I ended up filling this from coalition, and we had a fun time with it. We clocked in at 2:16 with 54 deaths (which was fine by me -- more Fallout!)
For anyone curious, here are the outcomes of the experiments:
Can we confuse the good doctor into being defeated by his own clone summon?
Yes. He has standard PToD protection, which is only 50 mag. Once he's confused, his spawn comes out confused and remains confused as long as he does. Sadly, they tend to wander off and kill each other rather than focusing on him.
Can any Patron stand up to Ghost Widow?
No-ish. We got fancy and tried confusing two (Widow and Scir.) She was on hew way to kicking his butt with nary a scratch on her when we lost confuse on Scir and ended up in a battle with all four Patrons. We ended up regrouping with them reset. We pulled three on the second try and with some coordination (and more deaths) we got them down.
If I do another run of this, I'll focus on keeping one confused or outlaw plant so we can have four confusers on each.
Can we confuse the towers? Do we get any buffs from doing so?
Yes, no. They have higher protection, but nothing we couldn't overcome. Confusing them just turned them off.
Can we make Recluse take out some towers? Can we get his bane spawn to attack him upon summon?
Sadly, no. Recluse has unique mez protection that drops the duration of mezzes hugely. The Power Analyzer window was a bit cryptic about this, but the confuses decayed quicker than I have seen on anything else out there.
Can the flier be confused? Will its spawn attack it, or does it follow ambush logic?
Yes, no. The flier was nothing special confuse-wise, but the spawns are treated like ambushes and thus not born confused.
Overall it was an enjoyable experiment, but I would probably suggest the All Confuse ITF over this one. There was nothing here that beat the joy of seeing Rommy take out all three Nicti for us.
This Saturday (4/24) at 11:00 PM Eastern (10:00 Central, 8:00 Pacific) I plan to run a Statesman Task Force focused on playing with stacked confuses. All level 45+ Mind controllers with Confuse, Illusion controllers with Deceive, and Plant controllers with Seeds of Confusion(*) are welcome to join. (*) Note that some experiments may demand only aggro-less confuses be used, so Plants may have to sit those out.
Having run all confuse ITFs and Lady Grays, I expect this will largely be a steamroll (eight controllers usually is,) with a few random breaks for fun experiments. Experiments I have in mind are:
- Can we confuse the good doctor into being defeated by his own clone summon?
- Can any Patron stand up to Ghost Widow?
- Can we confuse the towers? Do we get any buffs from doing so?
- Can we make Recluse take out some towers? Can we get his bane spawn to attack him upon summon?
- Can the flier be confused? Will its spawn attack it, or does it follow ambush logic?
(My guesses are yes, no, maybe, no, yes, maybe, no, and n/a.)I have four slots filled from Coalition, and am looking for four more brave and curious souls to join us. Respond here or PM me with your character name and sets if you are interested.
Current Roster:
1. @Flavorice - Addler - Level 50 Mind/Rad
2. Level 50 ILL/Kin
3. Level 50 Mind/Rad or Mind/Kin
4. Level 50 Ill/Rad or Mind/Emp
5. Level 50 Ill/Storm
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ETA - I snagged another Ill from coalition, so only three slots remain.