Biff From the Terrance Dobbs Arc

I'm at a loss as to how to take this guy down. My lvl 43 SS/Inv Brute couldn't make a dent in his health bar. I lasted a good long while in the fight, but he was impervious to all my attacks. He healed faster than I could hit him.

What are some useful tips/tricks/strategies for pounding this guy into submission?

If you can barely dent his health bar, you won't beat him - for more than the obvious reason of him likely killing you while you pound on him: He's scripted to flee for the exit at 50% health. With his regen and super arachnoid speed unless you have a way to lock him down you won't win that mission solo (mission fails if he escapes - and as a SS brute he will).

The most useful tip is to bring a x/rad controller or another AT with -regen and a fast recharging immobilize. Failing that you can try crafting an Envenomed dagger temp power bought from the market to bring his regen down to a more sensible level - I haven't tried it on good old Biff but it's worth a shot. That won't stop him from taking off at mach one at 50%, though. Not sure what a brute can do to stop that. Black Scorpion's patron aoe immobilize with a lot of recharge maybe?

I was unable to get his health down any significant amount on my Plants/Energy Dominator, and that was even using the Envenomed Daggers.

To make matters worse, I remember him starting to flee, then I hit him with Seeds of Confusion, and he sauntered back to his spawn point. After that, he would not even flee and let me fail the mission (which would have at least scored me the SMG temp power.)

That mission needs to be fixed. When a mission that is supposed to be soloable (as in no simultaneous glowies and not a task force) is not soloable, then the mission is broken or otherwise incompetently designed.

Yeah, he seems a lot more like a GM than a regular Elite Boss. Even Nosferatu (the toughest EB in the game IMO) showed a little bit of vulnerability. Biff was like trying to solo Jack in Irons.

The other weird thing about this is that Biff doesn't even seem like "the big bad guy" that a story arc leads you up to. Dobbs just gave me a mission to go fight some guy named Biff. No suspense or anything.

Can you turn bosses off and slaughter him as a lieutenant? I don't think he's an EB is he?

If that doesn't work, and if envenomed daggers aren't enough, then I recommend temp-power overload. Head to Siren's call and get the venom grenade, web grenade and shield. Head to bloody bay and get shivans. From the black market, get yourself a backup radio. From your supergroup base craft resist toxic and recharge bonus and anything else you think will be handy. Set the mission to -1/x0.

The venom grenade will give him -20 resist all, and the shivan will butcher his defenses. At that point the shivan and radio dude should be able totear him up. Only two immobilizees are needed to stop him fleeing (If I recall) so you can pack them on while your goons do the pounding for you.

How many red inspires did you try using?

I've been running at +2/x1 for awhile now. I'd hate to have to drop my fighting level just for this one guy in the game and then raise it back again as soon as he's dead. I may just recruit a team and treat him like a GM.

Biff is tough because he has great resists and a sick regen rate. Consider crafting an Envenomed Dagger and bringing that.

Bring a /poison MM along and you won't even realize he has a regeneration bonus.

I found throwing a Shivan at him to be the best solution when I faced him recently.

Arachnoid Bosses on the higher difficulty setting have had crazy regeneration. Biff and another named Arachnoid EB are 2 that have even more higher regeneration then their boss class. EB Biff is always EB rank,no matter the difficulty that you change to. I found the best way to deal with him if he was being difficult was logging a 2nd account 50 and making Biff see the error of his ways(which of course doesn't take long.) Still,even though he's always EB class,reducing the difficulty should make his Regeneration much more tolerable. And as others already suggested,bring temp pets,Envenom Temp,anything to deal with him as needed. The tools are there and its always worth it exploit the mob's weakness.

My Ice/cold corr with 2 solid holds, benumb and good dps in the ice blasts didn't have as much trouble as my mastermind.

My thugs/poison mastermind was the only character I've had so far that could successfully solo this jerk.

My Necro/Dark mastermind had no problems. Spamming Twilight Grasp is a great way to nullify high regen rates.

"[Hilarious. Here's my guarantee, it takes a LOT less time to go to the fateweaver, click twice to turn diff down, click twice again to turn it back up, then it will take to recruit a team.]"

No, you misunderstand. I know its very simple to visit the Fateweaver to lower my difficulty. What I'm saying is that I've built this SS/Inv Brute with IOs to make him incredibly tough and durable. He's marching through the game, smashing any and all enemies, until he runs into this one guy who's apparently (for me) impossible to even dent. I have to lower my difficulty level (maybe to -1), fight him, and then return to my regularly scheduled game of destruction.

It just seems odd and a little disappointing. I thought that maybe I was missing some key strategy in dealing with this character, but it looks like others have had similar problems with him.