Hey dude: don't look now, but Chimera is a defense-debuffing AV.
His Katana attacks, specifically.
He mostly just stood there and shot his arrows at me, pretty basic really. I know the tougher ones are coming.
Yeah, he falls in love with his bow, even at melee range. He's channeling his inner Manticore, which is sad, because he alone among the Praetorians has the potential to be much more dangerous than his Paragon City counterpart.
Anyway grats.
Chimera is interesting. I've fought him a few times, and his behavior seems to differ every time. When I first faced him alone, he used his bow exclusively up until about half health, at which point he surprised me with really heavy hitting katana attacks. I died since I had no Divine Avalanche stacks up, being unaware that he even used melee attacks. I tried him again and he used his bow almost 100% of the time, even in melee range, and gave me little issue.
When I soloed 4 AVs at once, he sat in the back hitting me fairly often with his bow while I defeated the other three AVs. When I went into melee range with him though, he used his Katana probably a good 75% of the time, and I ended up near death more times facing him alone then I did when all four AVs were up.
Anyway, congrats on the AV kill 
Being as though you are doing non-lethal damage, you will find that many AVs can fall to you pretty quickly. Combine that with /SD as a secondary and First Aid built in there, and you'll find your character his pretty high potential. Good luck!
Gratz!
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I noticed this too. I didn't exactly do any scientifically accurate testing, but it seems to me that in the first mission of Maria's arc, Chimera only uses his bow. In the mission to defeat Chimera that isn't in her arc, he used his bow and katana equally. When I tried him out in AE, he used only his sword and downed me in about 4 attacks (3 times >.< ). I realize that it's all the same NPC, but it seems like he has different preferences for fighting depending on the mission.|
Originally Posted by ValBlademaster
Chimera is interesting. I've fought him a few times, and his behavior seems to differ every time.
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Also, congratz to you, Crush, and welcome to the club.
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I got my fire/sd mostly IO'd up and got really bored today farming the wall, so I decided to see if I was up to the task of soloing an AV with no temps and no insps. I grabbed the Oro arc from Maria Jenkins and set off to take out Chimera (why do I always think of Mission Impossible when I am fighting him.) Lo and behold about 6ish minutes later, Chimera was no more. I used no temps or inspirations and used aid self twice. I have no purples and just slightly under the softcap for all positions. I'm not sure I would have the end to pull it off against a defense debuffing AV due to needing to keep grant cover up, but I guess I will see.
I used one minion to fuel AAO and never seriously had questions once I started whittling him down. I guess now I will try a pylon or something.