Honestly, I dunno. I've only fought Sonata's Soul once, and that was on my SS/WP Brute, and it wasn't too bad. The hard part was attempting to keep him from running...
As for Terra, she's handed by donkey to me every time I've fought her, so I tend to skip that arc now. 
Maybe I just suck as a player... 
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Sonata's one of (but not IMO the) easiest AVs on villainside; he has nothing particularly special. The Radio in the TV's 45-50 arc is fairly easy too simply because of the stationary nature, but it has a habit of throwing out Dreadful Wail which can cause some issues if you're not ready for it. The easiest IMO is Infernal during the Tarikoss Strike Force - boss level mez protection with no purple triangles, and knockback resistance (so he doesn't go flying) but no knockback protection (so you can ensure he never gets to stand up).
As for the one level advantage, it increases your base tohit to 80% and gives all of your powers a 11% boost in effectiveness, lowers the mob's tohit by 10% giving you an effective 10% more defense while simultaneously reducing the effectiveness of their powers by 10%.
Is a 21% swing in effectiveness going to make a significant difference?
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Does that 1 level make that much of a difference?
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And are these two particular AVs uncharacteristically weak/easy?
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Sonata has no PToD if I recall correctly, so there is that (and you fought him on an MM, so there is definitely that to consider as well).
Terra? Well, she doesn't have any particularly special attacks beyond those of any other Greater Devoured, so if your Scrapper happens to have a surplus of Smashing Resistance on top of some defense, you should be able to do quite well.
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As for the one level advantage, it increases your base tohit to 80% and gives all of your powers a 11% boost in effectiveness, lowers the mob's tohit by 10% giving you an effective 10% more defense while simultaneously reducing the effectiveness of their powers by 10%.
Is a 21% swing in effectiveness going to make a significant difference?
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Maybe a bit 
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not good at number crunching so that kind of analysis isn't something I could do.
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Terra? Well, she doesn't have any particularly special attacks beyond those of any other Greater Devoured, so if your Scrapper happens to have a surplus of Smashing Resistance on top of some defense, you should be able to do quite well.
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/SR, so my only resistance is what I get from Tough. I went into the fight with some lucks, and then when the hits she did get in took me down to about 1/3 health I hit Elude, and by the time that wore off my health bar was full again, and I took some more lucks.
Sadly the Psychic Clockwork King in the next mission put a swift end to my dreams of being a big bad AV soloer
I found Manticore and Nemesis to be easy. Although Nemesis's PFF did annoy me.
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Hmph. I went up two levels before I finally defeated Terra while soloing on my Inv/SS. Fought her when I first got the mission: she couldn't kill me and I couldn't kill her, so I waited a level and tried again, still couldn't kill her. Waited another level, still no dice. So rather than waiting another level, I filled my Insp Collector in my base with Med Red Skittles, filled my Insp tray with Med Red Skittles and started wailing on her. Got her down to half before my Insp tray ran out, exited the mish, ran back to base for a refill, went back to her (by now she had regened back to about three-fourths health) wailed on her till my tray was empty again....repeat until done.
'course this was before IO's and before I had any vet powers. But still, tanks is weak.
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Terra? Well, she doesn't have any particularly special attacks beyond those of any other Greater Devoured, so if your Scrapper happens to have a surplus of Smashing Resistance on top of some defense, you should be able to do quite well.
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/SR, so my only resistance is what I get from Tough.
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Terra? Well, she doesn't have any particularly special attacks beyond those of any other Greater Devoured, so if your Scrapper happens to have a surplus of Smashing Resistance on top of some defense, you should be able to do quite well.
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/SR, so my only resistance is what I get from Tough.
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I think there's a heavy dependence on AT and build as to whether certain AV's are easy or not. For instance I can imagine the Clockwork King being naturally easier for a /WP scrapper due to the psionic resistance and defense already built in. Fire off Elusive Mind (rikti invasion accolade) and have inspirations on hand and he's a breeze.
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I think there's a heavy dependence on AT and build as to whether certain AV's are easy or not. For instance I can imagine the Clockwork King being naturally easier for a /WP scrapper due to the psionic resistance and defense already built in. Fire off Elusive Mind (rikti invasion accolade) and have inspirations on hand and he's a breeze.
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He's a pushover for my Ill/Kin Controller (admittedly a nicely purpled-out "AV hunter" build), too. Phantom Army soaks up that nasty Psi Nova, and she's only one last purple set away from PA being perma. Takes a while, like all AVs, since she's not the queen of damage, but the outcome is never in doubt.
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Usually I keep my diff at 4, so I'm fighting EBs rather than AVs, but there have been two exceptions - Johnny Sonata's Soul on my MM, and Terra on my Scrapper.
In both cases I'd levelled up during the mission before I fought them, so I did have a 1 level advantage. So my questions are:
Does that 1 level make that much of a difference?
And are these two particular AVs uncharacteristically weak/easy?
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The easiest AVs (as AV, not EB) for my ill/rad were Indigo and Black Swan.
I realize this doesn't answer the question, but I think Silver Mantis is difficult.
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Even as an EB...
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Usually I keep my diff at 4, so I'm fighting EBs rather than AVs, but there have been two exceptions - Johnny Sonata's Soul on my MM, and Terra on my Scrapper.
In both cases I'd levelled up during the mission before I fought them, so I did have a 1 level advantage. So my questions are:
Does that 1 level make that much of a difference?
And are these two particular AVs uncharacteristically weak/easy?