I know that Power Forge soloed Lord Recluse on his dark/shield and as far as AVs go he's one of the nastiest.
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Lord Recluse??? *boggle* I'm also amazed at people soloing Ghost Widow. I gave up after about 50 tries with Sergei (DM/SR). Guess he just doesn't have the build for it.
I haven't even tried cranking up the + on AVs. Does it even work? Somehow I thought we were stuck at +0 in AE and regular missions, but I could easily be wrong. Haven't solo'd AVs since February, and it had been a long time before that as well.
I think Silver Mantis is the toughest I've soloed. I was able to beat her with Sergei. I suppose Positron is pretty tough. Took him on Sergei as well, or technically the Positron Automaton, but I assume it's the same powers. Malaise can be trouble, but I took him with both Werner (Katana/Regen) and Alexei (Katana/Dark). Infernal is tough, but he's pretty routinely soloed, and I beat him with all three of my mains, Sergei, Werner and Alexei. All of those were no temps no insps. With Alexei, I sometimes used minions to boost Dark Regeneration, and sometimes left Death Shroud running instead for a faster kill.
"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
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I soloed a lvl 51 Nightstar with my fire/sd and that was with an older build that is not as good as my current build and I took out infernal with my fire/sd that was tough due to his resistance to fire.
The Hunter guy on the timed Wolf mission because he would heal himself so it was a long drawn out fight that and his defense debuff I eventually took him down
All those where with my fire/sd I took out Dr V back in like i2 with a katana/sr but I had no clue what an AV was when i beat him
I also soloed Mastero Striga Island arc with my dm/da back in i4 or i5 do not remember been a long while ago so that was with all SO's as well
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Recluse, oh man with that end drain thing he's got I can't imagine beating him without some crazy string of unbelievable luck.|
Originally Posted by Werner
Lord Recluse??? *boggle* I'm also amazed at people soloing Ghost Widow. I gave up after about 50 tries with Sergei (DM/SR). Guess he just doesn't have the build for it.
I haven't even tried cranking up the + on AVs. Does it even work? Somehow I thought we were stuck at +0 in AE and regular missions, but I could easily be wrong. Haven't solo'd AVs since February, and it had been a long time before that as well. I think Silver Mantis is the toughest I've solo'd. I was able to beat her with Sergei. I suppose Positron is pretty tough. Took him on Sergei as well, or technically the Positron Automaton, but I assume it's the same powers. Malaise can be trouble, but I took him with both Werner (Katana/Regen) and Alexei (Katana/Dark). Infernal is tough, but he's pretty routinely solo'd, and I beat him with all three of my mains, Sergei, Werner and Alexei. All of those were no temps no insps. With Alexei, I sometimes used minions to boost Dark Regeneration, and sometimes left Death Shroud running instead for a faster kill. |
If you want to solo ghost widow wern, you gotta soup up a wp toon. My wp is the only av soloer I've been able to beat her with. Thanks to her death hold, I'd say she's the toughest av I've beaten (with a kat/wp).
I soloed one of those stone monsters on monster island with my rad/sonic defender today (and it felt so very wrong, lol), and it makes me hopeful that with the new incarnates thing, that scrappers will have some kind of access to a regen killing ability.
I have done Ghost Widow on my DM/SD...it was the longest AV fight I've ever had, and I'm aware I got very very lucky not to be hit with her hold. Part of what made it take so long was the Arachnos group that spawned with her, it was full of Tarantula Mistresses, so I ended up having to kill them all and ended up spending most of the fight fight with only a single Mu Adept for fodder...and I have some end problems on that toon, so I had to slow down my attacks at some points.
The Kronos Titan was pretty tough too, that laser blast it has ticks for 200+ damage, and you only have 90 minutes to go back for retries and the Malta death squad ambushes can get you killed dead pretty fast.
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They're all soloable I think depending on what versions you deal with.
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Does an EB count?
Cause I soloed Werner one time .....
Soloed the entire Phalanx at +3 (one by one of course) in a duo RSF (Mind/Elec Dom + Bots/Traps MM). Had to use inspirations against Positron, Synapse and Statesman
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Originally Posted by Silverado
Soloed the entire Phalanx at +3 (one by one of course) in a duo RSF (Mind/Elec Dom + Bots/Traps MM). Had to use inspirations against Positron, Synapse and Statesman
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Wow that's insane, lol. Which toon soloed them?
Geebus Silverado!
Just looked through your screenshots... wow.
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I was on the Bots/Traps MM
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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
Wow that's insane, lol. Which toon soloed them?
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I had a pretty good time of it with my DM/Regen and most of that is owed almost exclusively to the fact that */Regen specializes in peak survivability capabilities. GW is only really dangerous due to her super-mega-ultra hold and that comes up predictably so making sure that I always had MoG or IH up whenever I was expecting her to throw it out helped out a lot. The self heal was a bit annoying, but IO grade defenses and DM's -tohit took care of most of that.|
Originally Posted by Cyber_naut
If you want to solo ghost widow wern, you gotta soup up a wp toon. My wp is the only av soloer I've been able to beat her with. Thanks to her death hold, I'd say she's the toughest av I've beaten (with a kat/wp).
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GW is one of those AVs that definitely requires that you know how she operates before you can take her down. I enjoyed the fight though.
I also believe that Castle once said that he solo'd GW on a Claws/Invuln without dieing or using insps though he said that he did it by using an exploit in her AI that made her substantially easier. I'm not sure what it was, but I wouldn't put it past someone who was really determined to figure out what it was (I have a feeling it has something to do with staying at a certain range and kiting her to death, but I'm not entirely sure).
I've always questioned why Ghost Widow has a mag 100 hold. That is just infreakingsane.
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Eh, I like strange, inexplicable, unbalanced things like that in the game. Keeps you on your toes. |
Originally Posted by Santorican
I've always questioned why Ghost Widow has a mag 100 hold. That is just infreakingsane.
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"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
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I'd guess they gave it to her along with dark regeneration to make her considerably harder to approach via the classic pile on and gangbang approach.|
Originally Posted by Santorican
I've always questioned why Ghost Widow has a mag 100 hold. That is just infreakingsane.
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Mez is a joke to anything with mez protection. Giving her mag 100 means that you will notice it even if you have your mez shield and a couple stray protection buffs floating around. In a sense it is no different than giving an AV high hp, or needing a key to unlock the door, or clicking a glowie to complete, it ensures that a certain criteria is established for the encounter.
Nemesis was a pain with my DM/SR, took over 45 minutes if I remember right. Maybe I'll revisit that with my new build. She might be my only scrapper that doesn't have issues soloing Positron, Drek and Anti-Matter.
I solo'd Dominatrix with my kat/ela... don't even remember how long that took.
I was able to solo GW in the sense of survival, but I gave up after she healed up a few times, I'll have to try her again sometime and see because so far only my ill/rad/psi has defeated her.
My FM/WP did Chimera, Nightstar, Marauder and Seige together at the same time. She also has solo'd Malaise, not many scrapper builds can do that one. Don't think I've tried LR yet with her, might be do-able considering my survivability actually goes up some when he drops his pets.
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Took me six hours. That was before the Dark Melee buff. Good times.
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Originally Posted by Reverence
Nemesis was a pain with my DM/SR, took over 45 minutes if I remember right.
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"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
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Yeah she has that effect, giggity.
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Originally Posted by Reverence
I solo'd Dominatrix with my kat/ela... don't even remember how long that took.
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Originally Posted by Werner
Took me six hours. That was before the Dark Melee buff. Good times.
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her name escapes me atm...but she was a Thugs/Traps MM (w/out the pets) and solo'd Statesman in RV with a Arachnos Heavy (this was pre-i13)
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Originally Posted by FireWyvern
I'm just curious, probably cause I'd still dream of a STF/LRSF where each player is a melee one and they each do a dual vs one AV. =P So the question comes in two part!
1) What's the highest conning AV that was soloed? +2,+3,+4,etc? Is it just a once in a life time deal against a "weak" AV, or you can repeat it on a few different AVs? 2) Anyone managed to solo the strongest AVs out there... like Stateman and Honoree. The ones that have lots of attacks, non-crashing godmodes and other tricks. Must be a scrapper/brute/stalker to participate. With or without insps? Make sure to mention. Did you used minions to boost invincibility/RTTC/souldrain/etc? For my answers... 1) +0 maybe one +1 but i seriously doubt it. 2) Biggest without insps would be Citadel i think or Wretch. But it's still not the really big shots.  |
I bagged the kronos GM in founders, used nukes and a hvas.
The more people I meet, the more I'm beginning to root for the zombies.
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Ya it might have been longer but it wasn't as epic as your Nemesis battle.|
Originally Posted by Werner
Took me six hours. That was before the Dark Melee buff. Good times.
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I remember spending over an hour on Diabolique with my DM/SR only to give up when she would not allow me to lower her health below 20% due to her bubble+regen.
Santorican, wish I had a rimshot sound effect to attach to your comment :P
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I ain't a scrapper, but yes I've solo'd those two AV's mentioned, but to take it up a notch it was at the same time (no temps/insps/click acco's). It was an epic fight. I redlined a few times during the periods that PA loses agro. Took me a few tries as they both mez with nearly every attack and will happily incur the one shot code with each hit.|
Originally Posted by FireWyvern
2) Anyone managed to solo the strongest AVs out there... like Stateman and Honoree. The ones that have lots of attacks, non-crashing godmodes and other tricks.
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Right now I'm working on the Rikti group of The Dragon, Honoree, and Hro'Dtohz at the same time. I got so close to dropping The Dragon, but screwed up. As a reference point his consume does 350 damage lol. His damage is higher than any other AV imo.
I'm just curious, probably cause I'd still dream of a STF/LRSF where each player is a melee one and they each do a dual vs one AV. =P So the question comes in two part!
1) What's the highest conning AV that was soloed? +2,+3,+4,etc? Is it just a once in a life time deal against a "weak" AV, or you can repeat it on a few different AVs?
2) Anyone managed to solo the strongest AVs out there... like Stateman and Honoree. The ones that have lots of attacks, non-crashing godmodes and other tricks.
Must be a scrapper/brute/stalker to participate.
With or without insps? Make sure to mention.
Did you used minions to boost invincibility/RTTC/souldrain/etc?
For my answers...
1) +0 maybe one +1 but i seriously doubt it.
2) Biggest without insps would be Citadel i think or Wretch. But it's still not the really big shots.
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