WP Tanker vs Tin Mage Bobcat

I was on my ss/stone brute and working as the tanker of the team and I was like "She can 1 shot me?!".
She dropped me 3 times.

My just-a-couple-of-percent-shy-of-soft-cap-to-s/l scrapper got dropped by her several times. I was shocked the first time it happened as it's very uncommon to see him go down (unless from psi damage).

But I didn't whine over the devs making a difficult encounter for me and a team of players, I took it as a challenge. Each of the melee team members went down. We ended up in kind of a weird tanking rotation. Mind you we had no defenders, and one controller with /storm and no O2 boost. We still one the day and completed the entire TF in 42 minutes with several first timers on the tf no less.

The defeats by Bobcat were the only ones I experienced the entire TF. The rest of the time I could run ahead into swarms of clockwork, solo war walkers, etc... and even stand toe-to-toe with the other AVs all solo.

I'd tanked it first this week with my sm/wp brute and he was lucky enough to not be hit so it took me by surprise when the Tanker, which is tougher, was shredded on pulling.

I was softcapped (I'm softcapped to everything with that WP/EM. Even Psi.) Plus the team was adding a lot to my defense anyways. RNG happens. I was overconfident since I'd barely taken damage the entire task force but I *was* a little dinged up from the warwalkers when I pulled. Probably about 80% health. I didn't mind... it was hilarious.

Made me regret not taking the tier 9 (I had it for quite some time, but I respecced out of it because I never used it.)

-To hit and holds help. When I form a team, I try to get a good mix of debuff AND holds. At most, I will invite at most 4 melee on the team. 2 is the minimum.
Before we go to Bobcat, I tell the team that I will taunt her and to spam as many holds as possible. My shield brute eats 3-4 lucks, then spam her with Darkest Night, Dark Obliteration and Gloom. Most of the time, I don't die, but if I do, I keep a good batch of Bounce back and breakfree so I can keep her off the rest of the team.
For the GWWs, the brutes need to keep taunt/agro on them. It sometimes helps for the squishies to attack the GWWs from behind to avoid the cone attacks.
So far, the non-master Tin mage TFs that I've led completed within 28-40 mins. I was once invited to a team that had 6 melee. Out of curiousity, I decided to stay and that took 1 hr 15 mins.

My invul/energy tank has Tough 4-slotted with Reactive Armor and is soft-capped for S/L and resist capped S/L, but even level-shifted she can hit, and when she does, it can sting something fierce.

She hits me for around 600 or so, so if I hit Dull Pain and get my hit points to around 3400, she doesn't drop me too far before even the AoE heals in a party keep me safe. A healer of any sort means I am not dying.

My strategy for her final burst of "nigh-unkillable-ness" has always been 'wait it out, it'll drop and then we drop her'.

However, I have been on teams that didn't seem to have the damage or the buffs/debuffs to handle her quickly, and I have had to pop Unstoppable more than once. Having more than 100 end means not worrying about the crash since I have enough end to keep the toggles up and I drop 2 blues and 2 greens and just keep on trucking.

Thus far, though, I have not failed a Tin Mage Task Force [knocks LOUDLY on any wooden surface], but that is due far more to being lucky with excellent teams than my own ability.

She's pretty crazy.

I've done 3 Tin Mages so far today (including a successful run with zero support) and found myself tanking her on my Widow after she dropped our tank (for the 2nd or 3rd time) she got a lucky hit roll past my defense and hit me for 4300+ damage. I only have like 1250hp.

I was sure glad the 1hit code was added way back when.

Good times.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

Indeed...on a Stone or Invul + Tough Tanker, she still hits you around 500-800 damage w/ capped S/L res...just a bit on the ridiculous side >.> then again...Lord Recluse was just as bad.

Anyone remember the days when people were saying similar things about the Psychic Clockwork King?

My DM/SD Scrapper is toast about three seconds after the tank goes down. Or if he stops taunting.

I'm not bothered by having a very hard-hitting enemy in an Incarnate trial, but getting killed by Boobcat is kinda like getting beaten up by Fusionette.

Did just fine on my WP brute with only 50%ish resist. Just need to keep your defense soft capped and have some -to hit on the team. That should not be too difficult with a WP tank, just a luck or 2 away or some decent team buffs. Granted a little bad luck and you can still go down in 2 shots.

Although I will say I bout shat myself when focus hit me for around 2k something damage and left me with just a few hundred HP. Although most teams will have some kind of healer to help get that back.