Issue 9 hit CoH like train. The issue basically introduced loot with set bonuses, reworked the entire encounter with the game's high end raid boss named Hamidon, and introduced a high end taskforce. The Statesman TF was the first on the hero side that was actually difficult rather than just tedious. Naturally, the DROW CoH team decided to check it out.

We ran through the missions with minimal deaths and had little trouble with the ArchVillains despite our lack of rad debuffing. The stacked tactics coupled with vengeance allowed us to cut right through Mako's elude. The other 3 "Inner Circle" AVs went down fast.

The most difficult part of the TF was killing the towers while dodging the aggro of the respawning Flier, but that was simply an annoying inconvenience and we quickly learned. Lord Recluse, the game's top villain went down easy despite his tough words.

Our next goal is to experiment with different team makeups and get the running time down to the hour and a half mark so we can farm it for the drops regularly.

Good job guys.