pretty sure there was a dude who soloed the entire itf on a fire/fire, name slips my mind atm (sorry, =/)
MM would be good cuz of the -regen but so long as you have a high dps ST chain, which there has been someone to do that for every set, you're golden. its less of a set issue and more of a build one.
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Kranik did the ITF solo.
I run the risk of being labeled a groupie, but I think Silverado might be the best Blaster AV soloer. =)
I'm just waiting on the new Incarnate levels to see what awesome screenshots and vids people create. I want to see a blaster solo Reichsman including all 4 backup AVs. heh.
Would never want to do it myself, but I'd love to see someone pull it off.
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I assume he dumped a bunch of temp powers on Romulus? I doubt any character has the damage to solo him without some serious debuffs like Shivans and nukes...
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Originally Posted by DarkInvado
Kranik did the ITF solo.
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Don't recall precisely, but I believe he sniped the Healing Nictus to death first (without aggroing their buddies, which you can apparently do to the Nicti despite their close proximity), in large part thanks to a truckload of red insps. Once Romulus' backup was down, Romulus himself shouldn't have been ALL that ugly; a number of blasters around here have proven capable of soloing AVs at some speed or other, even without inspirations, and Romulus doesn't have any damage resistances to trip you up other than his crazy healing nictus buddy.|
Originally Posted by StrykerX
I assume he dumped a bunch of temp powers on Romulus? I doubt any character has the damage to solo him without some serious debuffs like Shivans and nukes...
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Then again, stunts like this generally are being pulled off by highly maxed-out builds chugging inspirations like they are going out of style. I would hardly call AV-soloing normal for a blaster, let alone ITF-soloing.
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Originally Posted by StrykerX
I assume he dumped a bunch of temp powers on Romulus? I doubt any character has the damage to solo him without some serious debuffs like Shivans and nukes...
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Soloing AVs is not as difficult as it seems, the real challenge is soloing GMs without any temp powers or large inspirations 
Call me old skool if you want but I don't consider beating an AV with temp pets, Shivians and nukes to really be 'soloing' them. In my mind soloing means you aren't using any of the intentionally super-powered and rarer temp powers in the game to defeat the AV.
Perhaps the thing to say is whether your solo of an AV or GM was aided or unaided. Either way it was a solo but unaided is clearly harder. It's a matter of degree really not if it was solo or not. There are plenty of toons out there who can't solo an AV even with temps etc. (Much less a GM.)
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I meant specifically killing Romulus solo by doing enough DPS to outdamage the healing Nictus. I didn't think the Nictus could be killed first without aggroing the whole group and having to fight Rommie plus all three Nicti at once. If you can fight the Nictus alone and it doesn't heal itself like it does Rommie (I'm not 100% sure how it works) then I can see it being done since a lot of Blasters can outdamage normal AV regen.
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Originally Posted by Silverado
Soloing AVs is not as difficult as it seems, the real challenge is soloing GMs without any temp powers or large inspirations
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You may've been gone a long time, but there have been heated debates about this ever since soloing AVs became 'popular'. The majority of builds/players out there can't solo an AV even with nukes or Shivans, so those who can do it have at least some degree of credit, as minor as it may be. They defend their point by saying that they soloed the AV because they were unteamed, which is technically true, which has lead the real soloers to specify that "I soloed so and so with no temps and no insps!" (aka the unofficial Scrapper rule)
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Originally Posted by Tal_N
Call me old skool if you want but I don't consider beating an AV with temp pets, Shivians and nukes to really be 'soloing' them. In my mind soloing means you aren't using any of the intentionally super-powered and rarer temp powers in the game to defeat the AV.
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Just you and your power pools is the way it's done. I shy away from aidself too, just because AV specc'd builds tend to have very high defense and aidself is stupid broken on high def toons. I won't bag on someone using it though. I won't bag on someone that decides to pop insp or call upon temps, or even click some of those tasty accolades, but there is a pretty large difference between using things like that and not using things like that.
Whether it is derived through skill or build quality, a toon that is frequently solo'ing AV's without temps/insp/click acco's is in a different league than one that uses those additional performance enhancing...drugs.
No temps/insp/clicks/aidself killing GM's is a bit of a challenge. I've only gotten 5 on my corr so far. There are a few I haven't tried yet of course as I'm currently stuck on Caleb. He's not threatening, but his long lasting fear ruins all my hard work.
Which one is better for AV/GM soloing: Fire/MM Blaster or Fire/Traps Corruptor?
Corruptor.
Of course much of the time you can probably figure out where someone falls in "does it count or not count as a AV/GM solo" their rhetoric. I think its normal for those who have achieved success in some of the games harder objectives (e.g. AV and GM solos) to want to defend their turn and not have it watered down.
Whether or not its "popular", whether or not you used insp/temp/etc, you have "soloed" if you achieve the defeat w/o resorting aid given to you from another player. If you manage it inside the confines of the game mechanics and the resources given to you by the game a solo is a solo.
That being said Silverado is correct, soloing w/o any aids such as temps/insp/etc is the purest form and the hardest. Again its a matter of degrees. I do make an effort to indicate if a solo of mine involved aid or not and those done without aid are much more satisfying.
My Fire/MM is not up to speed, yet, and if a corrupter is anything comparable to my fire/rad controller then the corrupter is going to be pretty damn good.
If you call upon some of the temps available you make yourself more powerful than many 3 many teams, maybe more. So ya you are solo'ing in the sense that no other PC is on the map with you, but...
Most of my 50s are defenders, but my fire/fire blaster is one of my favorites. Granted, I'm not the best player in the world, but the best I can do on the fire/fire is soloing EBs. Have you guys soloed AVs on a fire/fire? Is it possible?
Also, what would be the best power combo to solo AVs on? Rad/mental?
The scrapper, fender, troller forums have these threads but not blasters. I would think it's a challenge really to be able to solo an AV on a blaster.
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