The Shard TFs

[Ukase]

In a few weeks, Dr. Q is slated to be the weekly. And then the other 3 shard tfs will follow, one each week. The last time I did these I was hanging out with some Task Force Junkies on Excelsior. Most of those guys aren't playing anymore, or they're playing after I've logged out. 

In any event, I figured I'd ask if anyone has the /loc coordinates for these missions written down somewhere and if they could share them. (not the defeats at various "Point X-ray" or the various monuments - we can all see where they are with an open map.) 

As you all know - a lot of the time in the shard tfs is just spent going from pt A to pt B. I was thinking it would be great to have the /loc of the next mission to send someone with an ATT to while we complete the current mission. Instead of 60-75 minutes, we might make it closer to 50 or 55. 

I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen any of this info shared so far, but maybe it's just bad searching on my part. 

[lemming]

For Dr Q, getting ported to the various hunt locations speeds stuff up and most missions wind up being fairly close to the hunt areas.

 

One trick, start a league with an alt and have them incan people to each step.

[Ukase]

13 minutes ago, lemming said:

One trick, start a league with an alt and have them incan people to each step.

Thanks. I've done that before. 

[High_Beam]

With the right team mix, ATT, TT and MT I have done Quarterfields in 45 minutes.  Then again its being led by Blapperella who has that shit down to a machine level of precision.  I have actually never been on one where Incandescence was used.  But yeah its the traveling and the the street hunts.  Its like Numina in space!

[Gerswin]

A fast person with range slotted teleport and incan works very well.  Save TT for the zone-changes.

[Techwright]

15 hours ago, lemming said:

One trick, start a league with an alt and have them incan people to each step.

 

I was unaware leagues were options for task forces.   If that's accurate, I'd very much like to run leagues for all of them.   If the result is an increased number of opponents based on number of players, that could be a lot of fun. 

[Psyonico]

You can be on a league, but the TF is limited to your team only.

 

I did a competition ITF once where 2 teams were in a league but each ran their own ITF, the idea there was so that the two teams could chat with each other.

[lemming]

Yep. Each Team in theory could be on different TFs even.   For Dr Q, it's mainly to enable incan points.

 

You could run a bunch of them and coordinate Babbage spawns like they do on Torch iirc.

[Ukase]

17 hours ago, lemming said:

One trick, start a league with an alt and have them incan people to each step.

I don't feel the least bit cheap or dirty for admitting it - but I've also used this trick on those ouro challenge badge missions - where you get no travel powers, and let the league alt tp my character to the doors. 

[Mopery]

It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

Edited September 13 by Mopery
Varmints

[Ukase]

Figured I'd share this document. 

 

Spoiler

Dr. Q TF

First mission: Defeat 50 Rularuu at Foxtrot (while forming a teammate with ATT travels to Foxtrot)
2^nd Mission: Rescue 7 explorers – just need to rescue the 7 explorers. Glowies are not required, no boss kill required. [-137.2 1652.3 -1722.7]

3^rd Mission: Defeat 50 Rularuu at Bravo     

4^th Mission: 9 Explorers to rescue; Note: need to click on glowing bodybags, they count as fallen explorers we were too late to rescue. [-3218.0 1148.8 714.9]

5^th Mission: Defeat 25 Rularuu, 25 Crey –anywhere in zone

6^th Mission: Defeat Crey Leader & Guards   Mr. Paget is the named boss – but despite the listed objectives, it is a defeat all.
 [-3247.4 1626.4 -2490.1]

7^th Mission: Defeat 50 Crey, anywhere in FBZ

8^th Mission: Defeat Crey Base leaders [4287.6 1084.8 -2043.2]Glowies are in each leg/path of the map. But, despite mission objectives, when base leader and section of map was cleared with glowies clicked, had to clear a different section to complete mission. (patrol? Runner?)

9^th Mission: Defeat all (used TT; hostile npcs at mission entrance before entry and after entering) [1302.6 1164.3 581.6]

10^th Mission: Defeat all  [-816.6 1766.0 576.3]

11^th Mission: Defeat all [-2795.2 1183.8 319.7]

12^th Mission: Defeat Crey Base leaders  [-2391.3 1615.5 -3757.3]

13^th Mission: Defeat Crey Base Leaders (TT to Founders) [3961.5 -0.0 2197.5]

14^th Mission: Defeat All  in Bricks, [-2009.6 -64.0 -1854.3]

15^th Mission: Defeat All in PI (screwed up, used Mission TP, forgot to get /loc)

16^th Mission: Defeat All, Back to FBZ [-1710.5 581.2 3195.3]Hot Door upon entry

17^th Mission: Defeat Nemesis leaders [2852.7 914.3 2891.4]

18^th Mission: Defeat Portal Base Boss [364.7 1567.8 -2013.0] (ambush for door sitters, clear rooms with glowies)

19^th Mission: Defeat All Crey (jump off an island, you end up 111 yds from mission door) [6138.0 1124.4 1086.1]

20^th Mission: Defeat Portal Base Boss, Founders [6138.0 1124.4 1086.1]Ambush for door sitters

21^st Mission: Defeat Portal Base Boss in FBZ [3389.1 1092.4 -2356.6]

22^nd Mission: Defeat Portal Base Boss in Atlas [-1514.3 12.9 812.3]

23^rd Mission: (Last)Defeat all [3667.1 138.7 5119.5]

I just duo'd this; one water/atomic blaster and one fire/atomic blaster. For my money, I'll take fire over water every day. Water is good - but with my playstyle, I just like fire better. 
It took most of this morning because of the numerous distractions, including a 90 minute row on the C2 erg. 

I had forgotten how much Rularuu will sleep/mez a blaster! The Sheer Will accolade came in handy! 
I mainly brought the water/Atomic blaster because that character has the tp pool, self, target and fold space. 

Certainly a team will fare much better than I did dual-boxing. And candidly, I should have triple boxed it, as it wouldn't have been against the rules, but I thought - what if there are some easy merits? I can grab them with the third account! 
So, I took numerous breaks for adamastor and some other GMs. 

Still - If I didn't think this set of notes wouldn't save me some time for when it's the weekly, I would never have done it. There are much faster ways to get 122 merits! 

DRQTFnotes.docx

[Snarky]

I have run these a few times with members of the old Cosmic Council crew and Task Force Junkies.  Speed.  yes, it seems impossible, but it was quite efficient.  I followed, and as usual have no clue.

 

It does make me see why a lot of Cosmic took off.  once you start memorizing Shadow Shard TFs you are approaching escape velocity....

[Ironblade]

On 9/13/2024 at 2:59 PM, Ukase said:

Still - If I didn't think this set of notes wouldn't save me some time for when it's the weekly, I would never have done it. There are much faster ways to get 122 merits!

 

Ah,  but when you log in three accounts and it's the weekly strike target, suddenly we're talking about 732 merits.

[Ukase]

47 minutes ago, Ironblade said:

 

Ah,  but when you log in three accounts and it's the weekly strike target, suddenly we're talking about 732 merits.

And thus, you see what I'm aiming at. 

 

[MoonSheep]

On 9/13/2024 at 2:42 AM, Gerswin said:

A fast person with range slotted teleport and incan works very well.  Save TT for the zone-changes.

 

need an energy manip blaster with slotted TP and perma boost range 😀

[Skyhawke]

On 9/13/2024 at 4:52 PM, Snarky said:

I have run these a few times with members of the old Cosmic Council crew and Task Force Junkies.  Speed.  yes, it seems impossible, but it was quite efficient.  I followed, and as usual have no clue.

 

Sometimes those are the most fun things to be a part of. Just hang on for dear (un)life and hit what whatever you're told to. It feels utterly chaotic until you realize that the team lead (and probably a couple others) have this down to a science. You blink, it's the final boss and your stomach is still 4 mission maps back. Good times. 😁