Stuck on the last mission of Lazarus' task force.
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Beldoman,
Posted on: 2009-05-30 24:56 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
You cannot bypass them. You're gonna have a bunch of difficulty soloing that beast of a TF (and I only say that because the last mission has Ambushes on all 3 AVs/EBs).
You're gonna keep hitting that wall unfortunately :/
Hover above them, perhaps? Pop purple inspirations and ignore them, focusing on the AVs?
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I've solo'd that TF with Nightshade, my MM, on diff 4. Requiem and the others were EBs not AVs.
Nosferatu and Burckholder can be more of a liability than a help since they have a tendency to charge the podium and aggro the 3 EBs before you've cleared away most of the rank and file. If you're lucky they might take down one of the EBs before they are defeated.
After the initial frenzy I took to using hit and run tactics - pull a handful of the lower ranks into the side corridor and take them out, then repeat. Same with Requiem, Vandal and Maestro. Individually they're not that bad. All three at once is, I'd imagine, a guaranteed faceplant, unless you're running some uber AV killer build.
It's a great mission though. One of my favourite battles in the game 
Which makes me wonder, has anyone ever solo'd that one on Invincible/Relentless?
I've done it with a squishy. They can be pulled. You have run way way back, and sprint to LoS fast enough to keep Nosferatu and Burkholder from catching up, hit your jetpack to get into range, and run back out of LoS.
If they manage to keep up, and if they hop down, they'll just run around merrily aggroing the whole room.
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I am going to try to give that a try.
If that fail; I will probably sacrifice Burkholder and only recruit Nosferatus when the room is cleared.
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I've solo'd that TF with Nightshade, my MM, on diff 4. Requiem and the others were EBs not AVs.
Nosferatu and Burckholder can be more of a liability than a help since they have a tendency to charge the podium and aggro the 3 EBs before you've cleared away most of the rank and file. If you're lucky they might take down one of the EBs before they are defeated.
After the initial frenzy I took to using hit and run tactics - pull a handful of the lower ranks into the side corridor and take them out, then repeat. Same with Requiem, Vandal and Maestro. Individually they're not that bad. All three at once is, I'd imagine, a guaranteed faceplant, unless you're running some uber AV killer build.
It's a great mission though. One of my favourite battles in the game
Which makes me wonder, has anyone ever solo'd that one on Invincible/Relentless?
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I've soloed that last mission in Invince with my Bot/Traps MM. I didn't even lose any of the EB pets.
Doesn't Laz tell you to bring a team on this one? I was pretty sure he did...
He strongly advise it.
But Twilight son does the same for Smoke and Mirror and it passes easily with a Shivan.
What I did is to clear the map up to the last room, then run with my guys in a corner and use my Orouboros portal to leave them behind.
This way, I was able to clear the room fairly easily.
Now, my problem is the ambushes...
I was able to pull Vandal... I got killed quickly but I am going to try again, in the hope to pull him to the other side and take him down there.
If it works; I will probably try doing the same with Maestro.
I would probably have a much easier and quicker time recruiting a team, I know. But, now... IT'S PERSONAL!
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He strongly advise it.
But Twilight son does the same for Smoke and Mirror and it passes easily with a Shivan.
What I did is to clear the map up to the last room, then run with my guys in a corner and use my Orouboros portal to leave them behind.
This way, I was able to clear the room fairly easily.
Now, my problem is the ambushes...
I was able to pull Vandal... I got killed quickly but I am going to try again, in the hope to pull him to the other side and take him down there.
If it works; I will probably try doing the same with Maestro.
I would probably have a much easier and quicker time recruiting a team, I know. But, now... IT'S PERSONAL!
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You could leave behind your allies in the corridor which goes around to the right of the main battle hall by use of the Oportal. Then run back in, go left, clear the minions, and then pull the EBs... back down to the corridor to the left where your allies are still waiting to help you. Oportal and repeat with the next EB.
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If you can buy a Vanguard HVAS temp power, do so. It'll make your Shivan look like a wuss and really help out.
Obviously spawn a Shivan too, more the merrier 
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You could leave behind your allies in the corridor which goes around to the right of the main battle hall by use of the Oportal. Then run back in, go left, clear the minions, and then pull the EBs... back down to the corridor to the left where your allies are still waiting to help you. Oportal and repeat with the next EB.
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Yep; I tried that too.
At first it worked fine and cleared up the spawns. But then Vandall would not follow me or, if I waited for him too long, he would defeat me and then defeat Nosfe...
I ended up recruiting some players and it was quite easy. Especially as we had the players that 'Mastered' our allie stay a bit behind.
But, my thinking now is that this TF would be quite soloable if we had a mastermind style panel to give orders to our 'minions'.
At least but them on purely defensive to limit their aggro, or maybe just a 'stay put' option...
The hyperphase temp power helps with pulling, and gives your friends time to grab aggro.
Yes, I've deliberately gone out of my way to solo this arc with various characters. I like that final mission, and I like seeing if I can do it.
The most fun is to take a scrapper with a tray full of insps, and just charge all three EBs at once. Let Burkie and Nos beat up all the little guys.
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They can handle it? I got Nosfe dying in a random spawn on the way to the room...
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Doesn't Laz tell you to bring a team on this one? I was pretty sure he did...
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Yes, so I went upside his time-traveling head for daring to underestimate me. Then I soloed it. 
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I tend to clear the whole room before even looking towards the AVs. Once that's done, I pull the AVs one at a time into the hallway. It doesn't always work, but that's what makes improvisation so much fun.
I solo'd it with a Claws/Nin Stalker. I TP-pulled the bosses one at a time into the hallway, and once they were done I just led my NPC allies on a banzai charge of the massed troops (which had apparently failed to notice when their leaders excused themselves one at a time).
I am trying to solo the Lazarus TF on my blaster and have hit a wall...
Even with freeing both allies, Buckholder and Nosferatus, and popping a Shivan, I just can't seem to win.
Is there a way to by-pass the many low level troops? They are low level but there are so many of them...
Any advice would be appreciated.