Go Task Force Vision!

Yay. Perhaps it -is- possible after all. Looks like the pst to est night crew is of greater intelligence/teamwork ability than the asia-pacific-aussie night crew. *weeps for this side of the globe*

Maybe it's because during my night times, all the adults on the other side of the world are WORKING, leaving me to play with the unemployed, the high school students, college fellows who stayed up the whole night and now have a hangover to boot, and so on. :(

Gonna be a little tricky to keep having to do it my weekend mornings and/or on off days, but heck, if I have to do it that way, I will.

See, like right now, just as I finally cracked open my Natural contact and was upgrading non-power 10 SOs (swoons, I actually have SOs in STAMINA now. And taunt and superjump and stuff), I got a blind invite. I know, I know, I should have declined it, but I was just being masochistic and I had no intention of actually doing whatever they wanted to do anyhow.

Accepted to see the mission set was Defeat 30 Family in Independence Port and the level ranges from like 27-31 and the leader picks up the 5th guy who was begging earlier in Steel Canyon for a TF (at lvl 30) who then promptly goes 'AFK, 1 min'. I wait for about 2 minutes, having fun picking out my SOs and wondering when the leader will get around to saying anything and wondering if the numbers of Family will actually drop. Then, I can't take it anymore and ask 'Hi guys. What's the plan?'

More silence, the others are busy talking about where they stay (one is in Illinois) and suddenly the team leader says 'bs, 8:37' and puzzlement springs up, and it turns out he clicked on a pedestrian who said the current time was 8:37 and he refutes that because it's not 8:37 where he is, it's noon and so on. (I'm still half in my enhancement management screen, cuddling up to Christine Landsdale.)

Couple minutes later, the lvl 30 scrapper in Steel Canyon is still there, and afk. And the team leader finally asks 'gee guys, what'd you want to do? mishs, hunt, or something?'

...

Silence for a while, then the other tank suggests 'hunt in tv' 'you can get 200 a kill there'

This suggestion is lost in the subsequent conversation half over broadcast to some others and half over teamchat about where everyone's hometown is.

I finish up with my non-power 10 SOs and decide that I've been masochistic enough for the day. So I develop a sudden case of hem, 'wife aggro' and need to urgently log.

*sighs* I think I'm soloing my nights.

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Contrast that to the Sister Psyche TF we managed to build up. Sheer luck, maybe, but I'm grateful for it. Talk about a case of everything going right.

First, the ghost ship appears and my greed for spectral passengers lead me to make the acquaintance of the fire tank Gnorsomething (the spelling of his name escapes me) who was a fairly solid chap. (For one thing, he didn't go apeshit blaming others when he died from aggroing too many spirits and I was stuck in combat with a Lt. and didn't want to leave it to try and rush to him.)

Then we try and look for more fellows to recruit, and the first LFG guy I send a tell to, says YES immediately to the TF offer. That was Toxic Illusion, another very skillful player. Ill/rad, I think, with all the handy dandy invis scouting/tp utility TFs really like.

Now we're two tanks and two controllers strong. Good crowd control, now for the damage. The damage part was a little tricky because every guy I sent a tell to, had no time, but I got some really polite friendly refusals so everyone was happy.

So the next step they say, is to ask the guys on the TF already if they have friends who want in. And ooh, looks like they do. By the time everyone stops recruiting, we are 3 scrappers strong. Heh. And I feel like we may as well pick up a defender since we're 7 men strong anyhow. Conveniently, Queen Anuba pops out of a mission by then and pops on in - check powerset, lol, empathy without even asking for it. That'll make the fire tank happy. And RA always makes me happy. :P

And with the exception of the poor guy whose connection/computer couldn't take the special FX of a swell 8-man strong team working in unison (OMGWTFBBQ, team work is actually happening, I thought this wasn't supposed to happen)...

Task Force Vision ROCKED the TF in 3.5 hours. From 2.30 - 6.00 with time for quick breaks in between and one longer reboot break. Muhaha, my guess was good, after all. (Told them to anticipate 4-5 hours, but hopefully we might make it in 3.5 hours.)

Between Raggy's SO'ed S/L armors/resists and Assail and Toxic's storm and rad debuffs, those poor Freaks didn't even stand a chance of hurting anyone, let alone faceplanting someone. And Gnosh's burn and ice patch mashed all the minions completely, stuff was ice cubed and slicked and held all over, and the two scrappers were all happy mauling stuff in complete safety. As luck would have it, they were of the domesticus or feral type, so they proved great in the second line of defense protecting our squishies. Our empath was bored through most of it, with little healing and more buffing going on, which imo, is how things should be. But of course, the few times stuff looked like it was going to go a little downhill with people's hp dropping to half full, green glowy numbers showed up and saved the day. (Emp is great for last resort saving and constant buffing. It's too bad so many people want 'healrz' and rely on what should be last resort healing as their support crutch.) She even felt guilty about not shooting much, which we all hastened to assure her we didn't mind at all. (Talk about insane levels of maturity on this TF.) But I still saw a lot of rad debuff bubbles from her rad blasts as time went on too.

Ah, euphoia. This is how great teams should be. And it was pickup, pretty much. Just wisely picked, lucky-as-hell pickup.

This is what makes CoH great. And since the weekend is coming up, I'm going to try and see if I can bring my original plans to fruition.

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Sister Psyche is done. Next up, in order, Moonfire TF - Arakhn must fall, Hess TF - muhaha, I wanna see the best tf evah, Bastion TF - nooo, they are changing Bastion's name in I4, and then hopefully Calvin Scott TF - if they don't sic I4 on live too soon.

(Prays that the devs will not be hasty and spring an ill-formed, laggy, crashy arena on people too soon, without even balancing PvP. I hope. Who knows what they will do. :( Give me time to hit lvl 30 something and do Calvin Scott! :P)

Now, I would be happier on Moonfire if I could hit level 28 and pick up crystal armor. Then maybe -some- of the freaking Galaxy blasts wouldn't be so annoying.

I'd need to dig through Striga contacts to get the Hess contact, so that's what I'm going to do to churn up to 28 from 27.

By the time I'm done with Moonfire, I should be lvl 29-30, in time to scrape by Hess, and maybe hit lvl 31, then that will put me in max range for Bastion (or Citadel), hit lvl 32 and pick up *swoon* granite and then see if Calvin Scott still exists by then. :P

Oh, and it occurs to me that when I was the TF setter, I had it on Heroic. That might have explained the sane spawn sizes (for an 7, 8-man team) and of course, I personally like tanking blue to yellow cons. Complete guaranteed safety for a stoner with debuffs, I hate people whiffing endlessly at purple mobs, I don't need that leet xp, thank you, I just want to get the freaking TF done fast. :P