So we sign on as Psi-clone and Amorpha.
So I run across Puck Bunny by accident, and she tells me she’s on her way to a Hami raid. Never done one, but sounded like one of those Experiences One Must Have. I invite myself along.
I lose PB on the way there, and am told which direction to go from the gate. Which, it turns out, is the wrong direction. I’m not teamed, because I know nothing about the whole Hami situation and am either waiting for an invite or waiting to get some clue as to what to do.
Amorpha makes it into the Hive, and is engaged in action, and starts to give me directions of where to go, at which point I get similar directions from PB (who had died and was heading back to the zone) correcting the earlier mistake. (Well, heck, mistakes happen, and I made a few navigational errors myself tonight).
Following instructions, I run across the whole Hami amoeba complex thingie. There are people around, but not sure what’s going on and I come in closer …
… and am one-shotted. Swell.
Fly back from the FF hospital (after first heading in the opposite direction — my aforementioned navigatoin error). On the way, Amorpha (also a neophyte at this) is telling me that there’s some sort of organization to the mass mayhem, and there’s some sort of Illusion Controller group that has a specific role to play. So even though PB finally invites me onto team, I then drop and get onto the Illusion Controller team.
Which was, let me tell you, a laugh a minute, hovering over Hami, dropping Phantom Armies, and listening to banal netchatter.
For, oh, about an hour.
(In retrospect, should have stuck with PB. Or joined the Empathy team and done healing down in the action.)
Got to listen to lots of action for Amorpha. She’s having a tense, exciting time — along with about 11K XP per Mito that goes down (which is about 11K more XP than I’m getting per Mito).
Finally, the Mitos are all down, and things start to get interesting. Big strategic maneuvers. Orders. Counter-orders. Wave attacks of certain ATs.
But we’re reaching the climax. I begin to earn fractional XP as I spam Blinds onto Hami along with similar Hold attacks from other Controllers. Which fractional XP is better than the zilcho XP I was getting earlier. But at least I’ll get big bucks when Hami goes down now, not to mention a Hami-O, right?
Tension mounts. Holds are spammed. Hami’s HP drop. Lag increases. Tensoin mounts some more. Things are just about …
… locked. Frozen. Slowed, halting then …. nothing.
Fucking. Discoed.
Takes about 5 interminable minutes (with Amorpha giving me an HP countdown) for my machine to decide it’s lost its connection, and cycle back to the login screen for CoH. Quickly login to come back to everyone chattering about what Hami-O they got and what they’ll trade for and whew, wasn’t that exciting?
So … 1 death and three hours of my life, in exchange for, oh, about 25 XP.
Frelling swell.
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***Dave Does the Game
Oh, bother!
I saw you were in the Hive. I sent you a Tell, and when you didn’t respond, I figured you were in the thick of things.
Sounds like your Hami experience was worse than mine (no pun intended).
I’ve done two, and this is how they went for my Blaster:
Arrive at the congregation point. Spend 45 minutes while they organize the teams and lecture over and over again on our roles.
Spend an hour standing around with nothing to do (at about 2 fps because of the overcrowding) while the Controllers spam holds.
Spend 20 minutes repeating my attack chain.
Leave with my HO.
Boooooring! I turned down repeated requests from strangers the other night to join a Hami raid that was low on Blasters. HOs are nice, but it’s as fun as midding (which I agreed to do once when i didn’t know what it was).
Was actually trying to respond about the time things locked up.
I think there are some ATs that have more “fun” in the Hami raids (Amorpha certainly seemed to be having a lot more excitement, until the end). But I’m going to do some research.
The other sad part about the thing is that you didn’t get the badge for it either.
I sympathize with you Dave. I’ve has Zepher at 3 hami raids in the last couple weeks, and have gotten booted out of the game all three times. I did get one HO in the first one, which I gave to Puck. **hhmm..reminds me, I need to get rid of the hami debt soonish.**
The badge is an explore one. When I hear of another raid, I’ll let people know when it’s over so they can run in and get the badge without having to swim thru the shoggoth for it. 🙂
I noticed last week that I was missing an Exploration badge for the Hive, so I headed out there. Flying invisibly over the Hami badge marker, I was shot and hurt severely by those critters! Caution is advised if you decide to try to get the badges on your own.
I’m not so much into the Badge collecting (unless it Gives Me Something toward an Accolade). I would have liked to have gotten the Hami-O, though. And I would have liked to have actually felt like I was doing something most of the time. Dropping Phantom Armies and watching them draw fire and dropping more once it recharged … was kinda dull. At least Amorpha got to hit stuff. 🙂
(Note to self – next time go to a much lower graphics setting. That probably didn’t help.)
Margie had suggested I /petition over the crash-and-loss-of-Hami-O. Alas …
Not surprising, to be fair. And enough folks crash in this mish that I’m pretty sure it’s a stock (if politely sympathetic) answer.