TF Ouroboros Mender Lazarus

Okay in the Ouroboros Mender Lazarus TF the second mission where you
need to install thevirus and turn the Nosfortu, I have tried solo and with a
team and so far been unable to take the elite boss down.

We have been able to take downhis guards but even onhis own he wipes
the floor with us it's getting beyond a joke now, as at one point I ended
up with over 14K worth of Debt others got more.

Is there a trick to this or is it just kill the the Elite Boss?

We been useing a Tank (Me), Blasters and Scrappers.
I last a few seconds then Face Plant followed by every one lese not quick
enough to run away.

Hmnnnn tried again a few hour ago before work still got face planted in no
time flat this is becoming most frustrating.

just have to kill him, but nosferatu is a very tough EB/AV at that lvl, you need high def/res to negative dmg and high acc/tohit to counter his toggle debuff

the key ive found to beating him is to stay out of melee range as much as possible

I just ran that TF last night pretty easily with a Shield Tanker, an Electric Blaster, and myself on a Dark/Ice Defender. The 3 of us took him down without any problems. Are you maybe on a high difficulty setting? Or maybe try stocking up on inspirations?

Have everyone load up on inspirations, about 4 small purple to cap yourselves, and the rest red. buff up, Munch 'em all at once, and lay into him. Alternatively, try to get medium or large inspirations, as then it would take fewer to cap yourselves, and you may only need to consume half your tray, munching the second half as the first ones run out.

You may also want to consider taking a detour to bloody bay to try and get everyone a shivan. None of this is by any means necessary, but they are all things to try.

I'd bring a bunch of purples. Keep 4 on you at a time (less if you already have some defense in your build) and just keep pounding on him. If he can't hit you to heal himself, he'll go down pretty easily.

What kind of tank? I've soloed him on a few toons. I've never had him kill one of my tanks, although they don't all do enough damage to defeat him. He throws a lot of negative and psi damage, which are not widely resisted.

Some purple inspirations are probably the best plan, since they interfere with him being able to damage you and heal himself.

Lets see:

Necrotech_Master@: Problem is I can't hold him in place without getting
up Close and personal T_T


Camo_Fire@: Normal Settings, the basic Default.


The Grim Heaper@: What's a Shivan?
Yeah tried the Insperations even diferant combinations od insperations still Face Plant.


WarronPeace@: Problem is he keeps using touch of fear on us making it
impossible to touch him even when using Yellows to improveout accuracy.


Ironblade@: I'm a Willpower/Dark Melee Tank.

try break free's and purples. break free's are used to negate the fear effect.

oh, what is your team make up? how many scrappers and blasters?

Well Sharker_Quint last time it was two Blasters two scrapper and my
Tank, though it differs since it's not all ways teh same team.
(same people but they used differant Toons)

Break free do work for a ocuple of seconds as I have tried that but by the
time I start attacking agin bang I can't land any damage and that blasted
Elite Boss is Planting my face again!

Shame I can't do the Automaticly Compleat Mission like with normal
mission as that would be so much easier lol

That certainly is a lot of damage. With all damage it's a race to see who can hand out whupass the fastest. Maybe add a buffer or debuffer and see how it goes. Oh, and are you sure he's actually an EB and not an AV?

Yeah, I'm trying to remember, but I'm pretty sure Nosferatu is an Archvillian, not an Elite Boss. It's a taskforce, so he can't be 'reduced'.

I find Nosferatu one of the more difficult AV's in the game. Everyone has their own, but he constantly gives me trouble (even as an elite boss). I think the big things are to reduce his regeneration and his accuracy. If you can do that, then just keep eating purples (and greens), and you'll make it. You as a /dark tanker should have plenty of -To Hit, so it's his regen you need to worry about. What secondaries are your blaster friends? If they're not already, ask them to concentrate on tossing on their secondary debuffs (if they have) for a try or two and doing backup blasting rather then concentrating on the primary. You guys are damage heavy. If that's no good, then the key is that you can almost definitely out damage him even if you can't out last... but it sounds like you've been trying that strategy and it hasn't worked yet. =/

I don't even remember how the Ourb taskforces work... can you add people to the team? Depending on their build, a Defender or Controller could help quite a bit.

I did this taskforce recently, on the other side of the curtain- bots/forcefield, plant/thorn dom, and then myself as a bots/dark. The dark miasma was key: our survival was pretty good, but our damage wasn't, and me spamming Twilight Gasp over and over like a healbot was the only way we could finally get him down. Also was the three of us (most paticularly the dominator) managing to pin him down a few times, then we kept away and just shot at him. Nosferatu is much more dangerous meleeing then he is at range.

Good luck! Bright side: I find that to be the hardest part of the taskforce. If you can get past him, you can probably do the final battle as well.

On a side note...sry for the hijack....

Short of purples, would a toon be at optimum with lvl 47 IO's slotted (being powers go to 44) for this "TF"?

I have a blast running this TF when I get the time.

Thanks....yea, that was my first thought seeing the big 39 up there.

Thanks again.

A couple other suggestions: envenomed dagger temp power: does high damage and -250% regen. Very helpful.

Backup Radio Temp Power: Not as good as a shivan, but still handy

Med Kit temp power: like a stack of 10 medium greens

Defense Toggle Temp Powers (3 available, all stack): 1 crafted recipe, 1 purchased from Siren's Call store, 1 day job accolade from PvP zones/Arena.

But the key things are hitting him past his debuffs, and preventing his healing when he hits you. So really, purples one or two yellows, and you should be ok. With your damage, just tag him with the daggers to shut down his regen, and lay into him while protected via the purple insps. Take a few oranges too if that's not enough, but once you have 45% defense you should be ok.

I didn't notice if the OP covered it but if all else fails this TF will let you run it at -1 on the diff scale.

Solo you can get it down to around 20min with the right load out of skittle for Nosferatu, the rest of the TF is cake. I like 3 large purples, 6 large reds and what ever else fall during the mission.

As mentioned by others the Envenomed Dagger temp power can work wonders, pop a couple purples and hit him with the dagger, with no regen hes just a bag of HP for you to DPS.

Still can't kill the darn Nosforartu, The Dagger temp power sounds good
saddly don't have that, have to look about trying to get it fom the market
place.

Had a Defender and all this time and we all still got face planted and now
I'm back to being solo since they quite the task force, so having to start from
scratch, getting great Expirence points mind just a shame about the debt
when it comes to that blasted second mission.

i'm going to ask since i don't think anyone else did. what level are you trying this at? i would almost suggest trying it around lv 44, when you have more powers if it is that tough for you to do now. also don't slot any io's past lv 42. 40 for regular common io's and 42 for set io's.

oh, and another question. did you take indomitable will? this will keep you from getting feared. if you didn't, i suggest doing a respec and getting it. then all you have to worry about is carrying yellows and maybe some greens and reds and some oranges to deal with damage resistance.

IronBlade @: Well she had;
Primary: Storm Summoning
Secondary: Psychic Blast

And I am on Protector, though right now taking a break and leveling up my
warhammer/Willpower Brute in readyness to bring him over to the heros come
the Release of Going Rouge.


Sharker_Quint@: I'm at Level 31 one bar from Level 32.

Okay giving it another go got my two Villans up to level 20 ready for going
rouge and the chance to have them brought over to the hero side, Now I
am going to give this acursed task force another go!