Tanker Tuesdays

[PLVRIZR]

  On 2/26/2025 at 2:52 PM, Ronin_Around said:

We had a somewhat successful night on Indomitable what 10 tanks taking part in the Stone Armor ?weapon challenge which split into 2 teams that each took on the Positron TF. Thanks for leading those @PLVRIZR and @Warboss.

 

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My pleasure.  We were few (five) but mighty.  All of us were between 16 - 20 at the start and it was a veritable ding-fest.  We finished a +1, which actually is quite sloggy when herding large numbers of CoT debuffers - whiff, whiff, whiff and another whiff, but managed to complete the dismantling of the AV in 46 minutes.  Fun times were had by all.

[Warboss]

  On 2/26/2025 at 7:07 PM, PLVRIZR said:

My pleasure.  We were few (five) but mighty.  All of us were between 16 - 20 at the start and it was a veritable ding-fest.  We finished a +1, which actually is quite sloggy when herding large numbers of CoT debuffers - whiff, whiff, whiff and another whiff, but managed to complete the dismantling of the AV in 46 minutes.  Fun times were had by all.

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Pretty fun and overall effective, many levels (I think mine ended up at 24). We did both the Posi's, for some reason my team from last month didn't get credit/badge for running Posi 1 last time. No biggie (a bit of a pain), but we got both 1 & 2 done last night. Which should put us in line for Synapse/Yin next month.

Edited February 27 by Warboss

[Ronin_Around]

Reminder that Tanker Tuesday will be doing a weekend run on Victory tomorrow, March 1st, at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET.

Meet up in Kings Row on the wall as usual and we will see what kind of tanking we can get into.

 

See you there

[Ronin_Around]

A good run on for the Tanker Tuesday tour on Victory today. @Warboss  ran a Moonfire TF for us and we got  @PapaSlade's new SR tank about 22 levels to where they will be leading a TF next month.

Next run on Victory will be April 5th - see event calendar

 

The next regular TT will be on March 4th on Excel. Numina, Katie H and Dr Aeon will be the WST. Volunteers to lead mission teams and task forces on the busier servers are always appreciated.

[WuTang]

Couple questions...

 

52 pages... So....

 

Are these for low level tanks? Is there one on Everlasting? Or which server is most active? Wouldn't mind jumping into this party.

[Warboss]

Everyone is welcome, the only requirement is to be a Tank. All, levels, power sets, etc... just be a Tank. Everlasting is the 3rd Tuesday of each month (see sig - all over this thread). We're on all the servers although Reunion and Victory were added a bit later so we visit them on Saturdays. You're also allowed 5 server transfers a week, so you can move Tanks around as you see fit (note: naming could be an issue as will any SG associations). Tonight is Excel. Hope to see you there! Also send one of us a tell for an invite to TankHQ our Tanker chat channel. TankHQ is a public channel so you can join it using /chan_join TankHQ,

[Ronin_Around]

Big tanking fun on Excelsior tonight. We started the night dissuading a Kronos Titan that tried to join Tanker Tuesday.

We then had three full teams going that ran a Katie Hannon TF (thanks @MsAligned for leading that), @Agoogala ran Team Awesome doing missions in PI for our smaller tanks, and a fairly quick Numina was done with those that joined me.

 

Next week, March 11th we will be on Torchbearer. Dr Kahn TF, Barracuda SF and the Cavern of Transcendence trial will be the WST . 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Meet in Kings Row in the usual place.

Saturday March 15th we will return to Reunion. 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 PM CET.

[Warboss]

Of note the Kronos Titan tried to hide in tree so we couldn't get him (pic to follow and it didn't work). I was on MsA's team and we ran Katie and had so much fun taking out Red Caps that we stayed in the last mission clearing them. Then on to PI for another zombie invasions (we had one going just as we exited the Katie TF), and radios. We had several new Tankers joining the event and a few from the Live who were able to join us again. So overall a good times, fun, and many level dings, AND we got to meet some new folks and welcome some returning Tanks to the event. Warboss (Rad/Spines version) is  now level 42 (leveled only through TT events)!

 

 

Kahn? Paging @wittylibrarian to team lead duty...

 

 

 

Edited March 6 by Warboss

[Maltese_Knight]

Seriously looking forward to plugging in on these!

Just found Homecoming awhile back and man, I forgot just how much I loved me some CoH back in the day, crackin' skulls on Virtue. So glad to see the tank community alive and strong, representing the front line.

 

See you all out there on the streets of Excel!

[Warboss]

Welcome back, join the TankHQ channel to get in on the silliness.

 

[Ronin_Around]

A very fun night was had on Torchbearer tonight. We had 4 teams running with many thanks to @Anyad for the special guest appearance and leading of the mission team, and many thanks to @Gattaca for leading the Citadel TF for @Warboss (we know he deserved the break), thanks to @PLVRIZR for leading 5 brave (crazy?) tanks on a Dr Kahn TF, I'm certain seeing him finally go down after a 45 minute fight was well worth it. And thanks to those that joined me in saving Sam Wincott from the Cavern of Transcendence.

 

This Saturday, March 15, will be the Reunion run,  9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 PM CET. Meet in Kings Row as always. Kahn and Cavern will still be the WST.

 

Next Tuesday, March 18, will be back on Everlasting and it will be Respec Week. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET.

 

See you in the City

[Warboss]

Fun times, I was on a great team. More new faces and players showing up to the event. Welcome to all the newcomers.

 

I also managed to get my Stone/Icer up to 50, so "Yay" new 50 Tank!

 

I'm thinking it's time for an all Shield ITF next month (here on Torch (unless something else comes up)). 

[PLVRIZR]

  On 3/12/2025 at 3:22 AM, Ronin_Around said:

 thanks to @PLVRIZR for leading 5 brave (crazy?) tanks on a Dr Kahn TF, I'm certain seeing him finally go down after a 45 minute fight was well worth it.

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...and it was.  The first couple of missions were just a warm-up and I actually ran out of daggers with about 10 min. left in the final Reichsman fight.  We were few but mighty and finished the entire TF in 48 min.  Special thanks to @Pep Rally for keeping the peripheral AVs in the AOE goodness, in that final fight.

[Ronin_Around]

To quote @Agoogala, "[21:00] [Team] Hot Briquette:  It was a hot time in the old town tonight!" for the Tanker Tuesday run on Everlasting.

We had 3 full teams of tankers, with many thanks to @MsAligned for running the mission team while @PLVRIZR ran our mid-level tanks through a FreakSpec and I took the higher level ones to save the reactor from the Rikti.

After the city was saved from multiple meltdowns, we trashed some AVs and then beat up some alternate-dimension nazis.

Good fun all around.

 

Next week we are on Indomitable. Positron 1 & 2 will be the WST. We will also be continuing on with the Stone/Weapon challenge and running a Synapse TF with them. If you want to join in that and don't have a Stone/Weapon Tank, you have 7 days make one and to get them to level 15.

 

See you all in game

 

[Waraxe]

  On 3/19/2025 at 3:19 AM, Ronin_Around said:

To quote @Agoogala, "[21:00] [Team] Hot Briquette:  It was a hot time in the old town tonight!"

 

 

 

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Did Antoine get a little hot under the collar?

[PLVRIZR]

  On 3/19/2025 at 3:19 AM, Ronin_Around said:

To quote @Agoogala, "[21:00] [Team] Hot Briquette:  It was a hot time in the old town tonight!" for the Tanker Tuesday run on Everlasting.

We had 3 full teams of tankers, with many thanks to @MsAligned for running the mission team while @PLVRIZR ran our mid-level tanks through a FreakSpec

 

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Our time supporting Cpt. Harlan was more, well, "electric", on TV2.  Not only because it was Freaks, but I ran my Elec/Elec and scoffed at their attempts to debuff me.  They did get @Warboss (only once), but since Witty wasn't on our team, somebody had to die.  We finished (remember, the final waves in the reactor room are +5 or +6) in 46:01, one minute and one second past my announced expected time of 45 minutes.  Great job to all as we had several non-incarnated tanks on the team.  The herding in the Reactor Control Room was glorious as @ZemX successfully opened all four side doors and we had the entire room herded.  My lens cap was on, so no screenshots.  Maybe someone else got some shots...

[Warboss]

  On 3/19/2025 at 4:09 PM, PLVRIZR said:

They did get @Warboss (only once), but since Witty wasn't on our team, somebody had to die.  We finished (remember, the final waves in the reactor room are +5 or +6) in 46:01, one minute and one second past my announced expected time of 45 minutes. 

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Yeah, yeah, somehow Proton Armor got detoggled (resist to Fire, Cold, Energy ( a bit important in this setting) and Neg). Not sure how that happened as none of my attack toggles are near it and if I was drained CJ and some other powers most likely would have detoggled first/as well, so I'm thinking something sneaky happened (GM, Tanker Gods, Fate, internetz sprites, or maybe @zem wanting to use Revive Ally) ...  for my part, I was responding to chats and not paying close enough to my toon... So let that be a lesson "Do not to Tank and Chat". Once I figured out the problem (was hard to see all the Power Icons with all the effects going off), I didn't drop him again... I did get pics, but at work atm so they'll have to wait until I get home (and hopefully remember to post). The one thing I will say about the reactor respecs is that they are the best maps to herd on! If you've never joined a TT and wanted to, the respecs are one of the best events to join (BIG HERDS) (actually we'd be happy to see at any of them... but if you want big herds... respecs). 

 

I think there was chat of starting a 2ndry Powers challenge on Everlasting next month. Which I was thinking was Electrical Melee, but in fact Zem's suggestion was for Rad Melee. Not my first choice, but I'm down with it. I'd love to see overlapping Irradiated Grounds (especially with Primaries that have Damage Aura (all Electric/Rads would be nasty)). So, that works. Let us know what you all think. */Rad Melee challenge for Everlasting starting next month? Yea/Nay?

 

And... Electrical Melee was a suggestion for another sever, but we won't start that until we complete all the TFC TFs on Everlasting.

 

 

 

Edited March 20 by Warboss

[Ronin_Around]

  On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, Warboss said:

 

I think there was chat of starting a 2ndry Powers challenge on Everlasting next month. Which I was thinking was Electrical Melee, but in fact Zem's suggestion was for Rad Melee. Not my first choice, but I'm down with it. I'd love to see overlapping Irradiated Grounds (especially with Primaries that have Damage Aura (all Electric/Rads would be nasty)). So, that works. Let us know what you all think. */Rad Melee challenge for Everlasting starting next month? Yea/Nay?

 

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A Rad Melee challenge on Everlasting will work. I guess I had the servers mixed up, so I guess after that would be Electrical Melee on Excel?

Next TT on Ever will be April 15th, which will also have ITF as the WST and I know there was talk of an all Shield ITF too. Very conflicted for next month.

April will also have 5 Tuesdays, and the next server for a 5th Tuesday special event is Torchbearer. Since that is your home @Warboss, you get to choose what flavour of insanity we run that night 😜 

 

 

[Warboss]

  On 3/20/2025 at 1:40 AM, Ronin_Around said:

 

A Rad Melee challenge on Everlasting will work. I guess I had the servers mixed up, so I guess after that would be Electrical Melee on Excel?

 

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I guess that could go either way. I just looked at the tread again and it could be Rad for Excel and Electrical Melee for Everlasting... We'll have to discuss and see if we can sort that out. Good news is, we have a few weeks to get it done.

 

MSR is probably the easiest and I'm not sure I'm up for another Hami atm. So let's look at an instanced MSR.

[PLVRIZR]

  On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, Warboss said:

 

 

Great pic!  Perfect angle to catch "Voltaic" in the center of the action 😆

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  On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, Warboss said:

 

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[Warboss]

  On 3/20/2025 at 2:47 AM, Warboss said:

 

I guess that could go either way. I just looked at the tread again and it could be Rad for Excel and Electrical Melee for Everlasting... We'll have to discuss and see if we can sort that out. Good news is, we have a few weeks to get it done.

 

MSR is probably the easiest and I'm not sure I'm up for another Hami atm. So let's look at an instanced MSR.

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Okay, so after a quick consultation with Ronin, here's the revised list of Challenge builds (rough timeline/server):

 

Everlasting = Electrical Melee, Spring/Early Summer

Excel = Rad Melee, Late Summer/Early Fall 2025

Victory = Challenge TBD, Winter 2025

 

I think the main question we need to answer is if we want to start the Electric Melee challenge on  April 15th, or wait until May.

[Ronin_Around]

  On 3/21/2025 at 8:08 PM, Warboss said:

 

Okay, so after a quick consultation with Ronin, here's the revised list of Challenge builds (rough timeline/server):

 

Everlasting = Electrical Melee, Spring/Early Summer

Excel = Rad Melee, Late Summer/Early Fall 2025

Victory = Challenge TBD, Winter 2025

 

I think the main question we need to answer is if we want to start the Electric Melee challenge on  April 15th, or wait until May.

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For these upcoming challenge builds, only the secondary is mandatory, choose whichever Primary set you like for these on Everlasting (Electric Melee) and Excelsior (Radiation Melee).

April 15th is probably a good time to start, otherwise these wouldn't get going until May 20th and we all probably forget about them.

 

The other thought for the Everlasting challenge would be to start it off with an Old School Sewer Run, no DFB or missions, just beating up lots of gangs in the sewers. We would enter in Kings Row and fight our way through to Atlas, pop out, level up and then head back in and fight up to Steel or Boomtown and possibly finish off by tanking on the Goliath War Walker there. An added benefit of this would be if we have more than 8 tanks doing the challenge, we can just run as a league, keep everyone together on 2 teams and really clean up the sewer.

Also since there are no trainers down in the sewers, if  we had a few tanks that purchased the SuperGroup Portal power from START to allow tanks to get leveled up and return right to where we were in the sewer.

 

Side note: if anyone who is a member of the TankHQ SGs on Excelsior and Everlasting, could you let me know who is the leader of the SG on each of those servers? (I don't have a tank in TankHQ on either of those servers)

 

 

[Warboss]

Hey Ronin,

Nuclear Impact (my toon) is the current lead on TankHQ Everlasting.

 

Winteriel (Scranker) has the red star on Excel, Atomic Minotaur (my toon) is the one of the commanders.

[One IV All]

  On 3/21/2025 at 9:52 PM, Ronin_Around said:

 

For these upcoming challenge builds, only the secondary is mandatory, choose whichever Primary set you like for these on Everlasting (Electric Melee) and Excelsior (Radiation Melee).

April 15th is probably a good time to start, otherwise these wouldn't get going until May 20th and we all probably forget about them.

 

The other thought for the Everlasting challenge would be to start it off with an Old School Sewer Run, no DFB or missions, just beating up lots of gangs in the sewers. We would enter in Kings Row and fight our way through to Atlas, pop out, level up and then head back in and fight up to Steel or Boomtown and possibly finish off by tanking on the Goliath War Walker there. An added benefit of this would be if we have more than 8 tanks doing the challenge, we can just run as a league, keep everyone together on 2 teams and really clean up the sewer.

Also since there are no trainers down in the sewers, if  we had a few tanks that purchased the SuperGroup Portal power from START to allow tanks to get leveled up and return right to where we were in the sewer.

 

Side note: if anyone who is a member of the TankHQ SGs on Excelsior and Everlasting, could you let me know who is the leader of the SG on each of those servers? (I don't have a tank in TankHQ on either of those servers)

 

 

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Excuse me while I go make that Shield/Rad Tanker I’ve been kicking ideas around for haha

[Ronin_Around]

A fun and successful night was had on Indomitable tonight.  We had three teams running tonight, many thanks to @wittylibrarian for leading the mission team.

For the  Stone Armor/Weapon challenge tankers, we had two teams that did dueling Synapse TFs. The team lead by @Warboss pulled out to an early lead but got bogged down fighting Babbage which allowed my team to catch up and bring our Babbage over to meet theirs. With all the Stone Tankers together and some assistance from the mission team and some friendly locals managed to send those giant monsters packing before cleaning the Clockwork King's, err clock.

 

Next Tanker Tuesday will be April 1st, so bring a Defender to Kings Row by the Skyway Gate at 6:00 am PT / 9:00 am ET  😄

 

All kidding aside, meet in Kings Row on the wall beside the IP Gate.  6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Apex/TinMage II and DrQ will be the WST. Volunteers to lead teams are appreciated.

 

And as per Warboss earlier in the thread, April 15th will be the start of the Electric Melee tanker challenge on Everlasting.  Any Primary power set can be used, but your Secondary power set must be Electrical Melee. You have three weeks, so start thinking about your new tank soon.

 

See you all next week.