Tanker Tuesdays

[Spaghetti Betty]

1 hour ago, Warboss said:

Wow, he gets around. Did you all provide him with a defeat?

 

Stopping for extra credit was not on the list!

[50caltech]

On 10/4/2023 at 12:37 AM, Warboss said:

Good fun on Excel tonight. We had three teams, a mission team, a TinApe Team, and a Dr. Q team. Thanks for leading  missions MsA, thanks to Ronin for leading TinApe, and thanks to Witty for leading the Dr. Q team. We also had two GMs show up to get in on the fun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/10 we're on Torch. Meet in King's Row at 6:00PM PDT/9:00 PM EDT. 10/31 MSR on Indom!

pics from before we started

[50caltech]

Just now, 50caltech said:

pics from before we started

 

[Ringo]

Chill Eochai wants to be my pal

 

Rage Eochai stomps me like a bug

[Warboss]

Good fun on Torch tonight. Three teams. MsA lead our missions team (thanks for doing that), PLV lead the Synapse team (3 mighty Tanks taking on the TF) (also thanks to ThridOrbit for the assist on Babbage), and thanks to WItty for leading a Shardtober Sarah  Moore TF!

 

 

 

 

 

10/17 we're on Everlasting. Meet in King's Row at 6:00PM PDT/9:00 PM EDT.

 

10/31 MSR on Indom! Same Tank time, same Tank place, we'll load into the instance from King's Row!

[Spaghetti Betty]

That was a fun Synapse! I always feel like Synapse runs are way more interesting with a small team. With a team of under 5 players, it's much easier to tailor-make your experience, as maps will be smaller as team size decreases.

 

Shout outs to the Elec/Kin that showed up to help with Babbage!

Edited October 11, 2023 by Spaghetti Betty

[PLVRIZR]

10 hours ago, Warboss said:

PLV lead the Synapse team (3 mighty Tanks taking on the TF)

My pleasure!  We were a small team, but we were mighty!  @Warboss, @Spaghetti Betty and I finished a +2/4 (we thought we were going to start with four, but one didn't accept the LFG port and was dropped, by the UI) in 1:01 with no defeats.  I took my Inv/DM (homage to Heraclea's original build) and it was a cakewalk. 😆

[Warboss]

Good run on Everlasting tonight. We had three teams. Spaghetti Betty lead a Hard Mode ITF, Witty lead a Shard team and I took missions. Thanks all for leading and it was good to see and meet the first timers too! I was responding to tells and didn't get any pics tonight.

 

This Saturday, 10/21 we're on Reunion. Meet in King's Row by IP Gate at 9:30 AM PDT and we'll get rolling from there.

 

10/24 We're on Indom at the usual Tank time, and for our 5th Tuesday on the 31st we'll be running a MSR on Indom as well (usual TT time).

 

See you all soon!

 

[Spaghetti Betty]

2 hours ago, Warboss said:

Spaghetti Betty lead a Hard Mode ITF,

Unfortunately, I didn't feel comfortable with the team I had to start up a Hard Mode (6-man was my minimum, 5-man was what we ended up with), so instead we ran a +4 Classic, Insps disabled. I totally should've made it enemies buffed

 

That's not to say the players on my team were bad, but I think the only person that could've put up with that level of torture would've been @PLVRIZR. (Consider this a rain check)

 

Instead, I converted some Tankers to the Church of Spin!

 

 

The seafood boil proved no match for our comraderie!

 

 

Woosh! Look at that Whirlwind go!

 

 

Ka-blam! I was detoggled for most of this encounter, but we're not gonna talk about it.

 

 

Somebody was in my ear groaning about The Spin, so I didn't get shots of Rom and Req. Take this shot of a protest against harmful technology as a consolation!

 

 

Even Nictus Rom was no match for the winning of spinning!

 

 

Clean up time!

 

And the highlight of the entire night goes to...

 

 

Pow! Right in the kisser!

[Warboss]

7 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Instead, I converted some Tankers to the Church of Spin!

 

*Groans, there goes the neighborhood...

[PLVRIZR]

7 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Unfortunately, I didn't feel comfortable with the team I had to start up a Hard Mode (6-man was my minimum, 5-man was what we ended up with), so instead we ran a +4 Classic, Insps disabled. I totally should've made it enemies buffed

 

That's not to say the players on my team were bad, but I think the only person that could've put up with that level of torture would've been @PLVRIZR. (Consider this a rain check)

 

Yeah, what a great time.  Even with only five, we were mighty as evidenced by finishing in just under an hour (59 min.).  At +4/8 and no insp.  And a kill most, at that.  Kudos to everyone!

 

Challenge, accepted!  Knowing ITF was the weekly, I brought one of my Inv tanks (BALLBUSTR).  It's not the NUTCRCKR build, so it lacked Pyre Mastery (instead taking FA and Cross Punch), which would have made the AVs drop a bit quicker.  When we run it, Iet's do it on Exc, and I'll bring NUT.  Also, with only one Ageless equipped toon, I had to very carefully time the activations, for both the end bar (mostly for the team) and the DDR.  Disabling inspirations was a fun challenge, for sure.  Enemies buffed would have probably added another 30 min.

[ZemX]

8 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

Ka-blam! I was detoggled for most of this encounter, but we're not gonna talk about it.

 

It's theoretically possible I neglected my end bar right there too and briefly took a nap... BUT NOBODY SAW NOTHIN! 😈

[Warboss]

Hi all,

I won't be able to make next week's TT (Indom). So vet TTer's/Whirlwinders, please do the honors.

 

See you at the MSR the following week!

[Ronin_Around]

A good night of tanking on Indomitable tonight. Two team running with Spaghetti Betty leading a +4, no temp Yin TF (thanks for leading SB) and a mission team with me doing some Tips and AVs.

 

Not much in the way of photos today but here we were relaxing after freeing Positron for the Olympian Guard.

 

See you all next week for the MSR back on Indom.

 

[Spaghetti Betty]

I take great pride in knowing my henchmen only had half a clue what they were in for and still stuck through with only minimal complaining! Besides, how many opportunities do you have to run a 1 hour Yin?

 

I only managed to get a couple of snippets of this week's chaos.

 

This turned into a real room of doom for a minute! It was also the point most realized they weren't gonna have end for the whole TF.

 

 

Nothing like fighting for your life against some Council!

 

 

This is a good time to note that a lot of our damage was smashing/lethal!

 

Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of Clamor going down. I was hosping back with some insps to save the day and they didn't even need me!

[PLVRIZR]

10 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

I take great pride in knowing my henchmen only had half a clue what they were in for and still stuck through with only minimal complaining! Besides, how many opportunities do you have to run a 1 hour Yin?

 

Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of Clamor going down.

 

+4/8 with no daggers (or any other temp powers, for that matter) did make for a bit of a slog, but we kept pounding at it.  There were at least three of us (maybe four), who weren't incarnated, so 24 defeats was not only not surprising, but was probably the largest I've seen in all my TT years.  I realized that Rad/SS is virtually a cheat-code level pairing, as I didn't fall, all night (came close a couple times when moving forward to herd and hadn't done my click buffs).  At 41, with a hodge podge of sets and standard IOs, at that.  Mixing it up makes for a fun time.  Count me in!

 

P.S.  Ewwww (the thought of Clamor "going down")...

[Spaghetti Betty]

2 hours ago, PLVRIZR said:

so 24 defeats was not only not surprising, but was probably the largest I've seen in all my TT years

I'll take this as a compliment! Let this be a lesson to anyone that dare volunteer me to lead!

[Gobbledigook]

15 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

I take great pride in knowing my henchmen only had half a clue what they were in for and still stuck through with only minimal complaining! Besides, how many opportunities do you have to run a 1 hour Yin?

 

I only managed to get a couple of snippets of this week's chaos.

 

This turned into a real room of doom for a minute! It was also the point most realized they weren't gonna have end for the whole TF.

 

 

Nothing like fighting for your life against some Council!

 

 

This is a good time to note that a lot of our damage was smashing/lethal!

 

Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of Clamor going down. I was hosping back with some insps to save the day and they didn't even need me!

It was a fun night. Slow though lol.

[ZemX]

4 hours ago, PLVRIZR said:

I realized that Rad/SS is virtually a cheat-code level pairing, as I didn't fall, all night

 

If this no-temps thing catches on, we'll probably want to make sure there are some Rad Armor and/or Bio Armor tanks in the mix for the -regen.  I don't know where else we have access to this in primary/secondary powers for tanks.  But both these sets get it in their respective heal powers.  Not quite as strong as daggers though.

[Warboss]

Sounds like you all had fun. Thanks for taking the reins Ronin. Next Tuesday we're back on Indom for the 5th Tuesday MSR!

[ZemX]

On 10/26/2023 at 4:49 PM, Warboss said:

Sounds like you all had fun. Thanks for taking the reins Ronin. Next Tuesday we're back on Indom for the 5th Tuesday MSR!

 

We gonna fill an MSR on Indom on Halloween? 🤪

 

Or maybe Rik't or Treat?

[Warboss]

Probably not. We'll see who all we get. We can probably pull it off with around 14ish Tanks. I don't recall number, but we've had low turn out MSRs and pulled them off.

[Warboss]

Good fun on Indom tonight. Fourteen Tanks vs a whole zone of Rikti.... The Tanks won!

 

Everyone wants to get in on TT. We had three Paladins and Eo try to join the event.

 

 

 

 

 

Tanks vs Dropship...

 

 

The Big Red one

 

 

11/7 we're back on Excel. Remember we'll be "falling back" on the 5th so don't forget to reset your clocks!

[ZemX]

PSA: Since I saw some surprised comments last night in the bowl...  yeah, there's THAT much stun mag stacking in there during a MSR.  It's not something we usually have to worry about in our day to day so it can catch you unprepared.

 

It's particularly bad if you're resistance-based or don't have DDR because they also pack a lot of -def and hit you all the time, so it stacks up all the faster if you're not the "I dodge bullets!" type of tank.  At times, I noticed my Rad Armor's defense was in the negative 70s somewhere.  I don't leave home without a decent stack of break-frees and I am constantly converting my tray to break-frees throughout the raid.  

 

That said... TT's MSR's are way more fun than the usual public raid on Excel or Everlasting.  Those are a snooze fest with all the support going on in the bowl.  Playing herd tank for one of those is at least somewhat interesting.  But nothing like the small all-tank raids we're doing.

[PLVRIZR]

3 hours ago, ZemX said:

Playing herd tank for one of those is at least somewhat interesting.  But nothing like the small all-tank raids we're doing.

I was late to the party, so missed the pylon destructions, but made it to the bowl in time.  Was immediately tasked to herd and PLV, with minerals on full tilt, had no issues bringing any and all bosses to the kill zone.

 

@Spaghetti Betty, I was late because I thought I was gonna get a quick +4/8 ITF on Exc, with NUT, but ran into an old friend in @Cassie Knight, who was forming a 4*HM.  They were kind enough to let me tank for them and we finished in just about an hour.  Reminded me that I have a rain check for a run with you, as well 😆

 

The steamroll Market Crash after the MSR was also a good time.  Got another couple levels on my leveling build Rad/SS.  Four or five more to 50.