Coalition Night: Hami Raid

is it possible to do it with a villain?

Ops, sorry, this will be a hero event (lvl 45-50).

I have 4 heroes capable of getting into the Hive: Gatecrasher (Inv/SS Tanker), Generator (Elec/Elec Blaster), Kid Tesla (Kin/Elec Defender), and Thunderkiss 65, a PB (who is only 45). Assuming I'm free for this (I am currently expecting I will be), any and all of them will be at the group's disposal.

Later on,
Gatecrasher

I'll bring whatever is needed but dual boxing my empath defender and the mind/empath troller might be a good idea for the tanker team.

I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. It's been too long since I've played. I'm also just about guaranteed to ding 50 on it, too.

I should be able to make it. I'll bring a tanker.

I'll be there (though my poor copy of Fable 2 will be quite sad as I still haven't had a chance to play it yet).

I will probably ding 50 within 10 minutes of starting this. I only have 300,000 or so xp to go. First level 50 character for me!

Good luck Banxi! And pre-gratz!

Unfortunatelly we didn't have enough people to kill Hami this time. Thanks to everyone that came to try it, let's analyze what happened and if we could have done anything different to kill it .

From Adversity I saw:
Magia
Banxi
Shoboshi
Jags
Syl
Nano
Amy
Rock
Gopher

PS: Please post if I'm forgetting someone.

And Rockgut now has the 25 SG events badge! Congratz .

Sounds like it was simply a numbers game. Something came up last night and kept me from joining.

Gratz Rockgut- sorry I couldn't make it.

It may have been the lack of numbers, IDK, but I think there was something wrong with the raid. All the scrappers were droping toggles, that never happened at the other raids we ran.

ooo. Sorry for missing this one. I look forward to jumping in on the HAMI2 if it manifests though.

~Red~

If no Emps, Kins, Thermals or Sonics were buffing Scrappers with Clear Mind, Increase Density, Thaw or Clarity or if none of the Scrappers had Break Frees on them, then toggle dropping is to be expected.

From the raiding 101 thread...

We didn't even have 20 people by the end there. I suspect even if those that were there were the perfect mix of ATs, it still would not have been enough to take down Hami.

This sort of failure makes for good story telling though. Sets up the second act where Adversity and the Impossibles exact their revenge on Hamidon

Yeah, a pickup tanker on my team was asking if he really needed EoEs, because last time he had tanked Hami, a couple of months ago, he didn't need them. He insisted so much that I told him to go test the waters. He died in 3-5 seconds and understood what we were talking about .

Minimal mix?

Tanker team: 2 empaths, 2 tankers
Scrapper team: 1 tanker, 1 empath, 6 scrappers
Ranged team: 4 blasters, 4 controllers

Total: 20

But, of course, if you multiply that by 2, you will have a better mix . And other kinds of defenders will fit into the scrapper or main team easily.

Is that what showed up last night or what you are saying can be the minimal amount to show up and be successful?

Minimaml amount. We weren't very far though:

Tanker team: 2 empaths (1 dual boxing and trying to coordinate the raid), 4 tankers
Scrapper team: 1 tanker, 7 scrappers
Ranged team: 6 blasters/controllers plus Ice triple boxing some crazy AT combo

Maybe without the multi boxing...

I see. Well I would say for any future raids, if there are not at least 26 people (I would prefer at least 30 to be safe) then it is not worth doing.

You definitely want to have as close as possible to having at least have 16 people on the main raid force so that there is a good mix of offense and defense.


There is also no need to have any Tanks on the Scrapper team - make it 6 Scrappers and 2 support characters instead.

Sweet, finally the coveted 25 badge! Woot!

Okies, now on to the meat of the matter.. It seems to me that what we were sorely in need of Defenders. The Mito's had a 95 to hit my blaster, and I imagine it was similar on many others. We were going up against Mike Tyson with no footwork! I would love to bring my FF Defender, but he's still a level short of 45. The way I see it, we need 3 or 4 Defenders buffing our Defenses to pull this off. Also, my dispersion bubble gives Stun, Hold, and Immob protection PBAOE, which would possibly help also. Any thoughts on this?

A bubbler is very good for the main force, with the big bubble giving status protection. Also, with enough empaths, we'd have many RAs.

Like Mags said, the only thing that would really help from a FF Defender is Dispersion Bubble. Since almost every attack the Mitos and Hami have are untyped damage, any defense or resistance is useless. The only thing that will do any good are lots of aura heals, regen buffs and status protection powers.