The release of Issue 12 brought on a new taskforce centered on the new Roman zone.

We battled minotaurs of doom, discovered that ancient Roman Positron was as retarded as modern Positron, and fought a boss with a bad case of tourettes syndrome.

In the end we defeated a nictus infused super Roman guy for the win.

After a tedious 5 hour task force last night, during our wind down and saying g'night to all, Lil Mac shouted out in our chat channel to check out the kiosk in town. It lists the Paragon City Information from who healed the most points to who killed the most of each villain. Mac happened to notice Mistress (myself) was #1 and Zappalina was #2 in being the Nemeses of Rikti!! This is a first for DROW having two members of the group in the top two spots!! Grats!!
Thanks to all who ran that long task force last night: Nive, Zappalina, Mermoine, Meg, Mac and Lightningblast.

The patch called Issue 10 brought a new zone, a renewed Rikti alien invasion, and a new TF for us to play with.

Highlights included new map types with multiple objectives,

a mission where we had to defeat a weakened version of Hamidon (the games ultimate being/big blob of goo),

many new Rikti Arch-Villain opponents throughout the missions,

and a final mission that featured an intense battle against two Arch-Villains while holding off a constantly respawning swarm of Rikti.

The team consisted of Stoner Gal, NateDawg CanOpener, Toxic Flower, Mermoine, Szen Incarnate, Lil Mac of the Light, Kin no Megami San, and Nive's Mistress. GG guys.

Two of DROW CoH's own, Nive and Zappalina, along with their teammates in Team Bacon, Smoke, Kat, and Flea, fought in the Justice League Finals on Monday after two months of leading their division and advancing through the playoffs. Their opponents were the taunt heavy Team Awesome'ish.

The first match of the best-of-three final was won handily by Bacon which got 4 kills to Awesome'ish's 1. The second match was a 1-1 tie due to an adjustment made by Awesome'ish's taunting strategy. The third match was another low score and Awesome'ish won with a score of 1-0. Since each team had won one match, the tie breaker was the overall score which gave Bacon the victory with a score of 5-2.

Congratulations to Team Bacon! The next Justice League tournament is starting soon and will be in "lethal lottery" format.

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.

Over the weekend the CoH team defended their base from The Stockton Group. Blood was spilled and fun was had.

Good fights!

The next patch, in addition to inventions, is adding a new very difficult task force called the Statesman Task Force. We decided to head over to test center and figure out how to beat it for when it goes live.

The final mission culminates in an epic battle in which the team takes on Lord Recluse's four lieutenants. The task force is completed when we defeat Lord Recluse himself.

We learned how to pull the AVs successfully, how to defeat Lord Recluse and his spawns, and we learned how to build an optimal team for the taskforce. We will be defeating the STF soon after I9 is pushed to live.