Naked Lab Director

Killed Lab Director at base of West Tower, with no Executive Defenders spawning

Team Pets have been having a hard time trying to get at the Biomare Lab Director.  This past Thursday, they made the run down to his office, only to have a solo level 78 Crat pass them and beat them to it.  We are not sure if the Crat was victorious or sent back to reclaim.  It appeared that lost as when his dot disappeared there were still several defenders and guard dots to be seen on the mini map.

Babaengy and Babaemphee waited until the area had re-spawned and the made their run.  After taking out the two outside guards, Babaengy waited standing on one of the down ramp platforms at the top of the west tower, while Babaemphee with her pets put on wait by the Engy, ran back and from the open door tagged the director with her main debuff and then high tailed it back to Babaemphee.  Once there she put her pets back on guard her, and the team waited.  The director ran right past them, and landed on the bottom level of the tower.  Babaengy’s attack-bot jumped down after him, but when Babaemphee sent her attack and mezz pet down, they took the long way down the ramp.

Golfball or Security Teleporter?

She forgot to sent the heal-pet on the attack pet, but soon the attack pets had the director down to about 25% health, and he had not spawned any defenders.  Babaengy has read in some forums that there is an 80% chance of the defenders spawning.  The director managed to take out Babaemphee’s attack pet, but Babaengy’s bot and a lower level attack pet that Babaemphee could cast without trader Tireen’s wrangle were able to finish him off.  Two of the bodyguards at that level were attracted and Babaengy and Babaemphee jumped down there to help the pets finish them off, so they could still loot the director before his corpse rotted.  This time around he only dropped a single executive order, no CDR.

Floating Building in VW, Seen on a practice run with trader Tireen joining TEAM PETS

The next day, after some thinking it over, Team Pets decided it would be worth it to do what-ever was needed to bring trader Tireen along.  She brings some healthy damage dealing, but most importantly her wrangle so they can recast top pets if needed.  It took several hours to for them to accompany her through the quests to get her alpha card.  The combination for their high level, max pets and the traders extra damage, made the beginning quests a breeze.

At one point  a tool noob trained about 15 floaters and bloaters on to them when they were getting rebuffed in the room just outside the first sewer section.  That was fun, as it just helped Tireen level faster.  They had no trouble putting that train to rest.

Once they get Tireen her gamma clearance, the team can camp there and not have to put up with the boring 10 minute jog down there from the front door.  They mainly want another CDR for Babaengy, but if things go well, they may all try to complete the full quest line for the collar reward.

Directors Office Backed Up

Teams Backed Up at Foreman's Director's Office

Babaengy and Babaemphee got all pumped, buffed and cast their best pets and made their way down to the Lab Director’s Office in Biomare Monday evening.  There needed to be a peg on the wall in the hallway with a “Take a Number” sign.  There was one team doing the Director, and another that looked to waiting for them to vacate.  The team fighting the director appeared to be a pair similar to Team Pets, except they had been blessed with Mochams and had much higher pets, which had no trouble doing the Director by themselves.

After the first team had killed the director it was obvious they were then going to sit and wait for him to spawn again, so TEAM PETS did a 180 and ran back to the emergency exit and left.  Before leaving Foreman’s they tried an experiment.  They had always wondered if the Engineer’s warp would work within the dungeon.  While it was clearly posted in many forums that Engy warps would not bring some into the dungeon from outside, it was never clear if this also meant that an Engy could not warp a team mate from one section of the dungeon to another.  The short answer is it does not work. They had trader Tireen enter the dungeon and Babaengy then tried to warp her to the hallway around the corner from the receptionist.  The nano cast, but nothing happened.

Odd Bridged Mine Entrance In North Milky Way

With nothing else to do, TEAM PETS logged off and NT Babaente logged in.  She went exploring Milky Way, Southern Artery Valley, and Stret East Bank.  She did not find much worth kiting.  She found a few 100 to 120 mobs in eastern Stret East Bank. The snakes and vultures were easy to kite, gave about 20k per mob, but not numerous enough.  She found some Anun-Tearers in west Southern Artery Valley, but she must have hit some lag, as although she appeared to be some distance from them, she suddenly got wiped.

The exploring ate up most of her time, so she plans to refresh her acquaintance with AOFroobs and a nice FROOB kiting spots thread there before she goes kite hunting again.

In the mean time, Agent Baba logged in and pulled the ridiculously easy Grid daily.  Click a device at a few different grid locations and get your level!  This brought her to level 40.