Cmon Out and Play!

Big thanks to Azrhiaz for setting up a couple of great events, a PvP event in Warburg with Ex Libris from NCSoft and the Jade Spider TF, which is yet another great new content item for City of Heroes/Villains...I would do this TF again in a heartbeat.

The PvP event was great fun, and thanks to the help of good Empath (Generic Healer Guy!), the squishees stayed upright and laid the smack down.

I encourage all to join up for these, we have a lot of fun with them. I am looking at doing the Leviathan Strike Force for villains (lvl 25 min) and if someone wants a lowbie event on either side, I will be glad to help. Shout out if want something.

Eighteen, what a magical number!

Britney Blades takes on Dr. Vahzilok
NEWFLASH! An extra bonus of prestige was accidently awarded to live servers again today! Woot! We just got an EXTRA three million!!

First off a big congratulations to everyone! The SG Registrar tells me that after the prestige boost, Debt Brigade is #18 in the top 100 prestige earners. Great job to all! Please feel free to use this information to recruit new people (especially those who want to base raid!) The base padders will be removed this week. Captains still have the authority to kick them as needed!

I am very excited to tell you the base is being remodelled and once we hit the 750 PvP kills, we will be sitting VERY pretty! Baba and Mrs K were kind enough to come over and test some new weaponry yesterday. The Rikti Plasma cannon is nice, but its energy usage might be a bit steep since it's recharge is very slow. The repel field *might be useful, but color me disappointed it did not work at all like the force bubble does.

Hopefully our next raid will be nothing like the last one. Suffice it to say, it was a disaster. I thank Garl, Colder and Baba for coming out and trying vainly to protect our stuff. We just didn't have the numbers we normally do so we were outgunned big time. New raid will be scheduled in January! After the holidays!

The Jade Spider
Have you tried it? The new TF? If not, you're going to! This weekend! Saturday at 5pm pacific/8pm eastern! Cap, Deep, Violet and I tried our hand at it and we need reinforcements! So get out your heaviest hitters cause this one is a doozy!

Raid!

Today at 4pm pacific! Be there! :)

Any TF/SFs anyone wants to do? Baba had one he wanted to try OR we could so a flashback arc? We could try one with one of the special settings perhaps? Apparently, there are some badges associated with them.

Grats to Peace on hitting 50! Grats to the group for earning the Rikti Plasma Cannon!

Hot Blooded...check it and see...

The City of Heroes website has a link to an article by Massively.com covering the recent Q and A Az and Chica attended. I was throughly enjoying my read when suddenly I saw a pic in the article that I had to share with the SG.

Az, you didn't tell me they had CoX karaoke going on:



I am sooooo getting a lump of coal from you this year aren't I? :P:::

New Computer suggestions

The guy I get to work on my computer is paranoid about building me a new one. Mostly cuz he doesn't want me to yell at him if it doesn't work lol. He wants me to find out what a good motherboard and graphics cards would be for CoH. I looked on the forum but I'm not getting anything good either due to ignorance at what I'm reading or I'm not using the right search.
Any suggestions on a good system?

Dum Da Dum Dum

Well I11 may have finished me off. My mother board sockets won't support any of the newer Graphics cards that manufacturers are bothering to update. Just listen to these other happy asus customers.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20071017101957765&board_id=9&model=AX1650+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

Meet and Greet

I must confess I had more fun at the M&G than I had anticipated. This is probably in part due to the wonderful company I kept in the amazing, gorgeous, lovely, insane Chica Vaga!

We got there around 6:30pm and the registration line was out the door. Fortunately, the bar was close and adult beverages made our wait less taxing. We got to meet Lighthouse and ExLibris at this time. The following is a photo of them that someone on the boards took since mine did not turn out. (ExLibris and LH in the middle)

The night mainly consisted of mingling with fellow players, an "autograph" event with the developers, a preview of the new City Vault (searchable online database of players' information such as costume, slotting, powers, bio) and new costume sets. They also had a Q&A and a big raffle. Chica and I did not win anything, but they had gift bags for everyone so we were happy not to stumble back to the hotel room empty handed.
Myself and Manticore

Ghost Falcon finally moves from his spot in PI

Az puckers up with Sexy Jay

Az gets cozy with Positron

I think GW is gonna kill Chica in the next STF

Back Alley Brawler and Castle
We also went to the after-party for a bit with some of the devs and a ton of the players. I mostly talked about the state of PvP with people and drank Ex's Jagermeister. All in all, it was fun to meet up with people I'd known from in-game and on the boards, especially some of the Triumph Crew. They applauded very loudly when I mentioned I was from Triumph when I asked my question over the microphone of Positron. It was a riot. Fun times. Thanks so much to Chica for coming out and making it awesome!

Raiders Riotous Reunion Ruined...

...Really

From left: Mars Bringer of War, Scourge of the Isles, Brick Fist, Teknofreak, Death-Master

Last weekend we had an impromptu Air Pirate Strike Force, and as always, it is a lot of fun. Starting one is always interesting when you have people from outside the VG and then the fun just keeps coming. Unique map instances (well for villains anyways), a cool AV, and easy mishes. Looking to run it with my wife's new villain, Planty Girl, on Dec 9 say 3:00 EST/12:00 PST, unless anyone else needs a better time.

Get Well Soon Garl

Poor Garl went under the knife due to appendicitus! He got so excited about issue 11 that it burst!

Get well soon sweetie!
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Faathim TF this Sunday at 12:30pm pacific. Raid on Sat., Dec. 8th @4pm. Start recruiting!

Issue 11 Hits Wednesday

Yep, you heard me! Roll your Dual Blades or Willpower scrappers/tanks and get 'em in the SG! For more info on the announcement, click here!

I know most of you were awesome enough to come work the Haunted House, but if you missed it, I posted a pictorial of it here.

I think we will be getting rid of the MUNST room. While many people drop off their SOs, according to the log, no one is taking any. So either tell me not to delete it, or help me empty out the bins by selling off the enhancements in them so I can delete the storage items.

DB News

Ebon and I would like to do Faathim the Kind TF on 12/2 at 12:30 pm pacific/3:30pm eastern. If we kill the AV at the end 2 more times in SG mode, we will earn the Rikti Plasma Cannon for the base!

Base Raid with our villain friends! December 8th at 4:00pm pacific/7pm eastern!

Prestige bonus! We will be padding the SG roster to get as big a bonus as we can get. If you have any unused slots, generate a hero and get 'em in the SG. You can delete them later! Or if you are really motivated, get yourself a temp account by using the "Refer-a-Friend" feature! This account will be active for only 10 days and you will have to use an email that is not the one on your main account.

Happy Holidays from the Kanooshs

We took this picture in a very bad part of town. There were a lot of politicians nearby (turkey theme). Have a Happy Thanksgiving and hope you all have a great, safe weekend!

Metoid (Keith), Makin' Debt (Deb), Dark Calling (Krista), Baba Kanoosh, (Mike)

Happy Birthday Chaud

She doesn't love us anymore so probably won't see this, but I thought I'd wish Chaud Woman a very happy birthday!

Saturday is the final day for villains in the Haunted House so if you can manage to come work it with me at 5:45 pm pacific, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Next raid! Villains again! Saturday, December 8th at 4pm. How's that sound?

Haunted House Final Days

Well all, we will need some volunteers to staff the Haunted House on test for tonight and for next Saturday! Only villains can staff the Haunted House, but if you have a hero you want to use, bring them tonight and try to make your way out alive! The Haunted House is a ton of fun no matter which side you are on!

Incidently, we are still trying to gain the SuperGroup badge for the third tier generator! It is 750 PvP kills in SG mode so get into the zones and kill some people. We might set up a farm for this in Warburg if you all want, where we can stand around and kill each other for credit! If we have 2 teams of 8, for team wipe, that's 64 credits (one credit for everyone on the team). We can bring a tray full of awakes to make the process go quicker. Just a thought....

Anyone have anything they want to do? MS raid? TF?

Presents for Everyone!

Dec 10th Prestige Gift Awarded

Issue 11 is nearly upon us. As many of you know, the roster for SGs will be bumped up to 150 people. On December 10th, for every member in your SG you will be awarded 20k prestige. With 150 people, that amounts to 3 million prestige!

Suffice it to say with the cost of a fusion generator looming near at 7.5 million, that would come in mighty handy. Clever people have started a network for base padding. People from the community on other servers will drop toons into your SG while you drop yours in there. So I can drop 12 toons on pinnacle for someone and they will return the favor. After the prestige gift, all these toons can be kicked and we will be wealthy! So if you have slots left on Triumph and want to drop them into the SG please do so. I will also be getting a temporary trial account to further pad. Should you choose to help out this way, make sure all the toons have similar names (EG: Azrhiaz1, Azrhiaz2, Azrhiaz3) so we know who to kick after. :)

Touchdown! Fumble!

Great raid to everyone! We had 11 show up to kick some villain bootie and kick it we did!

It might have been me, but they really stepped up their game this time around and while they didn't function well as a raid team, they certainly made their prescense felt in the base! We did a pretty sound job of defending so kudos to all.

Round 2 led us into the Bandit's Brigade base and we quickly dispatched their generator. However, most of us, including myself, forgot to keep components to make pylons stocked on their person so we ran out. What a tragedy! /em kick self. The day could have been ours had we just planned ahead. But we were golden anyway and I'm proud of everyone who participated.

A few of us might want to build our toons a bit more specifically for raids, and Metoid might want to just delete his blaster and roll another scrapper maybe. LOL We also need some emps, I suspect, since we didn't have any. And a rad to debuff those dominators would have been nice. :)

They suggested Saturday, December 1st for the next round. How's that sound? And if it works for you, what time?

This Weekend

Charron snooping around the ROA base
looking at the Book of Rularuu (debt protection status)

Well first and foremost, BASE RAID! Against our villain friends! Sunday at 2:30pm pacific/5:30pm eastern.

Saturday, if there's a bunch of us on in the early afternoon, let's head to the RWZ for a Mothership Raid!

Sunday Night, there'll be some "Kickball" in the arena around 6pm pacific. Just a way of picking teams essentially. Incidently, if you are looking to up your skills, the PvPEC has created a PvP League on Test. It will run for 6 weeks in January and is geared towards all skill levels. More information here!

Congrats to Powersurge' and Silicdan for reaching 50!

Independence and the end of the Reserve

NCSoft acquires full COH rights from Cryptic

NCsoft® Corp, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced the formation of a new development studio in Mountain View, California. The announcement comes as the company begins a renewed push to further develop the City of Heroes® property, which is now 100 percent owned by NCsoft. Previous to today, ownership of the intellectual property was split between NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, the original developer of the project.

This means lots of good stuff for us players and a team that is devoted exclusively to us. Statesman (Jack Emmerit) will no longer be part of that team. I'm hoping they kill his character off! :)

With the advent of issue 11 and the supergroup settings going up to 150 members, I feel it is no longer useful to have the Debt Brigade Reserve, unless it's for absent players to park their toons. Since we will be getting a 20k prestige bonus for every member shortly after 11 hits, it will pay for us to have all our alts in the main SG. This does not mean you can let them languish however, so please keep them logged in at least once every 30 days. Colder, Garl, this means you!

What are we doing this weekend? A Mothership Raid perhaps?

Base Raid!! Sun. November 11 @2:30pm Pacific

You heard me! Polish up the armor and assemble! It's villain beat-down time once again! Max team size is 16, so get there early!

I'm also working on getting a raid going with our old pals, Riders of Apocalypse!

Bat'Drool pwnzd again

Wanted to thank everyone for the great showing we had for Death Brigade (Villain version of Debt Brigade for those new folks) at the Tarikoss Strike Force. A Hero and an AV, man what more could a kid ask for? What a great SF. It was fairly easy going until the dreaded CoT map, but we managed to coordinate and overcome the issues. Smooth sailing into the final mish, where we squeezed Infernal for a few Behemoth spawns while badge slumming. Note in the picture above, Scourge of the Isles (aka Metoid) pays the price for excessive emote slapping of a Hero. Spellfrost (aka Marsara), then proceeds to protest the Hero's actions. Great fun and the East Coasters even stayed awake through the whole event. I will be posting an invite for the next SF which involves lots of Skyraiders, four unique maps not seen anywhere else in either CoH or CoV, and the peskiest AV I have seen yet. Until then, play in SG mode Villains!

From left to right Spellfrost (aka Marsara), Demon Vine (aka Ebon Mauler), Azrharn (aka Azrhiaz), Solidfade (aka Colder), Mars Bringer of War (aka Baba Kanoosh), Scourge of the Isles (aka Metoid), and Mackie Messser (aka Lady Dark Star)
Death Brigade still accepting recruits! Sign up today at the nearest Rogue Isles location nearest you!