Pointers for defeating Reichsman in Kahn's TF?

My friends and I have made the (apparently unwise) attempt to play Dr. Kahn's TF - we've got four players: A tank (INV/BA), a scrapper (MA/Shield), a defender (Psi/Empathy), and a blaster (Fire/Fire) - all level 50.

We've gotten all the way through the TF, and to the final fight - and absolutely cannot defeat Reichsman: we can tank him almost indefinately, but can only bring his hit points down when we've got four shivans out also beating on him. We got him down to just about 60% before running out of shivans (we each started the fight with a fresh shard with 5 shivans) - once we ran out, we couldn't make any headway.

Any advice? Our plan is for every one of us to get a full round of nukes (all 3 per character) and try the mission again - but any additional advice would be appreciated...

such as...

Anyone got a link to a guide that would be useful?

Obviously the dimensional ray makes it so that you *can* hurt him - but does it serve any other purpose - is it only useful to hit him once and then just attack normally, or does it do *anything else* that might be useful to know (for example, any point later in the fight, that perhaps we didn't get to, where we'd want to use the ray again)?

Any other advice?

That team is going to have issues.

Half you damage is smashing/lethal which he resists heavily and you have no -regen

Honestly your best option I would say is quit and grab an extra debuffer or two.

Warburg nukes if you don't want to restart

Full set on each of you.

That will allow you to keep yourselves and your shivans buffed for 20 minutes (Very heavily buffed), and Reichsman debuffed. If you have the vanguard merits you might want to bring in a vanguard mech.

The good news is that Reichsman isnt particularly resistant to psi to begin with, so the buff from the biological mutagens should be very good.

Edit: The base empowerment buff for increasing attack speed is also good, and bringing all the insps you can to with it. All that will boost your damage output will it be enough can't say. I like to keep a bio and a chemical handy just on general principles, they have saved what would have been failed tfs for me.

I think, there was a post from Horatio, where he stated that you need to hit Reichsman with Grounding Ray only once, to prevent him from using his t9

Interesting. I wish I'd known that before the TF, I would've taken some screenshots and filed a bug report.

Heck, Shivans aside that 4some might have trouble with most normal AV's. In fights like that -resist and -regen are your friends, and you brought neither.

In my experience, +dmg is more effective on Reichsman than -res. His resists are so high, the -res is largely neutered. Have taken him down much faster w/ a kin than a sonic. In a red-side run in which we were having difficulty, we had everyone fill their tray with large reds, popping 3-4 at a time. The extra damage tipped the scales and he went down fairly quickly.

Kinetics has -Regeneration in Transfusion too, something Sonic doesn't provide for a team. Factoring that out, it'd be interesting to see what meant the most.