Almost solod Barracuda AV on my Huntsman without even trying

So I get this mission from Scirocco to go beat up Barracuda, who happens to be located on this longbow boat. I get to the mission and realize I forgot to lower my difficulty. I floated around with my Raptor pack until I found her standing there, talking smack.

She is an AV so I figure I'll just float on over and let her kill me so I can reset the mish on a lower diff. I notice she's kind of missing me a lot. What the heck! I pop a purple, summon my two Arachnobots and start blasting. Cycling my ST attacks with BU and Surveillance when they are up, I last a really long time! I had a decent number of purples, but no greens and only a few blues. I kept a purple going at all times, getting by on my regen alone.

I get her down to about 30% health before she gets lucky and nails me. I am absolutely convinced if I had some greens and more purples I could have gone the distance with her. This is on a build with nothing but some common IOs and SOs, and not anywhere near built for sustaining an AV battle.

She must be an easy AV, but either way, I was really impressed with what my huntsman was capable of against a single hard target. I usually just fight on teams and use my AoEs.

Yes, hunstman is shorthand for a wolf build that takes a few of the bane tricks. If you're interested, an extremely good guide to the huntsman can be found here.

Interesting because Ive always found barracuda to be a total ***** to fight.

Though, I think she is psy damage so shed be a good choice for a veat to fight.