A tank AV soloer?

Was just wondering if there was a certain tank build that would have the capability of soloing an AV, and if there is, what powersets would it have to take. Also would the build have to sacrifice survivability to solo an AV?

I would guess a Shield/DM might be able to do it. Considering Shields can be basically softcapped without set bonuses, you shouldn't need to sacrifice too much. Just a guess on my part as I have little interest in it myself. Seems to be the FotY for all things fantastic. Maybe Shield/Fire.

Well on 11/19 I was bored and on my fire/fire tank ..so I was in boomtown and found babbage.thought what the heck and was actually able to solo him ..I used gfs,incinerate,sands of mu,black wand and nemy staff and of course burn


On top of that..f.e. and b.u. ..Using melt armor and bruising as well ..I used temps too..envemon daggers helped


As soon as I got done with that I went and did addy and it was even easier so yes it can be done

I'm working on an Invuln/Dual Blades tank that, when done, should be able to solo AVs nicely. I plan on STacking the -resistance from Bruising with the occasional -resistance from the Achille's Heel proc and the Fury of the Gladiator proc.

My attack chain will be Nimble Slash-Blinding Feint-Attack Vitals combo, with an Achille's proc in Ablating Strike and the FotG proc in Sweeping Strike. I found out what I need recharge wise to pull it off, and realized that you can run that chain with 0% global recharge necessary.

Unfortunately, that particular tank is only level 13 at the moment, so it's going to be quite a while before I can find out if it works as well in practice as it does on paper.

It will also be softcapped to S/L/E/N with 90% S/L resistance, so most of the AVs I plan on tackling will barely be hurting him at all. (Siege, Marauder, Chimera, etc., I'm avoiding the Psi users like the plague)

With the recent changes in Fire Armor, I would think Fire Armor could pull it off nicely.

Fiery Embrace, Burn, Bruising Effect for the -20% Resist, pick a secondary that does some damage and off you go!

Maybe even Dual Blades, able to get in 2 -resist procs, so you can possibly have -60% Resist going on at once, for the added damage of Burn and Fiery Embrace to take advantage of.

Seeing as how the chain mentioned earlier for Dual Blades didn't require any global recharge, that means you can work solely on even more added survivability!

True story time.

Back somewhere around issue 7 or 8, I sort of soloed Terra, exemplared to level 40-ish.

I say sort of soloed, because I had a single buff applied to me - an Adrenalin Boost from a controller. I did not need it for survivability, I needed it for the endurance. I was doing enough damage to overcome her regen already, but the A-Boost made it go faster.

That was pre-invention, so I did not have nearly the recovery or endurance efficiency on my Inv/Fire that I do now.

My current build has 77.5% global recharge, more damage, more endurance recovery, and a Cardiac Radial slot.

I think I could probably pull it off purely solo now. In fact, I need to try to solo an AV with him again.

And... Just soloed Nightstar via Ouro.

Je Saist, you can take your words back any time now.

Pretty sure I could solo an AV or two with my Ice/KM, I'd most likely have to find new fodder for EA.

I managed Inferal on my Ice/Ice, although I did use a whole ton of insps to give myself stupidly high damage. I'm sure some of the scrapper AV soloers will say that doesn't count. this was about i15/16

I'm hoping for my Ice/DM to be even more effective in both general tanking and GM/AV solos.

The main trick is using the fury of the glad proc with breezing, if you've got a nice damage toggle/aura you can "slot and forget" and just work your tier 1 into your attack chain.

You may wish to slot for E.D capped end redux on every attack, and aim for roughly 70% damage and E.D capped recharge, using the tier 1 damage alpha to E.D cap all your attacks for damage, until the tier 3 or 4s come out with a decent enough recharge to make maxing out the stats an optimal idea.

I'm waiting for je_saist to prove that he's got that higher standard, too.

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Originally Posted by je_saist You don't like the fact that I am willing to back down and admit when I'm wrong on something. You don't like that I hold a higher standard for myself.

Should I hold my breath?

I'll one-up that...

I'm perfectly willing to invite him to my team and allow him to observe me soloing an AV. My results are reproducible.

Of course, he will have to agree to take back his statement, publicly, when I present proof.

And, no, I truly don't believe that Fiery Melee is in any risk of a nerf.

You may have to send him a PM for the challenge. From what I hear, he never posts again in a thread when shown wrong.

You know, cuz no one can prove you wrong if you aren't there.

I think that just makes it clear that, any time he posts in the tanker forums, he has to be told that he's not allowed to talk until he's accepted my challenge.

Nah, too much work.

I swear Je Saist does it deliberately. There is no need to pick up and call Je Saist out. If a number of posts oppose Je Saists reply when simply replying to the OP then that should be enough I'd of thought. With temps I think it deffo, or with good IO sets I think deffo. On SOs alone nah and with that I would agree that if a tanker on SOs soloed an AV there would be a nerf.

Alright thanks for all the feedback guys. So I know I have to make a shield/ or an Inv/Fire might be viable to solo an AV. You think Shield/EM would work or would I have to go with fire/dark/Kinetic Melee?