Resist would have been a good idea... or at least, a resist- based brute instead of a defense-based one; rularuu shred defense toons (Nemesis tend to as well actually). But ah well, I want to level Princess Ozma, so a defense based brute it was!
We had 4 brutes, a scrapper, one nature affinity troller, a warshade... another support toon I think. It was actually a similar team to the MLTF of the night before, though not all the same people.
Aside from its insanely long size, there's very little that distinguishes a Doc Q TF. Eventually you reach a series of four missions near the end that are in a white crey lab tile set, you don't see these maps very often. Also along the way you get to defeat bosses with names like Doctor Salad, and that seems really interesting because the TF is so mind-numbingly repetetive.
At one point I said I couldn't imagine doing this TF without the team transport power... but of course I've done it many times without that. :p
Anyway we were rolling right along and all the while, people were lining up in Atlas Park to hold torches and protest the ending of the game. And at some point, the server couldn't take it anymore, and I saw this:
Virtue was down for about ten minutes or so. The brute in the picture with me, Redeemed Clock Royal, never returned, so we were down to seven for the last few missions.
There was an awful lot of dying along the way, but we finally made it to the last mission. As promised, rularuu on an oranbega map! No AV to be seen anywhere. Boy, what an epic way to end such an epic task force, right? Right?
As if all of this wasn't enough, there were tornado warnings in the Northeast (where some of the team mates were) and then one of our team members started getting brownouts in the final mission, then DC'd and was gone for nearly five minutes. We cleared the last room, but missed one lone brute in another room. Violet returned, so we held off killing the last brute... then Violet DC'd again, but came back much quicker. As soon as she zoned in we finished it.
Look Ma! No defeats! (We probably had 75 or more, actually.) Doc Q is never a quick TF, but 2 hours 30 minutes is a really good time, and 3 hours would be average. We weren't all that fast but the crashing of the server added at least a half hour to our end time.
I got Princess Ozma to 45 though, halfway to 46 even. :D Afterwards I went to AP6 and held up a torch. I won't be able to play for the rest of the day, but I stopped in Ouro to start an ouro arc so I could leave Ozma in AP for a long time. Last I heard, there were over 20 AP instances on Virtue.
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