DA Strategy - Stop Going Backwards

[Purplesmirk]

I was in a DA Office D last night.

There were four toons, a 121 (an SF of mine), a 107, a 116, and me, a 119.

All the toons had great gags (I forgot to check to see if they were all maxed) & we all had maxed Sound.

We did not trip any puzzles (holo-skels).

We did not miss any Sound attacks (in the first set of skel cogs on each floor).

There were 3 barrels with Foghorn restock throughout the Office - last barrel was on the 5th floor.

The 121 and I grabbed the restock barrels "on the way" instead of Speedchatting a quick "I'll be back later." and returning after, in one case, going thru both sets of cogs on the floor.

The other two toons insisted on Sounding after seeing the barrels and then running all the way back to restock.

Pretty safe way to go, but it took forever!

I would suggest that unless you are having a difficult time through gags missing repeatedly, that you grab the restock as you go and make do with your gags. The "brb" turns a half hour run into a much longer ordeal.

The toons I ran with last night are really nice to play with and are good team players. So, if you are one of the toons, please don't take this as a knock on you. My personal preference is to get through the stinking DA Office as fast as possible and I don't think running backward is the best way to minimize time in there.

Love to hear other people's thoughts on this.

Purplesmirk

[Silly Boo Boo Dizzysnout]

I agree with you completely. If your in D with good toons, the restock barrels are in my opinion, more of a bonus than a necessity, so why go back! Unless those nasty holocogs are getting tripped repeatedly by some crazy toon, you go into DA with more than enough gags to finish it.

I do run that office with 3 toons sometimes (my sf), and in those cases, because we are "short" a set of gags, if a fog or dyno barrel shows up we will save for later, and go back for them, but not for just any gag! The DA takes long enough, why make it longer!

[Wolfeh]

I think it depends.

If you go through a room with gags and then the next room is the 12 & 11's, then before getting on the elevator, I'll go back to hit the gag barrels if it's something I can benefit from. If it's clear near the beginning of the floor, then I either hit it after finishing off the first set of skele's, or not at all.

[MNK]

Well, I usualy go back for gags... and don't pick it up on the way because I never needed the restock yet.
What if you're only missing 1 fog horn, or 0... and you see a sound barrel.
You should use some of your fog horns, then go back to get the restock.

-MNK