Just finished this SF last night. Team was:
Ninja Blade/? Stalker - 26
Energy/Energy Stalker - 30 (Auto Malfactored)
Fire/Fire Brute - 30 (Auto Malfactored)
Plant/Ice Dominator - 30 (Auto Malfactored)
Ice/Thermal Corruptor - 30 (Auto Malfactored)
This was an all VG team that teams together almost daily, we work VERY well together. Found the SF quite easy until the last mission. Everything in the missions was levels 31-32. Us all being "30" except the one Stalker we had minimal difficulties. Even the Barracuda AV mission posed no problem.
The last Coralax Cave mission was no problem until we hit the last room...
********SPOILER BELOW**********
...the last room is when it hit the fan.
We began our usual "clear the room before starting on the AV". However, when you enter the room, take special note of the pool of "water" that is in the center of the room. This water is not your ordinary water...it has lots of "water spouts" in it. These water spouts do some nasty "knock-about". Can't call it knock back or down because they toss you in a random direction. This was our downfall...we kept getting tossed all over the place. I (Corruptor) having no buffs and no status protection was the official pinball. So much so that I was "chain knocked" all the way accross the water and onto the AV. So, the AV was aggro'd before we even had the room 1/4 of the way cleared. AV summoned all of his pets on us. Both Stalkers dropped and we "tactically withdrew" back out to the entry to the cave. The AV/Pets did not follow. Regroup'd and I Lackeyed the low Stalker up to 29 (Yes, he was playing un-lackeyed the entire SF until now, so he was 25/26 facing 32s). We entered the room to try and clear again, but the AV aggro was still on us. We dropped him right away, resulting in the Summon of the Leviathan. While fighting the Leviathan, the remaining Coralax in the room that we didn't clear attacked us as well...we tried the "divide and conquer" method here, with the Dominator and one Stalker on the Coralax, and the Brute and other Stalker on the Leviathan while I stayed between the two tossing heals/buffs and some Blasts at the Leviathan. This resulted in two total team wipes. After regrouping in the entryway again, we decided to just ignore the Coralax and all pound the Leviathan. The Dominator did drop her Creeper Vines once to keep the Coralax that aggro'd on us busy, but other than that we all just ganged up on the Leviathan. This was successful. ( Even while I was hovering to the right side of the eye and healing, I would still get knocked down. )
My tip for this - be sure to keep clear of the Water in the last cave, and clear the Coralax out before aggroing the AV. If we had known about the "water-spouts" we would have escaped this entire SF with only 1 death.
Great final map, and good challenging AVs in this SF.
P.S. - We did not encounter a summon of Coralax in the last room, but that may just be because we didn't clear them in the first place.
