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Your so lucky your not on US servers with the UI off XD .
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True 
Anyways, here's some shots of my Marauder fight with *gasp* UI on!
Hello Marauder
Half way there
There goes his unstoppable...
I win 
And if you're wondering who the other guy in the team is... That's my alt enjoying the free XP and Praetorian AVs 
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Level 50 AVs........ now that might be an idea, and I can bump it up with other accounts so I dont have to be on invince. Doh!
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
Got battlemaiden but she got me on last hit too, forgot to turn UI on so have a lovely picture of PI hospital now
Edit: should add this is because I forgot to take picture before clicking "go to hospital" and then took screeny figuring logs would show at least, changed to BS scrapper, logged back in moving acounts from PC to laptop to get the same mission on everyone. When looking for the screenie afterwards is when I found out.
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Level 50 AVs........ now that might be an idea, and I can bump it up with other accounts so I dont have to be on invince. Doh!
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Actually I'm doing the missions on invincible set for 2. Spawns a lvl 50 AV, same as when you're invincible set for 1.
EDIT: pics of Tyrant fight
Here we go
12 minutes later
Nearly there
Winner!
I have to admit that his 25% resistance to all did slow me down quite a bit. But I beat him!
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Ah, had a level 51 Tyrant for some reason. Found out my BS/SR cant scratch them. Guess BS isn't what it was in the olden days
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
BS doesnt have enough DPS for it. Best sets for AV soloing are dual blades, claws, FM and katana. All of them can get a fast attack chain and a lot of procs (which I dont use, though) in fast animating attacks.
Yeah, didnt even drag Tyrant to the lava pool
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
My BS/SR was a concept character, oh how I wish that that concept had been something to do with claws instead
My claws/WP has the damage to put one down (without procs except the chance for BU one) but I wouldn't want to stand infront of an AV with her build for long. Or be able to even. I find both Katana and Dual Blades ugly. Am leveling a FM/FA scrapper at the moment but once again............
Thing is I just dont want to level another SR really. The DM works alright, and if I did a new build with Aid Self in it too dropping my epic for it, then it would probably be much better at it. But its a lot of inf for a second build rather than the main one.
Also found out long term end management and BS/Sr dont go together at all, but unlike the DM/SR it could have stood there all day thanks to Aid Self and luck on surviving wasn't an issue. So 4 claws attacks + FU where the 5 BS powers are or 4 FM attacks + BU and I could see it happening.
Its hard to get too worked up over changing them around when the other side of me just says "play your Ill/rad fool" but I might make me a claws/SR some day and give it a good go
Edit: I do like fire melee but am used to it on my brute, which makes me disappointed when it doesn't crit on a scrapper. Also have a tank with FM at 50 too and I try to avoid too many of the same if I can
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
You shouldnt need aid self on a DM/SR. Slot siphon life for a bit of heal and a bit for damage. Also get some regen set bonuses and you're set.
Also I think a FM/FA could do the melee heavy AVs if you invested a lot in melee or S/L set bonuses.
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Hmmmm,then I might have a look at doing that on the FM/FA, never really tried slotting for resistance bonus' before so could be fun (my Spine/Inv is slotted for regen and procs and stuff)
Siphon Life is actually quite a bit of the damage (which is why its been a while since I tried soloing AVs on him, was a walk in the park pre the regen change of AVs)
Mind you it might be the AVs, cause BM was harsh on the damage but Tyrant wasn't hurting me. That damaned ninja did me more damage than BM did, but it was the caltrops that actually killed me cause it meant he could onehit me.
So the build might be fine for the lower spike damage ones already just need to decide what to invest in long term I guess. Saving for the FM/FA or changing the DM/SR. I kinda like the DM/SR build cause its fairly good all round rather than being too specific like my other scrappers have turned out
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I can try to get a FM/FA build with high melee defense. Also I think you can do a good all-round build for a DM/SR that can solo AVs. Was possible for my FM/SR
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Shadowhunter solo'd!
Hello, Shadowhunter
Almost there!
That last seismic smash hurt!
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Ahah, just noticed that you actually run tough, so maybe that explains my HP problem with Chimera. I dont think I actually have slots in mine other than the +def though.
Nice work though, show that to teams that say you need to fight him in the water next time it comes up
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Ahah, just noticed that you actually run tough, so maybe that explains my HP problem with Chimera. I dont think I actually have slots in mine other than the +def though.
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I actually only have the +3% def unique in it as well. I only run it against AVs that have high hitting spike attacks, such as seismic smash from him. The difference from going 1750 damage to 1500 damage can be a life saver. You might have noticed from the pics though that I had to chew a few blues to keep my endurance on the blue side 
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Nice work though, show that to teams that say you need to fight him in the water next time it comes up
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Hehe, good idea
He actually only uses earth's embrace when he's somewhere between 80% and 90% of his HP. He used it once in the whole fight. When he used it I just popped 2 reds to get over his buffed regen.
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
How long did the shadow hunter fight take?
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
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How long did the shadow hunter fight take?
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Somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes. Dont have timer on when I fight AVs
Also, Diabolique beaten again. This time with pics (and UI!);
Hello, Diabolique
Half way there
Second and last bubble up
And so she falls before me
Do I still need UI pics of the fights missing them?
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
I guess a tray of blues and tough becomes no issue, so yeah that works. I think a tray of blues may be my main amunition infact
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I'd have to have a pop at getting a build specced for doing it without temps. With the million and one other things to do that could take time XD .
(Lets face it, with enough temps a Granite/Ice soloes AVs XD )
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
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I'd have to have a pop at getting a build specced for doing it without temps. With the million and one other things to do that could take time XD .
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That's not actually hard. My build was just a soft capped FM/SR meant for PvE. Then I realized it's good for soloing AVs...
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(Lets face it, with enough temps a Granite/Ice soloes AVs XD )
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Which is why I dont use temps. Inspirations are okay because some AVs just arent possible without them. Neuron drains your end with autohit power sink and high acc voltaic sentinel, Malaise has attacks without positional flag and Diabolique bubbles up at the end of the fight. Those are just a few examples of fights that actually require using insps.
Besides, AVs are meant to be challenges for teams so a solo player beating them with insps is good. Actually very good
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
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Inspirations are okay because some AVs just arent possible without them.
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Depends on build and powersets. I think its great though that you have been able to solo them on your build and insp use isnt that bad imo. Whats your attack chain?
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Of course, but fighting an AV that I have no defense at all against (Malaise for example) or an AV with auto-hit end drain (Neuron) are situations that just cant be handled without insps - with my build. There are builds that are better suited against these encounters of course.
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I think its great though that you have been able to solo them on your build and insp use isnt that bad imo.
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Hehe, thanks. The main difference between insp use and temp powers I find is that inspirations are much more limited. I can have 10 different sort of buff temp powers that can last up to an hour of use, while with insps I can at maximum have 1 type of insp I can use for a whole 20 mins. Then if I need more of this said type of inspiration at once (say 2 reds each minute or 3 lucks a minute) it cuts the uptime of the inspirations.
And as Shannon said, with enough temp powers anything can solo an AV. Add inspirations to that and we're basically godmoding.
Besides, it's far easier to get tier 1 inspirations than most of the temps. I wouldnt be arsed to run a whole arc to get Wedding Band or Warwolves. Neither would I be arsed to run around a PvP zone to get shivans or Warburg nukes.
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Whats your attack chain?
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Incinerate -> Cremate -> Greater Fire Sword -> Fire Sword -> Repeat
There's a slight gap between Cremate and Greater Fire Sword. About 0.2 seconds. It could be fixed with 2 lotg +rech's but seeing that the increase in DPS would be very minor and my current DPS is enough to solo a Rikti Pylon* I just wont be arsed to actually buy those LotGs.
*Did it yesterday but for some reason the /screenshotui had reset to 0. Got to have another go later today. Shame it also messed up my Chimera fight's pics, he wasnt a problem at all though, could always flashback it if I wanted to do it again.
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
What sort of time did the pylon take you?
I can do the DPS to take one on my DM/DA, but like most AVs being rez based I can't take them without purple insps.
I got chimera open on my troller if you want him. Not soloing much until my build is completed
Pylon took me about 30 mins IIRC. You can only imagine the level of annoyance when I noticed the stupid game had reverted my /screenshotui back to 0!
Also TRT, I've soloed Chimera but it was during the same session as the Pylon so no good pics 
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
Just offering if you wanted a screenshot of it.
Your so lucky your not on US servers with the UI off XD .
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.