Statesman's Task Force - Issue 9 Beta

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With the Red, Green & Yellow (optional) towers down LR was debuffed and we took him out without a lot of problem. When he got to around 10-15% he spawned a bunch of henchmen, but a Fulcrum Shifted nuke from one of the blasters handled things nicely and LR bit the dust a few seconds later.

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Glad to see there's a team setup that can handle the blue tower ambush power. What was your full team setup, just so I have an idea? I want to find out what exactly is required to make the ambush "ignorable", or at least enough so that a Blaster can nuke/clear it of minions and Lts and leave only bosses managable for the final bit of LR's health.

i also would like to hear the above quoted's thoughts. sounds like a good question. um, i am wondering why we are calling it the ambush tower now though.

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i also would like to hear the above quoted's thoughts. sounds like a good question. um, i am wondering why we are calling it the ambush tower now though.

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I'M calling it the ambush tower, because it allows Lord Recluse to spawn a metric crap-ton of Bane Spiders (all level 54) at somewhere around 1/4th health.

But this only happens if you don't bother to take down the blue tower first. So it's completely avoidable. Once two of towers are down, the remaining two go quickly anyways....so not sure what the issue is.

We've defeated LR 4 times now....each time he went down like a "normal" AV. Our teams have been pretty consistent with holds/debuffs, and we always take down the 4 towers first. Our fastest has been about 95 minutes thus far from start to end....I've heard of much faster teams out there.

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i also would like to hear the above quoted's thoughts. sounds like a good question. um, i am wondering why we are calling it the ambush tower now though.

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I'M calling it the ambush tower, because it allows Lord Recluse to spawn a metric crap-ton of Bane Spiders (all level 54) at somewhere around 1/4th health.

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Wait, you mean if you take down this tower the spawn doesn't happen? I had no clue about that, if so that's a huge thing to know about.

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And our team composition was different both times, but the core each time was as follows:

Stone/Fire tank - me
Fire/Rad Controller
Ill/Rad Controller
Kin/Sonic defender

One run had the following filling out:
Fire/Ice blaster
Claw/Regen scrapper
Ice/? blaster (pick up player, I forget his secondary)

The second run had the following to fill out:
Fire/Kin controller (47 sk'd up)
Energy/Energy blaster
Kat/Regen scrapper

That's the team configuration as best I recall.

My experience (and many other friends on other teams as well) is take down all 4 towers and there is no mass-spawn of helpers for LR. Each time we've taken all 4 towers down, LR went down just like any other "normal" AV. He's actually easier than GW or Mako IMHO.