Ah... BAF. Fun. Fun. Fun.
They may have changed things since I ran it. Either way, this was the trial that failed due to a failure of leadership. I ended up in a team with just myself and one other, in a League (there's that word again) of 12.
You'll want to have plenty of heavy hitters and buffers with you.
Enter, watch the Cutscene goodness which explains what's going on. Trash the bots on the ramp. Then dog pile the first AV: Nightstar. This is where things get interesting. She starts tossing around Holds that you can't prevent. If you get to second warning: RUN! or else. And the waves and waves of reinforcements... stamp them down as they arrive or you will be over-run. There was a few hairy moments in this phase of the trial. But we dropped Nightstar some distance away from the tennis court.
Then came the Prisoners. I had a taunt aura on and they ran right through it. They didn't respond to mezs. They didn't respond to taunt. And since they were conning purple, I had a hard time hitting them and they only responded to damage - about the 3rd knock. I remember thinking at the time: "TK's winning smile and charming personality is so going to have fun here."
Then came Siege. UGH. This time you can't ignore the waves and waves of reinforcements... which we were trying to do. I was playing a EA/Elec Brute and I spent more time on my face then on my feet. This was due the the reinforcements, more then Siege. And due to a failure of leadership. Somehow we managed to drop him but dropped him partway between where he spawned and the tennis court.
Then surprise... Both at once. The League I was in basically gave up here, and focused on dropping Nightshade in the time we had left. Which we only just managed. And once she was down she re-spawned to full health. We just could not keep up with alternating waves of reinforcements and the AVs pounding on us at opposite ends of the map and everyone thinking they knew best.
About a minute later the timer ran out and Trial failed.
All told, I got about 7% of a slot filled for a lot of work, and a lot of frustration.
What you need going into the BAF in my opinion:
They may have changed things since I ran it. Either way, this was the trial that failed due to a failure of leadership. I ended up in a team with just myself and one other, in a League (there's that word again) of 12.
You'll want to have plenty of heavy hitters and buffers with you.
Enter, watch the Cutscene goodness which explains what's going on. Trash the bots on the ramp. Then dog pile the first AV: Nightstar. This is where things get interesting. She starts tossing around Holds that you can't prevent. If you get to second warning: RUN! or else. And the waves and waves of reinforcements... stamp them down as they arrive or you will be over-run. There was a few hairy moments in this phase of the trial. But we dropped Nightstar some distance away from the tennis court.
Then came the Prisoners. I had a taunt aura on and they ran right through it. They didn't respond to mezs. They didn't respond to taunt. And since they were conning purple, I had a hard time hitting them and they only responded to damage - about the 3rd knock. I remember thinking at the time: "TK's winning smile and charming personality is so going to have fun here."
Then came Siege. UGH. This time you can't ignore the waves and waves of reinforcements... which we were trying to do. I was playing a EA/Elec Brute and I spent more time on my face then on my feet. This was due the the reinforcements, more then Siege. And due to a failure of leadership. Somehow we managed to drop him but dropped him partway between where he spawned and the tennis court.
Then surprise... Both at once. The League I was in basically gave up here, and focused on dropping Nightshade in the time we had left. Which we only just managed. And once she was down she re-spawned to full health. We just could not keep up with alternating waves of reinforcements and the AVs pounding on us at opposite ends of the map and everyone thinking they knew best.
About a minute later the timer ran out and Trial failed.
All told, I got about 7% of a slot filled for a lot of work, and a lot of frustration.
What you need going into the BAF in my opinion:
- League leader who's done it before and knows what's going on.
- Organization.
- Damage - lots and lots and lots of it
- multiple Tanks/Brutes to toss aggro around of 2 AVs
- Buffers/Healers to keep everyone on their feet and out of that hospital.