Best Powerset for Soloing Doors in BAF

Hi,

What would be the best powerset for soloing doors in the BAF trial? I have a +3 of the toons listed below and they all do very well in that part, but I'm curious what the top build would be just for this one phase.

SS/Fire Brute
Fire/Kin Controller
Plant/Kin Controller
Bots/Traps MM
Thugs/Dark MM

I'm sure there are others I didn't list that could also do very well - please list any that I missed.

Really you don't have any bad choices (depends on build tho) in these class combinations. The Controllers will struggle with Lts some since they can't be mezzed, but with the Incarnate pets & damage it still shouldn't be too hard.

I'd say that either of your MM's would probably be tops followed by your Brute, but like I said any of these can solo a door without much/any leakage.

Anything that is +3 with Lore pets. With that said of your toons MMs typically have a really easy time on doors. The Brute wouldnt have confuse protection so getting up close to the door wouldnt work unless you have clarion or alot of breakfrees.

My best door guys are Bots/Traps MM. Plant/Rad troller, and Thugs/Time MM. My other can do doors too, just not like these guys.

Had good luck with fire/rads, fire/kins, and even my FF/Archery fender.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

I have no problems soloing doors with my Fire/Fire/Ice dom. That thing melts all but Lt's soon as they walk out the door and fire blast/blaze takes care of the rest. I put my lore pets on the sidewalk to help take out guys that make it past others.

I could almost solo doors on my Ninja/Storm MM, with the occasional escapee. Since I got a second set of Hurricanes w/ my T3 Storm Elemental, I've actually soloed a door while falling asleep at the keyboard.

My bots/force field mastermind does very well on BAF doors. Turn on Force Bubble and let the pets go to work.

Either of those two MMs with level shifts and lore pets will completely dominate a door, or even a whole walkway.

Some other options that you don't have listed:

- Pet heavy crab builds
- High rech Dominators with good ST damage (like Fire Assault)
- Corrs with decent control or slow patches +high ST primary - ex: Fire/Dark, Fire/Time, Fire/Cold

Earth and Ice Dominators both do very well as well. Although with actual my Ice/Fire Dominator I prefer to camp on the pathway slightly outside the main group of gathered players, and not actually at the door. That way I can lay out Ice Slick so it touches the edge of Arctic Air and create a slow-zone that is 50ft across. I cast Rain of Fire from my APPs over my head to slow them down even more as they run through AA, and gain some damage. The advantage to this is it stops enemies running in both directions. However, I do not worry about actually killing the Lts, I just hit them a few times and let them run into the team behind.

I'm with O_T. Are you sure you really want to sit at the doors? Having the teams spread out on the paths is practically foolproof. Yeah you can't maximize the effectiveness of a power like burn, but you also don't get those agonizing minute long periods where nothing is deciding to come out of your doors for some reason. My vote is plant/storm controller and don't even bother with the doors.

Fire^3 dom and fire^3 scrapper have enough AoE damage to make good door soloers, though the latter has no confuse protection. I keep a supply of emerges on hand for BAF and UG runs.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle I'm with O_T. Are you sure you really want to sit at the doors? Having the teams spread out on the paths is practically foolproof. Yeah you can't maximize the effectiveness of a power like burn, but you also don't get those agonizing minute long periods where nothing is deciding to come out of your doors for some reason. My vote is plant/storm controller and don't even bother with the doors.

I haven't seen any problems with prisoners not spawning, though I haven't run many BAFs recently. I still like to doorsit since I believe that I can get the most out of my AoE's that way. I know that players on Freedom have been doing more 16-person BAF runs lately, and I'm not sure which method the smaller leagues prefer.

I disapprove of this thread and all other threads that perpetuate the idea of using the 'doors' method instead of choke points on a BAF.

There is always some superstar that wants to solo a door and not do as the league leader asks.

I've found that the best door soloers have passive damage patches, because those often cause the prisoners to leave multiple times, racking up extra damage while they cannot move. This also seems to happen with a large amount of damage, and pets seem good at it (which is one reason why Lore pets work so well at this stage). I think a Bots/Traps MM should be perfect.

I have had the most luck holding doors on my tanks.

1) Have to have pets, you need the extra damage.
2) AOE's and damage aura's with reactive.
3) Confuse protection.


I currently do this most often on either my fire/fire tank, or my stone/ss tank.

On the fire I drop pets at 5 seconds, and start chugging breakfree's. 1 breaky stops the confuse, so I go through seven or eight.

On the stone, minerals stops the confuse, so I chug damage insp's to help drop the lt's. Surprisingly, mud pot's is VERY good here, the minions don't get a chance to take a step.

Stone tanks are very good on the BAF and Lam, I find, can main tank the UG with some buffs and some clarion. Effectively useless on the old Keyes, haven't tried it on the new Keyes yet. Have not run the MoM or TPN on the stoner yet, but I expect it would be less than ideal.