Soloing the STF!

What level of DPS is needed to do LR after the towers are done with? I might take a shot at this with a underdog of a character one day.

How does one manage to take down the towers solo?

keep PA always on LR will be near them
then go your favorite order of towers

Bah, my account that i was posting on expired. So yeah i'll be using this one. Don't hate on my username i made this sooooo long ago.

I think I'm finally read for it. I perfected my build and PLAN TO DESTROY LR!

Good luck, I got bored soloing Ghost Widow as a level 54 so I wont be touching this challenge with a 100 foot pole anytime soon. Possibly in two months after my exams are finally over...

I got bored because it was easy but slow. My build isn't at the hit chance cap for +3s (without Sleet) and because GW resists so much of it, I'm most of the time hovering at around 90% hit chance. I'm also using mace mastery so my own DPS isn't that high, I just use mace mastery to boost the DPS of my pets (another -30% Res), but GW effectively shuts down two of my pets thanks to her self heals, so I'm down to only using PA.

Boring.

Great idea - I've enjoyed this thread. Good luck with the challenge!

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

i know that 3 sec activation time and on the other hand: more than 60 seconds recharge maens a 6 sec gap what means deth to you on LR

Although I understand the banes are tough. Cold offers something /rad doesnt. Sleet.
Sleet by itself can make entire mobs useless. Sure my decoys will start attacking the banes, but with nukes/shivans. I SHOULD be okay. But these are all just ideas in my head.

Hey, I just wanted to put in my 2 cents. I got an illusion cold up from double xp weekend and have been amazed by how much more I love him than my Illusion Rad. Having played enough to get the 45% recharge rare alpha I too have perma PA now, its actually not all that hard with that much extra recharge now. My current build is a team build and takes the shields and frostwork for that reason, but you've inspired me to start working on a solo build for things like the STF now and I wanted to share my 'rough draft' for it; I skipped many teaming powers because its a solo build. This build is very much like my own in that I took the Ice epic, so I'm already pretty familiar with its pros and cons, but being a soloist with no self heal I concentrated more on defence than usual too. With this build even some AVs will have a decent chance of missing you the little bit when you're resummoning PA, though I doubt its enough to make a huge difference for Lord Recluse's Bane ambush. Take a look at the build in Mids, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the utility you still have to gain that defence. Also, hibernate is a great heal\end recovery\oh sh*t power after a little experience with it, especially when you have PA still fighting for you, but do keep in mind that the no phase aspect of the power prevents you from using it more than once every 2 minutes no matter how fast the recharge is.

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...5FF33F1CF5D7A3

I'd say it's a good build. Nice to see it's possible to be soft capped while maintaining that much recharge. Very nice job IMO. I just don't like not having the shields because I do alot of TF's with friends. I couldnt fit FW in my build though Gonna try the STF again as soon as i get my T4.

Here goes, starting it NOW.

Well unfortunately i am having internet problems and lagged out just as I killed viridian. so I'm gonna wait until the morning to try again.

I'm going to use the confuse method on aeon.

As for the 4 avs I'm sure i can get past that if I get good pulls.

As for the big boy. The plan is to use a jet pack. Avoiding his melees. I bought the kinetic dampener for more defense. I also have shivers and nukes.

I plan on using vanguard medal right before he summons his pets and stacking confuse. HOPEFULLY his pets spawn as enemies to him. But if this fails I will ***** inspirations and wail on him like no other!


Also, just realized I was taking screenies without UI on. So i wont have one for sands
And my time will be awful since im currently unable to log in. And am posting here on my Droid

Woot fixed my connection. Time to smack LR around. I'll be back on here in just a few hours

Hello all that have been following this thread! I decided to post my results of the solo STF.

I took screenies of nearly everything, but ended up falling short of my goal. So I won't bother posting them. I finally defeated Dr. Aeon using a more agressive "just kill him before he kills me" method. I burnt a shivan on him as well =/

So I got to the last mission, and I decided to play around with Confusing the AV's. I was able to get BS and GW to team up on Scirroco, and they eventually killed him. Me being a controller, I wasn't able to perma-confuse them so I could only use this method for one AV.
I tried getting mako to help so that I could maybe use, Mako, BS, and Scirroco to kill GW. But mako seems nearly impossible to confuse, I couldn't do it, even with Vanguard Medal.

After using this method to defeat Scirroco I pulled Mako and after many failed attempts I got lucky and only he came. He was tricky because he has really high defense, and even with Sleet and Infridgate always on him, Benumb missed often. So that fight took alot longer than expected and I did die a few times.

Next I pulled BS, BS has the highest DPS out of all of them as far as I could tell. (I just went by how much damage they dealt to each other when they were confused)
BS was pretty easy. But he was possibly the scariest.... =P

On to Ghost Widow. Ghost Widow is different than the others because all pets apart from Decoys are useless on her. So I was limited to only using Decoys. To make a long story short I just didn't have the DPS to kill her. I tried using shivans but they died relatively fast and she just healed off of them anyway.

After many failed attempts of the last mission I finally gave up. I'm sort of content with how far I made it, but on the inside. I wish I could have gotten GW too. I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to defeat LR, but still. Woulda been alot more satisfying.

Welp, that about does it for this challenge. I am however interested in doing a duo STF. I feel like 2 ill/cold's or ill/rad, or ill/ anything really could do it with relative ease. If we alternated Decoys instead of casting them at the exact same time. WE would always have a "tank" out and would never take any damage. The hardest part of this TF was the gap you get while re-summoning Decoys. I used the temp Kinetic Dampener? during re-casting so that I could avoid some of the aggro i got between castings.

Thanks all for following this thread, was a lot of fun! Thanks for all the support!

You still got very far so nothing to be embarrassed about, quite the opposite, actually, so congrats!

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Originally Posted by 1234567890 On to Ghost Widow. Ghost Widow is different than the others because all pets apart from Decoys are useless on her. So I was limited to only using Decoys. To make a long story short I just didn't have the DPS to kill her. I tried using shivans but they died relatively fast and she just healed off of them anyway.

This is what I meant when I talked about GW earlier in the thread. I went to fight her in AE as a level 54 and it took me, I don't remember exactly, about half an hour to get her to somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 HP. She just resists every single type of damage I deal, procs included, so I'm cut to 65% just because she's +3, and after that to around 49% because she has ~25% Resistance to every type of damage that matters.

Add to that me not being hit capped against +3s without Sleet in full effect (I'm at around 90%) and it cuts me again down a further 10% so we're at around 39% of total damage which still isn't the truth because I can only use three pets instead of five. Oh yeah, add to that Benumb missing double to usual.

I'd really have a hard time trying to muster up the motivation to actually solo her as a level 54. That's an hour or more of full tilt illucolding with no room for error. Most of her attacks are DoT so if she hits you once it's game over.

Well the thing is, when decoys are coming back up, she gets an attack off unless you break LoS and summon the decoys in between you and her. But even then, if she gets that attack off, and that attack happens to be Gloom. Buh bye. All that work for nothing. I just wasn't willing to sit there and risk dying and having to do it all over again.(Crashing would also ruin this)

It was a fun try but the bottom line is, GW is pro. haha

Just a thought any idea how much the wedding band or making an inspi run for oranges would cut down on glooms DoT? Or perhaps loading up on greens/purples and popping a couple everytime PA is about to drop?