Memphis_Bill

The ones I'm looking at (in order)
Voidbane, Human-only:
Cardiac Radial Boost - The END discount and extra Resist outside Light form (having Incandescence, Shining, Quantum and Tough, but none fully slotted) would be useful. Attacks are already at ED limits for damage.
Cardiac Partial Core Revamp - To get that and range.
Cardiace Core Paragon - For the extra bit that bypasses ED.
Musculature Radial Boost - Damage is already at ED. This, however, adds some Defense debuff.

For my triforms, it's a tossup between going Cardiac Core Boost - Total core revamp - Partial core revamp - then of course Core Paragon, to add range, or the Musculature Radial boost for the same def. debuff reasons. I'm not really paying as much attention to Spiritual, as I think I recharge fast enough in most cases, and I'm completely ignoring Nerve.

So why are you still here? You're just going to cry and keep dropping it without ever trying it again, from the sound of it. Solutions may be irrelevant to YOU, but others that see this and read through may actually decide to *learn,* unlike you, and see that yes, this IS doable with any AT.

And yet, you *ignore* the fact that all these squishies - who you say will find this impossible to beat - beat it quite easily. That Honoree's "insane accuracy that hits through purples" doesn't, and has been proven not to (past the 5% chance they'll always get) by multiple people.

That would assume that they didn't actually know what an actual "bug" was.

Fixed.

/this. Though you, Shubbie, don't want to hear it and refuse to listen.

So far, just MY listing of who's done this without problems:

Fire/SS tank
Fire/EM tank
Thugs/Poison MM

Those three, obviously, shouldn't have issues no matter who you ask. Then we get to:

Earth/FF Controller
Ice/Emp Controller
Rad/Rad Defender
Warshade
Elec/Elec Blaster

This:
is complete and utter BS. Unsurprising, given the source, but still. Though I did find this laughable:
"It wears off in 15 seconds?" Oh no! Not like it's recharged well before that and can be reapplied or anything. Nope. Can only use each power once.

And you need more than 3 why? You need *3* why?

"Form a team" does not mean "Get a min/maxed team of 8 together."

Run a patrol in Warburg (30+) and you'll get the Hyper Phase power. 30 minutes use, like all phase powers a 30 second duration. Phase without burning power picks.

Or, as mentioned, use the recipe.

Or: Just wait a month until the rush of 50s doing the initial Incarnate mission is done. This, so far, has been the only time I've seen this be a problem. Otherwise, maybe two (at max) people just standing around for more than a few seconds.

Actually - give them other things to do. Add a Wentworths/BM Mender off to one side.

Impeded Swiftness: Chance for Smashing Damage.

... well, you DID say "one." There's also a "Chance for recharge slow," but that's pretty useless in Ice Control (where everything does that, for the most part.) Minor defense buff to melee (2.5) and s/l (1.8) with that six slotted...

.. yeah. Slow (along with snipes, I'd say, among one or two others) I don't think they really figured out what they wanted to do with. I don't think we need a bonus to slow, since slows stack very noticeably and easily. And a good set would fit most of the ATs in game (except... what, masterminds - wait, no, they have storm. Everything but Peacebringers, Scrappers and Brutes, maybe Soldiers as well? Actually - no, everything but peacebringers, as I'm reasonably sure the others could use it in their APP/PPPs, and warshades do slows with every attack.)

So... cooking up a good "Slow-slottable Damage set" wouldn't hurt. Two, actually, one with Damage as part of the set and bonuses, one with a Damage proc and perhaps small damage set bonus.

I'm going to be blunt here. You're wrong. He does not "hit you through purples." He does not "stun you through breakfrees." I've used them each and every time I've run this arc. And I seem to recall getting a hold on him, though I'm not going to swear to that. he can definitely be slowed.

Stay at range, kite him, use insps. I say this because it works. Not because I'm playing with uber-leet-super-purpled-IO'd-out builds. (Just did this with my Warshade, btw - loved that last room.) If he could have "hit through purples," he would have hit me mutiple times. If he could stun through breakfrees, he would have.

He didn't. Any of the times I ran it.

Or maybe the player is facing the wrong way and rolling the ball at the concessions stand, then stomping off and insisting the game's too hard. Which is what you sound like at this point. People try to turn you around and point you at the pins, and you throw it at the ceiling. Not the ball's fault, or the alley or the pins.

/this.

Seriously, do people REALLY think that the only way things get changed - and *fixed* - is from the devs combing through the forums to see what people talk about? If that were the case, PVP would have been revised again since I13.

Personally, I'm wondering if this fixed ALL the ambushes like this - like the one Praetorian one (can't recall faction right offhand - Resistance Warden, I believe) that piled five TEST ambushes *right* outside the door where the person you were supposed to find was imprisoned. (And this is not a "use inspirations" - end of the mission, ALL FIVE ambushes at once, spawning directly outside the door, no reasonable way to avoid them, on a level 17 or so - Dom, in my case.)

If it means that missions like that are fixed? Even better. Those of you who want a pile of malta can turn UP your settings. (Edit: And for those trying to make a comparison to the Honoree thread, well, this isn't a matter of "You will face EBs or AVs, bring friends." This was a bugged mission, like it or not, and it got fixed, like it or not. The two are not the same.)

/this.

Had problems with it the first time... because I was still set pretty high, and ended up getting my solo butt swarmed by Malta. Those settings with ambushes coming right on each others heels? Just bad news. Drop the setting a little and it's cake.

I can see it being an issue with teams, though, perhaps, as mentioned earlier, so I'm not complaining.

/This.

Seriously. If anyone pointed at me and said I was some "elite" player, I'd have to laugh at them. I'd point at - depending on the situation - Arcanaville for knowing all the "behind the scenes" stuff, or someone like BillZBubba. If BZB came in here and said he soloed both on AV +4/X8 on his main, my reaction would be "And that proves?"

Yes, there are people who push what an AT or powerset "can" do - defenders/controllers/etc soloing pylons or whatnot. I'm not one of them. My builds aren't really "planned," they're not generally IO'd out (past commons,) and I don't have "madd COH skillz" or whatever it is these days. Yet I'm doing these, and not generally on "Easy to solo" ATs. I've pointed out what I do so others who are having trouble can compare, then prepare (IE, if you're having a hard time soloing, don't do it on +3-+4, 0/1 or even -1/1 is just fine, grab inspirations, etc.) and go do it yourself.

What was its recharge before all the AOEs were smacked down years ago? Did it get hit then?

(And gravity really just needs Propel speeded up, IMHO. Perhaps the initial animation for Wormhole, as well. I've gotten to where I just don't take Propel, or put it off - by the time I've finished animating my lamp post, computer, etc. either the team has finished that mob, the one beyond it, and the one past that, or the target has died of old age.)

"Challenge?" What challenge did I put forth? Did I say "Solo this without using XYZ and only Brawl in 5 minutes?" No. "Challenge" is "Solo a pylon," or the RWZ challenge, or "Solo a GM/every GM." This is nothing close to that.

As far as "with a good soloist" - You've seen what I've said I've done this with, right? So far:
Earth/FF Controller
Rad/Rad Defender (on my "team" setting, so less offense)
Elec/Elec blaster (first 50 from way back in I3-I4, and not played constantly or IO'd out)
Fire/SS Tank.
Newest - Thugs/Poison MM.

So I have two decidedly *slow* soloists, what's generally considered one of the weakest blasters, and two "good" soloists. The difference? Tactics. I don't attack it the same way each time. Yes, I still pull them out of the room (don't want to have to deal with the Rikti,) but my toe-to-toe fight with my Tanker had to be handled differently than running around with my Rad/Rad, or the pet management of my Thugs/Poison. (Which was actually the most difficult - not in the fight, but in keeping them from running in and aggroing things before I was ready mid-fight.)

So that "good soloists" line is bunk.

Way to miss the point there, Sam.

Do you pick up a hobby and expect to immediately be an expert woodworker, or musician, or painter, writer, ice sculptor, ballet dancer or whatnot? No. But, gee, you *put time into it.* Imagine that. Do you ***** that you have to treat your hobby "like a job" to be any good at it? Do you expect to get better as you play? You know, doing things like learning from your mistakes and doing better on your next attempt?

Do you expect anyone to pay you to do so, or to quit your job to become a better painter/musician/writer/stamp collector? No?

Then don't use that BS as a response to this.