BellaStrega

This is one of those things I'd have to see to believe.

Thanks for all the explanations.

It does sound like someone would almost have to intentionally pull Marauder out of the compound.

How often does that happen?

Necro/Dark Mastermind > Dark/Dark Defender in a solo situation by a wide margin. Dark Miasma is powerful. Dark Blast is not.

I kept him mezzed for a time, but he kept breaking out and bifurcating, so trying seems like it was a waste of time.

I don't know where you got this idea.

This is what I did in no particular order:

Gloom
Dark Blast
Tenebrous Tentacles
Nightfall
Petrifying Gaze
Twilight Grasp
Howling Twilight
Tar Patch

I am not new to this character; I made her in early 2005. I know how all of my powers work and which ones to use to boost damage output.

Petrifying Gaze was holding him until the dark servant stopped using PG or started missing him (I'm not sure which).

I didn't hunt clones, as I said earlier I found it to be a waste of time. If I can't defeat him in a minute, there's no point to continuing. I didn't actually spend all that much time on non-damaging actions that could possibly have been spent on damaging actions.

I stuck to him because see below.

I stayed on him and used gloom, dark blast, tenebrous tentacles, and nightfall.

It takes too long to defeat the clones, as in he'll summon another while I'm killing the first. Perhaps with inspirations I could do it, but it seems like it'd simply make things worse over the long term.

He didn't have three clones up at 60 seconds. He actually didn't get his first clone up for some time because I had him held, but he'd break out of the holds long enough to summon clones later on.

It wasn't enough. What can I say?

Okay, huh? I've seen people do this, but I was unaware it impacted rewards at all.

I'm fully aware that people will rationalize their anti-social behavior and project the cause onto others as somehow ~making them do it~ all day.

In my experience, people have a much wider range of motives for not being jerks than "That person might harm me." Narrowing it down to that is a cynical and unrealistic perspective on human nature.

I was damage-capped with red inspirations + assault + the defender boost for being solo.

I don't have IOs in my attacks, but I have +recovery IOs (Numina, Miracle) and the +end proc (I forget the set name). Also some -KB. I have a combination of IOs, HOs, and SOs in the other powers.

Her defense is fine against trapdoor and can take his attacks all day.

I don't need any more advice, though. I'll have a friend come in and trash the EB.

The Honoree was pretty easy on my Fire/Kin who only had standard IOs - she has one invention in stamina that gives extra end, but everything else is just accuracy, damage, etc. I did have a problem from an ambush I forgot to wait for, but that was while I was clearing the portals before the Honoree.

I like First Ward myself. I have a character in there now, and the arcs are fun and more personal than most. Plus, it's just plain new content to me.

Excuses. Dude's probably just frustrated right now. I know I have my own moments, as do many on this forum.

Like I said, he has an easy out and if he doesn't want to take it, that's on him. Is it really necessary to inflame things further by posting the same thing over and over again as if it were some clever form of sarcasm?

It shouldn't be how things work. "It's the internet" is just an excuse.

Something happened as my avatar disappeared during my time away from the game. It may have vanished from wherever I hosted it, as far as that goes.

That's no excuse to treat them like rubbish and pile sarcasm on them.

I have 116 max endurance, T3 cardiac alpha (the side that gives the bonus to fear duration), one of those end mod procs that grants 11-12 end every so often, three-slotted stamina, one-slotted physical perfection with the end mod proc in it, health has the +recovery and +regen/recovery uniques, I have some bonus to end recovery from set bonuses (I forget how much), and, you know, some other stuff.

I think Dark Regen with a damage proc and an Interface could be a pretty decent power overall. Not great, but a nice addition to the AoE fun.

I have crushing impacts, as I didn't really do much to slot up my energy defense or energy resistance. I have cloak of darkness, weave, combat jumping, cloak of fear, and touch of fear, which certainly helps and more couldn't hurt.

So far I haven't had any serious problems with energy. I seem to have more trouble from CoT behemoth lords and all their fire, even though my fire resistance is not too bad.

As far as dealing with end drain goes, sappers and crowds of dying carnies don't seem to do much to my end bar.

I killed all the duplicates, but I couldn't kill them and kill him. My killing speed was too slow.

Howling Twilight did not stop him from regenerating due to the duplicates I couldn't kill fast enough.

I actually said that HT + MG wasn't stopping his regen in my first post.

I'm going to try loaded up with red insps and a hardsuit. Should be fine.

Would be now but I spent so much time trying to work out my respec I hit the maintenance window.