Eightfold_Path

Re: Dr. Destroyer Missions On Thursday, September 17 Thanks to all for the team adventure! "Every loss teaches us something" -- attr. to some old wise dead person. I used to be a kind of a hardcore raider - top 500 raid groups worldwide for pushing content, known by name on my server and a couple others, blah blah, that and $3.75 gets me a latte at Starbucks - and it makes me analytical of losses in these situations. I hope everyone else who went feels okay chiming in with anything I miss! What getting our butts handed to us by Dr. Destroyer taught us, in no particular order: Dr. Destroyer is tough. Like, really really tough. This is NOT your 'oh yeah I can probably solo this with mines' 5-man mission. (It looks like it's actually a Doombot - apologies to the authors, I forget the name of Destroyer's decoys - and it's still tough.) The mission is rated as level 27. I personally feel like it's 29 or even 30. We brought two lower levels and sidekicked them (though both performed admirably without sidekicking!) and it was still not enough. It's a crime to make us save Foxbat. Oh, wait, no - I learned that lesson years ago at the hands of a GM who was a Foxbat fan. Foxbat needs a sitter through the escort part of the mission and let me tell you, that boy goes down like a new intern at the White House during the Clinton era. If we have a healer, healer is on Foxbat heal duty. It is good to set an actual time for these missions to start, that way if there are enough sign ups we can even do multiple groups. (I'm not sure the best way to coordinate this. Suggestions?) Assigning roles is a good idea, if there are people who are comfortably able to fill those roles. Usually, whoever is the tank ("Protector") is responsible for calling out plans and such in Ventrilo. ( We do have Ventrilo, please see http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75357 for the info. I reiterate, it is okay for people NOT in Legion of Heroes or in Wayfarers to use this vent server. People can ask me or Celt for specific channels and so on. The final boss resets if there is a team wipe. It's a good idea to hang out in front of the final door to regroup before charging in. Some things about the mission are game design issues and we cannot help them, such as the multiple "Press Z to enter" mini-zones that are encountered every time someone has got to run back. I'm putting in a ticket about them, asking for additional spawn points if they cannot find a way to remove the zoning issue. At some point, I'll post a newbie guide to grouping/raiding, chock full of all those things I wish someone would have told me before I signed up.

Re: Well, I give up There's a way to save each character's keybindings as a file and load it again to each character. I will hunt around for that or ask Celt to post it here. I know I use it, but I do it on auto-pilot now so I don't actually remember.

Re: Dr. Destroyer Missions On Thursday, September 17 I also have a telepath heavy-heal build at level 24, K'zzz'kk the Qularr. Having heals and mass rez might be useful. I also bring toys of mass destruction.

Re: Dr. Destroyer Missions On Thursday, September 17 Spooklight@Eightfold_Path needs 'em. Dual-blades, gunbunny, regen and nerve. Lots of nerve. And level 29 (possibly 30 by the time posted). Just never got around to 'em before cuz Monster Island beckoned.

Re: I hate Gadroon And there was much rejoicing!

Re: I hate Gadroon Orbital Cannon does seem to work well *as long as you can get that puppy up and running*, from what I've seen the gadgeteers do. If they slap you around, put you in holds and roots you can't resist (despite having over 100% resist equipped) or throw out those gravity wells, it's hard to do anything but the instant click stuff. So what everyone else said about helping others with these GD'roon missions - grab me and I'll help. There's a reason I rolled Qularr telepath: I can now bring my OOC hate into the game IC. I would include an emoticon here at the end of the post, but there is nothing that adequately describes my black, bitter hate.

Re: Well, I give up

Re: Free Online voice chat program Skype does not guarantee privacy, there's a rather big to-do over this especially in countries where the governments have plainly said they're allowed to eavesdrop on Skype conversations with Skype's blessing and needing nobody else's. China obviously comes to mind, but Australia is on that list as well. I don't believe anybody can truly be anonymous or have total privacy on the internet, but the fact that they don't even give lip-service to the notion of private discussions troubles me. Skype won't even be up front and candid about this; interviews with Kurt Sauer, Skype's security CO, include such quotes as "I will not tell you whether we listen or not". Skype brings with it multiple security issues, and worst of all, may actively include backdoor access - note that even when turned off, it continues to send traffic and Skype has gone to great lengths to obfuscate their traffic and program function. http://www.fsf.org/ - the Free Software Foundation - considers replacement for Skype a top priority for these and many other reasons.

Re: Official Hero Boards Super Team And Chat Channel!

Courtesy of user Celt, Wayfarers SG is offering use of Ventrilo to Legion of Heroes/general Hero Games forum players. You do not have to be a member of LoH or Wayfarers to use this server. Information is as follows: Vent IP: 208.122.38.170 Port: 4104 no PW at this time As always, donations to upgrade and maintain the server are welcome. I've had it for nearly two years now and the only outages have been planned with plenty of advance notice. Multiple communities use the server so don't be surprised to see SW:ToR and WoW fans in there, but everyone has their own little areas.