Rough draft of Master of statesman guide

STATESMAN
45 -50 ( preferred 47-50)
Team composition
1 Tanker – ( stone/stone highly recommended but anything is good)
2 Scrapper
3 Scrapper
4 Buff /debuff ( ice,sonic,dark,kin)
5 Buff /debuff ( ice sonic dark kin)
6 empath/thermal
7 Buff/Debuff (rad,dark,sonic)
8 Blaster or Kheld


Mission 1
45 Web Parts to Destroy – destroy all but leave 2 on ramp
Next to helicopter is a group of arachnos defeat all but leave one alive ( supposely ambush don’t come)
Two ways ive seen it done ( remember buff is your friend)
1 have everyone but tank behind helicopter have blaster kill final two web parts
2 have everyone wait in ramp out of line of sight let tank grab agroo first
Capture Arbiter Sands
Melee attack sands keep squishies and blaster away from aoe range

Mission 2
Capture Dr. Aeon
This is an unavoidable trap dr aeon has you trap after a cheesey cut scene stealth to ruined atlas map and tp team
Then in order
Defeat Mu'Drakhan
Defeat Korol
Defeat Shadow Spider
Defeat Viridian
Return Home – everyone open a oroborus portal stealth tper heads to mission door
Mission 3
Two part stealth tp to mission door from sub then stealth tp to tree
Be careful of crystals they knock out your stealth….
Defeat cot in clockwise circle
Vines to destroy: 88 – in same circle you made defeating cot go to left hand side middle. Tank goes south and everyone non tankish goes north meet at mouth of tree…
Breach Thorn Tree
Defeat the tree av and Tank
Take Nexus of Thorns
Mission 4
Find Real Security Chief – this is random we tried it different ways be sure to eliminate the ambushes
Once you have the keys
Defeat Silver Mantis
Defeat Barracuda
Defeat Ice Mistral
Defeat Wretch
Capture Dr. Aeon – this is where use nexus of thorn power tank goes in first grabs agroo
Then scrappers then debuff
Mission 5
When you pick up last mish be aware of time every 20 mins a flyer will spawn…
Clear ramps leading up to the inner circle once clear
Heres where most teams have trouble
Defeat Recluse's Inner Circle!
Strategy 1
Snipe them in order. Have a stealth team mate watching if more than one comes run to boat
Black Scorpion (Archvillain, level 54) – stay out of aoe range melee and tank close range
Scirocco (Archvillain, level 54) – same as black scorpion
Captain Mako (Archvillain, level 54) – once tank grabs agroo use debuff then same as with other two
Ghost Widow (Archvillain, level 54) – cm tank 16 times plus make sure tank has tier 3 insps-attack from behind
Ghost Widow - She has three means to healing herself on top of a high regeneration rate. The first is a minor PBAoE heal which can be overcome. The other two heals are ranged targeted heals that she will attempt to use on the person with aggro, but the range is fairly short on both. Have a tanker taunt her from range and attempt to keep away from her as best as they can staying at the maximum range of their taunt ability. Using hover or fly will not work since she also can fly. The second thing to watch out for with Ghost Widow is her hold which will break any tanker's normal mez protection. Stack as many buffs like Increased Density, Clear Mind, and Clarity as you can on the tanker, so it will prevent them from being held. [Note: Her Strongest hold is Mag 100]
Scirocco - He has some very nasty AoE attacks, so try to point his attacks away from anyone else in the group not trying to draw aggro. The best method is to corner pull him and have the tanker keep their back to a wall with Scirocco facing the wall and everyone else attacking from behind.
Black Scorpion - He is the most straightforward, but is a heavy hitter.
Captain Mako - Pound him down as much as you can. At low health he will hit Elude, which has no obvious effect. When you notice all your attacks being Avoided, shout out for your team to hit the Insights and Geas of the Kind Ones if they have it.
Strategy 2
Tank pulls empath keeps tank cmed and heal ( from distance) 3 of the avs will get tired kill the one that is left
This is dangerous on a master run
Defeat flyer when it respawns then count 20 mins from there

Defeat Lord Recluse
Tank taunts hold lord recluse emp cms tank and heals also rad puts one debuff on lord recluse
Most people like to take out yellow first I like red
Red NE of Recluse Power Generator Real Status Effect Bonus(Knockback, Disorient), +105% DMG(Smashing, Lethal, Energy), +105% Res(Smashing, Lethal, Energy) (hardcapped at 100%)
yellow SW of Recluse Dispersion Bubble Real +200% DEF(All) (hardcapped at 175%), +17.7 Protection(Hold, Immobilize, Disorient)
Green NW of Recluse Healing Pulse Healing, +MaxHP (hardcapped at 150% or 46015.73 hp), +2000% Regen
Blue SE of Recluse Temporal Manipulator +30% ToHit, +1000% Recharge (hardcapped at 400%), +200% Run Speed

If flyer respawned take it out if not head in After all 4 towers are down, the team can finally focus on Recluse himself. Tank and scrappers in melee range and ranged stay out of aoe range
Summon Army allows Lord Recluse to summon anywhere from 1-4 (or possibly more) Bane Spiders (usually bosses) who will rappel down from above. The power has a short timer which will allow Lord Recluse to literally flood his opponents with Bane Spiders if he is not defeated quickly. His Suppression uses a unique animation which is high damage all at once instead of being DoT like player and NPC Crab Spiders.
The end

Good write up, but for a MoSTF I would substitute a bubbler for one of those scrappers. Bubbles can easily be the difference between a compeled run and a random dead squishie. Also the other scrapper slot can easily be a second blaster. It is important to note that squishies need to stay out of melee, MoSTF's are a bad time to play blapper with the AV's powerful PBAoE attacks. Even scrappers can get smoked by those if they are not careful.

This sounds fun. I've never ran a STF. I hear they can be a pain. I have a few questions

How many merits?

Can a toon on this team be without IO sets and still manage to not suck on this TF? (Not that i would ever do that)

On virtue is there a specific time and date that a person forms this team up?

What's the estimated time given a team wipe or two?

cp2 I think you are confusing Master of Statesman TF with just a regular STF. Almost any build can do a regular STF, it's a fun TF that can be completed in a couple hours. The MoSTF is a badge given for a run through the task force with no temp powers and no defeats. That is much harder and more time consuming as you have to be more careful.

I would suggest doing a couple regular STF's before trying to get the master of badge.

Suggestions:
Describe the maps. ie: Second map is Cap. Last map is Grandville. That way even though who haven't done this before have some idea what to expect.
I would format differently with clear titles, but that is just me. It's fine even without that.

On LR, there was a big debate if the debuff on LR will trigger banes. It is thought that damage auras do and many teams avoid the debuff here. Most tanks are fine once the red tower is taken down.

Overall, very nice work here.

If you fail the requirements for the MotSF badge, can you still complete the TF for the regular level badge/merits?

And this is why I won't do master runs. I've team dropped twice after forming when the leader said it was going to be a master run. Once with my stone/ tank and once with my emp/ defender.

Decent write up. I disagree with some points mostly the team build up but to each their own. There are a few sticky spots you dont really touch on but as it says its a rough draft. There are a few other MoSTF guides on the virtue forums if they still exist. I recommend looking through them.

Most of my Master Runs were with Invulnerability Tankers and the rest were my Will Power tankers. Pretty much depending on the team composition, any tanker can tank a Master run. There are just too many variables involved to tell a player you need X to complete it successfully.

Ahhh Blazing has hit the nail on the head. Willing to LISTEN. That is far more important than what set they have. Unfortunately you cannot find that out with strangers until you get into the missions.

Some people are all about the badge and when that fails they get frustrated and bail out.

I was on that team as well and I agree I'd have liked to finish the TF. Unfortunately I got DC'd right after the death and by the time I logged back everyone else had quit. I'm of the opinion that even if you fail the master requirement at that point you might as well do the last misison, it's fun and gives people practice fighting the AVs which improves odds the next time.

I've only done this as an emp/rad, so if I can add one key point from my pov.

Make sure to CM everyone (or at the very least the squishies) during the Scirocco fight. His EMPulse will hit everyone, and while it might not kill on its own, it will stun folks not ready for it, which could set up for an unexpected kill.

If you have a rad blast secondary, for the love of god blast while fighting Mako, every little bit of -def helps on him. (Irradiate and Cosmic Burst especially, and what emp/rad doesn't take Cosmic Burst...)

The timer for the Flyer starts when the first person on the team enters the map. So mark that time down and defeat the Flyer just after 20 minutes are up. Then it won't spawn again for another 20 minutes. If you don't pay attention to the timer the Flyer can surprise you. Also after you defeat the flyer and are working on Recluse and the Towers watch the time or you will get another Flyer spawn at a point where you are deeply engaged.

Heh, no doubt on that. I was on a team and we mistimed the Flier. My tank ended up holding Recluse and the Flier while the team finished the last two towers. That was actually kind of fun.