Those are excelent as always P-Forge
How would you fare against Mynx and Liberty? on each St October and Excelerate? should have about the same difficulty as the Mantis/Mako combo
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Those are excelent as always P-Forge
How would you fare against Mynx and Liberty? on each St October and Excelerate? should have about the same difficulty as the Mantis/Mako combo
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Mynx was very hard with Ex. I needed yellows to get through her repeated Eluding. I don't think it would be possible for Ex to complete her with any other AV. As for Liberty. She has 50% lethal resistance I believe. Ex can't touch her.
Now Saint? I don't know. That seems possible but it's tough for me to gauge. When I fought Mynx with Saint it was before I knew you could enhance /SD DDR and I also wasn't trying to double stack Active Defense then either. Add to that I put Bobcats minions in the mission (I think they can debuff defense also), and she was really tough for me at the time. I got through it though. It would be a different story now, since Saint's DDR is considerably improved. Not really sure how they would play off of each other. I may give that team a try in the next few day. 
In what way did you end up improving DDR? If you don't mind me asking.
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In what way did you end up improving DDR? If you don't mind me asking.
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I presume HOs in active defence.
It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba
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In what way did you end up improving DDR? If you don't mind me asking.
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I presume HOs in active defence.
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That's correct and also stacking Active Defense which I could have always done to a small degree but I never thought to do. 
Here's a few videos of some fights I picked.
I tried to make it pretty hard on myself in each case. The goal was to load a variety of villains and try to include a defense debuffer just to make it a pita I guess.
First up!
Nemesis,Hro'dtohz, and Babbage.
This is the same mission I built for Excelerate awhile back. No real difficulties here. Got them first try but I may have been lucky.
Chimera, Battle Maiden, and Mother Mayhem.
I definitely got off easy here as Chimers decides to shoot the entire fight I believe. Battle Maiden still hits like a truck though.
Infernal, Shadowhunter, and Neuron.
Great fight. Just fun all around. Infernal still scares me.
Silver Mantis and Mako.
Now it's getting serious. Two heavy melee hitters. Many, many attempts here. Initially I had also added Barracuda to the mix but after dying over and over I dropped her. I did have one attempt where I had Mantis down but was killed shortly after. Her debuffs get the better of me occasionally. I can't keep Active defense stacked permanently with my build so there are times where she can peel off close to 15% of my defense with one hit. It's just a trade off in my build that I felt was ok, and generally it is. Builds are about compromises, /SD more than other secondaries I've played simply because it can offer so much to begin with.
There is one crazy moment at about 3:10 seconds in where I just could not believe I pulled through.
Scirocco and Black Scorpion.
Very interesting experience with this one. Black Scorpion has Rage on a fast timer. It is, however, interruptible. Whenever I have fought him in the past that means a non stop stream of attack to prevent him from wiping the floor with me. I tried over and over here. Probably 20 times. Then in frustration I just thought, "OK, let's just kill Scirocco and get that blinding, defense destroying sand gone. Strangely enough Black Scorpion did NOT rage the entire fight until Scirocco was down! I would speculate that it's somehow tied to his AI that if he's not being actively engaged he won't do it. This was still quite a tough battle though.
Thanks for looking.