TAXIBOT TASK FORCE  week 4 was another sucess as we formed up in Founders Falls and ran a very good Numina TF this Friday.  I started recruiting aroun 8:15 and by 8:30 we had assembled a 7 man team and headed off to rescue the Woodsman.   The team moved quickly through the early missions due to outstanding stealth provided by out Illusionist and we began the 16 "Defeat X Villains" missions scattered throughout the various neighborhood and hazard zones in the game.    At some point the question was asked.. "What is this a tour of Paragon?"   Of course the answer is/was "YES".  With some planning we moved quickly through those and soon found ourselves taking out the last of the Villain Groups in Eden (Devouring Earth and Nemesis).  Once we accomplished that, and suffered our lone defeat of the evening, we moved on to the final two missions.  Our team was Controller and Defender heavy and we had little difficulty in polishing off the Defeat all villains in the warehouse mission and moving on to take on Jurrasic in the final.  At that point the designated Stealther for the evening got us past the Devouring Earth guards and with my Warshade providing Tanker duties we dispatched Jurrasic and cleared the chamber to complete the TF in 1 hour and 23 minutes.  Everyone earned their Numina's Compatriot badge and one of our own members picked up the Task Force Commander Badge/Accolade along the way. 

The Task Force Members were:

Taxibot One                      Defender
Taxibot Grim                     Defender
Taxibot RaSheen            Warshade
Mental Rad                       Controller
Delusional Illusionist     Controller (our stealther)
MYnd Melled                     Controller
Balki Bartovokomous     Scrapper

OKAY WHO SAID WE NEEDED A TANK TO SUCEED? 

To date we have helped 19 players earn at least 16 different badges and 854 Reward Merits not counting the ones we have earned ourselves...  an additional 502 Merits.  All accomplished in a total of 7 hours and 20 minutes.  Our record for keeping our guests safe holds since the only defeat this week was Taxibot One who went down taking out Nemesis troops during that last "Defeat X Villain" Mission in Eden so in 4 weeks only one non Taxi has suffered a defeat while playing with us.  Most of the players that joined us were within the 35-40 level range and while I didn't here any dings I am sure a few went up significantly in level.  I was using a 44 level Warshade and picked up about half a level.  Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and we got the usual thank you from all before the team broke for the day.  The TF finished so fast we had time to hook up with Taxibot Hollow on with his Scrapper, Heart, and ran some radio missions in PI which allowed me to get my Warshade to level 45 before the night ended and I had to log. 

What's on the agenda for next week?  Well Grim has suggested we do the dreaded Positron TF.  It is the only one that my Warshade needs to join my other 2 Taxibots as a Task Force Commander.  I would like to discuss that a bit here first since it is 17 missions long and takes players to a number of different zones.  One huge advantage now is the new Mentoring system which not only assures us that anyone on the team will only be one level lower than out leader, me, but anyone above the normal limits of the TF, 10-15 level, can keep up to 5 levels of slots above...  So a 50 level on the team will have all of his or her powers to level 20.  That means everyone should have a permanent travel power and (if they took it) Stamina.  I have done Posi this way with Tandar and was able to complete it in around 4 hours.  That's what I'd like to discuss....  To be safe and to ensure we don't have East Coast players falling asleep on us I was thinking for this one week it might not be a bad idea to begin at 7:30 PM ET?  That way at worst we'd be done before midnight.  The TF does offer up the highest number of merits, short of the marathon ones like Doctor Q in the Shard, at 66 and also gives players an opporunity to work on a number of defeat badges.  Specifically Gearsmasher (100 Clockwork Gears), Soul Binder (200 COT Mages) and Gravedigger (100 Vahzilok Embalmed Cadavers).  There are 3 Stealthable missions along with 5 Talk to _____ and one Patrol.  If we agree to start a bit earlier  I think it's time One finally did a Posi since he hasn't since issue???  See you all next week!