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Current Content : 45+ instances and Hard Mode instances.

Team Makeup :

Team 1

• Main Tank - DM Tim as Gisben Chantris (Ops Leader)
• Main Heals - DM Kate as Kolavere Mirana
• DPS - DM Jackson as Raymont
• DPS - Fedifensor as Karil

Team 2

• Secondary Heals - IronOrchid as Renza'an
• Off-Tank - AlphaAnt as Fafhrd
• DPS - Perrian as Captain Zeece (Team Leader)
• DPS - SRKazman as Aral

What is hiatus?
If you're on hiatus, you've got a month to return to regular weekly runs. If you don't return in that time, we'll give the spot permanently to your replacement, or if they don't want the spot permanently then we'll open recruitment for the position.

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Jedi Master Tir-Jin Meteos, The Order of 66
PC GAMER - T.J. Hafer

23 January 2012 Recap:

Team 1 attempted Hard Mode Esseles and got to examine the floor tiles in depth as we scraped our bloody faces off the first boss. After about an hour we decided that we'd learned all we could from this encounter tonight and moved on to Directive 7 where we encountered the bug that creates infinite spawning Smugglers and Consolars (3/4 of our group) on one of the bosses.

All in all, we learned a lot, and we died a lot. We're going to try to see if we can get some other lvl 50 instances in over the next week to hopefully up our gear.

How did Team 2 do?

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GM: "I've never seen a person do 54 points of magic missle damage in one round before."
Me: (smile)

I don't have a horse in this race, but I thought I'd point out that healing criticals benefit from Crit gear as well.

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Kyle Reads Alpha Flight - A distinctly Canadian look at comics' premiere team of Canadian superheroes. Also: swearing and dick jokes.

Upon further investigation, the cyborg spawn bug doesn't favor one class over another, but seems to pick on certain people once the instance loads.

However, there is a method to bypass this boss, which I think we should consider, as well as doing other 50 FPs.

We caked through Colicoid War Games and Red Reaper (two of us aren't at level 50 yet, though we expect to be by next week or shortly thereafter). Took about 2 hours for the two flashpoints.

The turret games at the beginning of Colicoid need some work, and the gate puzzles after that are interesting, but the boss fights weren't too tough.

Red Reaper was also quick. The final boss was simple if you know the mechanics.

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"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That way you don't kill your friends with area of effect powers." --thirstywizard

Team 2 did well.. we dod regular mode Coilcode War Games and The Red Reaper... Fafhrd did an excellent job tanking dispite having 2 dpser 5 levels above him and our wonderful healer kept us all alive.

Well except for when the 2 boss in Red Reaper one shotted me for twice my hit points. Got to get those crystals aligned.

You guys really should try Kaon Under Siege... lots of fun and there are 2 126 lvl purple drops in there from the bonus boss and last boss. Not to mention about 10 corellia commendations.

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Captain Zeece / Sgt. Perrian
Order of Sixty Six Webmaster
Guildmaster for The Exiled Lords




Co-host of Geekhead Radio
look me up on Twitter, Google + or Facebook - Clayton Havens

Yeah, you can say that again. I normally cruise along at about 60 FPS indoors, 40 outdoors. That encounter turns my client into a slideshow on the dangers of intelligent insects.

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Jedi Master Tir-Jin Meteos, The Order of 66
PC GAMER - T.J. Hafer

Enjoyed reading this.
Keep us informed, and we'll cheer you on.

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DM Jackson
Radio Free Hommlet

I owed this a response, sorry for it coming so late.

You are of course correct, Healers also care a great deal about Crit and Surge in fact. These rules can't be perfect, so I'll throw out my reasoning and let you guys decide if I'm off base.

It's important to realize that we're talking about the HIGHEST secondary stat.

Consider the following two items :
Rakata Force-Master's Vestments (+108 Will, +99 End, +74 Crit, +51 Alacrity)
Rakata Force-Mystic's Robe (+122 Will, +105 End, +51 Alacrity, +48 Crit)

The Vestments is the DPS set, with set bonuses to Weaken Mind and Telekinetic Throw. It's highest secondary attribute is Critical.

The Robe on the other hand is the Healer set, with set bonuses to Healing Trance and Maximum Force. It's highest secondary attribute is Alacrity. BUT it has the same amount of Alacrity as the Vestments. The difference is made up in the amount of Endurance, presumably to fuel the Healer's use of Noble Sacrifice in this case.

So both have Crit, and Alacrity, and on the relevant pieces both will have Power and/or Force/Tech Power. It's an ordering issue. Also understand that no set of rules will be perfect, and discussion is key here. The DPS and Healer roles care about nearly identical stats, and so we'll have to play it by ear.

In the end, despite my best efforts to create a fair set of rules initially, we may well have to modify them in future. Fortunately we can and will edit these posts as needed in the future.

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Team 2 plans Kaon Under Siege tonight... 2 purple i126 with augments slots coming!

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Captain Zeece / Sgt. Perrian
Order of Sixty Six Webmaster
Guildmaster for The Exiled Lords




Co-host of Geekhead Radio
look me up on Twitter, Google + or Facebook - Clayton Havens