Rommy Busters: Imperious Task Force.

The Imperious Task Force, one of the most sought after task forces in all of CoX.

TEAM BUILD
To make a proper team for the ITF is not as hard as many people say. The most required is:

1. A Tanker [Stone or Invulnerablity]
2. A Kinetic
3. A Controller [storm, ice or fire]
4. a scrapper or 2 with high damage.

I did have a team on my sword/shield scrapper that had a purped SS/Shield tank and we didn't need a kin, but we did have like 4 scrappers on the team. The rest of the team can be anything. If you want extra buffs, grab a fortuna or a sonic.

Mission 1: The Guy's Mission.
This mission has a large ammount of fan boyss for obvious reasons.

This mission is pretty simple, take out the mobs, grab the ladies then go out the other door and rescure their leader. After rescuing said leader, bring her to the oracle. The best method is for the Tank to do what he does best with everybody aiding him, in fact, this works best for alot of the missions. The final fight takes place while the pretty lady is talking to Phobas or whatever. Just wait for her to shut up, then leave.

Mission 2- Nictus Ned's Revenge

This mission is pretty tricky. Use the same strategy but, kill the surrounding nictus BEFORE destroying the crystals. Then, brace yourselves for ambush. if you encounter a room with multiple crystals, use this tactic for faster results. Kill all the Nictus then have the Tank and Kin and Trollers await the ambush while the rest of the team bashes the crystals, then rushes to aid. This is actualy a simple mission, but it gets harder.

Mission 3: Unleash the Horde!

Ok, its more upbeat this point on. Skip or fight the mobs and head to either the bridge or the beach next to it then pull the generals and their mobs to the tank. The last general is near Romulus,so wait for him. Skip the level and head straight for the last area. Destroy the Phalanx controls. Do this by having the melee fighters in the middle smashing the box and have the ones with debuffs,slows,hold [w/e] holding the bots, they hit hard. OR have the tank keep bot aggro while he smashes the box and keep the heals up. After that, pull Requiem and then Romulus down and take them out and thats it. IF you want, you can hack the turret consoles for a small ammount extra firepower. The consoles are located in the small buildings near the Giant Gold Robots.[ near the top]

MISSION 4!!!: Bringing Annoying Back
This is it, the last and hardest level of the Imperious Task Force. Masterminds, pets away.

Start off the mission by clearing the bridge and the following ambushes so that you dont end up with soldiers in your corpse's face when you zone in. Then, skip to Romulus, theres a short cutscene depicting his romantic interest with a Nictus coming to a climax. After the cutscene, kill the guards in the main square, but dont pull the big guy yet. Then, theres two eliteboss mobs next to him. if you have a good pull, pull them down. Then, go after Mr. Purple.

Supposedly there is a belief that you can seperate Romulus from theNictus AVs and fight him only once. Let me tell you right now, That..is...Bull <censored>. I cannot stress how many teams have tried it that have failed. It isn't worth it, get over yourself. To defeat Romulus, have the tank keep aggro on the Nictus and Rommy. Just Support the tank and hit romulus with everything you have, and HEAL. Romulus will respawn 3 times by sacrificing one of the nictus next to him, so the fight could, from a point of view, become easier proggressively. Just remember to smack Romulus. The Nictus next to him will each provide him with a certain bonus. They are pets with Powers. One nictus can summon a horde, the other can heal, and the last is a combat aid. After sacrificing themselves, there is a large shockwave, so when he dies, try to stay back or youll be stunned. After beating the snot out of him for the last time, kill the 300 spartans the quest requires and there you go, the ITF is complete. Phew.

Return to Imperious and say goodbye, then go to Icon and claim your reward, roman armor and weapons.

Guide by Black Mercenary.

This has been a basic guide with basic strategies for taking down romulus.

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What else do you want?

Don't need any of those ATs. You can get this done with pretty much anything. ITF's been soloed, run by all-scrapper teams, all blaster teams, et cetera. You can split Rommie off and fight him just once; I've done it. No LoS, no rez. You can avoid the stun by breaking LoS. Lots of ways to beat Rommie. Depending on your team makeup, bumrushing him might be best, or you might be better off peeling the healing nictus away to kill Rommie faster.

There's no detail in this guide. A person running the ITF for the first time would gain nothing from this guide. What about the Kheld boss ambushes at the oracle? What about the Nictus crystals exploding and killing people? What about Lag Valley? What about handling the ambushes that show up during the final battle with Rommie? You don't mention the myriad of alternate strategies for some of the missions. This is a bad guide.

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Besides all the faults of this guide mentioned above, add to it:

1. Telling MMs to put their pets away is just uninformed. I lead ITFs with my MM.

2. There are tricks for the Generals mentioned in other guides which you don't know about, for example, only one of the Generals requires also defeating his surrounding spawn.

3. There are some teams which are truly incapable of generating enough DPS to overcome the Healing Nictus's heals. So, separating Rommy from the Healer is necessary and relatively easy. Once he's more than 30' away, he's outside the heal range. So, you get whomever Rommy is attacking move in one direction while whomever the Healer is attacking move in the opposite. Very, very simple as long as your teammate's understand not to pull them too far apart, lest the Healer run back to Rommy.

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Also, I have done the "pull Rommy" and fight him once. Sorry, no pics (so it didn't happen), but here's what I can tell you:
1. We did the initial ambush, then skipped to Rommy.
2. Somehow Imperious managed to live and followed us all the way to the end.
3. We had aggro control on one Nictus, Impy on the other Nictus, and everyone else pulling Rommy away and pounding on him. We did get him stuck in a corner (I want to say near the staircases on each side of the main platform), so that might have limited his mobility.
4. I was healing Impy so he would continue to hold aggro and keep the Nictus away from Rommy.
5. Eventually the team took out Rommy, and he disappeared just like any other mob. No rezzing.

Of course, this did leave us with three other freaking annoying AV Nicti that we had to take out, which presented its own challenges.

In short, perfectly possible to defeat Rommy only once, but sort of situational & there are other methods to victory which are easier to reproduce.

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I have successfully tanked the ITF on a tanker with every tanker primary. I have also tanked the ITF on a /Willpower and an /Invuln brute, and a number of scrappers have acted as "main tank" for the AV fights, including non-aggro-managing builds like a regen and a reflex scrapper. Neither Stone nor Invulnerability are necessary.

Kinetics are not necessary; they are only needed for quality of life if you have a Stone tanker. Otherwise, Kinetics can be dangerous, especially if you fight to Rommie over the bridges, which is how I prefer to do it. More useful buff sets are Force Fields and Sonic. But the number one consideration for strategy is whether you have a Rad debuffer or not.

With practice, it just isn't that hard.

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Benumb Romy, kill him 4x with zerg rush.

This team I'm sure would work but colds are the best way to kill Romy fast.

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Why does it matter if you have a Rad or a tank or any other AT/Powerset for that matter?

I have done ITF's with every team makeup possible and never failed. To say that any one powerset or AT is needed is ludicrous. Cold does a gret job of debuffing. So does Thermal. And Pain. Just about any At/Powerset can tank on with the right setup. There are a few exceptions to that, but my regular group goes without a tank fairly regularly with a Kinetics doing the tanking chores. Does he die once in a while? Yes, but it's doesn't happen often. And no he is not Purpled out. I don't think he has a single Purple set in his build.

For that matter debuffing isn't a must have at all. Get one toon to move the healing Nictus away from Rommy and beat him down with sheer damage. Not that hard, nor does it take much longer. About 10 minutes longer max for all four fights than having a debuffer.

Another strategy that works is to have a tank hold Rommy and blast away from range. Works quite well if everyone but the tank is out of the range of the healing nictus.

One of these days maybe folks will get it through their noggins that there is no one set strategy needed to successfully do a Task/Strike Force/Trial. There are strategies that make it easier, but there is always more than one way to win. All it takes is thinking about how the game behaves and the tools that are provided.

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Also, I have done the "pull Rommy" and fight him once. Sorry, no pics (so it didn't happen), but here's what I can tell you:
1. We did the initial ambush, then skipped to Rommy.
2. Somehow Imperious managed to live and followed us all the way to the end.
3. We had aggro control on one Nictus, Impy on the other Nictus, and everyone else pulling Rommy away and pounding on him. We did get him stuck in a corner (I want to say near the staircases on each side of the main platform), so that might have limited his mobility.
4. I was healing Impy so he would continue to hold aggro and keep the Nictus away from Rommy.
5. Eventually the team took out Rommy, and he disappeared just like any other mob. No rezzing.

Of course, this did leave us with three other freaking annoying AV Nicti that we had to take out, which presented its own challenges.

In short, perfectly possible to defeat Rommy only once, but sort of situational &amp; there are other methods to victory which are easier to reproduce.

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QFT

This happened by accident this past weekend on a run. I would not wish this on anyone. It was very difficult separating the 3 nictus at that point but was eventually done, but added about 20 min to the TF.

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Mission 1: The Guy's Mission.
This mission has a large ammount of fan boyss for obvious reasons.

This mission is pretty simple, take out the mobs, grab the ladies then go out the other door and rescure their leader. After rescuing said leader, bring her to the oracle. The best method is for the Tank to do what he does best with everybody aiding him, in fact, this works best for alot of the missions. The final fight takes place while the pretty lady is talking to Phobas or whatever. Just wait for her to shut up, then leave.



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I feel dumber for having read this.

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I was in an All Kheldian ITF that went surprisingly well, so essentially, the only trick I have to share about the ITF, is that no matter what team composition you have with you, there are always several ways to defeat the ITF without too much fuss. Just decide on a strategy, who does what, and go to town...

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The Imperious Task Force, one of the most sought after task forces in all of CoX.

TEAM BUILD
To make a proper team for the ITF is not as hard as many people say. The most required is:

1. A Tanker [Stone or Invulnerablity]
2. A Kinetic
3. A Controller [storm, ice or fire]
4. a scrapper or 2 with high damage.


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This week I've led two all-troller/dom ITFs and an all defender/corruptor ITF on Virtue. I think that shoots holes in your team build right there. It's more important to have a team of players who are all paying attention and on the same page than trying to fit your idea of what is needed for an ITF team.

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Start off the mission by clearing the bridge and the following ambushes so that you dont end up with soldiers in your corpse's face when you zone in. Then, skip to Romulus, theres a short cutscene depicting his romantic interest with a Nictus coming to a climax. After the cutscene, kill the guards in the main square, but dont pull the big guy yet. Then, theres two eliteboss mobs next to him. if you have a good pull, pull them down. Then, go after Mr. Purple.

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Not every team skips to Rommy. Personally I'd rather fight my way there via the road to the left. That's how I lead my teams and I'm not the only one.

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Supposedly there is a belief that you can seperate Romulus from theNictus AVs and fight him only once. Let me tell you right now, That..is...Bull &lt;censored&gt;. I cannot stress how many teams have tried it that have failed. It isn't worth it, get over yourself. To defeat Romulus, have the tank keep aggro on the Nictus and Rommy. Just Support the tank and hit romulus with everything you have, and HEAL. Romulus will respawn 3 times by sacrificing one of the nictus next to him, so the fight could, from a point of view, become easier proggressively. Just remember to smack Romulus. The Nictus next to him will each provide him with a certain bonus. They are pets with Powers. One nictus can summon a horde, the other can heal, and the last is a combat aid. After sacrificing themselves, there is a large shockwave, so when he dies, try to stay back or youll be stunned. After beating the snot out of him for the last time, kill the 300 spartans the quest requires and there you go, the ITF is complete. Phew.

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You can separate Rommy from the Nictus. I've seen it. Sometimes it even happens by accident. The all-corr/def team I led last night even killed the healer first, from range, to keep from having to deal with it.

Sometimes pets are a problem with giving more bodies to feed the healer, yes, this part is true, but only to a point. If they're MM pets that have ranged attacks (led by an MM who has a clue), it's not so much an issue though.

Now before anyone says that Control pets can never be a problem, the tipping point in one all-troller/dom ITF was one fire/rad's imps. She summoned them while we were mowing Rommy down and his HP started jumping up faster than we damaged him again. She unsummoned them when I mentioned it, and we were again outdamaging the healer nictus' ability to keep Rommy alive. He fell over again soon after.

So I'm not sayin' never use 'em, I'm just sayin' to monitor the situation, you know?

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The definition of a "proper" team is certainly debatable.

Thanks for taking the time to compile an outdated guide.

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your welcome.

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Whose welcome? His!?

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