Nihilii

There's things I'd change with power picks, too. I'm not sold on unslotted FA (if you leave it with the base slot, might as well pick up CP and devote less slots to endurance management in PP, adding a kismet somewhere else = win/win), and Ninja Run without Hurdle isn't very fast - IIRC, Ninja Run + Swift + Lightning Reflexes is still slightly slower than Hurdle + Ninja Run, and of course running instead of jumping makes it slower as soon as you need vertical movement. I'd also choose CJ over Maneuvers but on that one I might be biaised because I can't live without the combat maneuverability CJ + Hurdle gives. CJ gives almost as much defense for a much lower endurance cost, and the less time you spend using Power Sink the higher your DPS is.

The most important power missing is Lightning Field, though. I'd really, really consider picking this up if I were you. Damage auras are always extremely efficient on any build, even single-target, and here you've got not only an AoE build, but also one that doesn't have endurance problems. I believe skipping LF would be a mistake for that purpose.

I completely agree. Being only able to take on four exotic damage archvillains at a time on a non-DM invul scrapper is quite pathetic and I'm hoping the devs will take care of this problematic issue soon. Raising the resistance cap to 90% and removing the crash from Unstoppable should be a good, first step.

One thing to keep in mind is the whole AV selection is a balancing act. Crimson lacks any debuffs while Indigo can debuff your defense, as it is I was more or less at the right point with that (dipping around 45% occasionally but never under that) and I'm not sure I could handle more debuffs. Any damage over a certain threshold can break the whole thing too, as the probability of a bunch of them hitting fast enough to kill me increases.

To illustrate, I had near to nil chances of losing once there were "only" 6 AVs left, but my life played yo-yo with 8 and 9 AVs. Which, again, seems crazy to me as it took so much effort to take on 6 AVs on my DB/inv.

Regardless, I wouldn't worry about nerfs based on anything like this. DM/inv is an AV soloing machine, but the lack of decent AoE (and yes, I did use Shadow Maul extensively from 2 to 50) makes the character not very effective to play in this day and age of missions set for 6 or 8 while solo, if performance is judged on rewards obtained over time.

This is also a Test server build specialized against S/L fighting specific S/L AVs in a specific mission with a specific custom group to fuel Soul Drain/Invincibility, or in other words a situation you'll never run into in the normal game for multiple reasons.

Still cool to do - now I can pretend it takes more than a full team of archvillains to... fail to take me down. Heh.

I learnt quite a few things from doing that, too.

I used to go for even numbers in typed defense - which made sense at first when I was aiming for 33% defense so that one luck could softcap me, but doesn't anymore since more IOs were introduced, allowing for much better values ; now I'm just going to plan F/C/E/N at 33%+ and S/L as close to the softcap as possible.

"Stealing" builds is fun. Now that I've done it to Aliana, maybe I should look at some Kat/DA goodness, especially with CoD not being a bother anymore...

As you can see, it's a very specialized build made just for this challenge.

It's way above the S/L softcap with 1 foe in range, allowing for a few defense debuffs to get through before it hurts. Dull Pain is up most of the time ; I tend to try to save it until I'm at 50% HP or lower. The attack chain while Hasten is up is Smite, MG, Smite, SL, SP, and while it's down is "whatever power is recharged". Endurance use is good enough to fight a whole hour and barely slow down. Whenever it was up, I tried to use Soul Drain instead of MG when I needed healing, and instead of SL when I needed to do damage. Focused Accuracy is left off most of the time ; I activate it either while CP is up if the AV I'm fighting has high defense, or just for one second right before activating Soul Drain to ensure it hits as many as possible.

Tactics

I started off with Mynx ; her crits make her unreliable, and not focusing on her right away is what got me killed during my first attempt. It was the most dangerous part as all nine AVs were alive attacking me, but I was relatively lucky and they never got to deal enough burst damage to take me down, although it was close at one point.

Foreshadow went next. He's got one energy attack and isn't particulary hard to beat, making him a logical choice. I got low on life for a relatively long time, and slipped up a bit with my attack chain. Nothing much to say.

I then went for Battle Maiden, her Headsplitter was worrying me.

Next in line : Crimson. At this point you can see the fight is basically won. Dull Pain sits unused in my tray for a full minute, and when it is finally activated, it's mostly out of convenience. Life hardly dips below full. The performance of this build on such a challenge feels kind of scary to me, as there's still 6 AVs left.

Now, Bobcat. As I didn't really risk losing by that point, I went to grab a few wolves to boost Soul Drain and speed up things a bit. This had the side effect of switching Nemesis to ranged AI, in which he likes to use Dispersion Bubble, but apart for a few deflected here and there it didn't bother me much. When Bobcat activates her God Mode, I switch to Shadowhunter to get him to use Earth Embrace (as I can't outdamage Bobcat's regen while she's in Unstop, I might as well wait for the crash). My own Dull Pain wasn't used at all.

Shadowhunter's Earth Embrace is almost gone when Bobcat drops. Between that and his negative resistance to negative damage, he hits the ground fast.

Nemesis is asking for it with his Dispersion Bubble, and I'm prompted to oblige. Chimera starts being useful and throws his plastic bow for a much better poisoned katana. Unfortunately, too little too late, and while I finally use DP, it's, again, out of convenience rather than anything else. Nemesis bubbles ; during that time, I hit Marauder to start making some progress, but that was pointless as he regens all of it back while I whack on Nemesis again once the bubble is gone. At some point, I get the right feeling and use SD right before the bubble drops, without timing it or anything, which was pretty cool. Then I start redacting this forum post in my head rather than focus on the fight, and proceed to waste SD right as he bubbles, which was pretty lame.

Despite that, Mr Bubbles goes down and it's time for Marauder to hit the dirt. I grab a few more canine friends for that purpose. By that point I'm relatively bored and hope it won't last too long. Alas, Marauder decides to crash at 75% HP (!). Kind of reminds me of those sore losers in RTS ranked matches who won't leave the game until you destroy every of their unit even though they lost any chance to win about twenty minutes ago, just to make you lose your time. CoH AI feels like human like sometimes...

Thankfully, I already switched to Chimera as soon as Marauder used Unstoppable. He went down without issues.

Finally, back to Marauder. He crashed at 10% the second time around. The end !

... A bit anticlimatic, but it feels good to have it done.

It's Invincibility. Nothing special happens against Demons, once they get in melee range they stay there like other mobs. The only mobs I see running are the ones with specific AI rules (greater/lesser devoured, croatoa witches for example).

I wasn't there years ago so I can't tell, but if it's been debunked, then the devs have introduced it on purpose since then, because there's definitely a difference that is objectively measurable. It's about half a second for Dual Blades.

My bad. I think I remember this was already stated in the corresponding thread, and I mixed up both primaries.

Wasn't there someone who took on 2 AVs with a Katana/WP, _Mojo_ or something ?

... Of course, we've seen my memory isn't exactly reliable, so, well.