UberGuy

It's not. (Edit: It's not an exaggeration.) I'm sure it depends on your raiding community, but Justice has gone from 300-500 per raid to 500-900 per raid on a fairly regular basis. The key is to have at least three teams of eight, get in the center of the ship, have plenty of +Def and mez protection (FF, Traps or Sonic bubbles), then have sturdy and/or highly buffed characters pulling lots and lots of Rikti from the surrounding channels into the bowl and apply AoEs until golden brown. Add various AoE ally buffs and Howling Twilight to suit tastes.

I'm not confident of that at all. Not solo.

There's a good reason it's like that. The devs assume inspiration use. It's not that our characters aren't good enough and have to lean on inspirations. Its that inspirations are considered an inherent part of what our characters can do.

I'm as guilty as anyone can be of running around trying to do everything I can without using inspirations, sometimes to a fault. But at the end of the day, I don't gripe much about it because I understand that I'm running around with my left arm and leg tied behind my back by doing that. That's my choice, and I shouldn't be upset with anyone but me when my choices make my life harder

It'd be cool for some characters and wildly out of character for others. This is one of those things that practical limitations suggest should probably be left largely to the imagination.

Why? It's the only thing it tells us it does. In big, red, flashy letters.

We only get to run the arc once (edit: per character), so most people aren't going to inspect him, either because they have an in-powerset power that does so, or with yet another temp power. I was planning to inspect him, but I forgot, and now I don't yet have anyone ready/able to run the arc again.

Since you clearly know/believe it does more, would you mind enlightening us rather than just pointing out there's more we don't know?

There's an AI quirk where, if you're fighting an already aware opponent and you placate them, they usually will not react immediately to your first attack after the placate, even though it should, ostensibly, break them out of the placate. I used this to advantage in my Stalker fights with her, using Placate to set up an AS, then performing a fade away attack immediately afterwards. By "fade away", I mean I would queue the attack and leap away. That would usually result in the attack triggering mid-leap, so that when LW would firmly "wake up" from the placate due to this 2nd hit, I was out of melee range. She would sometimes whack me with a ranged attack in retaliation, but those tend to hurt much less than her melee attacks.

And that is a limitation you are placing on yourself, and nothing more. That limitation is not representative of the width and breadth of opportunities available to you in the game. It's unreasonable to expect that anyone should be able to cordon off entire swaths of the game in such self-imposed limitations and then declare that something is too hard. It's "too hard" in large part because you're handicapping yourself in too many ways.

Personally, I think +regen, specifically, is a touchy tool for the devs to use to make an encounter "challenging". It's extremely sensitive to the effective DPS of the players facing it, and whether or not they have access to -regen debuffs. However, even solo, the tools for overcoming it in this encounter do exist. A temp power with fairly potent -regen is cheap and plentiful on the market. Many if not most of us are willing and able to get a summonable EB from one of two sources. And, at the upper end of performance, there are IOs. Including getting a team, that's at least five available ways to tackle the problem.

I hate to be this guy, but... there are multiple ways to solve this problem. If you ultimately exclude yourself from all of them, I don't think it's reasonable to say the encounter is too hard.

Probably the most readily attainable method after getting a team would be a mix of inspirations and the Envenomed Dagger temp power.

Were you trying to ignore his clones while doing this, because the video I posted in here shows that, in fact, regen debuff levels equivalent to Lingering Radiation work just fine against him... if you defeat his clones. In fact, Lingering Rad recharges faster than Howling Twilight, and I was fighting a +2, so I was at 80% effectiveness.

It's not even remotely forced teaming. It may have been forced for that particular character of yours, but it's not even close to forced in general. Forced means to me that no matter who you are or what you bring in terms of powersets, you have to have a team to proceed. This isn't that.

He's just a run-of-the-mill EB, so he's not that hard to hold. Looks like mag 6 is required, so three stacked holds for most folks, much less for a Dom with Domination running.

I don't get it. Is it taking people a really long time to take them down or something? On the runs I've been on, the EB versions melt like chocolate in a hot oven.

I never even noticed the wait between spawns. I'm sure it's far, far shorter than, say, the Dr. Aeon cutscene in the STF.

The first time I did Apex was on a team of six melees, a Blaster and a Defender. We got the Battle Maiden badge without having it as a goal, and we used no temps.

Harder? Yeah. Not overly hard, though, IMO.

Anything is possible, but my guess is that would be pretty odd. I get the feeling his clones appear in hand-picked spots. Who knows, though.

I'm not sure what the devs could do to make it more clear than the flashy pop-up message. I mean, I can sorta see not getting what that means at first, but the combination of that and then not being able to overcome his regen seems like something most people could put together and figure out.

Given that you've installed it there, you shouldn't even need to run it as administrator. I mean, it's not actively harmful to run it as administrator in such cases, but it's good practice to only elevate things you need to.

I have mine installed in "Program Files (x86)" and I don't run mine as Administrator unless I want to update it. I save my build files in a sub-folder of "My Documents", though.

That doesn't work the way you think it does. She is a downgraded AV, and has the "Purple Triangle of Doom" protections, which includes about 84% resistance to toHit debuffs. She basically laughs off the -toHit of Dark Melee.

I've validated her resistances with the Analyzer Mk III temp power, so I'm not assuming this.

The only thing that was meaningfully working there was the purple inspirations (and DP+IH, which I used on my runs with Regens as well).

To be completely honest, I find Battle Maiden a much easier fight than the four AV AoE-fest of Bobcat, Neuron and two AV-class Goliath War Walkers. Not that I'm complaining about the four AVs thing, I just see a lot more people die "randomly" in the fight in Praetorea, because it's just going to happen more with that many +4 AVs stomping around. I really just don't find the raining orbital sword thing that hard to deal with.