Had a great Synapse TF this afternoon — “Task Force Dexterity.” Actually, that’s a misnomer. Very little dexterity. Very much firepower.
Dinged from just over 19 to just over 21 (so no XP in the last few missions, but what the heck). And managed to grab 5 badges: Clockstopper, Gearsmasher, Keeper of the Peace, Synapse’s Cohort, and Tough.
I The team was a lot of blasters — Torchielle, Avocet, Lady Photon, and Toy Maker — along with one Defender (Agent Twelve), one Scrapper (Kazima), and one “Tank” (Peacebringer, actually, Emissary, who organized the soiree).
I had been concerned that we’d be too squishy a group, but it worked out great. Emissary kept the big baddies aggroed, Agent kept us healed, and the Damage-Dealers simply blasted/slashed them into oblivion. No melee lasted too long except when we inadvertenly grabbed more one group.
So, yeah, it’s a boring TF from one aspect (“ALL CLOCKWORK! ALL THE TIME!”), but it was a fun group of personalities, and we were so capable, especially once we got used to each other, that we practically took the final few mishes — including the Clockwork King himself — at a run. Even Babbage was a relative cakewalk (certainly no knockdown-dragout sort of endurance contest — we steadily just carved away at him and took him down with little problem).
Endurance was probably the biggest problem (aside from having to constantly step on Gears …). Early on I was suffering badly. Once I got some slots into Conserve Power and took Stamina, that stopped being a problem until we started running forward between encounters with no rest.
Even so, despite a few close calls, we only ever had one death, Emissary himself (done in by a Void Seeker — one cool thing about having a Kheldian along is the occasional different villain). But that was it.
Fun. And profitable.
Probably the last Kazima/Torchielle hurrah, though. We did a test (SKing) run of Torchy and Hildegard the other evening, and it just simply rocked the house (aggro management, baby)
Official post by Emissary, with better pictures, is here.
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***Dave Does the Game
I signed up for this one to get the badge, of course. Why, I don’t know, because near the end, things finally looked familiar enough for me to realize that Avo had already done this one!
So… Profitable? In terms of Influence only, as I received no XP or Enhancements. Fun? Yep! Five of my favorite players were on that team! I had a ball, even with five hours of Clockwork for no mission reward!
And interestingly, nobody seemed to notice that Avo… Well, no, maybe I won’t say anything more just now.
Only five, Avo?? *cries* (j/k) 🙂
I had a great time, myself, and thought we had a very smooth and cohesive team. Just a shame that darn Void Seeker got me or we could have claimed a ‘deathless TF’.
I feel your pain, Avo, I didn’t get any xp either but I did need the badge,so that’s something 🙂 That shiny SO, at the end, also was a welcomed surprised. I wasn’t sure if I would get a drop or not.
All in all it was one of the smoothest Synapse TFs I’ve done in a while. Thanks again to all involved.
1. Well, that raises the guessing game as to which person on the TF *wasn’t* one of Avo’s favorite players. Heh.
2. As noted, and death aside, I was happy we had a Kheldian and VS’s to worry about. It gave a little variety to the mix. And, of course, without that fine Kheldian Tank, we’d have had some major problems.
3. FWIW, I didn’t get any XP in the last mish-plus (including, I think, Babbage). But plenty before that. 🙂
4. Agreed. This was my third Synapse TF, and it was by far the smoothest and most enjoyable.
We started, btw, at 1:30p (MDT, and were done by 5:30p MDT, I believe, so it was also one of the quickest.
The only thing missing was any tension over the CK, both because (a) I’d been on the mish before, and (b) we were running through the final encounter so fast, it was clear that the CK wouldn’t prove too much of a problem.
Great fun. I’d been aching for some TF action, and was glad to get it under my belt.
Omigosh! You’re Emissary??? I had no idea! Okay, ALL the players were favorites of mine!