What would you build to solo +4x8 TFs ? Any AT Suggestion welcome.
Hmmm.
A seriously tooled-up fire/fire/body tank with the cimmy pets, barrier, reactive, void, and cardiac might be a good approach.
If I absolutely had to do this and was not allowed or inclined to go the obvious mind/fire dom route, I would go fire/dark corruptor for sure. You'll clear spawns about as fast as any meleer is going to but as soon as you get to an AV the thing'll blow wide open in the corr's favor. I suspect that's still true if one considers lore pets. Fire/traps is possibly even more effective but traps is boring. Dark miasma is fun.
Ill/Cold maybe Ill/Storm
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
So outside of that mentioned fire/fire/body tank, would there be no other melee toons up to this challenge? How about a elec/km tank? Or are corrs/doms the only choice?
Ss/fa
For scrapper, a good DM/SD could do it with the Cimeroran pets and regen destiny. I can get north of 500 dps with Cim pets (and some have posted results over 700), get well over 100 hps, run an infinite chain, and of course capped defenses and DDR. I've soloed the ITF before with no purples or PvPs, and I'm pretty sure I could do it +4/*8. Shield was enough to keep him relatively still in the tests I did. LGTF would be much harder just because Hamidon, STF is my next challenge. STF is possible, but it is fairly hard. I can kill inner circle, but Recluse can be trouble (basically I tank him and have pets destroy towers, then wait for the pets to respawn and take him). I'm not sure about other TFs. A KM/Fire could possible do enough damage, but won't be as survivable. Anything/Willpower will have enough survivability if built right, but the damage and taunt probably won't be good enough.
For Brute or tank you are going to want fire armor, some good primary. SS isn't the best for DPS, but for some reason (*cough* farming), a lot people have one. I'd recommend the brute over the tank, for the added offense.
But of course, no melee AT will be as good as a ranged AT do to the mechanics of the game. Your soldier actually should be able to put out enough DPS, the highest recording pylon speed was by a crab (over 1000 DPS), and that should be higher with the new Lore pets. A Bots/Trap MM can take down basically anything, look at Silverado's stuff. There's also the standard Ill/Rad.
TW/Elec Optimization
I asked this in the Veat forum, and a couple of useful answers. I'm looking forward to additional feedback.
What would you build to solo +4x8 TFs? Would you build a Scrapper, Tank, Brute, Veat, or Other; any and all suggestions welcome.
If it's a Scrap, Tank, Brute, Veat type I'd like to have
- HP * Resist >= 2500
- Defense >= 45/45/45 Vectored or Typed
- Incarnate Offense >= 400, Preferably >= 500 vs a Pylon and/or Rommy.
- Immobilize or Taunt sufficient to keep EBs/AVs from running at +4 lvl ~= +7 mag Perma Immobilize.
If it's not a Scrap, Tank, Brute, Veat, then You'll have to give me some pointers on strategy and tactics.my soldier is currently soloing a +4x8 ITF, and so far my limiting factors are:
- immobilize/Taunt to keep Rommy from running. Without Immobilize best I've done is get him to half health as he runs like a chicken with it's head cut off. I spend more time chasing than fighting. Gonna try Carnies Lore and an Immobilize build next.
- Damage, AT +4 lvl you're doing half damage, so you're gonna need 400 to 500 dps, or more.
This also just happens to be my Incarnate dps limit inside my "crab tank" build, such that I'm just barely squeaking by and don't really see any way to eek out more damage while sustaining my defense, resist, HP, and immobilize. I may be able to steal a slot to get another -resistance proc, and I'm gonna change my build a bit as far as immobilize is concerned, but that's about it and that leaves me very close to 415 or so dps, where 500 would be much better. In all likely hood, I'm afraid dps will be less than 400 by the time I keep the immobilize going, and that's gonna make it all a very, very close thing.
So, if I was gonna build something new, like say a Staff/Wp scrapper in i25, or sooner, what should that be ? And given that I want to do these TFs as +4x8, I'll need both ST and AoE damage. An AoE build that has enough damage with Incarnate Lore filling in the High ST DPS Role, is very likely an acceptable answer.
PS: Why +4x8 ? Because I know I can do trivially it at +0, where as +4x8 is challenging me.