Honoree mission Awful

Ok, since I last posted, I have been able to complete this mission on my E3 blaster that was having so much trouble on it. I switched my Insp load. I was going in with 16 purples and 4 heals. I could avoid most of Honoree's hits, heal a bit from the ones that got through...and never do enough damage to defeat him before my purple insps ran out. So I loaded up with 12 purples and 8 reds. I popped 4 purples and all 8 reds, then started wailing on Honoree. I kept popping the purples and a couple of minutes later, he was down. Yay!

I also had some trouble on this with my soft-capped MA/SR scrapper. She would do ok...until Honoree got one of his massive Total Focuses (Foci?) through my DEF. One hit would knock me to a sliver of health and any lucky shot after that meant faceplant. I ended up using the same strategy as my blaster: pop a buttload of reds and go to town. Again, it worked. Yay!

Next I'm going to try my TA/A defender. That should be fun....

5 Minutes is waaaay too long. Its just more reason to use Shubbie's auto complete the mission suggestion.

Yes, I've completed the Honoree mission on 10 characters so far and its been a breeze. Even so, I've been hit by the Curse twice and it really sucks and lasts too long when you got lots of ambushes and have to fight 2 EBs.

I'm thinkning of just auto compleing the mission due to "bugged" duration of Curse of Weariness being excessively long.

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Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini I think only one person is claiming the Curse makes the mission impossible. The rest of us simply think that a 5 minute duration is insane. I got hit with the thing twice on one character when I did this in beta and it just meant running away and sitting there twiddling my thumbs for 5 minutes waiting for it to wear off. That's not fun for a pretty much pointless ability. That curse ended up being the only thing I disliked about the arc.

I like going on TFs quite a bit, but I would be very happy to see story arcs. I'll be really shocked if there aren't some in the works somewhere, to be honest.

I'm not a fan of the Curse of Weariness. I think it's a brutal effect that lasts long enough that it goes from "challenge" to "annoyance" for a lot of people. That said, I did know it existed thanks to the RWZ arcs, so I knew what it was when it hit me. My 1st character through the arc did not have a Cursbreaker temp power on hand. I did, however, have blue inspirations in my tray and a Geas of the Kind Ones in reserve. Fighting Holtz as an EB I was able to win the fight just based on inspirations. I did turn some toggles off to save end, but I obviously needed to keep attacking.

On the whole Apex task force sidebar, I ran this tonight for the first time. After reading a lot about it, I was kind of worried the damage patches would annoy me. Honestly, I didn't really see the big deal. Well, except for the time one got me because I was standing on a hill, and the "warning" patch was invisible because of how it clipped through the slanted hillside. But that's more of a bug/limitation than an issue with the patches themselves.

I don't know, maybe my pre-CoH days as an avid FPS-er make hazards like that more natural for me.

(This was a team of mostly melee characters, too, by the way. Four Scrappers, a Bane, a Nightwidow, an Ice/Storm controller and a Dark/Dark Defender. We not only succeeded, we got the badge for Battle Maiden without dropping any temp powers or the like.)

Yes, the Honoree mission is difficult. It's supposed to be hard.

You didn't really think the path to godlike power was going to be a walk in the park, did you?

Oh, I guess you did.

With the amount of potential power you can achieve through the Incarnate system, did you really expect the devs to say: "Oh, well we're giving you the ability to become a living god through the Well of Furies. And to attain this power? We're going to have you do the same kind of stuff you've all been making a mockery of for the past 6 1/2 years."?

Remember how hard the ITF was when it was first introduced? How about Kahn and Barracuda? Yeah, they were pretty rough back then, weren't they? Now we have people routinely doing half hour ITFs and 15-20 minute Kahns.

They have to make things more difficult at some point, or people are going to be stomping all over the "end game" just like they've been doing with TFs for years now.

This is probably just the beginning of the more difficult stuff. And to achieve the level of power we're getting, it should be difficult.

Personally, I'm happy they gave us a few missions that require more strategy than "run in and punch the big bad until he falls over". And I hope they continue to give us such missions.

(Note: This post was not directed at any particular individual, it is just my feelings on the matter)