Winter Lord

Is it possible to spawn him solo?

Difficulty and/or team size and/or # of players in the zone/area doesn't seem to matter at all.

I just spawned him solo while alone (as far as I could tell) in Nerva. Then I pulled him to the AE building to drone him, and the portal gift appeared where he originally spawned.

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Cool, thanks.

The Winter Lord doesn't seem to leave once he is spawned. I went to Faultline to grab presents and start collecting CC's and there was a Winter Lord spawned down near the dam. I ran the circut for about 2 hours and he was still there at the same spot when I logged off.

Okay, I understand that if you beat the city-zone Winter Lord GM, he drops a present, which a few minutes later you can click on to go to the Winter Realm. There's a timed event there to beat the Lord of Winter GM (or is he just called Winter Lord again? I don't remember), but how the heck are you supposed to deal with all the "Northern Lights" spawns? I swear, I targeted one of them and it was "Unaffected" by everything I did. (Okay, it's possible that was from when the Winter Lord was phased out.)

Was I missing something?

Oh, and what do you get if you beat the GM in the Winter Realm? Just more merits?

Beating the Winter Realm GM gives you 8 merits, 20 candy canes, and a badge. If you've got time left over, you can swat the Frostlings in the area for more candy canes.

What about the Winter Guardians in the realm? Do they have taken out in order to inflict damage of the Lord of Winter?

When the Lord of Winter is phased, it's because the Guardian has phased him out, you have to find the Guardian and defeat him, the Guardian will phase out LoW 3 times 75%, 50%, and 25%

With how few toons can you handle Lord Winter and his Guardians? Is it any idea to do it with just a 8-man team?

Yesterday when I did it on Freedom we were around 50 heroes

And whats up with the co-op zone dialog in the Winter Realm? Can you get in there from, say, RWZ and do it together with Villains?

It runs from a couple of the PVP zones, Bloody Bay at least, I think.

I gathered a team of 8 (grabbed 7 friendly fillers) and ran around the remote corners of IP opening presents to spawn him yesterday.

It's not an easy fight if you want to solo him. He likes to spam summon minions, lieuts and bosses who also have the GM code (ie are even con to you)

We beat LORD WINTER with 9 people last night on Virtue coming out of Skyway City. I had my lvl 50 Ill/rad, my lvl 33 cold defender was dual box following. Basically no offense from her, just spamming benumb and heat loss. I know we had a lvl 50 archer. (cant remember if TA/A or Arch/?? blaster.) Must have been a pretty optimal team since we beat him with only 9.

A nine person team would certainly be something to see.

I guess the "Live test" for the winter event ended. When is the Ski Chealet expected to reopen?

We took him out with 11 people last night. Took us forever in Talos on Justice to get those 3 other people to join us. One of our blasters got bored and sniped him before we were fully ready and we didn't have any debuffs that I could see. He went down slowly but surely until he passed on and the portal present spawned.

Of course then the area became a mass of people trying to get in... the bums... wouldn't help take him down but they sure could show up and push their way to the front after the portal spawned.

Once we figured out the trick with the Guardians phasing the Winter Lord, the event in his realm became a snap. We ignored the northern lights and other spawns in the area until after the Lord was down. All in all, a fun event and we had a great time.

With enough people, ignoring the northern lights works. The smaller the group, though, the bigger priority they become.

Because once they get established on smaller sized groups, they become a huge pain.