The Impossible Mr. Trapdoor and Issue 19's New Theme

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Props to the guys preaching for Traps. Also

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Originally Posted by Lycanus Indeed, Rad and Dark really are the best Defender sets.

That's a funny way to spell Kinetics.

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Originally Posted by Lycaeus Ah, but would you TAKE a person without the Alpha Slot when you begin those TFs? Would you shrug and not bother in the same way that most people would not bother if a character was IO'ed or SO'ed in a TF?

Absolutely and absolutely not - I have perma PB Vengeance on all of my TF runners, a corpse that contributes that level of buffage to the team is in the running for MVP. If I could, I'd fill the eighth spot on all of my TFs with a lv1 loaded with Awakens.

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Originally Posted by Bosstone Not that anecdotes are any help, but the very first TF I did on coming back to the game was Tin Mage with a non-Alpha-slotted char. I tried to stop them from inviting me, but they insisted! I even wasn't completely useless, since I ran around clearing mines during the D11 fight.

*high five*

I think you're missing the joke

Not sure who is serious and where... But...
I'm pretty sure the joke was already implied in my original comment...

Ok, here's my experience.

I don't know what changed but the mission I just ran (Trapdoor) wasn't the same mission I attempted for 4 hours yesterday. I looked at UberGuy's youtube video and thought that something was amiss in my experience yesterday and it seems I was right.

I applied exactly the same tactics I initially attempted yesterday and he went down before the second clone popped. Dark/Dark Corrupter (lvl 50) with a similar build to uberguy I dropped the Dark Servant, 9 reds, covered him with Tar Patch then got to work with the two Dark attacks and the snipe. He got one clone off (which I dispatched quite a bit more slowly then yesterday as it was my first run) but he went down in a few more seconds.

Same tactics yesterday and I couldn't even get the health bar to move, I tried all the tactics that have been listed on the forums (kiting/drawing, lava, ED etc) none of them made a lick of difference. He couldn't hurt me yesterday either which was odd for an EB as they usually 2 shot me even now.

In short, something looks like it changed between the two days. I reset the mission twice yesterday then gave up to do some exploring.

The one thing I did notice as different. Both times I restarted the mission (and of course every time I came back into it after rearming) Trapdoor has a full group of clones out. I killed all the clones before starting but I suspect that that may be the difference. There is no way I could have damaged him through the regen of all the clones and it could be that even though I took them all out the game still thought they were all there.

As en example, in my initial assault (yesterday that was measured by how long it took for all my red Inspirations to expire) I managed to get him own to about half health, that all just disappeared in one tick which I suspect isn't as intended. So it could be a bug of sorts.

My tip for the discussion:

I'd just keep re-rolling the encounter until you start with an empty room with just Trapdoor. If he has all his clones out, as he did with me yesterday I think that you'd have to be some kind of wonderful to beat him.

PS: Of course that means that you're going to need to fight your way down there a few times. Shouldn't be too hard.

J.

See?

So, how can we tie this all back up into the original topic?

We're all too crazy to agree or disagree that the developers are crazy.
And how they and their introduction of Trapdoor-like content is crazy could be because of all extremes and all variables in-between.

All forums and all discussions are fruitless endeavors only proving humanity's great insanity and all topics should be dropped, but are not due to our inherent insanity.

Anything else?

The O.P. is insane! And so are YOU!

That he should have a full compliment of clones out after a reset is definitely not cool, and something I think people should /bug if they encounter.

Edit: He didn't do that to me, for sure.
Edit2: I wonder if in those situations he could be overflow spawning them in places we can't see them, like in walls or even floors. No idea what happens if he fills all his spawns with multiples. I'd be willing to bet that scenario wasn't well tested.