drogan niteflier Wrote:What determines the 'Public Opinion' score anyway? Is that ever explained?Basically, whenever we have all 4 terminals up, it gives us a huge Public Opinion buff. Whenever the IDF are controlling the terminals, it slowly decrements. Other things affect it to make it go down faster.
- When Maelstrom is tele-ganking people, he steadily depletes public opinion. If you go out and KO him, it briefly stops his teleganking, as well as the PO decrease.
- While the Telepathists (who also cause the Pacify debuff) are turning the citizenry against you, you constantly lose PO in small amounts. Killing them stops this. It also can prevent the citizens from going hostile, as they actively cause this while they're alive. Without them, the outside has no attacks aimed at you besides Maelstrom.
- After the 1st Maelstrom fight, only three terminals are required to complete a broadcast. Activating both C and D (or any two) at the same time so you get all 4 up boosts your PO gain.
Quote:And Maelstrom. Don't really have a problem when he shows up. But what kind of craptastic power does he have when he can force half or more of a trial to break off and go into hiding for 15-30 seconds? One of the few times I wasn't tagged with Marked for Death, I noticed that everyone seemed to abandon Maelstrom for a good 15 seconds leaving just Demo (who I think was tanking him) and maybe one other to keep on him- Marked for Death is actually a two part power. The Marker would simply make you vulnerable to his second power, which is "Time To Die". That's announced when the warning "Maelstrom prepares to kill those marked for death!" pops up. After that, he kills anyone Marked For Death within a set radius.
For our problem Trials....
- Keyes was just a self imposed challenge problem. We had a lot of DPS, but our debuffs were light, and we lacked an entire 3rd team that we could've grabbed. With all those problems, and Anti-Matter being rather nasty a few times (Disintegrate and then Orbital Beam Strike at the same time getting him lots of health back), we didn't have the AV burn down rate we could have.
- MoM was hard, because we were all tired, and we had a few new people who may or may not have had level shifts. MoM's final bits *really* benefit from Level shifts where the Nightmare bosses are merely red con instead of purple with all 3 shifts. I think that was the main difference between that and our other Legendary run. Also, we could've used more control, but nothing for it.
Overall, I think our problems were potentially solvable with planning, and we could probably next time do less overall trials in a row. But I think that, even if we didn't meet our goal, it was a decent success. I know a LOT of people got lots of Incarnate swag, and we generally had fun. Hell, we *nearly* got a Master Run on the UG trial. So overall, thumbs up.
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