Solo Defenders - What Difficulty Settings Do You Use?

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For all you solo 'fenders, what difficulty settings do you run at while solo?

I'm currently running my 40 (just hit) Traps/Ice at +1/6 and will likely be trying to +1/8 since I just capped my AoE defense and got a couple percent melee with the last three slots (six-slotted Siphon Insight). I haven't tried +2s yet.

Well, the 28 dark/psi and the 32 storm/dark usually solo at the base difficulty since neither one of them really has enough slots for their stuff yet. Eventually I expect both to be able to solo higher settings, but at the moment it's a mite tedious to kill lots of foes on them. Slotted lightning storm and life drain should help change that on the storm/dark, and getting the two AoEs and the rest of the blasts fully slotted out should help for the dark/psi.

My 50 FF/nrg is softcapped to ranged and could run on high settings quite safely. However, his killspeed is not the greatest even with all the blasts well-slotted, so I leave him at base when I solo him. He can kill stuff fine, but it takes long enough that I'd rather not load down his missions with extra foes.

Level 50 Emp/Electric ; +1/x2 No Bosses Solo at level 50 missions

+3/x1 w/Bosses and +1/x3 No Bosses are my top levels of successful soloing. They were far from comfortable though. Which is why I generally stick with +1/x2 for a slightly higher drop rate.

Still working 3 more defenders up through the ranks, so will be awhile before I can speak about them.

Varies quite a bit even when talking the same character depending on my mood, goals and the foe(s) at the time. Reyna (Emp/Rad/Dark) was at one point soloing Guassians RWZ arc on Unyielding until I ran into Lt Sefu at which point I went for Shivans, got distracted by something else and never got back to the mission till a long time later and ended up doing it with a team at that point.

Both Reyna and Tryth can if I'm in the mood for it solo vs higher foe levels .. numbers (of foes) can get a bit more problematic when combined with higher lvls. Tryth (in her solo build) has taken on a mob of lvl 53 Rikti, RWZ challenge style, successfully but wouldn't dream of doing it if she couldn't get airborne and hover blast them. 54's, so far, have been beyond her, too much mez and not enough damage output. Planning a respec into Electrical Mastery and having another go at the lvl 54's again. Tryth in particular can take on quite a bit more if she can get airborne. Generally for normal missions I prefer more lesser foes so lean towards +1/x4 (or more) so sounds very similar to Biospark. My other defenders rarely solo, mostly by choice, as I've other characters I'll grab if no teams are to be had.

Reyna Morningdew (Emp/Rad/Dark) and Tryth (Emp/Sonic/Dark)

On my L50 Dark/Dark/Power, I solo non-mez-heavy stuff on +2/x6. On stuff that has a lot of mez I have to back the numbers down. In fact I usually back down to x1 for Rikti (who mez, resist my weak hold, and see through my stealth), but I normally stay on +2 levels. I leave bosses in, but normally run with AVs off unless I'm feeling particularly adventurous.

On my Dark/Psi/Psy I usually stay around +2/x4, because her AoE potential is weaker and she isn't as good at rooting everything in one place.

On my defender I usually just do base difficulty with bosses turned on. Only time I play him solo is when there's new content that I want to go through to see the story.

It really depends on what defender I'm playing.

My Emp/Energy soloed on invincible, though not too often, it was mostly a "hey, look what I can do"

my TA/A really likes -1 or +0/ 6-8 no bosses, Rain of Arrows is so wonderful with that.

my rad/son usually will do +2-+3/2 no bosses

I run at -1/x1

39 Traps/Elec +4x1 since mid 20's, same with my Traps/Sonic

I used to run my FF/Sonic and Kin/Elec Defenders on Invincible, or +2/x1 as we now call it.

I tried running my new-ish level 17 FF/Energy Defender through the "Rescue Lady Grey" mission in the Midnight arc at +1/x1 and found that way too brutal.

Thanks UberGuy !

Glad you explained this to me.

My "gut" feeling was that Invincible was harder than +2/x1, but maybe that was because you had no choice of Bosses on the old settings. +2/x1 no Bosses is a very different animal than +2/x1 with Bosses.

Even so, I feel pretty darn happy with my empath being capable of +3/x1 with Bosses(No AVs).
In my mind I have been equating that to "Invincible". Hehe

I do -1/x8 on my TA/A. I like purplez.

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+0 x 7 sometimes with, sometimes without bosses on my 50 kin/ice.

THis is my first character that has been any good. Can solo quite well due to TP Foe, enabling me to pick off the hard guys in a mob. I have no idea what difficulty settings I have at present I will have to check, but here is a pic of my current stats. Level 14 and capped due to trial account.
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