Going Nuts!

I have spent an entire Day trying to complete the following mission -- "Retrieve the Stolen Incarnate Container". I can get the weakened incarnate down to 3/4 of his hit points. Then I get hit and pumlled to death. I can understand makinng something difficult, but impossible is nuts. Don't rant to me about geting help because I could not get any one to assist me. I had a Shiva and PPD pets helping me and still died. I used medium insperations as well. I destroyed the Ritki portals and he still got reinforcements. I pulled him so he was alone and failed again. I amassed almost 300,000 in debt and climbing. So how do I kill this mob

Let us know some of the details: power sets, for instance.

What server are you on? I can hop on and help you out.

Welcome to the forums! And, I feel your pain, he's a tough bugger.

1. Yes, try help again. Do you have a SG? Pester someone there. Alternately, find your server's global channels and ask there.

That aside,

2. Before going in, *lower your difficulty.* There's no stigma with running him at -1 level/0 extra members.

3. He's vulnerable to immobilizes. Controllers, Dominators, Blasters, some Defenders, and if you look in APPs, Tanks, Brutes and Masterminds (I *think* Scrappers/Stalkers as well) get them. Use them. Stack them.

4. Stay out of melee, if you're not a melee AT.

5. Stock up on, and use, inspirations.

6. Temp power: Envenomed dagger. Worth picking up.

7. Ambushes and reinforcements:
- Five come in as you hit the Crey near the container. They start way back near the beginning. Stop and clean them up.

- Ignore the glowie.

- Go into the second-last room (before the one the portals appear in.) Another ambush comes in when you get to the far end here. You'll notice the portals don't appear at all. (Nothing is in the last room.)

- Be sure you have your inspirations, then go back and click the glowie.

- Clear any near portals, ignore the farther ones, and pull first Capt. whatserface, then honoree - bring them into the cleared room. Barring a taunt or AOE (or getting too close,) the other rikti (typically two, osmetimes 3 portals in back) won't move.

It's not impossible. Can take a bit, sure. But it's not impossible.

Oh, and make sure you're not under the Rogue Vanguard's Curse of Weariness. Cuts your END in half - if you are, use some V-merits and grab the curse breaker, or wait it out.

See my Guides and Tutorials

There's another solution, if you've given up hope (ie, failed at -1 and no AVs) - exit the mission and go back to Mender Ramiel and choose the completion option. The rest of the arc (another talk and one more non-AV EB fight) is quite easy.

Last time I did this mission, I went to Warburg first and did the mission to get the Nuke power twice. It really helped to clear the field of those pesky Rikti.

For the record, I had a couple of friends with me. But solo, I would still recommend a Nuke or two.

It's hard for anyone to give specific advice when no one knows what you're playing through the arc.

That said, it is far from impossible. I have solod it twice now. Once on a bots/traps mastermind and once on a SS/WP brute. I will grant that those are both strong solo characters and have respectable (though not uber-expensive) IO set builds. Both of them did it set at +0/x5 for mission settings. I think I died once each getting things pulled and sorted. This was just with trays full of random inspirations that had dropped in the mission.

It's a serious pain, but it can be done, the method for doing so will strongly depend on your AT and power set.

When going through this mission with my mastermind, I wondered why Weakened Honoree was taking so long to defeat.

Then I realized I'd left the AVs set to on after I finally beat him.

As with defeating Trapdoor, soloing mileage varies with this mission (My MA/Will scrapper hasn't gotten past this yet, and not for lack of trying!). In lieu of gathering and unleashing ridiculous amounts of temporary powers, the best option is to get together a team.


...Also, it helps a lot of you pack some Nectanebo's Curse Breaker - that Curse of Weariness can turn this from a difficult fight to an impossible one.

Completed the arc solo with 5 toons so far. By far the easiest and hardest was my Fire Fire tank. Mostly because of Honoree's end curse. But no deaths

Illusion/rad very easy, no deaths
Earth/Rad easy, no deaths
Dark Dark Def bit harder but no deaths (ran away once)
Mercs / Traps MM ... one death while toe bombing. Least amount of IO sets and Least amount of defense - primarily resistance armor at the time.

Some of these are fairly IO'd out but only the ill/rad has a purple set in deceive.

My wife with her Plant/emp was getting frustrated but I helped her out. Her others all solo'd.

I only had one character who could not kill the Honoree at base difficulty and that was my Mind/Kin controller. The other EB went down very easily and I then pulled the Honoree back. Well, I came to find out that he is completely immune to my controls; I stacked up over MAG 50 of confuse on him to no effect and my hold/sleep powers were equally worthless.

I could damage him easy enough and could get him down to about 40% before my insps ran out. After the second faceplant I gave up and tried it again later on with my SG.

I've soloed it on my Rad/Rad defender (debuffs work fine), Inv/Stone tanker (no issues at all there), BS/Shield scrapper, Spine/Regen scrapper, Fire/EM blaster and Ill/Rad controller. None of those characters had any real problems with Honoree and only the Fire/EM blaster needed much in the way of inspirations. However I hit a brick wall with that Mind/Kin 'troller.