Training for a TF challenge.

Two more purple sets needed on my ill/rad, and then I'll be doing the ITF challenge. Soloing it. Wondering what more I need? At the moment, I've collected:
3 nukes
(Working on Vanguard HVAS)
Shivans
Wolf pet
Backup radio
Envenomed dagger
(Working on Amy)
Hyper Phase (Just in case)

Attempting it with 0 deaths.

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If everyone quits the team but 1 other, it should only spawn for a 2-member team. However, I don't know the specifics of your ITF challenge, which may require a 6-member spawn.

Anyway, other temps to consider would be
Flashbang Grenades: aoe -def and -tohit debuff (I don't remember how to get)
Recovery Serum
Wedding Band: 30% resists to all (Stephanie Peebles arc)
Cryonite Armor: some s/l def (I don't remember how to get)

Some vill temp pets to consider, even though they're not terribly powerful:
Loa Bone (very easy to get from Bocor in Oro)
Coralex pet (from the Renault SF, it's 50-50 you'll get this or you'll get an attack)
Vial of Bees (don't laugh, they're useful)

Don't forget all the various base empowerments.

If you're especially ambitious, get a Longbow Mech. If you're doubly ambitious, switch sides after you get your LB Mech and get the Arachnos version. Fair warning: I have no idea if you can actually hold both.

You may want to craft up a few of the temp power grenades to use if you get swarmed and need a breather.

Some of the day job badges and accolades are nice to have too.

Don't forget base empowerment buffs.

I've duo'd an ITF with a pimped out ILL/Rad, problem with Nictus rommy and the PC is that you can’t control your pets to attack 1 target. When the bots spawn, hard to keep your pets on the PC, and the same with nictus rommy as there is an AV that spawns a bunch of nictus, along with ambush's at certain dmg points. Again, if you take this slowly, you can do it, but when you get to Rom, i would to pull him away from all the other nictus. 1 other move that people are forgetting is the Geas of the kind ones and also the Eye of the Magus (Hero Demonic I think).

Best of luck, post up your success when you’re done.


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Been getting distracted with other things. I'm almost set up for this, but I'm gonna save the attempt for when I get my last 2 sets finished. But I'm all set up on temps. All I need is to collect 1 last nuke, the bio.

As for the strategy, my current plan is this:
Mission 1 (Sybils) - Fairly easy. For the most part, the Sybil mobs are far enough away that if you confuse the 3 you need, they will attack only each other, and won't reach out too far. Slow, but simple strategy. They kill each other off, and you might have to finish off one. Rinse repeat until the end. Stay towards the side by the altar to avoid ambush. Gravy.

Mission 2 (Nictus) - Mostly the same strategy as above. Time consuming, and it's doable without using strictly confuse, but if you are shooting for a solo high end TF with 0 deaths, best to stick with the safe bet and confuse while invisible. If you're lucky, one or two of the bosses will focus on the crystal and you'll get it pretty quick.

Mission 3 (Generals/Computer) - Once again, just use the general mobs to kill the generals with confuse. Easy. Hard part comes in during the computer/AV fight. What I'd do is throw down debuff on the computer, and start whacking away. It'll take a while, but save the PA for when the Mechs start waking up. If you're going for the 0 death goal, I'd kill off the spawns with PA, then go back to working on the computer. Stock up on defense insp before mission start, and that should take care of the last spawn long enough for you to take a few out so PA can hold them. Medium risk on this part, but manageable. The trick comes in when killing the AV's. If you have enough recharge, and you use the [Vanguard Medallion], I'm thinking you should be able to confuse Reqiuem to help you kill Rommie. And then, I'm thinking save enough V merits for two heavies. Use one on Rommie in mission 3, then go to RWZ to grab another for mission 4. I think an ill/rad with Reqiuem helping and a heavy should be able to kill off human Rommie without using all the other temps you'll need later.

Mission 4 (Nictus Rommie) - After crunching some numbers, I think Rommie is perma-confusable with my final build. If you can perma confuse him, he will kill his own healer. And his spawning nictus. And..... whatever that other one is. That leaves him vulnerable, and he's just a normal AV. Still difficult, but with all your pets/nukes, he should be doable. V-Heavy should be able to catch the aggro that Rommie tries to throw at you in those few seconds when PA is respawning. I'd clear the side first, and pull him. But that's tricky, because the only way to do that is obviously to aggro Rommie, and you have to time it right to get him down there, then pull out PA to grab him. Personally, I'd rather not take on the ambushes. Ill/rad is great, but against big mobs, I'd rather not chance it. Not really where it shines.

Anyway, I'll post my results when I actually get around to doing this in the next few weeks.

Shouldn't be too hard. The Sybils and the Cysts are easy, just really time consuming. Illusion is about the safest set to do it with. The only tricks should be getting through the last Robot spawn on the computer, killing human Rommie without using up all your temps, and getting Rommie to kill his own healer. That part shouldn't even be that hard, it's just a question of whether the numbers add up. No real skill involved in that part. The last trick is pulling Rommie to the grass without letting him kill you before you can catch him with PA. I was wondering something on that though, and I may ask my next ITF team to let me try it just to experiment. If you let PA pull Rommie, then run away all the way to the staircase leading back to the door, the PA should rubberband back to you and pull Rommie to the grass without endangering yourself. I haven't played with this much, but from what I have seen, my PA seems to have a pretty long range, as far as what point they rubberband back.
I've seen a video (not sure which issue it happened during) of an ill/rad with temps soloing Jack in Irons. So as long as the healer is gone, Rommie shouldn't be as difficult as that. The real trick will be getting through without dying once.

If you can manage to confuse Rom to kill the nictus', you shouldn't have a problem completing this. I think you can do it without any temps if you do.

I think so as well. I think i can, with the Vanguard medallion. But time will tell. Might even rework my build and see if I can get energy mastery without sacrificing perma PA. I'm gonna use the temps just to make it a guarantee. Actually..... if I just rolled with it and didn't worry about a death or two, and had the temps as backup, I could test it and see if it's possible without them. If it is, I might attempt it again as an actual master run. Is the Vanguard medallion blacked out as a temp? Do master runs black out accolade temps?

Don't forget to email yourself big insps of all kinds so you have an 'extended' tray. Technically you could keep getting more insps by having friends feed them to you by email but I guess it depends on how 'solo' you want to be.

I'll wish you luck on this, I think you probably have a better than even chance of pulling it off as a normal run. I'm a bit skeptical about a solo master run but it might be possible with a lot of luck.

When I've soloed AV's and one or two easy GM's with my Ill/Rad I've had two issues crop up, first the fact that since Phanty loves melee now he's always dead instead of using his decoy to cover the gap while PA is resummoned and second the problem of keeping endurance up. With 206% recharge it's a challenge having enough recovery/endred/endurance to keep pace with the output and I usually have to take a time out every couple or three PA cycles to recover endurance.

I think your strategy should be sound with the potential trouble spots you've already identified. You know, for the computer you could use Flash/EMP on the final wave and kill them. Your problem here is Illusion's damage type; robots resist Psi rather heavily so you'll be leveraging your APP blasts.

Hey, I just had a thought. Why not grab Requiem before the computer, confuse him and let him help take it out? Or will he stand there and ignore it like other pets do? Has anyone tried this out?