13 Alerts, 12 failures: I'm doing it wrong

mashugana

Last night I spent about 2 hours on my level 22 TK Ranged toon doing XP bonus alerts. Did Burst, Smash, and Grab - dockside, heist - bit of everything. And we failed all but one (a dockside).

Is this normal? I know that if you try and do Alerts too soon it can be hard but I thought at 22 I could contribute. I have a good single target maintain attack, 2 self heals & a force bubble to try and stay alive while I maintain the DPS, and I run Seraphim to boost my damage and heals. This seemed like a good Alert build strategy.

Did I hit bad luck? Or is this typical?

I know when I run XP alerts on my level 40 support toon for fun (I like helping lower level players) we almost always succeed. Maybe all my level 40 buffs/debuffs and heals are making the difference for even low level teams? Not sure.

Thanks for any advice

wingedkagouti

An Alert failure is usually limited to Smashes (including the Nuclear Winter custom alert) with inexperienced and/or low level (pre-15) players. This is mostly due to the time limit of these Alerts. Non-timed Alerts only fail when the team falls apart and people quit.

It's hard to say why you weren't doing well without seeing your build. If you're always tanking with an offensive passive, then it's most likely due to the other players not having that good dps or being inexperienced/afraid to pull aggro. In that case, grabbing a defensive passive (Invul would be the best here) to use during Alerts while in Hybrid role is probably going to help you more than spending time healing yourself.

mashugana

Great idea - ty. You nailed it - every failure was a timed alert (or recruiting which is basically timed) and we could not DPS the villain all the way down. We failed with the guy at 5% health more than once. So I felt like we just needed a little extra...something.

I'll try invuln in hybrid to kick out more DPS. Thanks again.

flyingfinn

It's the pugs, dude. The pugs.

nepht

flyingfinn wrote: »

It's the pugs, dude. The pugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcXMf6rmafs

smoochan

It is possible to flip a quarter ten times and have it land heads up nine times...

It's also possible for you to queue for alerts and not have one of my toons in there guaranteeing victory.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck, I'll try to hit the queue harder in the future.

honestresearcher

Perhaps it is for the best if alerts are ending up like that, that you do something else or invite a person who can help you be more successful.

Heck hook up with some of us. @Snakewildlife ill do a few with ya.

Finn is right, you gotta avoid Pugs whenever possible.

They got nasty attitudes...*has the nuts to tell you how it is:* and they suck!

s3rju

you gotta ejumacate them pugs

sypherv

It;s not the players fault ,even though new players can be a bit of a handful but the alerts are not even scaled to your current level, especially with all the gear drops and such, any gear i get i got to wait till 30, i wouldn't mind if they just had 1 xp alert, 1 grab, and 1 burst permanently up there and just swap the different types over but keep the existing form i.e an xp alert for a different xp alert and so forth, that would not be too bad, sure loads of people would take advantage, hell i would, but deep down cryptic and pwe owe us more than that so that shouldn't stop them.