StratoNexus

It is most certainly not auto-hit, I see it miss plenty fine (not often since I normally hit Aim or BU beforehand, but the 5% will get ya). It likely also does not need a buff, although if you can convince someone to give it some kind of Accuracy bonus, I am all for it.

Yay. Thank you for all your hard work, it is very appreciated.

Here is my commentary on the mission as a testing environment. Overall my impression of this mission is positive, so keep that in mind because I am only going to discuss the potential drawbacks (so even though my post is going to be very negative, that is only because I like these enemies and this mission enough to report where I think it could be improved).

My suggested changes are going to be approaching this mission not from a story perspective, but instead from a build test/challenge perspective. The biggest issue I have is that I need to dedicate a LOT of time if I want to try to run this. The RWZ challenge and pylon tests are much, much faster and therefore more user friendly.

1) 4 Altars is too many. I'd lower it to 2 altars. 2 of each boss (well 2 of the 3 you have chosen to place manually, Raging, Sparking, and Smoking) and 2 destroy objects gives a guarantee of good variety. More is too much, IMO.

2) The map is too big. The map requires doubling back twice, requires lots of moving, and will contain about 20 spawns plus the ambushers. Solution: Use Medium map Caves Smooth Set - 7. This map will allow for 2 of each boss (6 total placed boss spawns), 2 destroy objectives, and 3 ambushes. It still has several areas where over-aggro can be a concern, so the map does not lose that good feature. From several tests, it will spawn the 8 placed objectives plus 3 generic spawns, for 11 normal spawns + the 3 ambush spawns.

Large map Caves Smooth Set 2 allows for 1 more placed objective (a 4th ambush was my thought). It has one small double back, and a fair amount of extra empty space to run through. It also spawns the 8 placed objectives I suggest plus 3 or 4 generic spawns (it varies, sometimes you have 11 total spawns, sometimes 12). I prefer Medium size Caves Smooth Set - 7, but this one is OK as well.

3) Some of the spawns can have end troubles. All of the minions run out pretty quick, although the Blaze Vixens seem to last the longest (ironically, they die first because we all target them first). It is not really a big issue that the minions run out of end, since they die very fast, although a Smoke Vixen or two tends to last a bit, since they like to get to and stay at range. Of the Lts., the Blaze and Smoke versions seem to have the most end troubles, with the Smoke being the worst. Of the bosses, only the Smoking Fury has really bad end issues, the tend to run out very fast. The other bosses will run out in protracted fights. After about 30 seconds, incoming damage drops considerably as half the spawn left alive has to start constantly waiting for end to attack. Sets that have end drain powers can really take advantage of this and drop the enemy attack potential very quickly. I am not sure how you could address this concern, I will think on it.

The arc is not broken, but its mechanics are odd. You cannot actually talk to Maria in PI, you MUST use the phone to get your missions.

Was it a speed run since you were short on time?

Did you skip killing the turrets? You said you cleared the courtyard, did you skip the streets? When you got the nades, did you kill very little inside other than the crates? Did you kill 30 IDF reinforcements or did Marauder go down before that?

I wonder if there is some minimum threshold of enemy defeats.

I still think the stalker and blaster HP Cap should be increased to be 1900-2000 HPs (somewhere between 1.5 and 1.67 times base HP).

I am pretty sure you used to be able to get that badge while the shield was up when it was first released. They changed it so you could not get it unless the shield was down. My memory may be off though.

I ran this with my Fire/Fire/Flame blaster first on my normal setting of +2/x6 with bosses. I finished in just under 50 minutes, I used lots of inspires. 3 hospital trips, 2 awakens, plenty of Rise of the Phoenix. I have Pyronic Radial, Clarion Core, Diamagnetic Radial, and Seers Radial. The Seers are a big help when they are up (I was able to use them twice)

Started a 2nd run at +1/x8, cleared 2 of the 3 tunnels in just over 30 minutes with only 1 hospital trip (and a few uses of RotP), but I got a team invite so I'll have to try again later.

Things that make it hard for my blaster: Nothing is mezzable (or at least mostly nothing); Thermal shields are rough on a fire damage dealer (only a major problem if I aggro badly); tier 9s and rezzes hurt efficient inspiration use (since their duration runs out while I have to kill a boss or two, it means I do not have as many to use when charging the next spawn, I have been getting better at being at range when I kill the /DA bosses, but I have enough procs that sometimes "Oops, I killed it" damage happens).

Edit: Just ran it complete at +1 / x8. 57 minutes. 5 Hospital trips and 1 awaken. This run was rough for me. I made 4 bad mistakes and got unlucky twice. Next I'll run it on my SS/EA/Soul Brute.

With Incendiary Ammo on, Pistols loses out. DW is only slightly better than Pistols, so on one character I use Pistols more, just because I prefer the shorter animation.

Dark blast colored is exceptionally flexible. I'd consider a Dark/Dark or Dark/Rad corruptor. Ice, Fire, Radiation, Sonic, and Archery are also all great blast set choices for fairy based concepts.

The good news is that with Judgement powers, who cares if Time Bomb sucks...

The devs are working hard to make this game great! Stop picking on them about the lack of busses! You are mean!!!!!

I am concerned about your end usage. You are well below where even I like to play and I run builds that run out of endurance regularly. On top of your poor end use, Consume is under-slotted for recharge, so even that is not helping as much as it could be. I think your build is likely unplayable, even with the Cardiac. Maybe with Ageless it could be workable though.

I'd strongly consider dropping Stealth and Maneuvers and being content with mid-30s defense SL and maybe try to get Ranged back over 32.5 (although I'd be content with just under 30 ranged). Hot Feet should really have some slow enhancing (at least 40%) unless you plan on fighting mostly +1s or lower. Without slow slotting, enemies get away from Hot Feet too fast, IMO.