Trapdoor now invincible

Is your benumb perma? Try throwing benumb on him just as he summons his clones, that way the -regen will work while your clone hunting, and then you can go back to pounding his face in.

Done the arc on a Bane without enhancements (red SOs) just two days ago. No temps used, just my 20 insp slots. I'm having more and more trouble to believe people have genuine issues with Trapdoor.

I think he's more difficult on a melee AT, as it's harder to deal with his bifurcations without range. I think I brute forced him and dropped a few bifurcations the first time I did it with my Fire/Fire Tank, but my other meleers had a harder time... I usually pulled him to the hallway for them, actually.

Teams can roast him easy, and my ranged types mostly have to worry about the damage he tosses out, not getting him low enough.

3 strats that work for me:

1) Keep him held, kill whatever clones he manages to get out and continue holding him. Beat him down at your leisure.

2) Go in with a full tray of reds. Pop 4 at a time, kill clones as he calls them out, go back to popping reds. You shouldn't need more than 8 reds unless you're slow.

It's not difficult it just requires a little thinking outside the box.

3) Team up with a dom or controller and have them just keep him held. Kill the clones then defeat him.

Unless you're an FF controller you should be able to solo him.

I just got the mission and did it on my (mostly SO'd) ice/cold corruptor without difficulty.

I did not need to use any inspirations (except a green when I jumped into the lava by mistake :/).

I got him to about half health, debuffed (Infrigidfate/Benumb/Heat Loss), hit him with sleet, and took out his bifurcations. He followed me down, I hit him with sleet again, and just kept hitting him. From door to defeat, it took about 5 minutes.

Thank you, Champion.

This game is so amazingly easy most of the time, that when we do get something that is a bit of a challenge, seems a vocal minority stand up to say it is too hard and un-soloable.

people offer suggestions to mitigate the challenge (ie: get temp powers or get a friend etc) and that is shot down with it takes time, or I hate everyone but still want to play an MMO.

it's an MMO people the whole point is to waste time doing this for fun, instead of smoking crack, or selling bogus stocks to old people in Florida.

So what if it takes you a week to gather the tools you need to run this one arc if your goal is to defeat this guy, and doing so is fun, then preparing for this epic battle should be fun.

if you can only play for 30 minutes a day, how does that change anything. after you defeat this one guy, you'll still only be able to play for 30 minutes. At 30 minutes a day it is going to take you a week or more to finish most story arcs and will only be able to run 1 maybe 2 of the TaskForces in the game; and the main reason to run this specific arc (for now) is to run the two new taskforces, neither of which have been finished in less than 1/2 an hour.

I personally think the devs are doing a good job of changing things up a bit, making us look for new ways to solve these puzzles; while still keeping the game amazingly easy. But then I have the time to play most all of the content. When I don't have time to play, I quit and give my stuff away, then come back and get more stuff.

I wouldn't say Trapdoor is invincible, but the mission did go from PITA, to not worth doing on more than one or two lvl 50's. For those of you that talk difficulty, you need to realize that most people who want 'hard' MMOs are playing harder MMOs...

IMHO the patch was counter-productive (except fixing the lava bug which was a cheesey way to win). I just wish I had read about the patch before doing an I19 respec on an old stone tanker. I messed with Trapdoor and clones for a silly amount of time.

I'm not goint to sort through my temp powers to find a combination that will enable me to kill Trapdoor and his clones more quickly. I'm probably not going to bother forming a team to get trapdoor. What I will do is put this old stone tanker back on the shelf and play the other toons that got through prior to the patch.

Life is too short to beat my head against the wall.

I've solo'd this arc about 3 or 4 times now. Pulling Trapdoor away from the room has worked but getting him into the lava has been the best so far. Certain ATs are going to have a lot more trouble with him then others.

I don't know what all they patched but the fact that some people are posting that things need to be changed to make it easier to solo is just crap. This game isn't about soloing. Never has been and never will be. They've made HUGE strides in improving the game. Some of that has allowed certain toons to be able to solo better. Still, if you're having trouble beating something, take the time to recruit a few people who are trying to do the arc too and beat it that way.

I think some ppl just want to be able to do things with as little effort as possible...kinda sad IMO.

I read a plea for help on a global channel and since I had solo'd Trapdoor easily, figured the person asking for help just didn't realize what the word "Bifurcate" meant. I didn't myself, and when I looked it up, figured I'd pull Trapdoor into the hallway, and got the best of him. But when I went to help this other person, with the same toon that spanked him easily, I found that things had changed.

Obviously, the range has extended greatly. If Trapdoor could jump high enough, he would have followed my tank to the front door of the map. I tried clobbering all the clones, but they would respawn before I could get to Trapdoor.

Here's the technique that would succeed, however, unless you have two accounts, you're not going to be able to solo this, post-patch.

Spam a hold on him. Once held, continue to hold while someone else clobbers the clones.

Then he'll go down easily, just so long as you can keep him held.

You don't need two accounts or any other such nonsense.