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So I take it that I am fine?
I love my two trinkets but any advice on making me better. The only problem i have is sometimes i will lose aggro at start on trash and (non-raid) boss fights.
So I take it that I am fine?
You are missing three enchants and one gem.
Your mastery could be a bit higher, maybe think about doing Tol'barad dailies for the Mirror (321 mastery + spell resist use).
I'm no warrior expert but at a first glance I cannot see anything completely wrong with your talents or glyphs.
Get a non stam tinket. Two stam trinkets is overkill. Change your Blue Gem sockets to Puissant Dream emeralds, change your yellow sockets to Fractured Amberjewels.
Drop Gag Order. Finish off Deep Wounds and grab Incite.
If you're losing aggro on the pull its usually down to DPS idiocy, however in 5 mans it can also be down to rage/vengeance once you out gear them (if you have more epics than not you outgear all 5 man content), as a warrior this should be taken as a signal to build a squishier threat set. genrally you can just slap a 1h and shield onto your DPS set, though if you lack confidence in you healer just picking bits that are Mastery/hit or mastery hit will do. yYou could also be loosing aggro due to poor play. could you lgive us a detalied run through of you abitilly usage on the pull and shortly following it, as well as you sttandard rotation please.
Hello I am back with a much better upgrade. I ve taken your advise and things are better. Any additional advice with my new setup.
Looks good, i would take 2 points out of thunderstruck and put them into cruelty, improved revenge is also an option to scrap since devastate is better in almost all situations but its nice for 5mans.
Mantle of patience is better then the cloak you use atm and 359 rep boots have a bit more mastery or get the crafted 378 ones. Gemming looks good except for the 20strength/20mastery gem in the chest. Easiests upgrades might be the boe neck and bracers, they don't go for that much anymore on the AH if you have the money for it.
This is me http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...rugly/advanced just starting with the heroic modes might be something you want to aim for 4set+ 96,4% CTC buffed.
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this is rather rough Assuming you've take Deep Wounds, and have the +30% bleed debuff
~24k AP with a 346 or 353 weapon
~25k with a 359
~27K with a 365
~28k with a 372
~30K with a 378
and i didn't plot high enough AP values for a 391 but i think Rev will overtake somewhere in the 32-33k AP, I'm not entirely sure you'd be able to get that much vengeance/AP from gear. you can knock thsoe values down by about 2k if you're missing the bleed Debuff, and another ~3K if you skipped Deep wounds entirely. Losing War Academy knocks Dev behind rev once you past ~16k AP. Dropping Imp. Revenge removes Revenge entirely from our rotation unless you're shield's broken. This is all based on Damage per execute, if using a Revenge over a Deavstate allows you squeeze of another Heroic Strike it could very well be worth it considering HS's high crit rate with Incite and superb AP scaling.
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My gear is better and my mastery is over 20% ....yet I do not know where to go from here other than:
Enchant boots
Get Shoulders
Get Helm
Get shield
P.S. I was told I can single tank Baleroc but the healers having problems with keeping my HP over 90% during D's Strikes. When I dodge two of the 3 strikes, then we are fine but that is not always the case.
For normalmode just two tank him if your raiddps is sufficient, min/maxing stacks is only important on heroic mode.
Hint: Pop bloodlust for the very first shard and use defensive cooldowns on yourself while having your strongest soaker take it (two or even better one soaker), your healers should use their fastest (= expensive) heals on him to get high stacks and rotate intelligently afterwards. With enough stacks they can heal you with their low, regular heal. During decimation blade they should watch out for not having the buff running out and precast largs heals/save hopo and etc for burst heals after a hit.


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Captain Rufus
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:33 am
Post subject: Drones and Photons.. a little tactical help?
Ok. So far in our games of Federation Commander it has primarily been Kzinti (me) vs Federation (my friend).
(Note we play Fleet Scale exclusively.)
So far I have noticed that VERY few drones ever hit. If any. If the ADDs don't get em, Phaser 3s do. How do I ensure a couple hits outside of building forces comprised of nothing but Frigate hordes?
And now on to Photons. So far my friend's tactics is to charge at me turn 1 with his preloaded Photons, fire overloads as close as possible, and its basically become "If Photons mostly hit, Federation has won, if Photons mostly miss, Kzinti has won".
This seems kinda dumb. Are their some tactics I can show him so he won't turn the game into Turn 1 Impulse 8, Turn 2 Impulse 1 Overload Alpha Strike Charges?
I was thinking personally about 7-9 hex shooting with P1s and Disruptors, then either HETing or Evasive Maneuvers depending on exactly how much power I have left and timing issues. (Still learning the various rules of the game. We add a little more every time we play. Plus the Communiques and this forum are helping show where we misunderstood the rules.)
I would be happy hearing pro Fed or pro Kzin strategies that make the charge a less useful thing.
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Lieutenant SG
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:34 pm
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Are you playing multi-ship battles or single-ship duels? If it's the latter then you really need to be using Squadron Scale. The only single-ship duels that are really balanced are Squadron Scale Heavy Cruisers (Gorn/Kzin/Klingon Battlecruiser, Rom Firehawk/KR/King Eagle).
As for drones...sometimes I've found that drones can work as
close assault
weapons. Remember that if you launch a drone that hits before the next Launch Phase, then the other guy can't launch a counter-drone at it. And if multiple drones Impact on the same Impulse, ADD can only engage one of them (and ADD can't engage Tractored drones at all.)
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Another thought: Don't be afraid to "finesse" your drones. You're allowed to maneuver drones to "lead" their targets, or to split up a drone "stack" into separate hexes. Remember that as long as the drone moves closer if possible (and never moves further away) and keeps the target in FA, then anything is legal.
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:18 pm
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ADD can not be used on a tractored drone? I thought that your ADD could hit a drone that you have held (IE tractored).
As for tactics make up a scenerio or play one from the books. I was in a game against two feds teaching one of them how to play. We set up a "cripled" ship on the far side of the map half way between the groups (Federation and myself Klingons) then started. The Cripple Ship was a frigate with no warp or impulse power (freak accident damage all the boxes)
we both "heard" the call for help and came to "check it out" it was a very nice little event with 2 ships on each side and the Frigate (shared by the Fed side repairing). This may change how both of you plan other than destroy the other guy style (even though it still happens).
To "target"
your question on Drones, The tactic of lanching at impulse 8 then impulse 1 gives your target alot to worry about in a short span. Kzinti do not have alot of fire power but some of the ships can lanch multi drones in a turn that makes them rough to handle. Feds overloaded photons have shorter range so if you can keep move in and stay away then you have a better chance.
Good luck to you both.
What is it with and raising the shields all the time!
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ADDs can only be used on a drone on the impulse it has impacted. During defensive fire, tractors are used after the ADD gets a chance to fire. So basically, the ADD only gets to shoot once per "wave" of drones that impact. (A "wave" of drones being all the drones that impact on a given impulse).
You can get more use out of the ADD by increasing the number of "waves" of drones, by maneuvering so that only a few impact per impulse (if they are split in different hexes), or using tractors to hold some drones at range 1 while the rest impact. The tractor trick needs high speed and clever maneuver, but can be done.
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:55 am
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It does tend to be a big coin flip when fighting Fed ships. Its probably the most annoying thing about Feds. It can reduce skill to a minimum.
However, you should try to never let the Fed have range 4 (or even 5) when he has full phasers. Try to whittle down shields with one or more blasts of disruptor overloads before you do have to engage. Don't forget to use suicides, if you can, to help overload his drone/seeking defense.
Be happy if no drones ever hit, but you managed to make him shoot nearly all his phasers at the drones. Your alpha strike will be equal to or better than his if he has no phasers to shoot at you. Kzinti wants range 1-2, to make all those phaser-3s effective.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:10 am
Post subject: tatics photons
Make things intreasting and give the klingons photon torpedoes
and give them a taste of there own medicine
they do not like it belive me
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:03 pm
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Don't treat drones as the Fed player treats his Photons. They are different and should be used differently. Use drones to (1) force him to turn off or expend energy to stop them and to (2) deliver a parting shot on a downed shield. In FedCom (especially in Fleet scale) you can't drone swarm with a single ship.
If the Fed is coming at you on turn 1 with his Photons powered up, you know that he doesn't have any battery (he had to give these up to get the pre-game arming for the Photons). This means he's running at lower power - less power to do other things. If he comes at you fast, his power reserves will be even lower. In this case, stay outside of overload range and snipe with your phasers and disruptors. Try to spread your shots out over multiple volleys, but have enough in each volley to do at least 12 points of damage (shield leakage is your friend). If he gets too close, fling out your drones and drop a Suicide Shuttle. Then turn off and go evasive.
The nice thing about the SS is it doesn't go away after a while. It will keep plugging away and can become a real nuisance to navigation. Federation ships wallow like pigs in the mud (Turn mode D) so anything that commits him to a turn other than to bring his photons to bear is a good thing.
If you can get him to fire his photons out of overload range, great follow after him and hammer him with your disruptors. If he holds them over the turn, he's still using power, so repeat the above tactic.
When you drop a Fed shield, send your drones towards it - this will make him turn more often. Also, if you've got him toothless (i.e. no readied photons), close in and paste him with your disruptors and phasers then launch a drone or two to discourage pursuit.
A Federation ship is dangerous when he's got his photons loaded, stay away. Sniping is a good thing. Basically, you want to emulate the Klingon Saber dance but use your extra drones to force the Fed to choose between burning power or turning away.
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\quote{but have enough in each volley to do at least 12 points of damage }
10 points. Shield reinforcement does not affect the leakage threshold. If the volley is 10 points or larger, you score leakage.
Leakage is only your friend at Fleet scale, IMO. At squadron scale, it gets repaired too fast.
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Amen. Preach on Brother Terry.
I can not remember a single, squadron scale game where the outcome was decided by shield burn-through. Almost always hits a lab or a hull and if thats the only thing damaged, even a frigate can repair that at the end of the turn.
Terry is correct, though. 10 points is the threshhold. Reinforcement diesn't factor into the equation in preventing shield burn through. A 10 point volley, with 2 batteries still generates 7 disabled shield boxes and 1 burn through point.
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:26 pm
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10 points. Shield reinforcement does not affect the leakage threshold. If the volley is 10 points or larger, you score leakage.
Wow - I've been playing that wrong.
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Sniping to achieve shield burn through can be effective if directed weapons targeting is called. Even if that weapon is repaired at the end of that turn, it may not have been able to fire at you on that turn.
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Schubert: Octet
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Movement 1: Adagio Allegro
Movement 2: Adagio
Movement 3: Allegro vivace
Movement 4: Andante
Movement 5: Menuetto: Allegretto
Movement 6: Andante molto Allegro
After visiting the composer some time during February 1824, the painter Moritz von Schwind wrote to their mutual friend Franz von Schober: 'Schubert has now long been at work on an octet, with the greatest enthusiasm. If you go and see him during the day he says "Hello. How are you?" and carries on working, whereupon you leave.' Schubert completed the score on 1 March, and the first performance took place at the home of a Viennese nobleman, Anton, Freiherr von Spielmann, later that month. Besides Troyer himself, the players included the renowned violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh and several others who had given the premiere of Beethoven's Septet nearly a quarter of a century earlier. Although there was another private performance of the Octet at the home of Franz Lachner in 1826, its first public airing, with most of the original players, was not until April 1827, in the hall of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Some contemporary reports found it too long, though the Wiener Allgemeine Theaterzeitung called it 'friendly, agreeable and interesting', and 'worthy of the composer's well-known talents'—a revealing counter to the old myth that Schubert worked in virtual obscurity, appreciated only by a circle of close friends.
With its melodic and rhythmic elan and its kaleidoscopically varied colours, the Octet, like Mozart's great wind serenades, raises the hedonistic spirit of the late eighteenth-century divertimento to a supreme level. Its scoring is endlessly inventive: at times, especially in the outer movements and scherzo, Schubert uses the ensemble like a small orchestra, with the two violins in octaves and sharp contrasts between solo and tutti sonorities; at others, especially in the Adagio and minuet, string and wind colours are blended with the finesse of true chamber music. If the Octet, in keeping with its divertimento origins, is fundamentally genial and relaxed, the work is shot through with that sense of yearning, of the evanescence of beauty, that haunts Schubert's later music; and once or twice—in the brooding coda of the Adagio, or the slow introduction of the finale—we glimpse the dark, depressive world of the String Quartets in A minor and D minor that Schubert composed virtually simultaneously with the Octet.
The imposing, tonally wide-ranging introduction immediately announces a dotted motif which is to permeate the following Allegro and influence many of the ideas in later movements. Just before the Allegro clarinet and then horn sound a rising octave figure, again in dotted rhythm, which likewise has echoes later in the work. For all its breezy exuberance, the Allegro itself is tightly argued and unified—reminding us of a much-quoted letter to the painter Leopold Kupelwieser in which Schubert declared that he had composed the Octet and the two quartets of 1824 in preparation for 'a grand symphony'. The ubiquitous opening phrase of the first theme underpins the second subject, sounded on the clarinet in a plangent D minor and then repeated by the horn in F major. With typical unorthodoxy, Schubert long delays settling in the expected dominant key, C major, which only arrives, with a flurry of violin semiquavers, after protracted ruminations on the main theme. The tautly worked development—so much for Schubert's supposed prolixity—glides immediately into the strange and remote key of F sharp minor: here the second subject acquires a yearning continuation on the clarinet, and is then transformed more radically, first by the clarinet, then by second violin and viola in imitation, against the pervasive leaping dotted figure on the first violin. After a breathtaking sideslip to A flat major the wind trio intones a chorale-like theme rhythmically akin to the slow introduction; the connection is underlined when Schubert brings back the introduction's opening phrases just before the recapitulation, reinforcing the close integration of introduction and Allegro. A speeded-up version of the main theme launches the coda, promising a rousing send-off. But then, in a moment of pure romantic poetry, the pulse relaxes for a final, nostalgic reminiscence of the second subject, sounded on the horn as if from the depths of the forest.
The Adagio, somewhere between a barcarolle and a lullaby, is one of Schubert's loveliest, opening with a dream of a melody for his clarinettist patron and constantly enriched by the composer's genius for devising ravishing countermelodies. Though the movement is cast in abridged sonata form (without a central development), the abiding impression is of a timeless flow of glorious, almost improvisatory lyricism. After the reprise of the main theme, first on the violin in counterpoint with the horn, then on cello and clarinet, Schubert offsets the lack of a formal development section in dramatic series of modulations. The coda begins serenely enough, with the violins playing in canon; but then a sudden violent off-beat accent for pizzicato cello and bass heralds a weird, disquieting passage where, in a slow crescendo, the clarinet broods obsessively on the movement's opening phrase over anxiously palpitating strings.
This momentary glimpse of the abyss is summarily banished in the bracing scherzo, a delightfully bucolic movement with overtones of the hunt (and more dotted rhythms)—though amid the alfresco jollity Schubert is always likely to surprise us with sudden shifts to distant keys. High spirits are more subdued in the trio, with its smooth, shapely melody, initially for string quartet alone, over a stalking cello line. For his variation movement Schubert pilfered a cheerful, homely duet from his unperformed comic opera of 1815, Die Freunde von Salamanka ('The Friends from Salamanca'). Following classical precedent, the first four variations, all rooted to the home key of C major, are essentially decorative, with first violin, horn and cello in turn taking the limelight. But the fifth in C minor—eerie, scurrying night music that pre-echoes the 'Ride to Hell' in Berlioz's Damnation of Faust—and the sixth in A flat, which dissolves the theme in tender, luminous polyphony, are romantic character pieces. Sentiment is wickedly undercut in the final variation, where the winds do a comic take on a village band against a hyperactively cavorting violin.
Like some of Beethoven's minuets—most famously that of the eighth Symphony—Schubert's fifth movement is a stylized, faintly nostalgic re-creation of the classical courtly dance. It is surely no coincidence that the initial dotted figure is identical to the pervasive motif of the opening movement. The first section closes with a naggingly memorable cadential phrase featuring both triplets and dotted rhythms; in the second part, after a poetic dip from C to A flat, this is deliciously expanded by the clarinet before the music dissolves in a chromatic haze. The lolloping Ländler trio (whose opening phrase inverts the minuet's dotted upbeat) again conjures up village band associations. After a repeat of the minuet the hushed, twilit coda introduces a romantically evocative horn solo that inevitably calls to mind the close of the first movement.
With its ghostly tremolandos, steepling crescendos and labyrinthine tonality, the finale's introduction creates a scene of high drama. Shades, perhaps, of the Wolf's Glen in Weber's Der Freischütz, a favourite opera of Schubert's. But the doom-laden dotted figures in wind and upper strings also echo the bleak Schiller setting 'Die Götter Griechenlands' ('The Gods of Greece') which Schubert quoted in the contemporary A minor Quartet. Grand guignol or a personal confession? Whatever the composer's intent, this introduction is startling in the context of such a generally cheerful work. After the music has subsided to a ppp shudder, the tonality clears to a cloudless F major for the brisk, bristling march theme of the Allegro. A smoother subsidiary idea, still in F major, leads to a chirpy second subject (linked to the main theme by its persistent trilling motif) that could have fast-talked its way straight out of a Rossini opera. But the comedy quickly takes a serious turn as Schubert puts the trilling figure through its paces in strenuous imitation. Another plunge from C to A flat signals the development, where the march theme is subjected to tense contrapuntal treatment through an audacious series of modulations. Then, after a lull and an exciting protracted crescendo, the recapitulation enters, à la Beethoven, in a triumphant fortissimo.
Schubert reserves his biggest dramatic coup for the closing pages, where the music of the slow introduction crashes in without warning, now made even more ominous by eerie flourishes from the first violin. But the oppressive atmosphere is quickly dispelled by the coda, which speeds up the march theme and transforms it into an increasingly riotous rustic dance.
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Being a boxing fan can be frustrating at times. While a big boxing match is one of the best things in all of sports, fans rarely get to see the matchups they truly dream of watching. Below is our look at the 10 fights boxing fans are begging for. Our criteria for this list is as follows: importance within division, pound-for-pound rankings and boxing as a whole, as well as pure entertainment value. So, without further ado… 10. Adonis Stevenson vs. Sergey Kovalev Kovalev (20-0-1, 19 KOs), my latest restraining order-worthy man crush, is a balls-to-the-wall pressure fighter who isn't bashful about putting power shots together in combinations. The 30-year-old rising prospect faces the toughest test of his career in August against WBO champ Nathan Cleverly. Boasting an 86 percent knockout percentage, Kovalev would relish the opportunity to fight a fellow slugger like Stevenson if he can get past Cleverly, who is more of a pure boxer-puncher. Stevenson's record (21-1, 18 KOs) – at first...
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Been busy with small tasks as of late.
No pictures right now, but I scratchbuilt a miniature for my mother for Christmas (long story that I'll tell when I get some pictures posted).
I had to pull apart my FASA Constitution Refit since the epoxy never fully hardened (even after three days!). The cap on this has been broken for a while and the contents spilled into the plastic tray I had for it--maybe it's time for a new tube?
This caused no end of headaches since the plastic nacelle pylons didn't really stay the same shape, and I screwed them up while trying to get them to fit back onto the hull. So I had to make new ones.
This however did allow me to correct an error I found that I didn't see before. The connection for the pylons on the rear hull aren't actually at the same level vertically (at least on the ones that I have). They're close, but just not quite right. So I filled the old hole and drilled a new ditch for the pylon at the same height as the other. Pics to follow once I get the second nacelle glued and puttied in place.
I've got two other projects on my bench right now, but I want to get further along with those before I talk much about them (to avoid having to scrap them and having egg on my face, since one is going to be rather difficult (for me at least)).
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Ouch. I'm feeling for you. Nothing sucks worse than rework.
I'll be looking forward to those new pics, when you have them.
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Here's the custom miniature I've been working on.
It's meant to go with a boardgame called X From Outer Space. It's not SFU, but I'm proud of it, and want to show it off.
And here's the master I was working from:
This was made in MANY steps. I was up late each night for about two weeks before Christmas working on this. The center surfboard hull (green) was made with a plastic core stepped up like a pyramid that was covered with epoxy putty and sanded to shape. The lower square hull (off white in color) was made form Sculpey modeling clay, cut and sanded to shape, then had styrene sheets fixed to the front and bottom, and the side augmented with plastic tubing. The engines were obviously made from plastic tubing and epoxy putty. The figure comes from a Reaper miniature that I cut the head and legs off, cut and repositioned the left arm, and then added a new head I sculpted out of putty and pins.
He kinda turned out like Kermit the Frog, and that's mostly to do with the paint scheme. I can't believe in all my paints, I don't have a single purple! I could have mixed something up, or brushed some blue ink over something else, but I was on a deadline.
Here's the story behind it:
Back when I was 6 or so, my mother bought this educational game to help me learn multiplication tables. I won't go into details (you can find them at BoardGame Geek if you really want to know), but the game is just a race from outside the solar system to the sun. There's one path you can take (with two small shortcuts along the way). The entire pace of the game is random chance—rolling dice. There are some pitfalls and helping hands along the way, but they're the same for everybody.
Well, playing the game has become a tradition (both my sister and I learned our multiplication tables many years ago). It's something that we pull out at Christmas and play, and it's the game that we play right before someone goes off to school. My mother even brought it to Arizona when we drove my sister there a few years ago.
The part that makes this really funny is that my mother has the uncanny ability to lose each and every time. And I mean EACH AND EVERY time. She never wins. It's become a joke among the family.
So, I made this miniature in the style of the pawns (or meeples – strange word) that come with the game. That way, even if my mother loses, she at least gets a nice playing piece on the board.
And, what do you know—it gave her some great luck! The first time she used it, she won. And not just won, she trounced the rest of us—left us behind in the (space) dust!
More photos can be found at my NEW photobucket account:
(not all my old photos are up there yet, but I'm slowly getting them over there)
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Very cool Paul. Always nice to see a family gaming together - I'm sure you're mother loved having "her own special playing-piece". Nicely done!
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A few new things over the past week or so:
First, I finished up my FASA Refit Constitution. It's ready to be primed and painted.
The nacelles might be a tiny bit too low, and the pictures seem to show them leaning back (despite them being level in real life) but I'm satisfied with them.
And the second is a Federation Fast Cruiser. I hadn't planned on having one of these, but I ended up getting Border Box #2, and there it was. Since I already had a fast destroyer, and I didn't think I needed a second one, I decide to make this one.
Obviously the nacelles are custom, and rather long. Originally, I wanted them to be about 20% larger (18 boxes versus the standard 15), but I guess I miscalculated because they came out 25% larger (50mm versus 40mm). I'll use my standard handwavium and say that there is a nonlinear correlation between nacelle length and warp engine output (at least beyond the standard output), and that settles it. Call it more cooling or more space for power transfer conduits or whatnot.
These are made from two concentric styrene tubes to get that nice intercooler ditch. And like the art on Booster #4 and Border Box #2, they have three flux tuners and some horizontal ones too, just like on my fast destroyer.
I always intended to file down the saucer and make it round on the rear, like the artwork has, but I'm really happy that I did since those nacelles are so large. This way there's more of a gab between the saucer and the bussard collectors. Doing this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, primarily because you can still see the outline of where the saucer was built up to make it square on the back. What was hard was making sure both sides were even--you'll notice the putty I had to add back onto the mini, and making sure I didn't file off the impulse engine (which is even with the rear of the saucer).
And those black lines I drew in sharpie are to help line up the nacelles so they are even horizontally.
More photos of both can be found on my photobucket account (the NEW Miniatures page in my sig).
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Kinda quiet around here…maybe this will get some people talking…maybe…
Not sure if anyone cares, but here's something that I've been working on off and on:
Updating my Kzinti Fast Battlecruiser.
After making the new nacelles for my Federation Fast Cruiser (above), I decided to revisit the Kzinti counterpart. Something about it just said that it needed new nacelles. Compared to a regular Battlecruiser, it just didn't have that "fast" look to it. So I went about making some "overclocked" engines. The design was inspired my some of Adam Turner's artwork on the heavier Kzinti ships as well as what I thought I could accomplish in this scale.
A simple idea using three layers of styrene to get that nice fin gave me these:
The before shot is on the previous page
Here are a few shots of it now:
and compared to a BC:
The ship doesn't match the art as much anymore, but I think this looks better. I was toying with putting them closer to the hull (and still might), since the fluff mentions that the stress generated by the increased warp engine output was too much for the standard arms, and one could rationalize the same design necessities for the engines themselves (though I'm sure someone could find a justification for the other way too
It's not done yet, I still have to attach the engines to the hull permanently (they're just sitting in the holes I drilled), and I wanted to see what people thought about it.
Lots more on my minis page including steps for the nacelle fabrication (below in the sig).
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Very cool. I'd been toying with doing something with the engines on the BC I'll be doing a similar CF conversion on. You've given me food for thought.
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Nice work! Those are some manly engines. Almost makes up for the gipy D-racks the thing is saddled with (but you made them look very cool).
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Excellent CF and DDF! Love the CA refit/"CX" as well.
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One of the big projects I was working on finally got finished.
A Lyran Manx Police Cutter.
I made this from a standard Lyran frigate mini. Since the police cutter has 10 boxes in the sides compared to the 12 boxes of the frigate, I cut the catamaran hull down and added putty to fill the gap I left behind. I also added the center section that contains the disruptor from pins to support it and putty for shape. The sides came out about 17% shorter than the FF mini (18 mm vs. 21.5 mm), which is what they should be.
Here's the final product:
And with a frigate for comparison:
And, I got my order of Klingon F5Ws, and what's the first thing I do? Cut one apart. Will did some awesome fabrication on this mini, and I hated to do it, but I just had to. That expanded rear hull was just perfect for a Klingon F5X frigate (the fluff for the Romulan version says the Klingon version's rear hull got expanded, even though the SSD only has 1 more box), and it saved me a ton of work. Adding those hull mounted disruptors back was a bit of a challenge since they needed pins for a framework so they wouldn't shear off when I was filing them. And adding the extra phasers under the boom wasn't much fun since the surface is curved right where they need to be—ugh.
Here it is with a standard F5 and an F5W for comparison:
And here are leftover F5W boom and F5 rear hull put together:
I think I'm going to use this for a Romulan K5X frigate, even though the front hat doesn't match the artwork.
Lots more on my minis page including fabrication (below in the sig).
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I guess it's all come full-circle.
the wing disruptors cleanly was one of the more difficult parts of mastering the F5W. Kind of wild to see how much work you had to put in to add them back
All your recent projects are really looking great. I like the new Lyran in particular. You should check and see if ADB would want to add it to the line. You've certainly built it in a way that could stand up to mold-making.
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I finally got some time to work on minis...
A Gorn Heavy Command Cruiser. This one just kinda hit me when I was reading the story "Combat Rescue" in CL26, since there is one in it.
Cutting the front bubble was fun...yeah. I have to remember to cut from the bottom next time (if there is a next time), since I scratched up the top when the saw slipped and had to come back and smooth it out again--that would be easier to hide if it was on the bottom.
Here it is compared to a regular BC:
More images, including more of the innards of the new front bubble are on the NEW miniatures page (link below in the sig).
And something I had done a while ago, but just got out of the box when I reorganized and re-cataloged all of my miniatures; a custom-built Commercial platform.
And for size comparisons, with a Fed CC (modified to be a GSC):
This one is made from...you guessed it...a PLASTIC TUG POD! I have way too many of those things, I'm always looking for ways to use them...in miniatures.
I wish I had in progress pics of this one, but alas, I don't. It was rather fun to make. Drilling all the holes through to make the supports for the "wings". They go all the way through (well, several of them do)--it was easier that way and it provides more support since both wings are attached to the same tubes.
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Great stuff Paul.
I saw the in-progress pics of the Gorn and it turned out great. Nice scribing work on the new bubble extension. Can't tell you had slip with the saw, so your cover-up work must work.
Great minds think alike on the CC/GSC conversion (I've got one built pretty much the same way).
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Lots of things coming and going on my bench, but little time for pictures.
Here's one, and Orion Medium Raider.
I took a standard CR, cut the front off, lengthened it (just like the Gorn CCH, I'm having fun with the razor saw) and made the engines wider.
(sorry this one's fuzzy)
Here it is with the CR:
And then, here's the rear of the engines and the underside, with an enlarged cutout for extra weapons.
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Sweet work Paul.
Also, an excellent idea.
I had that extra CR I just put the wing back onto that I wasn't sure what to do with. Now I know (it meets Mr. razor saw tonight... muhahahaha).
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Other than 50% dmg increases from all sources, is there any other abilities Freya gains in hard mode? Have not been able to find much info regarding hard mode, any help would be appreciated.
Any idea if a UA build with Mortal Strike would affect her healing and the other mob's healing? Might be a significant reduction in time to kill the adds and her.
Other than 50% dmg increases from all sources, is there any other abilities Freya gains in hard mode? Have not been able to find much info regarding hard mode, any help would be appreciated.
How are groups handling the elemental packs in 25-man? With a typical three tank setup, do you need somebody to tank the Lasher (which doesn't slow on Heroic) and the other tank to grab the other 2?
How many stacks are ppl letting the lasher build up in 25 man ? We've had some issues of too many and I die not enough and we can't kill him in time. Trying to find the magic number range :/
On Freya-25, my guild was having some problems with the Snaplasher getting over-buffed and killing its tank, so we split dps between the Storm Lasher and the Ancient Water Spirit. When each of those mobs got to 20% all the DPS switched to the Snaplasher, at which point its DK tank spammed chains of ice on it and kited it until dead (the tank had plenty of aggro at this point). Then the DPS switched back to their original targets and finished them off. If you have problems finishing off the other 2 mobs before the snaplasher rezs, assign several dps to return to their original targets early, when the Snaplasher is at about 20%.
Freya doesn't hit very hard so your Freya tank can grab the Storm Lasher if you're short on tanks.
Also a couple things worth noting about the trash.
If you kill the Elders they will not respawn after a soft-reset. And uncleared trash will not pull with the boss. So if you come back to Freya after a previous night of attempts within a week's reset period, you can save a lot of time by skipping most of the trash. Just be careful with positioning to avoid mis-pulling trash when you're on the boss.
A solid 10 man strat
For the exploding adds: All stack on the MT, AoE adds to 30-50% or so, IMMEDIATELY STOP. Assign one person as the main assist and everyone use single-target moves to kill the adds 1 at a time to allow the healers to keep up
Ancient Guardian: have the OT drag him to a mushroom and have ranged stand under a different mushroom. Whoever get's fury, run out of the mushrooms, Tank and spank otherwise
3 elemental adds (trickiest ones) Have the OT pick all of them up and tank them on freya herself, All DPs AoE them, melee who cannot AoE effectively such as feral druids or warriors/rogues focus on the water ele til 50% then the snaplasher until its dead. At this point Melee kills all of them 1 by 1 (you have 12 sec to kill all three, so if you are melee heavy, refine %s to your party's needs).
Throughout the fight there are trees that spawn that will heal the adds or her, they don't have alot of hit points, and they're nothing more than a nuisance, but if you feel the need, 1 DPS has plenty of time to bring it down from spawn to heal on its own.
My first post here, but I felt since Tankspot has helped our guild so much, I should contribute something to the community.
We had the same problem with the Snaplasher killing our tank using the strategy in the video. So we developed a slight variation. Please note that we also carry 3 standard tanks and 1 extra tank that normally is dps...in this case a dps deathknight who tanked (in full tanking gear and spec via dual talents) the Water Spirit.
Freya - Protadin
Snaplasher - Warrior
Stormlasher - DK
Ancient Water Spirit - DK (Death grip really works wonders on his charge)
When her emote begins to summon the 3 adds we have each tank spamming their macro to pickup their add immediately and move it slightly away from the group. The DPS then moves from target to target taking them each down to 10-15% as called by our dps lead. Beginning with the Ancient Water Spirit, then the Storm Lasher and finally the Snap Lasher. Using this method when the dps is on the Snaplasher a mage slows the add while the tank stuns it and runs away, while the dps kill it, then they finish off the other 2. This way the only thing the warrior has to deal with is his own swings and abilities and can control how many stacks get applied. Using this strategy we also found that healing the 4 total tanks was easier as NO ONE is taking any spike damage.
I hope this helps. IF you need more information or a video on how we did this, please do not hesitate to send me a message.
Im wondering if you guys will be putting out a "How to" for Freya 10 man im sure 25 is harder and its pretty much all the same but i would just like to see a 10 man "How to"
Also we do this fight with 3 tanks. The one on the boss taunts the water spirit ( the one that charges people if I have the name wrong ) and the two lashers are tanked by the other 2 tanks. The mob that charges around does so regardless of whether it's being tanked or not so we didn't feel a 4th tank was going to help and the extra dps didn't hurt. The boss tank just has to be sure to taunt it back after each charge.
This boss is very easy once you get the 3 spawn of adds worked out. Of the three bosses in this area I would say it goes freya --> hodir --> thorum in hardness.
I seem to be having issues avoiding the green stuff she puts out in phase 2. When I do avoid it quite often the melee dps still gets hit by it since she is too close. If anyone has suggestions on how to move her around to avoid this stuff that would be very helpful.
It was said that if you don't kill the 3 spirits close enough together they heal. Yet I see an achievement for killing them within 15 seconds of each other. Am I reading the in game Achievement wrong?
Could someone please clarify?
Am I got it right... The first phase your jsut supose to kill packs of adds... 2 packs of Detonation plants, 2 packs of trees and 2 of the three things? and phase 2 are just runing away from the farts as the first boss in ub?
Deforestation - Achievement - World of Warcraft is what's she's talking about.
When you kill one, it starts a rez timer that's cancelled if the other two die within the time frame. We've flubbed the timing before and seen them all rez one by one.
The achievement is for killing all 6 that Freya will spawn over the course of the encounter within 10 seconds. I guess you could just keep tanking the first set of 3 until the second set shows up then AoE them down together. Or you can just keep killing / letting them rez until the 2nd set show up. We haven't tried it and I don't expect that we will (we must first knock on wood!).
But, you're in luck. There's a really easy way - use the river. when phase 2 begins, just have everyone bunch up on one side of the river - the ranged can be spread all along it if they like. When she farts out bombs (and here's the foolproof part) have people call it out and just cross the river. See? EASY! if you're on land on the other side, you're far enough away from them to not get hit. She only farts out bombs where people are currently standing, so you'll always cross over to a clear field. Just cross back and forth to victory!!
Thanks for you movies with the iron fist we do a tank swap and it works a treat. taunt on iron fist wait 5 secs taunt back no damage.
Im just wondering i looked on your forums and in the movies but do you have Freya 1, 2, or 3 elders up? if not would you beable to do a small post explaning the fight im tryin to get my guild to do more progression rather then just farming the one's we know we can kill.
Thank you for any help you can give
Thanks for the awesome video, this helped a lot. I am dying to know and have searched relentlessly. What is the song you used in the background?


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