Rising to the Challenge (Katana/WP)


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Thanks guys!!!

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I wanna try this on my kat/wp - how exactly did you take out the final av spawn? You fought rommy and his nicti (is it nicti?... lol) all at once or did you seperate them? If all at once, what did you kill first? I'm suprised you had the dmg to take down anything with that healer nictus in there.
Just got lucky I guess. I was able to pull off Rommy without his bodygaurds following. You know for some reason the AV's I fought was level 51's, even the 2 at the 3rd mish. The last fight against Rommy must have been 1 hour, though to be fair I had to step away for about 10 minutes in the middle of it. Just set DA on auto and did what I had to do.

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And yes, her battlecry is "Up. Up. Down. Down. Left. Right. Left. Right. B. A. B. A. Start." and no, I didn't forget Select between the last A and Start. I never coop played Contra because people always stole the scattergun.
Ohhhh I think I teamed with Cheat Code before. I remember telling someone that they are missing a "select" in there somewhere. I think it might have been you ...


 

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Level 51 is the normal minimum level for these AVs.


 

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Ohhhh I think I teamed with Cheat Code before. I remember telling someone that they are missing a "select" in there somewhere. I think it might have been you ...
Quite possibly. Sajitera and her alts and me and my alts are quite open to inviting anyone and everyone who wants to come on our missions regardless of level, sg or AT, so we team with a lot of people!

A few people have told me I forgot the "select" in that. I should make a bind indicating why I skipped it


 

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Glad you guys like the name I thought it was appropriate for an /SR and since I only made her like a year ago, I'm very surprised the name wasn't taken.

And yes, her battlecry is "Up. Up. Down. Down. Left. Right. Left. Right. B. A. B. A. Start." and no, I didn't forget Select between the last A and Start. I never coop played Contra because people always stole the scattergun.
Lol! Classic! Reminds of the ol days:

30 men on contra

100 men, fire power when little, making the princes/mushroom retainer talk to herself, and jumping over the flag pole in super mario bros.

Defeating the bosses with one bomb in Blaster Master.

Ahh good times.


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Originally Posted by Nihilii View Post
Level 51 is the normal minimum level for these AVs.
Never really pay attention on the levels, but I think I've seen them at 50's or my memory is just failing me here.


 

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I think you probably have seen them at 50 a few weeks ago during the bug that made rep affect AVs (same as in STF, level 54s going to 50). That's why we're stuck with rep not affecting TFs at all now...


 

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That could have been it then


 

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Way to go, very impressive! I couldn't get Rommy at the end of the ITF with Actin without using the Wedding Band and orange inspirations (according to my calculations, Echo Wedding Band + BioNuke + Oranges should work too, making it "repeatable").

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I still can't believe I got the name Clawls on a toon just the other day.


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Haha! Nice find!


 

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I've got to say though...
Outside of some heavy debuffing crowds, this is probably the toughest scrapper I have yet, and I got a few of them.
Just took down a Pylon with 2 RWZ Challenge spawns on top of me. Sure it took me roughly 30 minutes, those darn slows messin up my attack chain, but I got it done


 

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Nice!

Remember how that was originally proposed as a joke? Hahahahahahah!

So are you the first to do that? I'm thinking so, but my memory sucks. Wait, did Powerforge do it?

I was hoping that Alexei could pull it off. That joke of a challenge was one of my motivations when I built him. But there's no way, not after I saw how he performed with "just" the two RWZ challenge spawns. I just don't have that combination of hit points and resistance required to handle huge bursts of damage. There's just too much luck involved for me, which is GOING to give out in a 30 minute fight.


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Nice!

Remember how that was originally proposed as a joke? Hahahahahahah!
I do remember us saying "see, tanks should do the 2xSpawn RWZ challenge, since that's obviously something out of reach for scrappers" or somesuch. Ah, good times.


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Iggy broke the game again. Right on.


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Originally Posted by Aliana Blue View Post
I do remember us saying "see, tanks should do the 2xSpawn RWZ challenge, since that's obviously something out of reach for scrappers" or somesuch. Ah, good times.
I think Tanks DID adopt the 2xRWZ challenge as one of their tests since the RWZ challenge was too easy for Tanks.

What I'm thinking I remember (though my memory sucks, so maybe my subconscious is just making it up and pretending it's memory), is someone in jest suggesting that we go solo a pylon with two RWZ challenge spawns beating on us. This would be back when the RWZ challenge was considered hard, and taking down a pylon was at the high end of DPS. So I think it was in the Scrappers bragging about both stage. And I think the pylon->2xRWZ was sort of a response to the bragging, "Oh, yeah? Then why don't you do this?" It was obviously impossible at the time, so much so as to be a joke. I remember what I thought was JUST in the realm of possibility at the time was to solo a pylon with a single RWZ challenge spawn beating on you, and I think I mentioned it, and I'm not sure how many people believed it could be possible. I made a number of attempts on Sergei, but the closest I came was having the Pylon down to 25%.

Flash forward to the present, and...

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Iggy broke the game again. Right on.
LOL. Yeah.


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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
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Iggy broke the game again. Right on.
This!



So Iggy, what super mind blowing accomplishment do you have planned for us to achieve now?


 

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17 AVs at once, because anything beyond that doesn't matter


 

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Meh. Come back when you solo'd a MoSTF.


 

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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
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Iggy broke the game again. Right on.

Nah... Just the right build in the right situation



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Originally Posted by Werner View Post
I think Tanks DID adopt the 2xRWZ challenge as one of their tests since the RWZ challenge was too easy for Tanks.

What I'm thinking I remember (though my memory sucks, so maybe my subconscious is just making it up and pretending it's memory), is someone in jest suggesting that we go solo a pylon with two RWZ challenge spawns beating on us. This would be back when the RWZ challenge was considered hard, and taking down a pylon was at the high end of DPS. So I think it was in the Scrappers bragging about both stage. And I think the pylon->2xRWZ was sort of a response to the bragging, "Oh, yeah? Then why don't you do this?" It was obviously impossible at the time, so much so as to be a joke. I remember what I thought was JUST in the realm of possibility at the time was to solo a pylon with a single RWZ challenge spawn beating on you, and I think I mentioned it, and I'm not sure how many people believed it could be possible. I made a number of attempts on Sergei, but the closest I came was having the Pylon down to 25%.
Aid Self on my Claws/SR just takes a big chunk off of my damage. Attempted a pylon with 1 RWZ challenge spawn a few times with no success. My BS/Inv might be able to do the pylon with 1 RWZ spawn (no self heal), but his damage is just too low to keep me interested.



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Meh. Come back when you solo'd a MoSTF.
Sounds like you don't want me coming back...
But that would be some thing to see wouldn't it?


 

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Pretty impressive! Nice work.

What's crazy is how eerily close my build is to your non purple build, just a few slot and power differences, hmmmmmm.


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Meh. Come back when you solo'd a MoSTF.
Sounds like you don't want me coming back...
But that would be some thing to see wouldn't it?
Nah. You keep defying the limits of scrapperly potential, and I'll keep snarking 'cuz... well, I'm sure there's a reason.

On the MoSTF front, a few years ago (Back when we still had old MoG.) a poster asked about soloing it, using temps and inspirations, and anything else they could get their hands on. Consensus stated that if they could get half way through, it'd be an achievement, but I don't recall hearing if it actually happened or not. Feeling lucky?


 

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With insps/temps, luck and patience I can see a fire/shield doing it.

Biggest problem is taking the towers down, as if LR kills you while you've got one tower to half or less, the repairmen will not only repair that tower but also run to other broken towers and rebuild these. It's possible in theory, but it's also possible the amount of luck required to make this work would make it impossible in practice.

Patrons shouldn't be too much trouble, as long as you can pull them one by one. You're doing 45% of your normal damage against +4s, but can buff yourself to the damage cap which is almost twice as much as usual ; then there's also shivans and -res nukes (although you probably don't want to use shivans against GW).

Frankly, the biggest hurdle is having to get 7 fillers (including one who stays on team) to start the TF. Not only it's annoying, but it also severely limits the amount of experimenting you can do. If we could start TFs solo, a scrapper would probably beat it in a few months.


 

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If you want to try it, Iggy, look me up in game. I'll be a placeholder for you.


 

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I don't even think its possible for a solo scrapper to complete a regular STF let alone a MoSTF. I could totally see LR taking my new shiny sword, putting it side ways and sticking it up my... well lets not get in to too much details here
I'm up for giving it a shot someday though (even though I know its gonna be a big failure)... packing a whole lot of ins/temps with free refills. Probably not anytime soon, as for some reason this month has just been a bit busy



And thanks for the offer Gibson


 

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Holy crap! I've teamed with greatness!


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