Tanker Tuesdays

[Warboss]

Good fun on Indom last night. I had a great team (6 of us running at 8 +0). I think my toon ended up at level 28, and I noticed a lot of level dings as we ran along. It was good to see two teams worth of challenge builds as well as some new faces! Welcome to all those new to TT! So... I'm thinking we're in line for a Yin TF next month here on Indom (Challenge Tanks). 

 

I can run an ApeMage next time if you need me to, and isn't @wittylibrarian our default Dr. Q lead? 

 

See you all in game (or on a Tuesday)!

[Waraxe]

On 3/25/2025 at 8:35 PM, Ronin_Around said:

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.

 

Just as a matter of clarification, is there a level max for possibly moving an existing Elec Melee tank over to Everlasting for this, or is the idea of the challenge to only run brand new and shiny level 1 babytanks with 0 XP (or reasonably close to it)? 

[Ronin_Around]

On 3/30/2025 at 12:24 PM, Waraxe said:

Just as a matter of clarification, is there a level max for possibly moving an existing Elec Melee tank over to Everlasting for this, or is the idea of the challenge to only run brand new and shiny level 1 babytanks with 0 XP (or reasonably close to it)? 

What level is the Tank you are thinking of moving over?

Generally the challenge is to level them up as a group during TT as much as possible.

If you wanted to run a higher level tank with the rest, though you would be exemplared down to the team leads level, so it wouldn't really break the challenge but would give you a leg up on the rest of your teammates.

[Waraxe]

22 hours ago, Ronin_Around said:

What level is the Tank you are thinking of moving over?

 

High enough to give more of a leg up than would be fair or fun. A babytank it is!

[Ronin_Around]

A big night on Excelsior tonight that started off being disrupted by the Mapserver event.  After that we ended up with 5 teams running.

Many thanks to @ColTech and @Albedo for running the mission teams tonight. I think they got a Rikti invasion as well in there along the way.

@PLVRIZR & @Warboss had dueling ApeMage TFs going tonight as a fair number of folk wanted in on that.

And a big thanks to those that joined me on the Dr Q TF tonight. We managed to finish that in 2:35:37 which was not terrible for a bunch of tanks.

 

This Saturday, April 5th is our monthly stop on Victory, 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET. Meet in Kings Row as always. No set plan but probably not DrQ.

Next week TT will be on Torch with Synapse and Sara Moore being the WST. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. On the wall in Kings Row.

As always, if there is something that you would like to run on any TT, please let me know. Volunteers to lead teams are always appreciated as well.

 

@wittylibrarian our thoughts are with you.

 

[PLVRIZR]

10 hours ago, Ronin_Around said:

@PLVRIZR & @Warboss had dueling ApeMage TFs going

 

@wittylibrarian our thoughts are with you.

 

Prayers to Witty and family, for sure.  I lost my Dad on Christmas day 2020, so I can completely relate....

 

Having said that, we had a great night with five tanks on the PLV team and Tin/Pex.  Completed both in about 70 minutes (didn't record the times for each), but much mayhem, tanking and levels were had.  Didn't quite get to my goal of VL550 on NUT, but got closer!  See ya'll next week.

[Warboss]

Had a good run on ApeMage, with a great team. AVs took us bit of time for reason, but other than that no complaints (we probably could have used pets more frequently than we did). But overall great herds and lots of fun. And, we got a few new players, so welcome to the fun! I was kinda' bummed as PLV was our back up ApeMage leader and up until the need for him to lead, I planned on kicking back and letting him do all the heavy lifting (which is my usual plan when teaming with him ;) I can't hog all the Tanker glory). As always, we hope to see the new attendees and returning Tankers at our upcoming events!

[PLVRIZR]

7 hours ago, Warboss said:

 I was kinda' bummed as PLV was our back up ApeMage leader and up until the need for him to lead, 

Here for you, bro, always!  Witty's situation should remind all of us how fleeting life is, but also how blessed we are to have an on line family to share the fun (and escape) and comradery of this game.  I appreciate the @Warboss's and @Ronin_Around's, that are keeping this community going.  Humbled.and honored to be a small part of that.

[Warboss]

We need a Tank emoji....

[Warboss]

On 4/1/2025 at 9:13 PM, Ronin_Around said:

 

Next week TT will be on Torch with Synapse and Sara Moore being the WST. 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. On the wall in Kings Row.

 

 

I can take a Synapse team.

 

[Ronin_Around]

A run good on Victory today with a DA run, some GM fighting, a Yin TF, and a new Level 50 Tanker.

Good fun all around. Next Victory run will be May 3rd.

 

April 8th Tanker Tuesday will be on Torchbearer, meet up at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. On the wall by the IP gate in Kings Row.

@Warboss has already offered to lead a Synapse TF, so arrive early to get a spot on that. Sara Moore is the other WST and we will see how much interest there is for that.

 

See you then Tankers

 

[Ronin_Around]

Fun times on Torchbearer tonight. We had 2 full teams running with @Warboss leading a reported "very efficient" Synapse TF that was so deadly, Babbage was too scared to show up to meet them. The rest of the tankers joined me in running the 1st of the New Praetorians arc from Provost Marchand.  And in a rare occurrence, we did not achieve Rule #2, in that @wittylibrarian did not get defeated, not even once!

 

Next Tanker Tuesday will be April 15th on Everlasting, Imperious and Justin Augustine will be the Weekly Strike Targets. 

This will also be the start of the Electric Melee Tanker Challenge. Bring a newish (level 5 or under) Electric Melee tank to Kings Row, any primary set is permitted.

Current plan is to do an old school Sewer Network run from Kings Row to Atlas, and then up to Boomtown. There should be a few people with the Supergroup Portal power to allow the group(s) to head to a SG base level up at intervals without losing our place in the sewer clean up.

 

Saturday April 19th will be our next Reunion run. 9:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 6:30 PM CET 

 

We will also be back on Torchbearer later this month for the 5th Tuesday on April 29th for an Instanced Mothership Raid. 

Since April is Ape Awareness month, bring an Ape themed tank if you have one.

[Warboss]

I was pretty bummed that Babbs flaked on us. Including SnS and the TT run that's something like 3 - 4 times he's avoided us? Either the TF is bugged, or he's afraid of my Tanks. I was really looking forward to PLV soloing him... I've got a couple of pics, but they'll have to wait until I get home. We had a great team, much, much herding, many leveling dings and a lot of fun with the herd and scrapping of clocks. For a destroy most run, I think we made great time. Can't wait for that one to come back around. Synapse has some of the best maps for a team of Tanks to do their thing! 

 

As Promised:

 

Edited April 10 by Warboss

[PLVRIZR]

7 hours ago, Warboss said:

I was pretty bummed that Babbs flaked on us.

Same!

 

7 hours ago, Warboss said:

 I was really looking forward to PLV soloing him... 

And I would have! 😆  I park my WP/Fiery on Torch (get it, Fiery on Torch...) and he made, what, VL130 last night?  Yeah, happy to solo the big ugly robot.

 

7 hours ago, Warboss said:

We had a great team, much, much herding, many leveling dings and a lot of fun with the herd and scrapping of clocks. For a destroy most run, I think we made great time.

Agreed!  I was honored to be part of that, with one of the absolute best herding leaders @Warboss.  Destroy most and finished in 1:08.  Epic.

[PLVRIZR]

Thanks for the screenies, WB!!!

 

And Will, in all his fiery glory...

 

 

[victusfate]

Was having a blast on one of my tankers earlier (shield/kinetics). They need a bit of work, but I need to get in on tanker tuesday fun!

[Ronin_Around]

Great tanking fun had on Everlasting tonight. We had 4 teams running with many thanks to Gamma.Guardian aka @Tygorr for taking the mission team and to Hard Cover aka @wittylibrarian for leading an ITF team tonight.

We had 13 tankers take part in the Electric Melee challenge tonight, which we kicked off with an old school Sewer Network run, starting in Kings Row we cleared the sewers to Atlas and then turned around and clear up to Boomtown. After which we finished off with a few radio missions. Took a bit to get that settled in but was good fun. Had been about 19 years since I had done a sewer run like that.

 

This Saturday, April 19th will be our monthly Reunion run. 6:30 pm CET/9:30 am PT/12:30 pm ET. ITF and Justin are still the WST but I have an ITF in my sights so, bring a 35+ tank just to be sure.

April 22 will see TT return to Indomitable. The Stone Armor challenge is still on there and we have Yin in the queue for those tanks (which is also the WST along with Faathim)

Usual time and place for that one.

 

Happy Easter all if I don't see you in game before then

 

 

[Ronin_Around]

Our latest run with the Stone Armor challenge on Indomitable went well with 14 stoners doing dueling Yin TFs. Team 2 lead by @Warboss won that race and finished in around 40 minutes while my team took about 50. Both teams lost a few and then ran Citadel TFs. Team 1 won that one finishing in 55 minutes.

Many thanks to @wittylibrarian for running the Mission team tonight.

 

Next week, April 29th will be our 5th Tuesday of the month and we will be doing an Instanced Mothership Raid on Torchbearer.

All Tankers level 10 and up are welcome, but a fair number of Incarnate Level 50 Tankers will be required for us to be successful.

Please ensure you have the Member of Vanguard badge prior to the event so that you can get Vanguard Merits during the raid. It is no longer required to enter the Instance though.

Remember to get a jet pack or some kind of flight power for the Dropship hunt after the raid. Temporary Hold powers and Envenomed Daggers are an asset as well.

 

Since April is Ape Awareness month, Ape themed Tanks are highly encouraged (if you have them) but are not a requirement.

 

Meet up in Kings Row, on the wall beside the Independence Port gate.

The MSR will launch at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET and we will begin forming up a half hour prior to that.

[Warboss]

10 hours ago, Ronin_Around said:

Our latest run with the Stone Armor challenge on Indomitable went well with 14 stoners doing dueling Yin TFs. Team 2 lead by @Warboss won that race and finished in around 40 minutes while my team took about 50. Both teams lost a few and then ran Citadel TFs. Team 1 won that one finishing in 55 minutes.

Many thanks to @wittylibrarian for running the Mission team tonight.

 

Next week, April 29th will be our 5th Tuesday of the month and we will be doing an Instanced Mothership Raid on Torchbearer.

All Tankers level 10 and up are welcome, but a fair number of Incarnate Level 50 Tankers will be required for us to be successful.

Please ensure you have the Member of Vanguard badge prior to the event so that you can get Vanguard Merits during the raid. It is no longer required to enter the Instance though.

Remember to get a jet pack or some kind of flight power for the Dropship hunt after the raid. Temporary Hold powers and Envenomed Daggers are an asset as well.

 

Since April is Ape Awareness month, Ape themed Tanks are highly encouraged (if you have them) but are not a requirement.

 

Meet up in Kings Row, on the wall beside the Independence Port gate.

The MSR will launch at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET and we will begin forming up a half hour prior to that.

 

Not sure what happened on Citadel, I guess with the level range we were at losing the two other Tanks made a big difference. We did finish, a bit after the end of the event, but got it done none the less. Thanks to all my teammates for sticking in there and completing the TF.  Overall, there was much leveling and fun to be had Tanker style.

 

I think an upcoming challenge (2026?) might be Super Reflexes/* (in honor of PapaS's comments last night). 

 

Looking forward to the MSR next week. See you all there!