Lord Recluse Flattened Me

Grab a jet pack, get to about 70ft (maybe it's 80ft) then taunt away

Cant say I have had to many problems with my invun. Just try and get a emp to buff u with fortitude and have another well built scrapper to hold any excess aggro (flier) while the team takes out the towers. He hits hard, u just gota hit harder also capped tank hp helps with some blues.

With Recluse, it helps to have a wide array of "panic buttons": Eye of the Magus, Geas of the Kind Ones, Large insps, DP w/ Hasten. Someone mentioned a phase shift power. If your only support is a Dark or Kin, make sure to stand on a tower so they can heal you by targeting that tower (LR will be VERY hard for them to hit until Blue goes down).

Basically, he's SUPPOSED to be an encounter that encourages team work. Make sure any Buffers on your team remember to check up on you in between taking down towers. True, you CAN do it solo with the aforementioned panic buttons, but that makes the encounter needlessly more difficult.

Personal anecdote time: I was on a MoSTF.... We were doing great, and half the time I can just stand there with the e/newspaper emote out while he keeps "wiff"ing away... but this time Recluse hit me twice in a row. I managed to hit my heal in time before i got finished off by some DoT, but my End ran out fast. I managed to warn the team i was bailing, jumped away, hit a blue so i wouldn't totally toggle-drop, and we retreated to regroup while his debuffs wore off. Lesson here: A big part of this scenario is situational awareness. Not quite AS intense as the new Apex TF, but you need to be ready to hit your panic button(s) at a moment's notice if you plan to survive.

Just finished up an accidental MoSTF run... we didn't set for it but we got through with no deaths and I think the only temp anyone used was the Raptor Pack.

Cold shields, 2 Kins and 8 good players... life was good. 1 hour, 15 minutes without trying for speed. I'll try it another time with my SD tanker, 75% def with insps or buffs and jumping in with One with the Shield active should be enough as long as the rest of the team can kill the towers fairly quickly. Fortunately OwtS crash is pretty mild.

If you maintain soft capped defense (which, while the blue tower's up is 75%) and decent resistance the biggest problem with LR becomes his end drain. I ended up munching 2 medium blues when he managed to connect with that attack a couple times.

CMA, have you thought about getting the Kinetic Dampener temp power to help with Recluse? Definitely something positional defense tankers should do, as it saves you a fair bit of inspirations.

Other than that, there's the end drain resistance base empowerment buff that should help quite a bit as well.

I'll be making a run tonight with my Shield/Fire tanker; I think pretty much the same tactics I use with CMA should work fine for LR. One with the Shield will certainly be needed for the alpha and while the red tower's up; the occasional insp and Aid Self should handle things once OwtS drops.

I'm not planning a Mo on this tanker's very first time tanking LR just in case something unforeseen happens.

Well, I just finished the STF with my SD/Fire tanker; it was a pretty smooth run with a few speedbumps when one team member went off on his own and found the floor several times.

For LR I ate a purple to cap my def at 75%, popped One with the Shield and jumped in. By the time the team had the red tower down I'd used Aid Self once and eaten a second purple. By the time the blue tower dropped I'd used Aid Self a couple more times, eaten a total of 4 purples and a medium green when he nailed me while Aid Self was recharging. The rest of the towers went down like dominoes and I used Aid Self a few times, ate two blues thanks to the end drain and ate one more green.

All in all it wasn't appreciably more difficult than with CMA; yes I needed to hit Aid Self more often since Call Me Frank had ~38% lower S/L resist than CMA but it wasn't insurmountable. The emp tossed a couple heals my way when LR got lucky twice in a row and did keep Fort on me which let me get by with only a small purple to cap against the blue tower buff. I didn't need a dedicated support character so everyone else worried about the towers instead. I wouldn't worry about running a MoSTF with that SD tanker if I had a good team behind me that I could count on not doing something stupid.

I ended up the night with Frank tanking a MoKahn in 43 minutes. We had a different team composition for that one and it ran like a top, everything was perfectly smooth. The only close call was when the Ill/Cold controller caught a bit of aggro and dropped to 40%... he immediately went Hibernate while I snagged the loose aggro. Other than that I don't think anyone got below 75% HP anytime in the TF.

I am slightly ashamed.

I was invited to a PUG STF on my shiny new fire tank. Looking over the team, I saw all we had was me and a dark/kin tank.

Oh boy.

I offered to bust out my tooled-up invuln, but was told that nah, we'd try it.

Things went great! Me and the dark split aggro, ping ponged a few things, we clobbered the patrons on two dual pulls, it was going great.

The dark went in on LR and things were swimming until the Lord of Angst got lucky and planted him through the emp and ice buffs.

I jumped in and taunted, but without a full buff stack he dropped me fast. The emp was repairing the dark, so I hosped it.

On the way back on my jetpack, I saw the dark drop again, before the buffs could all be refreshed.

Well..... I was already flyin'..... And I DID put five slots in taunt for the juicy Mocking Beratement set buffs...

(hangs head)

So, I hover taunted him the rest of the way. (sigh)

I feel bad now.

So basically you saved your team... The only thing you should be ashamed of is gloating on forums

The way I usually do this with my soft-capped WP/DM tanker is the judicious (read: turn it on immediately) use of the Wedding Ring temp power. It's one of my emergency buttons, and I think I've used a total of 15 minutes of it so far.

Once his resistance to debufs is down, I can keep the to-hit/defense floored in my favor. It's a bit of a bumpy ride until that point, though - and yeah, until that point, I need either a dedicated healer of some sort (I've actually BEEN that healer, with First Aid on my team-oriented blaster), or else a careful use of insps, as discussed here.

for the -end power, yeah - I noticed that last time I tanked LR - I ended up actually having to use Conserve Energy for the first time ever with that build (originally I took it simply as a requirement to get Physical Perfection). I also had to use Strength of Will for the +end ability. But with those powers, I was able to manage the end drain.... I think I may have popped a blue once, as well.