Performance Against Lady Winter

I've only done the LW mission on my main badger (EI Kin/Rad Defender). Took 8 purple inspirations and Eye of the Magus accolade power to defeat her. That's it She was an orange-conned EB to me.

ran on my earth/thermal. after Stoney took the alpha holds kept her, well, held the entire fight... err slaughter.

Is everyone fighting the EB or AV version of Lady Winter?

With my 50 Ice/EM Tanker, I had to pop Hoarfrost once, but it was just a long, steady melee, grinding her down inexorably. With the addition of a Winter's Gift cold resist in Fly, I was just ignoring all of her slows and looping through my attacks. With my 50 Ele/Ele Dominator, it was simply a matter of reaching her ready to pop Domination to hold her, and then between Conductive Aura and my pets it was all over.

My level 33 Grav/Kin COntroller actually had an easier time against Lady Winter than against Snaptooth. I was able to hold her a few times, long enough to run in and get a top-off of Health and Endurance, while I was completely incapable of holding Snaptooth even once. I defeated her fairly readily with no defeats. Snappy sent me to the hospital at least 5 times and I burned through four entire sets of Inspirations, which is, what? 45 Inspirations? I think I only used about 7 or 8 against the big lady.

Claws/SR scrapper: She lasted about as long as any other even-con EB. A 40% defense debuff doesn't really matter when you're starting at 115% defense to all.

Kin/Ice defender: A long, boring fight. The hardest part was staying in melee range so I could get the most out of my buffs: she's very Gale-happy. An 80% resistance debuff is really quite irrelevant when I'm able to apply a 90% damage debuff.

Katana/Elec/Weapons scrapper: the first ten seconds of the fight were tough, before I managed to immobilize her. After that, it was about four minutes of me standing at the bottom of the hill with a bit of Power Sink-fodder around me, firing Shuriken and Web Grenade up at her, and mostly ignoring her attacks.

Bots/Traps mastermind: Easy. What else would you expect from a bots/traps who solos Giant Monsters in his spare time?

Stone/Fire tank: Between Granite, Stone Skin, and Tough, I'm able to put my S/L resistances far beyond the cap. Even debuffed, I was sitting around 50% resistance, so Rooted + Earth's Embrace was mostly able to keep up with the damage.

Plant/Storm controller: Immobilize her, confuse the pile of animated snow around her, pull out a few pets, and watch her hitpoints vanish.

AR/Dev blaster: The only way the fight could have been easier would be if I had placed a minefield to lure her into.

Something I've noticed about Lady Winter is she's got relatively weak defenses against mezzes and debuffs, as well as ranged attacks in general. My plant/storm controller was able to more or less keep the AV version busy while the tanks and brutes were busy rezzing, and might have been able to solo her if I'd come prepared inspiration-wise (though I should point out that my controller is IO'd out and that the Gravitational Anchor Hold proc in Roots is very, very useful when you spam Roots, and I have the Cardiac Core Alpha which helps a ton with the end burn).

With my scrapper against the EB solo, I had to briefly disengage to get the debuff aura to wear off before charging back in. That seems to be the key for melee, being willing to pull back, maybe string her along for 20-30 seconds while the debuff wears off.

I also noticed something during that fight: she doesn't seem to ever leave that peak she spawns on. Is she tethered to that area? Might be a viable strategy to take advantage of that.

So far I've only fought her with a high-flying Energy/Energy Blaster. I just kind of stayed way the hell up there and hurled long-ranged damage at her and ran away to use my pool heal when I got hurt, then came back.

I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Cool!

So far, I've only fought Lady Winter once, with a level 28-ish Electric/Regeneration Scrapper, and found Regen to be entirely inconsequential to a fight where I can be two-shotted. So I downed six purples, fought her, downed another six and fought her again, which was enough to beat her down like any other EB, making for a delightfully DULL fight.

Far as I'm concerned, Lady Winter is precisely the WRONG way to make a strong enemy challenging.

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