Can Phantom Army tank LR on STF?

I'm no where near perma PA yet on my illu/rad troller, but this thought did occur to me.j If one player did get perma PAs, would it be possible for one illusion troller to keep Lord Reculuse tanked without risk to himself?

I know that when PA drops it usually transfers aggro to the troller if a tank doesn't have it, but if the PAs were perma, does this still happen?

Has anyone actually managed to successfully tank LR with Phantom Army?

If two illusionists are on the team, can they take turns to put PAs on LR to keep him tanked?

I would love to know if this is possible and a good tactic!

Not done it personally but Illu/Rad is pretty much the AV soloer... So can't imagine why not.

Maybe you could use broken placate proc to somehow keep the agro from yourself. ?? Just a thought.

2 can do it easily.

1 it is extremely difficult, mainly because when you recast, he will attack you for a second or two (even assuming you're perma), which is all he needs. The only time I've done it successfully with 1, we popped lots of purples during the recast.

As mentioned, two illusionists can easily tank LR by trading PA's. Advice is to not wait until the current PA is ending, but drop the next PA with at least a 10-15 second overlap to insure solid agro passing.

If solo, it's also possible to use the Phantasm decoy to tank LR for the few seconds it takes for PA to recharge (assuming no perma-PA). I've used it on LR for a couple of cycles, but it's extremely hard to keep going.

On our Guardian All Controller STFs we used 2 if not 3 Ill's to hold off LR. It works well but as people have said its best to overlap the aggro because even with perma you have to recast and unless something sturdy like a PA decoy is there to absorb you could get flattened.

For one of my MoSTF runs we used PA to tank LR until we had all of the towers down at which point an actual tank took over. To avoid problems when PA needed to be recast, several seconds before PA went down the entire team would flee far from LR's aggro range. Then the illusion troller would sneak back in, cast PA, and we would all return to beating up the tower, and when PA was about to drop, all flee again. Not the noblest tactic, perhaps, but it worked.

*shrug* ran a tankless STF, had PA on team, it helped for the most part. having 2 force field defs and a sonic def helped even more. team tanked LR as we attacked the towers, yellow tower can be cagged to nerf his ACC buff.