Themed ITF - All Trollers - Mass Chaos

[Doomguide2005]

2 hours ago, krj12 said:

Just completed an all stormy ITF a few minutes ago.... mixed feelings about this run.   It was entertaining in terms of the chaos and whackiness, definitely an eyeball searer. 🙂

However, in terms of overall effectiveness, not so much.     The frequent usage of hurricane probably did not help with speed or with the Rom fight.   I've also noticed that in my defense

based builds, defense just doesn't seem to protect as much lately - has there been some kind of stealth nerf?  You would think with that many overlapping steamy mists, nothing could hit us.

 

Pretty slow run, especially because of the final fight against Rom.  After several tries and many deaths,  we finally had to settle on pulling him to the roof and

hover fighting him - everything else had him running around while the Nictus range nuked us.

 

Despite all that, we still had fun, and that's what is important after all.  Thanks to everyone who participated!  Group composition this time consisted of 5 trollers and 3 defenders:

 

Trollers ( */Storm ) :

Plant ( Me )

Illusion

Earth

Ice x 2

 

Defenders ( Storm/ *)

Psychic

Elect

Ice

 

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Sweet, glad it was fun (free) for all.  The ITF is not what I'd call Herdicane friendly.  Lots of relatively open maps or caves where you can push things into the geometry.  If you combine that with multiple folks running Hurricane but likely not coordinating very well you get lots of debuffed but probably scattered mobs.

 

Sounds like you had trouble immobilizing Rommy which is pretty much a necessity.  I know Tornado has a fear component.  Rommy's already prone to running all over Tornado probably just makes it worse.  And I can't recall for certain but LS description makes it sound like it causes fear as well.  I've seen Tornado make Lord Recluse in the then STF rabbit all over the place.

 

As for defense issues first they are Cimmies, they throw defense debuffs around like there's no tomorrow.  Second those large open outdoor maps I think folks naturally tend to spread out and before you know it you may not be stacking it as much as you'd like or think you are.  Other wise yes 3 defenders plus 5 controllers stacking Steamy Mist is +33.75% defense (all) before you even add in enhancements or the rest of the builds defenses.  Assuming a bunch of level 50+ I'd be real surprised to find defenses sub 45%.

[krj12]

As for defense issues first they are Cimmies, they throw defense debuffs around like there's no tomorrow. 

 

Shrug,  I was two shot this morning by a regular Boss in ITF with my level 46 Fortunata.   Just two straight hits, like I had no defense.

This character already has insane amounts of defense across the board, well over 40% against melee and smashing/lethal.   Unless 1 hit is enough to strip all defense,  this was pure bull.

 

I've seen it in other areas of the game as well.

[VV]

 

12 hours ago, krj12 said:

we finally had to settle on pulling him to the roof and hover fighting him

This is the way. He gets nutty if the team doesn't have an anchor meleer. 

 

Regarding the slowness, it sounds like not enough people had all their Sudden Accelerations properly slotted.

[Uun]

13 hours ago, krj12 said:

Pretty slow run, especially because of the final fight against Rom.  After several tries and many deaths,  we finally had to settle on pulling him to the roof and

hover fighting him - everything else had him running around while the Nictus range nuked us.

With Plant, Earth and Ice controllers, did nobody take the ST immobilize? Immobilizes are not affected by the purple triangles and will root an AV in a single application.

[Uun]

BTW, I ran an all-fire ITF over the weekend. Obviously a wider mix of ATs - I was on a Fire/Nature controller, but we had dominators, blasters, corruptors and a couple of brutes. I think we clocked in at 38 minutes for a defeat most (+3 for first two missions and +4 for last two).

[Doomguide2005]

11 hours ago, krj12 said:

 

 

 

Shrug,  I was two shot this morning by a regular Boss in ITF with my level 46 Fortunata.   Just two straight hits, like I had no defense.

This character already has insane amounts of defense across the board, well over 40% against melee and smashing/lethal.   Unless 1 hit is enough to strip all defense,  this was pure bull.

 

I've seen it in other areas of the game as well.

No but one hit could do a fairly significant debuff making it a lot easier for the second to land, like drop it 10% or more if you have no ddr.  

 

Edit: And a normal +4 boss will also have about an 18% chance (i.e.just under a 1 in 5 chance) to land that first hit vs +40% defense (1.3×1.4×10) which in turn puts the second hit just shy of 50/50 with a ~10% defdebuff from the first attack or overall slightly worse than 1 in 10 to get double tapped like that with a 40% defense.  Fighting through ×8 mobs that's going to happen and Cimerorans bosses are BS wielders (pun intended).

Edited December 24, 2020 by Doomguide2005

[krj12]

I ran another this morning,  nothing specific like "All Stormy" this time. :)   Pretty good run, about 54 minutes - thx again to everyone who participated!

 

Group Composition:

Fire/Rad ( my character)

Ice/Cold

Earth/Storm

Illusion/Emp

Earth/Emp

Plant/Nature

Fire/Poison

Illusion/Cold

 

I think this is the first time I've had two Earth controllers on a team.   Earth tends to dominate visually over everything else, so you can imagine what it looked

like with two running. :)   

 

A few screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by krj12

[krj12]

Ran another one this evening - we definitely brought an army with us this time with all the Plant, Fire, and Illusion trollers in the group. :)  Pretty fun stuff, made even more fun by the /kin.

We pretty much steamrolled the TF, doing it in an excellent 39 minutes.  I think 35 mins is my record so far on a kill-most.   Good job guys!

 

Group composition:

Plant/Storm ( my character )

Ice/Dark

Plant/Nature

Mind/Empathy

Fire/Kin

Illusion/Rad

Illusion/Time

Fire/Poison

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 2021 by krj12

[Tacheyon]

What server do you run this event on?

[krj12]

Excelsior

[krj12]

Ran another this evening,  pretty good group with about 6 incarnates.  Lots of Illusion and Earth representation this time,  which made for some interesting chaos. :)

We ran it in about 50 minutes, which is pretty good - thanks to all who came! :)

 

Group composition:

Plant/Storm ( my character)

Illusion/Rad

Electric/Electric

Illusion/Traps

Fire/Earth ( Dominator ) - close enough :)  

Illusion/Time

Illusion/Rad

Earth/Storm

 

Some screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 12, 2021 by krj12

[Sakai]

I hope to see one of these some day. Sound like fun. 

[capricorpse]

On 10/13/2020 at 8:19 PM, krj12 said:

Spoiler

 

I've always loved forming themed ITFs back on live and decided to do an all-troller team today.   Thanks to everyone who joined,  you guys rocked!

 

We ended up with the following powerset combinations:

Plant/Storms x2

Ice/Storm

Illusion/Rad

Illusion/Kin

Plant/Rad

Illusion/Dark

Illusion/Poison

 

A few screenshots attached showing the chaos....  pretty sure Rom was in there somewhere 🙂

 

Going to have to do an all defender one sometime,  not sure if I have the guts to do an all blaster though.

 

 

 

 

Sort of unrelated, but how did you get these screenshots with no names and numbers?  I've been dying for a way to turn off damage and healing numbers and see what the hell is going on haha

[Tacheyon]

4 minutes ago, capricorpse said:

Sort of unrelated, but how did you get these screenshots with no names and numbers?  I've been dying for a way to turn off damage and healing numbers and see what the hell is going on haha

 

In the options tab go to the Keybinds tab and scroll to the botton.  There is a option for Toggle Screenshot UI.  You can set up a keybind (I use Ctrl-Z) to toggle it.

[capricorpse]

3 minutes ago, Tacheyon said:

 

In the options tab go to the Keybinds tab and scroll to the botton.  There is a option for Toggle Screenshot UI.  You can set up a keybind (I use Ctrl-Z) to toggle it.

ah cool!  and this will enable/disable the UI in screenshots?  or in gameplay?  (i'm not in-game for another couple of days i think)

[Tacheyon]

4 minutes ago, capricorpse said:

ah cool!  and this will enable/disable the UI in screenshots?  or in gameplay?  (i'm not in-game for another couple of days i think)

 

There are two different options for that.  So read carefully!  Don't ask how I know this.  LOL 

[krj12]

Ran another this evening,  pretty smooth run - don't think we had more than a couple deaths.   It took about 51sh minutes or so,  so great job guys!

 

Group composition:

Ice/Cold ( My Character)

Plant/Nature

Fire/Kin

Illusion/Rad

Fire/Nature

Illusion/Dark x 2

Plant/Trick Arrow

 

So, it was definitely dominated visually by the Plant and Illusion trollers.   Always love seeing those masses of swaying vines everywhere. :)

 

A few screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

Ran yet another this evening, we had a pretty good array of powers, though a definite overload of FIRE and STORM this time.  :)  Pretty decent run, about 54 mins or so.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

 

Group composition:

Illusion/Storm ( my character)

Fire/Kin x 2

Earth/Storm

Fire/Storm

Illusion/Dark

Fire/Dark

Plant/Nature

 

screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

Ran another mostly Troller ITF this evening,  we did pick up one Dom - close enough. :)        Lots of plants and ice this time.... not the speediest ITF in the world, took about an hour, 

but good times had by all. :)

 

Group composition:

Plant/Storm x 2

Ice/Kin

Fire/Rad

Plant/Poison

Dark/Cold

Dark/Rad

Ice/Ice Dominator

 

A few screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

Well, ran another today - very dominated by dark and plant this time, so lots of creepy crawly vines and stuff all over the place. :) 

 

 I think someone said at the beginning  "well, no one should get hit".    They weren't kidding - I think I might have been hit twice in

the entire TF.   No deaths,  and a speedy 42 minute time.   Great job team!

 

Group composition:

Plant/Storm

Fire/Nature

Illusion/Rad

Dark/Cold

Dark/Dark

Plant/Kin

Illusion/Traps

Dark/Kin

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 16, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

Ran another this evening - seemed very much a repeat of the last one.  Lots of dark powers, we had maybe one death, and a completion time of about 53 minutes.  Not bad!

 

Group composition:

Illusion/Storm

Grav/Dark x 2

Fire/Dark x 2

Plant/Nature

Illusion/Poison

 

Screen shots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

 

Yet another this evening.  Definitely needed it after a stressful week.   Great group of players, dominated by Illusion power set, which is always chaotic fun.    

It ran fairly smoothly, with a death here and there, usually when someone wandered off on their own.  :)   Great completion time of 46 minutes.

 

Powersets:

Plant/Storm

Grav/Storm

Illusion/Kin

Illusion/Cold

Dark/Kin

Illusion/Rad x 2

Electric/Time

 

Screenshots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2021 by krj12

[krj12]

Started it up again this evening, and we had a great time!  The fire trollers were out in force today, and we had a 49 minute completion, which is pretty good.

 

Group composition:

 

Plant/Storm

Earth/Kin

Fire/Rad x 2

Fire/Kin

Illusion/Traps

Mind/Kin

Illusion/Empathy

 

Screen shots:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2021 by krj12

[srmalloy]

On 1/13/2021 at 2:11 PM, capricorpse said:

ah cool!  and this will enable/disable the UI in screenshots?  or in gameplay?  (i'm not in-game for another couple of days i think)

Or you can use the 'screenshotui' slash command -- '/screenshotui 0' will turn off the UI in screenshots, '/screenshotui 1' turns it on in screenshots. This only affects the saved screenshot; you still see your UI normally, regardless of the state of that flag.

[VV]

On 1/13/2021 at 5:07 PM, Tacheyon said:

 

In the options tab go to the Keybinds tab and scroll to the botton.  There is a option for Toggle Screenshot UI.  You can set up a keybind (I use Ctrl-Z) to toggle it.

Isn't this F12 by default?

 

4 hours ago, srmalloy said:

Or you can use the 'screenshotui' slash command -- '/screenshotui 0' will turn off the UI in screenshots, '/screenshotui 1' turns it on in screenshots. This only affects the saved screenshot; you still see your UI normally, regardless of the state of that flag.

Oh wow, this is a useful command!

 

 

Edited March 11, 2021 by VV