Friday, February 9th: 8v8 HoH!

[Khunlin]

Ladies and gentlemen... 8v8 HA is back, at least for a few days... and anyone who doesn't want to see The One That Actually Worked MACHINE in its full 8-player glory is a horrible person who hates life and probably eats babies.

Of course, I'm notoriously indecisive (or am I?) so there are two versions ATM.

The 8v8 TOTAWm's. (Below the 6v6, of course)

They're basically just two takes on the new offense. The first one is the one we plan to run for now, since Heroes can be trusted with more of those positions than in the second. However, we can switch to the second if we have enough people and, of course, we want to.

The One That Actually Worked MACHINE: 9:00 EST, Friday the 9th
(Note that positions Heroes shouldn't play are in bold.)

Position	Player	Potential
Thumpagon 1	Khunlin	Khunlin
Thumpagon 2	Drum	Drum, Triia
Thumpagon 3		Kaiser, Jupiter
Trapper	Malae	Khunlin, Drum, Kaiser, Jupiter
Spirit Spammer	Jupiter	Khunlin, Drum, Kaiser, Jupiter
SR Rit	Kaiser	Khunlin, Kaiser, Triia
SR Heal	Triia	Khunlin, Triia
SR Prot		Khunlin

I want to shake it up this time around... let's not all sign up for the same positions we played last time. ;D
Also, just because a hero can play a spot doesn't mean it has to... so feel free to sign up there. Just keep in mind that we should fill the bold ones first.

[drumheller]

I would love to sign up for something else, but I don't have the skills to do so As such, I can play any of the rangers or thumpagons...I would actually prefer to run the 'gon again, as last time I was spirit spammer Wouldn't mind running the trapper though, if someone else wants a thumper.

[Triia]

Darn it, Khunlin... if I can't play my SR rit, then you sure better be handing me a hammer.... a big hammer.

[Kaiser]

I don't mind mixing it up, especially since my position was nerfed and then removed from the build...

[Jupiter]

So are we prepared to encounter IWAY, VIMway and all those other builds that will be brought back up in 8v8 even if they're a bit different than before?

This is going to be fun!

[Kaiser]

FOC Spike FTW?

[Khunlin]

For IWAY... we're about as prepared as we've ever been. Aegis chain... SoA... Weapon of Warding... Recup...
For VIMWAY... same. Extinguishes, Mend Body and Soul... yay.
I don't think we'll see them, though (knock on wood) since I'm pretty sure both were nerfed to oblivion just before 6v6, and then when 6v6 came along it was enough of a nerf that people haven't bothered fixing them, as far as I've seen. I don't think those old builds will have working 8v8 variants yet
There will probably be a lot of spikes, though

[Jupiter]

Where's the people?!
I see 5 signed up and this is our chance for glorious 8v8!
Hehe, I wanted to emphasize that and kept typing *v* ;D
*ahem* Anyway...need 3 more guildies. Hero's suck at name themes.

Speaking of which, Khunlin, what's our name theme?

[Khunlin]

How 'bout the fake virus names? (Was fake diseases, but viruses tend to have latin names... and those amuse me more ;D)

I call Masculosis Immolaria.
(Sounds like it could be the name for a very... uhhh... privately... embarrassing... condition...)

[Jupiter]

In searching for some inspiration I came across these humorous real ones I just had to share:
O'nyong-nyong Virus
A genotype 2 lyssavirus, Lagos bat virus - I so read that as Logo
Cercopithecine herpesvirus - commonly found in monkeys
Just about everything else was West Nile this, Infulenza that - how boring.

Now I just have to figure out how to make malignalitaloptereosis into 2 words...anyone know where that's from? (no fair googling it!)

[Malae]

Dibs on trapper.

[somefool]

HOLY CRAP I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY ONE OF THE RANGERS!!!!!

*ahem* dibs on any build that doesn't require Nightfall, MONKEY NEEDS TO GIVE SOME LOVIN!! (a.k.a. surprise butt sechs)

Edit: Onoz! Seems I missed the party. D:
Any plans on HoH this weekend?