A flip book story on the LRSF that could (n't)

Once upon a time there were these 8 villains who had dreams of sugar plums and Malta drops in their heads...Before...

...After

Now as villain groups go, this one was quite PUG-ly. And we know what happens in PUG-ly little groups of villains. Someone quits when you need 'em most. So without a RAD to hang their hat on, this PUG-ly group of villains fought on to their dream quest, knowing that fate was about to take a dump on their retirement plans.

They traveled far and wide. They even traveled into the future...

High my name is Planty, I like long walks on the beach, toons that don't quit in the middle of TFs, and hiding BEHIND the Hero's nasty Rain of Arrows.

...And faced many a foe.
They fought them all with valor and vigor. Many times, they did not succeed, lacking RAD-ical methods to DEBUFF their obstacles before them.

...Count the upright Heroes and then count the fallen Villains. COUNT THEM HA.HA.HAAAA.

Facing their final battle with such lack of power but no lack of SASS, they flaunted their best ASSets to their foes...
...and then promptly got wiped like a babies bottom.

The End.

We had fun but when the rad corruptor busted out the "wife aggro sry GTG," well the end was closer than the finish line. But we did well minus any solid debuff toon. Shout out to those who stayed, Brick Fist, Khoren, Boy Usagi, Planty Man, Planty Girl, Hoezai, and Seismic ummm...somethingor other (sry cant remember his last name lol).

We will go for it again but until then it was fun. Rock on Death Brigade.

Powers, powers, powers

New I12 Powerset Announcement

Well, heroside as usual got the best stuff and villains did not. Please let us have a moment of silence for all things evil.

Speaking of evil, Baba is running the LRSF this Friday! Dotenshi also wanted to run the level 50 villain Ouroboros mission on Saturday! Join up with one of 'em and get your big bad on!

Congrats on our newest 50s and congrats to Lumeir on making the million prestige mark!

Blog-a-riffic

Hey gang!

I wanted to check in and say hi. I haven't been able to log on the last few weeks due to work, illness, and everything else under the sun. I just wanted the gang to know that I didn't go over to the WoW side or disappeared into the 4th dimension.

Having read Az's recent post about running into Impersonator, the Elvis-wannabe scrapper who inspired our blog's very first post, I've been thinking that it's been about 2 years since this blog began and a little longer since the Debt Brigade first came to be.

I'm looking to open up the disscussion floor: what does everyone like about the blog? What would everyone like to see added? How about the SG in general? How is everyone liking there experience so far? Is there anything Grand Pooh Bah's or senior members do to make things better? Here's a fun one: who recruited you to the group and in what circumstances?

A lot of question but feel free to chime in on any of them. It's been about 2 years for the blog so it would be nice to have a retrospective/prospective look of things to come.

Personally, I think the blog has been great in fostering teamwork and a sense of community among our small but tight-knit group. We also got the chance to get see how we are behind the capes and masks which is always nice.

Anyhoo, sorry if I'm getting all sentimental but I guess that's what happens when you don't play for a few weeks ;P

Hope to see you everyone this weekend (away for the week for work) and for the upcoming Issue 12. We got some Roman-theme jerks to beat up soon!

Oh, some fair warning: I'm going to be harassing a lot of you to help me lvl my Mastermind to 50! I want to try the VEAT's!!! :P

The Planties upgrade, then lvl up, Caleb class 101, and a LRSF too

Well I found some Kingston memory for my comp dirt cheap (2gb for $40) at Office Depot while on an errand and said heck, I can afford that, I just won't drive my truck for 2 minutes and the money saved on gas would go there. So glad I did, our comp's graphics on a medium range graphics card (ATI 1600 pro) are simply amazing now. I put in some screenies of Brick Fist, Planty Girl, and Marvin the Spartan from Death Brigade hammering Valkyrie to show the results. Click pics to enlarge. If you have the spare change make the effort to upgrade your memory, best thing you will do to help your system out.

Meet Caleb, a single GM residing in Nerva. Likes: long walks on the beach, a nice book (of evil spells), and puppies (preferably with BBQ sauce). Dislikes: Mean people, the sun, and members of Death Brigade and their friends.

We also had fun spawning Caleb, not too hard with a nice damage dealing team. Need to take out 100 CoT Spectral Ghosts (any will do, minion, lt, boss) on Thorn Tree isle in Nerva. Must occur during ours of daylight. If you succeed, Caleb spawns at sunset. Tricky part is finding him, he flies WAAAYYY up high and is moving a lot. Easy to drop.

Well several of us want to get a LRSF together. So far we have:

Brick Fist, lvl 50 SS/Invul brute
Khoren, lvl 50 'Bots/Bubbles MM
Planty Girl, lvl 48 Plant/Ice dom
Planty Man, lvl 45 Plant/Thorns dom
Boy Usagi lvl 44 (will be 45) ?/Kin corr

Any other takers? Probably gonna need to be this Friday at the soonest. I have another out of town trip.

Also any hints is welcomed, we are all rookies at LRSF.

ReVampirella

Spring is well...springing and things are growing, blooming, and flourishing! The DB base has recently had a new addition in a Mystic Orrery so there was a little bit of room shuffling that has taken place. Make sure to check out our new control unit and get a feel for the few changes made.

There was also talk of the new revamped Hollows zone coming up in Issue 12! Read more about it here in an article featuring War Witch!

Any interest in doing a Synapse TF this weekend? Level 16-20. We also have chatted about getting over to red side to do the new Ouroboros TFs and I know Colder is dying to level up a few villains.

There is still space on the remaining three "Intro to Base Raid" classes over on Test. I know Baba seemed to have a pretty good time with his new bubbler and I tried to adapt to being a support toon on our long lost empath, Dunizel! Thanks to Baba and Dotenshi coming over and helping make this event a success! Again, if you have someone new you want to take on a test drive base raid, now is the time to do it!

Dry Icicle and Iduna tearing up the Clockwork King's warehouse

Who is excited about the new Roman costumes...

...THIS GUY

I'm saved! Future Add On Server Slots Announced

Thurrisaz
Per Lighthouse:

In reading through all the community feedback (US and EU) and player reaction from the recent announcement of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, the overwhelming consensus is that players would like to have access to additional character slots. With all the great reasons to roll a new character included in Issue 12, we certainly understand the desire.

We want to let you know that we are working on systems to address this community request. Our intent is add purchasable character slots to round out our existing services of Character Transfer and Character Rename. We hope to have this implemented and available shortly after Issue 12 Launch.

As always, we are happy to listen and respond to your requests. Thanks for your feedback and continued support.

Oh and look who I ran into at WWs! The guy who was the object of the blog's first post, the Impersonator!! He also started my hatred of binds and all who use them excessively! LOL

Issue 12 Preview! & Power Liberator

Full update here!

Midnight Squad Content
Roman Style Maps and Costumes
Villain Epic Archetypes
Powerset Proliferation
Hollows Zone Makeover
Major Gameplay Improvements

Looks like some fun stuff!

Riders have offered up the Power Liberator badge (from destroying the forcefield around an IOP in a raid) as a freebie tomorrow night. Should you wish to acquire this rare badge (which will probably never be seen again), log on hero-side around 6pm pacific and we can go in there unheeded and grab it. The remaining IOPs will be stripped from the game on Friday so it's your last chance!

Intro to Base Raids

Electrified Polar Gale on Synapse TF
Well I can't imagine most of us need an introductory class on base raiding. However, the PvPEC will be hosting a number of classes on the Test server. So if you know someone on live who would enjoy something like this (:cough: Bull) or you have a new toon you are dying to see how they perform, sign on up! I won't tell anyone you aren't a newb! :)

Intro to Base Raids official thread

Congratulations!!

Please join me in congratulating Ebon on the arrival of his new daughter!!!! Here is how it came off Reuters:

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Ebon Mauler and Mrs. Mauler would like you all to know that our healthy Baby Girl has arrived!
Mom and baby are doing well! We have named her Isabella Arianna Margaret Little. Date and time of birth is 6:05 am Mar 3 2008 and her weight is 7 lbs 5 oz.

Caleb GM Spawn team

Need high end villains (lvl 40+) to help spawn GM Caleb in Nerva. Forming starts at Saturday March 1st at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST. Look for Planty Man/Planty Girl duo of domination with dirty deeds done dirt cheap by dang dandelions of doom. If we large enough we can lky lower toons. Forming up on CoT Island with Thorn Tree (where you go for villains respec mish) in Nerva.

Great Fun and Great Drops from St Martial SF

Ice Mistral loves our PWNage. From left to right:
A bunch of Ninjas about to be sacrificed for the cause, Mars Bringer of War,
Grizzly, Spellfrost, and Planty Girl and her killer pet Venus Flytrap, Frito. Back row, CoT, smited for their awesome salvage they hide in their hats and socks.

The Death Brigade is alive and well, so when you get bored of those all blue skies over Paragon, don't forget your dark side is a fun place too. I cussed out Positron for all the dufus changes to the game, like the TF/SF nerf, the economy system that is modeled from well, some bad idea. It worked, I got Hamidon Goo and Prophecy, as well as Freebird +stealth. I swear he heard me say I was gonna stuff my 21" LCD up his broad backside if I got one more Trap of the Hunter or Glimpse of Abyss drop at the end of a TF/SF.

Anywho, roll a mind/fire dom and be a FoTM, role a thermal corrupter and bask in glow of others flames (which you set), or dust off that ol' stalker and see how it handles itself. But mostly, don't be afraid to come on out.

This weekend, our wicked plans our being set. I have yet to see this Caleb GM in Nerva. You can spawn him but need help, and I plan to do so. Time TBD, I am gunning for Sunday right now.

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Azrhiaz with TPVPL team, Laser Kitty a Go GoWell many of us are reassessing our raid toons. I recommend listing your top two in a reply so we know what we have to work with. Speaking of raids, the villains are asking for a rematch. Here is a thread you may be interested in reading prior to that event. :)

I will be hosting an evasion class on Wednesday if anyone would like to come at 8pm PST. This will help you refine your reflexes using Hibernate or Phase Shift. The longer you can stay alive, the better! We can also use some blasters to help with this event.

I recently wrote an article for the City Scoop on the Test PvP League. It made the front page as well as a spot on the loader! Read it here.

A big welcome home to Baba and a huge well wishes to Ebon on the very imminent arrival of a new addition to his family! We can always use another tank! :)

St Martial SF

When: This Sunday 24 Feb
Who: lvl 35+
Where: St Martial (duh)
What: AV that spawns a zillion baddies at 50% health, good times
Why: I want the TF Commander badge on my villains. And the XP. And the Salvage. I have given up on getting a good rare recipe though. They suck and so does Positron.

Raid Team Q&A

Howdy all.

Lets get the ball rolling on the issue of PvP builds with what our team should consist of.

Got Vent? If not get it. Talking to one another instead of typing will increase our potential dramatically. Az has listed the server info in another post below. You can ask a number of people (me included) for the password online.

A great big thanks to everyone who showed up for the RoA raid. It only proved to me more that with the right combination of ATs and solid builds that we can be unstoppable. The enemy we faced was totally prepared And is ranked #2 on the SG pretige list. We lost yes but with random ATs and very little IO'd. Their victory was not handed to them. It took them over 55 minutes out of an hour to beat us. A damn good job considering.

Melqar hits the big time!

I was priviliged enough to get invited into the closed Beta testing of the Manticore/Psyche wedding. I figured it was worth taking an extended lunch for! So I was requested to come as a villain and being that Melqar is tall, I figured I'd be able to see better. If you were unable to attend the "live" version yesterday on Test, this was a special event that allowed 100 players to witness an RP wedding by the devs. They transported us to Ouroboros for this ceremony and turned off everyone's powers. We all stood and watched as Manticore and Psyche took their vows. At the closing of the ceremoney, Lord Recluse and his goons arrive to wreck the special day and he turns on everyone's powers and PvP (for about 60 seconds) ensues.

So today, they have released the official comic and Melqar is all over it! Including his own frame on pg 21 where he's beating up Castle!

Comic PDF

I'm so giddy! LOL

Riders! Fall Down!

That's right boys and girls! The Riders of Apocalypse raid is bearing down upon us! It will be this Sunday at 3pm pacific/6pm eastern! A true test of hero vs hero and our determination will be at hand! So download the new vent info and get on it and make sure it works. I hope you leveled your toons the way you wanted and are ready for battle!

Just a reminder, Sunday Night Smackdown is every Sunday (usually). I will be holding it at 7pm on the 17th! So if you want to practice with your peers, c'mon out. Arena is significantly different than raids, but still very educational!

New patch dropped today! Read all about the new monitor system that lets you see how your IOs affect you and other sweet stuff.

So what were the results of your double xp weekend? I got Melqar to 50 (#8!) and mainly concentrated on earning some influence on Azrhiaz to IO out my raid toons. Azrhiaz is almost done and Lumeir is next. I think I made about 50 million. If you've notice, the market is just silly overpriced, so if you have any low level salvage, especially arcane, sell it now for a tidy profit! A alchmical silver normally sells for about 10k, they are going for 40k now. Regenerating flesh I sell for about 25 is going for 10k! Stupid, silly people. They can throw their money at me, sure!

Let's Get to Leveling

Here it comes, boys and girls, Double XP weekend! Either level those toons or make some influence for IOs! We've got some new friends in the SG (some of them are villains in disguise :wink:) so make sure to give them a warm welcome! I'd also like to welcome back Doctor Mercy who has been gone from the game a long time and has recently returned! We have new Vent now, courtesy of my friend Raid in the PvPEC! We have our own section, so pop on in if you like! The settings are:
Host IP: 64.34.164.243
Port: 3424
contact a leader for the password
I have cancelled Smackdown for these next two Sundays, due to the Stupid Bowl and double XP so if you have any interest in setting up some SG events, by all means speak up! Iduna needs some TFs, and I'm always up for some Katie runs. We also haven't done the Eden Trial in while and that's always fun.

If you're like me and have a boring ringtone on your cell phone, go here in the new Multi Media section of the COH boards to download some of your favorite in game sounds! Here's a good one for Colder!

And if you like cheese and poor audio, you might find this video amusing....

Raid went well....right?

Sound off with your comments on the raid.

Double XP!!

Lookie what we got!


February 8-10 has officially been announced as double xp weekend!

Therefore, the raid with ROA has been pushed to the following Sunday 2/17 at 3pm pacific. Don't want to lose out on all the bonus!