tanks to 50 and/or fill in any gaps in the TFC for those that need them. (I believe @X'terra volunteered to lead a Positron 1 & 2 next month) Next Tanker Tuesday is July 29th,. Since that is the 5th Tuesday in July, we will be running an all-tank Instanced MSR on Everlasting. Bring a 35+ tanker with the Member of Vanguard Badge to ensure maximum exp and v-merits are gained (lowbie tanks will not help out much and maximum damage will be needed). Meet up in Kings Row at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET by the IP Gate and we will launch from there. Warboss has also suggested that the next TT challenge set start in September on Excelsior. This will be with the Energy Aura armor set as the required Primary but the Secondary will be your choice. Bring a new Tanker, no higher than level 4, to the wall in Kings Row on September 2nd to join that challenge run. See you all in the CIty