Tanker Tuesdays

[Ronin_Around]

33 minutes ago, cheezewezzel said:

I'm interested in joining Tanker Tuesday tomorrow on Excelsior.  Are there any level restrictions?  I have a 13th level stone/stone tank, Obsidian Grrrl, and a 29th level fire/SS tank, Hot To Go.

Tankers of all levels are welcome from level 1 to 50+. Bring whatever Tanker you want to play to Kings Row beside the Independence Port gate and stand on the wall with all the other tanks.

Teams will be sorted out and you will be fit into a suitable TF or mission team. The event starts up @ 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET but get that a bit before hand to make things easier for the team sorting.

[cheezewezzel]

Cool, any voice or Discord that I need to setup?

[Warboss]

There is a Discord channel, but we haven't activated it in a while. If there's interest I can look into it again. I tend to stay off it as no one needs to hear what I'm shouting during raids (especially all Tanker Hamis).

[Warboss]

Another fun run on Excel. Five teams, two Citadel TFs lead by @X'terra and @wittylibrarian, the Woodsman lead by @MsAligned, and missions lead by yours truly and @Drkchilde. Many new faces and players joining the event as well, welcome one and all, and much leveling and fun was had.

 

Next week we're back on Torch for more Tanker fun! Hope you can join us!

[cheezewezzel]

Thanks for last night.  Obsidian Grrrl had a great time and picked up 6 levels.

[Warboss]

Glad you could join the event. If you're  not already a member of the TankHQ channel, you can join it by entering /chan_join TankHQ into the chat window and hitting enter.

 

Torch is our stop next Tuesday.

Edited May 8 by Warboss
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[Warboss]

Hi all,

I've been caught up in RL today. Not sure if I'll be able to make it tonight (if so will likely be a late joiner to the missions team). Take care and have fun, see you all soon!

[Ronin_Around]

A fun and busy night with a lot of new faces on Torchbearer tonight. We had 2 full mission teams running and 2 teams running the Ernesto Hess TF.

Many thanks to @Indestructaboy and @X'Terra for leading the mission teams and thanks to @MsAligned leading the other Hess TF.

We had some great herding done on my Hess team, and lots of mechmen getting thrown into the lava

 

 

This Saturday, May 17th we are on Reunion, with Hess and LGTF still the WST.  Meet up in Kings Row at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET.

 

Next Tuesday, May 20th we are on Everlasting at the usual time. Manticore and Sutter will be the WST.

 

See you then

 

[Kabal]

Is Everlasting where the Electric Melee challenge is taking place? I think it was the third week when we ran it last. Is there a continuing plan for the challenge? Maybe Posi 1/2? We should all be around the right level range for it.

Edited May 14 by Kabal

[Ronin_Around]

2 hours ago, Kabal said:

Is Everlasting where the Electric Melee challenge is taking place? I think it was the third week when we ran it last. Is there a continuing plan for the challenge? Maybe Posi 1/2? We should all be around the right level range for it.

 

Yes, Everlasting is the home for the Electric Melee challenge. Thanks for the reminder.

I think most would be in the 10-15 level range so, Posi 1 & 2 could very well be doable.

[Warboss]

18 minutes ago, Ronin_Around said:

Yes, Everlasting is the home for the Electric Melee challenge. Thanks for the reminder.

I think most would be in the 10-15 level range so, Posi 1 & 2 could very well be doable.

 

Ronin was faster on the keyboard than I was. Thanks for confirming that Ronin. Sounds good.

[Ronin_Around]

Late update but we did have the Tanker "Tuesday" run on Reunion this past weekend. We had 6 tankers take part and we started off beating up 3 Paladins in Kings Row before taking care of some Council and Crey for Citadel and Manticore to help @Warboss get closer to his TFC accolade on his Bio/Psi tank.  Next run on Reunion will be June 21, meet up will be at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm CET for our European friends.

 

This week, May 20th, Tanker Tuesday is on Everlasting and the Electric Melee challenge will continue on with the Positron Task forces as most should be in that range. If you missed out on the first run last week you have a day to get a new free choice Primary/Electric Melee tanker up to at least level 8 to join in on the TFs this week. 

For those not doing the challenge, Manticore and Sutter are the weekly strike targets and there should be a mission team as well.

Meet us in Kings Row at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET

 

I noticed that I have the "Find missing fortune teller" mission on my EM tank, so the challenge team (or one of them) will be running that for the Spelunker badge needed for the Atlas Medallion Accolade before we start on Positron.

Edited Monday at 09:53 PM by Ronin_Around

[Ronin_Around]

An interesting night of tanking on Everlasting tonight. We had 4 teams running with E'lle Trik (@O'terra) overcoming her star allergies to lead the mission team. And many thanks to Murk Breaker @Krogoth for leading the Manticore TF tonight. We also had two teams of 5 tanks each doing the Electric Melee challenge and running the Positron TFs. @PLVRIZR took over the lead of team 1 since he was the tallest and took us through at +2x8  that we  completed in 1:26 with a few team wipes while we tried to kick our own asses. Team 2 lead by @Warboss fared a bit better than us, completing both Posi 1 & 2.

Next month, the Electric Melee challenge will move on to Synapse which should be interesting.

 

Next week, May 27th, TT will be back on Indomitable. Meet up in KR at 6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET. Market Crash and Moonfire are the WST.

The Stone Armor challenge will be continuing this week with the Manticore TF up next but Moonfire may be an option as well.

 

See you then

 

[Waraxe]

16 minutes ago, Ronin_Around said:

An interesting night of tanking on Everlasting tonight. We had 4 teams running with E'lle Trik (@O'terra) overcoming her star allergies to lead the mission team.

 

O'Terra...is that X'Terra's Irish cousin? =P

[Warboss]

12 hours ago, Ronin_Around said:

An interesting night of tanking on Everlasting tonight. We had 4 teams running with E'lle Trik (@O'terra) overcoming her star allergies to lead the mission team. And many thanks to Murk Breaker @Krogoth for leading the Manticore TF tonight. We also had two teams of 5 tanks each doing the Electric Melee challenge and running the Positron TFs. @PLVRIZR took over the lead of team 1 since he was the tallest and took us through at +2x8  that we  completed in 1:26 with a few team wipes while we tried to kick our own asses. Team 2 lead by @Warboss fared a bit better than us, completing both Posi 1 & 2.

Next month, the Electric Melee challenge will move on to Synapse which should be interesting.

 

I forgot how painful running a low level Ice Armor Tank can be (prior to the higher levels of DDR kicking in). I have to hand it to my team who stuck in there and finished both TFs. There was an good amount of leveling (I think I finished around level 22), and I know the rest of the team was leveling at a good pace as well. So "Well done!" to my teammates, and we'll see you at the next TT.

 

btw, I think I broke Witty's record for number of defeats during a TF....

[Ronin_Around]

4 hours ago, Warboss said:

 

I forgot how painful running a low level Ice Armor Tank can be (prior to the higher levels of DDR kicking in). I have to hand it to my team who stuck in there and finished both TFs. There was an good amount of leveling (I think I finished around level 22), and I know the rest of the team was leveling at a good pace as well. So "Well done!" to my teammates, and we'll see you at the next TT.

 

btw, I think I broke Witty's record for number of defeats during a TF....

That's half the fun though. If these were easy then they wouldn't really be a "Challenge" now would it?

 

My recent Ice/Savage melee tank was rough at that point too, but came together quite nicely around 30 and with some IO sets slotted.

 

I think we had 40+ defeats between the 5 of us on my teams run but most of that was on the last mission that PLV had left set at +2x8 🤣

[PLVRIZR]

29 minutes ago, Ronin_Around said:

I think we had 40+ defeats between the 5 of us on my teams run but most of that was on the last mission that PLV had left set at +2x8 🤣

Yeah, I was on leader "autopilot" with the +2/8, but you have to admit, until the shadow simulacrums, it wasn't too terrible.  Having to fight ten of our caliber tanks, with only five, was a "challenge". 😆

[Kabal]

The end drain on the shadow Electric Armour was something else. At our low levels, it was so debilitating.