Mr_Morbid

It could be variable I suppose. But I'm positive that once we had the fight down well enough for me to really pay attention to the length it was only a few seconds. Perhaps it continues ticking as long as there are player targets in the area (making it a real PUG punisher.)

Edit: Because I misspelled the word 'It.'

Yes I have run it. Enough to have the "Master of" badge. It probably just seems like a really long time to you because of your frustration at having to interrupt your regular attack chain.

I'm not sure how crazy you need to be with regen debuffers, but probably somewhat loaded up. As I said, our league was well staffed with it. That wasn't by design, it just happens that those were the characters people wanted to bring.

As a league with mostly the same people on all runs we ran the trial enough to get everyone unlocked on hybrid (some got it earlier from prior runs or farming the IDF), then once more where we attempted to get "The Really Hard Way" badge. We didn't get it, but we did manage "The Hard Way" and a Master of. As far as the league makeup I think the biggest factor in our overall success was that we had plenty of debuffs (including four rads.)

FYI, I don't consider myself a particularly awesome player. There were others on the league that ARE awesome players, but I was more like one of those little fish that follows sharks around.

I died several times in the first few runs from not getting out fast enough. It's hard to fight the impulse to get "just one more" attack in before moving, but I learned the hard way to run as soon as possible. Those who were there with tanky-types could give a better idea on whether having high health will get you through it, but a squishy who doesn't hoof it is dead.

I (based on last night's MP runs) would call this a fight where you really need strong debuffs, especially regeneration, and people to be +3. The +3 requirement shouldn't be that hard to meet since you have to have all the other slots unlocked to run it at all. Other than that I'd say (again based on how we did things) the keys are:

1) Keep the wells closed unless you're going for a badge.
2) As soon as you see the "Air Crackles" warning, get the heck away from him. This is probably the most important strategy bit.
3) Make sure you're behind him if you're not tanking him. Frikkin' lasers on his frikkin' head hurt.
4) Have tanky types who aren't tanking Tyrant try to keep the adds from away from squishy types. Ground-targetted area controls seemed to help with this too, but the whole thing was too frenetic for me to pay much attention to what my earthquakes and volcanic gasses were doing.


I for one was glad to see some real difficulty in this one, especially after finding Dilemma Diabolique to be way too easy for a league of +3's.

Edit: Others who were on successful runs feel free to add to or correct my observations.

Pfft. Can never have too much rad.

I recently did the Envoy for the first time since, well....since the first time I did it. Scaled down to an EB he's not nearly as scary as he once was. But back when he was always an AV....ugh.

I love the MM AT, but I could never play one with FF secondary.

Then there's the Bruiser who always opens with a long activation time rock throw when he should be up close smashing. The arsonist, of course, runs right on in to the melee.

Because you already have it?

Well, darn. Why didn't you tell me that when my most recent redsider hit 35?

You definitely don't get Arbiter Rein as a contact until your security level is 35. It would be nice if it was otherwise.

Only if your boss level minion is one of the support types. MM personal attacks are slightly more effective than a tier 1 minion. The attacks are nice to have, but taking them may not be worth a power slot depending on your secondary. The sets where the attacks have good secondary effects (Demons and Beasts) are an exception.