Honoree mission Awful

Have done this 4 of my toons so far:

Volkanik: Stone / Fire Brute .. died a couple of times largely because I didn't know what to expect. Didnt have too much trouble with Honouree, but thought Holtz was tricky... then again with /FA toons, I kinda expect to die now and then. No biggie.

Illuzi-One: Ill / Rad Troller. Teamed with a friend playing a fire blaster. Cake. No problems at all.

Arak-Atak: Crab Spider. Solo again, and again no problems

CyberDeath: Bots / Dark MM. Solo again. Managed to pull Honouree out and took care of him fairly easily. Holtz killed me largely due to me not paying enough attention to my bots who managed to KB Holtz into the the rear Rikti portals I'd left there, and agged the whole lot. Combination of all those Rikti + Holtz is what finished me off. Second go I KB'd him into the water underneath the bridge and then the Assault Bot kept him on his back with plasma cannons, and then it was just matter of time. Mopped up the rest of the Rikti afterwards.

I didn't know about Curse of Weariness before reading this thread, and as such didn't know about the V-Merit counter measure. Sure Volks end seemed to deplete rather rapidly which did confuse me somewhat, but Stone / Fire is a bit end heavy anyway, so Consume and blue pills tend to be the order of the day to a degree.

None of those builds have any Purple IOs in them, and I'm by no means an uber skilled player, but I'm at a loss to understand the feather spitting by some. That mission is a little trickier than most, granted but just because you can't just charge in and win after a few button mashes certainly doesn't make it broken.

Incidentally, I didn't think it was that long ago that Defenders and other support ATs weren't generally considered being particularly solo friendly anyway, so is it any REAL surprise that they'd have trouble with a mission like that ?

I didn't even know there was a curse in the Honoree mission, until mentioned here. Interesting.

only have one 50, a WP/SS tanker. got to 'the Room' and decided to go all heroic and charge in. that didn't end well. hosped and came back. pulled Holtz with Laser Beam Eyes. defeated him. pulled the Honoree the same way. a fun slugfest ensued. I won

thusly, the Honoree mission is not Awful

Excuse me, but what is this 'Curse Breaker' everyone is speaking of?

Whatever it is, I do not think it is mandatory to succeed in this mission, as I've done it four or five time without it.

I've ran Ramiel's arc on my SS/Ela Brute and my Fire/Dev Blaster. Neither one died or have a problem with any mission on the arc.

I just ran around punching and foot stomping things on my Brute (at +0/x8), not really paying attention to anything except for when to refire Rage while hasten is on auto.

My Blaster didn't die either. (+0/x0) I never got touched by an EB and I'm slotted with generic IO's at the moment and a sub-par build. All I did was stack mines, fling a fire blast, and hide around the corner. Each time I fully expected to have to duke it out a bit after the mines, but each EB was killed by the mine stack. Tactics for the win.

Or was I supposed to charge in and die over and over so I can complain about the game being too hard?

(Only read the first couple of pages)

Honoree is pretty tough I found. I've soloed him twice, first on my Fire/Fire dom (perma with some purple sets) and second on my Thugs/Dark MM (reasonably IO'd out but not like the dom).

For the MM, he was a doddle, but then again, there is very little that isn't a doddle for her. All I did was park the pets around the corner in passive mode, pull the EBs one at a time, then let the pets smoosh them.

I did find him tough for the dom though. The Vanguard EB was fine, albeit not one of the easier EBs I've fought, but I could handle her with my standard hard-to-mez (or PToD) EB technique of leaping around like a maniac with bonfire and water spout out to keep them off their feet while tossing holds and ranged attacks until held, then close in for the kill. Honoree though must have had knockback and hold protection, since no amount of bonfire / waterspout knocked him down and no amount of holds seem to hold him. I ended up finishing him off with a trayful of purples, but that always feels kind of cheaty as opposed to doing it with tactics, you know?

or you can use the curse breaker that you get with V-merits?

EDIT: nvm its already been mentioned :/

Or, you can just save yourself the hassle and drop the mission: there's an idea that works.

I've now soloed this arc with my Plant/TA Scraptroller. If she can solo Honoree then anyone can. I ended up not scrapping much -- I threw slows and immobilizes until the EBs stopped moving, then hit them with resistance debuffs and whittled them to death.

Still haven't been hit with this 'Curse' everyone's talking about. I'm beginning to think that it's mythical.