Here's a suggestion: Kurse. Maybe Dominatrix; I believe she has energy attacks which steamy would provide some resistance to.
I would NOT suggest Diabolique (shudders).
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Hmm, will Kurse spawn all the way up to 50? I suspect it will be too much psi damage which means that I would just need to rely on the RNG to get me through. I imagine a similar experience to Mother Mayhem which did not go well.|
Originally Posted by Psylenz
Here's a suggestion: Kurse. Maybe Dominatrix; I believe she has energy attacks which steamy would provide some resistance to.
I would NOT suggest Diabolique (shudders). |
I think Dominatrix will get ugly due to gravity distortion's hold, but I might give it a try.
To be honest, Diabolique looks like the least scary of the three you mentioned. Yes she has a propensity to run laps, but if Siphon Speed isn't able to hit...I wonder. Although I suspect during her phased/bubbled periods she could regen so much health I wouldn't stand a chance. The psionic resistance would be unpleasant too.
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Marauder. Definitely Marauder. His only ranged attack is Hurl.
Edit: Whoops. Didn't read you had already solo-ed him.
There's an AV version of a Greater Devoured in an arc. Forget her name though. She's only got the toxic spit I think.
Nemesis could work as well. I'm not sure if he has much more than Force Bolt for ranged attacks.
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There's an AV version of a Greater Devoured in an arc. Forget her name though. She's only got the toxic spit I think.
Nemesis could work as well. I'm not sure if he has much more than Force Bolt for ranged attacks. |
Hmm, I bet Nemesis could work, completely forgot about him. It depends on how often he toggles on his invincibility bubble, but certainly a possibility.
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This is indeed what happens on Diabolique. You need debuffs AND a lot of burst damage to hit her when able.
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Originally Posted by Draggynn
Hmm, will Kurse spawn all the way up to 50? I suspect it will be too much psi damage which means that I would just need to rely on the RNG to get me through. I imagine a similar experience to Mother Mayhem which did not go well.
I think Dominatrix will get ugly due to gravity distortion's hold, but I might give it a try. To be honest, Diabolique looks like the least scary of the three you mentioned. Yes she has a propensity to run laps, but if Siphon Speed isn't able to hit...I wonder. Although I suspect during her phased/bubbled periods she could regen so much health I wouldn't stand a chance. The psionic resistance would be unpleasant too. |
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Evidently It's the same deal with Nemesis. I've just spent 90 minutes exchanging blows with him. I can get him down to his bubble stage, but he enters it too quickly for me to knock him down before he reenters and regens again. don't have the energy to try Terra or Kurse tonight.
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Originally Posted by Psylenz
This is indeed what happens on Diabolique. You need debuffs AND a lot of burst damage to hit her when able.
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I'd try out (in no particular order)
Tyrant, Baphomet, Vandal, Luminary, Romulus, Valkyrie, Ms Liberty, Minx, Terra, Foreshadow, Mirror Spirit, Admadastor, and Hro'Drohtz.
They should all be fairly easy.
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I'd try out (in no particular order)
Tyrant, Baphomet, Vandal, Luminary, Romulus, Valkyrie, Ms Liberty, Minx, Terra, Foreshadow, Mirror Spirit, Admadastor, and Hro'Drohtz. They should all be fairly easy. |
Luminary (like all robots) has uber psionic resistance
Ms Liberty spams Dull Pain at 50% hp and godmode at 25% hp and will keep spamming both if she isn't killed fast enough
Mynx and Foreshadow also spam Elude if they're not taken down fast enough
Hro'Dtohz has a ranged stun
The rest seem good though
Definitely some good suggestions you two. I hope you appreciate just how much of a boon -regen debuffs are **shakes fist** Oh well I'll make do.
Tyrant soloed (two blues) but that was LONG and very dull fight. It went a little faster once I realized I didn't need Tough or Temp Invulnerability (rookie mistake) as that freed up some of the endurance that I had to burn on maintaining Snow Storm. His ranged damage output was VERY low though. Usually I need to use Force of Nature to get through the tough spots when a few too many attacks connect in a row but he wasn't even doing enough for me to worry about my health. I did however need Force of Nature to have another two minutes of endurance because his Psy resist combined with high smashing resistance meant that my usual "maintain period" while waiting for conserve power to recharge wasn't quite doing enough damage. Slowly picking away at him, yes, but he would have won when I fell asleep at the keyboard without it. Thus two blues two recover from the subsequent end crashes.
I will give Vandal a shot tomorrow night.
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Definitely some good suggestions you two. I hope you appreciate just how much of a boon -regen debuffs are **shakes fist** Oh well I'll make do.
Tyrant soloed (two blues) but that was LONG and very dull fight. It went a little faster once I realized I didn't need Tough or Temp Invulnerability (rookie mistake) as that freed up some of the endurance that I had to burn on maintaining Snow Storm. His ranged damage output was VERY low though. Usually I need to use Force of Nature to get through the tough spots when a few too many attacks connect in a row but he wasn't even doing enough for me to worry about my health. I did however need Force of Nature to have another two minutes of endurance because his Psy resist combined with high smashing resistance meant that my usual "maintain period" while waiting for conserve power to recharge wasn't quite doing enough damage. Slowly picking away at him, yes, but he would have won when I fell asleep at the keyboard without it. Thus two blues two recover from the subsequent end crashes. I will give Vandal a shot tomorrow night. |
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Originally Posted by Silverado
Don't use Snow Storm against AVs, it's not worth the end cost.
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Yes, I know enough not to use Snow Storm against AVs that are landlocked, but if they fly....I really don't think I have a choice, unless you have some other tactic you recommend?
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Nobody mentioned Black Swan. She is pretty easy IF you survive the alpha AoE stun she does. Maybe if you aggroed her with Mr. Twisty she would try to stun him and not you.
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Hmm, just a little bit too much damage from Vandal, I may try again once I have the gladiator IO. Also, it felt like Vandal was running more than the other AVs I fought which makes me wonder if he's set to a ranged AI where the others are set to a melee. Usually I can keep enemies in range for at least a couple LS bolts before they run off, but Vandal was always on the run.|
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I will give Vandal a shot tomorrow night. |
Romulus was another long yet boring fight, but he went down smoothly. Certainly easier than Tyrant though since there wasn't a large psi resist to overcome. Two blues on Romulus for the Force of Nature related crashes for the additional end because I was getting antsy. I found to save endurance I could toggle off my lethal resistances until I was hit once and then toggle it back it on.
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Howdy folks,
So ArchVillains that I have managed to solo (with the caveats that I used the blue wisp pet to fill the defense hole while I save up for the Gladiator's Armor +defense IO, small blues were used occasionally to recover from the Force of Nature crash, and I use Blackwand as part of my attack chain. Otherwise no temp, accolade, dayjob, veteran, booster pack, etc. powers were used):Any other AVs you think might be soloable?So I finally got around to respeccing my storm/psy AV build post BotZ changes and am looking to solo more Archvillains. The build relies on soft capped range defense with Force of Nature to get me out of a jam when the next hit would kill me. Thus, I have a pretty stringent requirements for AVs I can handle:
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