Performance Against Lady Winter

Only ran on a couple of characters. So far no issues with my controller. I was scared of what she might do to my fire/fire/fire scrapper (all that cold damage right?) because of fire aura's weakness to cold. now i had tough and winters gift slotted so cold resist wasn't tooo bad. I went in their blazing and she melted.

am not looking forward to taking her on solo with my blaster

Honestly, didn't really notice on my L36 Ice/Ice tank.

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Wasn't looking forward to this fight after hearing about the G.M. code for her.

Started with my mind/ff, took a long time but whittled her health down slowly. No inspirations, Nerve Radial Boost (Acc+Def boost) slotted, hit all my accolades but didn't really need them as I just stayed at range. Even managed to Overpower her a couple of times.

Second up was my thugs/dark and it was almost insultingly easy. No inspirations, no accolades, closed to just inside melee range to help out my pets and she dropped in under a minute. She had the Musculature Boost (damage boost) slotted.

Not looking forward to it on my empath but mainly because she's not got a lot of damage output.

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50 en/en flying blaster sent all the tuatha i to middle on patrol, then ignored them and did the 3 obelisks, then started with my usual melee zerg, got her to half then realisrd something was looling disgy so flew up high, hit my 'extend range' buff (cN never remember what it's called) and whittled the rest of her HP down while she spasmodically ran back and forth under me.

It didn't strike me as a memorable fight, but the melee accounts in this thread make me appreciate the tactics required and presumably considered by the devs. Nice we've got some 'think about it' mobs to figh.

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Regarding empaths: I was concerned about my Emp/Rad but I went for the lazy way, summoned and Fort,AB,Regen and Recovery boosted a Shivan and she went down nice and fast. Minimal healing required to the pet.

I do wonder what the mag of kb on her gale-like power is. It was shoving even my alts with a -kb io.

Loooooooooong fight against her with my 30's Tank.(WM/WP) My fingers started to ache a bit toward the end. I'm going to go at her again and do things a bit different... maybe it won't take so long.

Completely different story with my Necro/DM mastermind. Between myself, the Lich, and the Dark Servant, we had her in nearly constant lockdown. The Grave Knights hacked, the Zombies puked, and Lady Winter died.

I didn't have too much trouble on my Mace/Shield Brute. She clobbered me on my first attempt, but after that I just gobbled down some purples and stood there and pounded on her.

Just got finished fighting Lady Winter with my level 50 Claws/Regen/Dark Scrapper. Not a very good performance. As my damage protection got low, she two-shotted me. I quickly got back from the hospital to continue the fight. Before long I had to back up and used ranged attacks, but I was heavily slowed and I had very few ranged temp attacks. My MoG wasn't coming back any time soon. So I dove into melee to finish her off, hoping for some luck, and got lucky and finished her off.

That's a bad sign for some of my other characters.

I wish I had read this thread before I engaged her. Her defense debuffs are ridiculous. She's blown me a way(no pun intended) twice so far lol. I think I might need a full tray of purples to fight her.

Forget it, I think I'll need a team to go against her in AV form. That debuff is ridiculous, I popped 5 small purples and after two mins she had me down to 30% defense.

On my SS/SR brute, she destroyed me when I went toe-to-toe with her. On the second try, I just stayed at range and threw [Gloom] and [Dark Obliteration] at her over and over. She died pretty quick.

BS/WP Scrapper: Popped one purple, autoclicked Parry, set to follow, went and had a cigarette.

DM/Shield Scrapper: RNG got nasty. Died once. Killed her quickly the second time.

Elec/Shield Scrapper: pure ownage.

Rad/Rad/Power Defender: Popped four purples, cast debuffs, autoclicked Neutrino Bolt proc machine gun, went and had a cigarette.

Fire/Rad/Power Corrupter: Popped four purples, cast debuffs, autoclicked Blaze. More nicotine.

EM/EA Brute: Popped two purples, she was down in 30 seconds.

DM/WP Brute: Lulz. She died very fast.

OK, so this is interesting. It seems that Lady Winter actually has the stats of whatever is appropriate for your mission settings. I just went in on a Corruptor who's settings were +2/x4, and when I looked at LW with the Power Analyzer Mk III, I was surprised to find that she had the HP of a level 52 EB.

Somehow, since she uses the GM scaling code, I assumed that she was a fixed-level entity, like the GMs we meet in zones, or the Rikti and Zombies in the various invasions. She's not like that, though. She's whatever she should be in your mission, based on your level and your settings.

This has some interesting implications. For toHit-roll purposes, you always attack her as though she's +0. Thanks to the way GM scaling works, since she's actually higher level than me, I damage her as though she's one level lower than me - level 49. But that's counted against her level 52 EB HP. That's a lot better than normal. Normally, I would deal 80% of my total damage to a +2 critter. However, thanks to the GM scaling rules, I get to do 111% damage.

A level 52 EB has a whopping 0.6% extra HP compared to a level 50 EB. So if this is really the regular GM scaling rules, and you're level 40+, you're going to be better off setting the mission to +1 and getting the bonus to damage, because your damage will go up way more than her HP will.

Does she rewards XP like a level con EB even when shes set at +2? Or does the XP scale up to? Its kinda weird that shes like a fake GM in the regard..

Earth/Storm/Fire -- She kept taking down my earth elemental but I kept her locked in place with Stone Cage(s) and let my Lightning Storms and Tornadoes grind her down. Popped off my Blackwand and Fireball from time to time to help out.

MA/Shield scrapper @ level 21: Used about 6-7 inspirations (couple of purples, a yellow, a red, and a green or two during the fight) but owned her. I was actually thinking, "Gee, feels like that should have been harder" afterward.

And no, I was running on just plain DOs, and I don't consider myself a particularly leet player.

I also took her on with my main dominator, but that was with a team. She was defeated without too much fuss as well.