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|name=Cathedral of Pain Trial
|contact=[[Oracle]] / [[Mission Computer]]
|image=[[File:Base Oracle.jpg|87px]] [[File:Mission Computer.jpg|100px]]
|zone=[[Supergroup Base]]
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|size=#
|levels=10-50
|merits=
|enemies={{Enemy Soldiers of Rularuu}}
|badge=[[File:V badge RularuuBadge.png|32px]] [[Pain Killer Badge|Pain Killer]]
}}

== Overview ==
The '''Cathedral of Pain Trial''' is  a [[trial]] launched from a [[Supergroup]] base. The participants obtain a reward by completing it. 


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== Requirements ==

Your Supergroup Base needs either an [[Oracle]] or [[Mission Computer]] and a [[Raid Telepad]] or [[Raid Teleportal]] in order to start the trial. 

The Trial accommodates up to 24 players which can form three teams.

All players are sidekicked/lackeyed to 50. 

Players who are defeated in any part of the trial are transported back to their own personal base hospital or to the hospital of the last zone they were in. Because of this, most raids begin in Pocket D so that participants who are guests of the Base from which the raid is launched can get back quickly.


== The Trial ==
[[File:Cathedral_of_pain.jpg|thumb|100px|Aspect of Rularuu and the Willforge]]

=== Beginning the Trial ===
After agreeing to attempt the trial from the Oracle or Mission Computer, a 60 minute timer starts. The teams have that long to complete the trial.

=== The Courtyard of Shadows ===
Inside [[the Courtyard of Shadows]] there are three beams shooting up into the air. Next to each beam emitter (called [[Psionic Resonators]]) there is a cube-like object (called a [[Willforge]]) floating in midair. It spawns large groups of [[Soldiers of Rularuu]]. In order to destroy the resonators, defeat all guardian Rularuu that are spawned. Once all the Rularuu are defeated, attack the resonator. It must be brought down very close to the same time with the other two resonators, which the other teams should be working on. Once you bring them all down, the door to the Cathedral of Pain opens.

=== Master of the Shards ===
After entering the room, characters can look upon an [[Aspect of Rularuu]]. He is surrounded by a shield similar to the ones around the Resonators. There are three more Willforges. The shield can be brought down using the same method previously used on the resonators. Once all the mobs are defeated, characters have about a minute to fight the Archvillain. He has good regeneration. [[Temporary Powers|Temporary powers]] such as [[Shivans]], and other enemy debuffs can improve the chance to defeat the AV in one attempt (Note: [[Warburg Nuke|Warburg nukes]] cannot be used during this trial). Once he is defeated, players can choose a reward of either a Temp Power with a small number of [[Reward Merits]] or a large number of Reward Merits. Each member also gets a huge end of mission bonus to compensate for not gaining any [[experience]], [[INF]], or [[drop]]s in the mission. 

Successful completion of the Cathedral of Pain Trial awards the {{BadgeLink|Pain Killer}} badge.
{{BadgeBox|Pain Killer}}

== History ==
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The Cathedral of Pain Trial was previously made available in late September 2006 and was taken off of live servers around October 11, 2006. The Trial had been taken offline due to a game-breaking exploit that allowed characters to level from 1 to 50 within a matter of hours. Before reintroducing the trial, a complete rewrite was necessary of the [[Base Raid]] system and the trial itself.

=== Requirements ===
The Trial could only be attempted during a 7-day window within a 28-day period.  After the 7 days, a 21 day raidable cycle began. (However, Base Raids were disabled in [[Issue 13]].)

In order to take on this challenge, a supergroup was required to have a [[Base]] with the following items:

* 8 rooms
* 6 [[Dimensional Anchor]]s
* [[Mission Computer]] or [[Oracle]]
* [[Raid Telepad]] or [[Raid Teleportal]]
* An [[Item of Power Base]] for the Item of Power 

The Trial accommodated up to 24 players which could form three teams. All players were sidekicked/lackeyed to 50. Players who were defeated in any part of the trial were transported back to their base hospital.

If the supergroup already had an Item of Power, then the trial could not be repeated until room was made for an additional one.

=== Badges ===

It was expected that the trial would award a badge with this image:

[[File:V badge CathedralOfPainBadge.png]]

For a brief time a progress bar appeared under [[Supergroup Badges]] with a counter for how many times the supergroup had successfully completed the trial. Unsuccessful attempts to complete the trial during the period when it was live in 2006 did count for progress on this badge.

=== The Trial ===
; Beginning the Trial
: After agreeing to attempt the trial from the Oracle or Mission Computer, a 60 minute timer started. The supergroup had that long to complete the trial.
; [[The Courtyard of Shadows]]
: There were three beams shooting up into the air. Next to each beam emitter (called [[Psionic Resonators]]) there was a cube-like object (called a [[Willforge]]) floating in midair. It spawned large groups of [[Soldiers of Rularuu]]. In order to destroy the resonators, all guardian Rularuu that spawned had to be defeated. Once all the Rularuu were defeated, the resonator had to be attacked. All three resonators had to be brought down at nearly the same time, with each of the three teams working on one. Once all three were down, the door to the Cathedral of Pain opened.
; Master of the Shards
: After entering the room, characters could look upon an Aspect of Rularuu. He was surrounded by a shield similar to the ones around the Resonators. There were three more Willforges. The shield could be brought down using the same method previously used on the resonators. Once all the mobs were defeated, characters had about a minute to fight the Archvillain, who had a high regeneration rate. Upon defeating the AV, the Supergroup received an Item of Power in their [[Vault]], and each member received a huge end-of-mission bonus (as no bonus was otherwise received in the mission).

=== Exploit ===

The exploit that led to the Trial's removal enabled any member of the SG running the trial to run a delivery mission or "fedex" type mission and upon clicking the end contact, the mission would not complete but the character and team would still receive the mission completion bonus. This resulted in several people clicking their way from level 1 to level 50 in a matter of hours, and also allowed the accumulation of large amounts of [[prestige]] and [[influence]] for various SGs and players.

== External Links ==
* [http://us.ncsoft.com//us/support/doc_3193.html?prod=67 Knowledge Base Article]
* [https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Dev&Number=5469328&fpart=&PHPSESSID= Unofficial Cathedral of Pain Feedback thread on Official Forums]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoFwPMER5EI Violators SG doing the Cathedral of Pain on YouTube]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPrA9YxLg4 The Elite Council of The Darque Mafia doing the Cathedral of Pain on YouTube]


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