Trapdoor is hard!

I think trapdoor is appropriatly difficult as a gatekeeper npc. I don't want to knock the OP, but I'm 100% certain any AT and powerset combo can beat him solo. If you fail, then its because you didn't do something that you could have. Presumably because you haven't learned to do that yet. Once you learn what is needed and succed in excecution of that task, you've passed the test and can move forward to incarnate content.

Maybe that sounds harsh, but seriously, we're talking about a fight that can be ended in less then 10 seconds solo by a lot of people. And I'm certain any brute can do that finish him that fast easier then most.

Next they are going to go back through all the iTrials after looking at how leagues standard tactics. "Oh no you don't! You have to let the AV regenerate a bajillion points, and you gotta stand in the pink patches of Doom! STAND THERE NOW!"

I found this frustrating. My first two characters took Trapdoor out easily (dark/dark scrapper and fire/kin controller). My dark/dark defender can't leverage the DPS to kill him before he fills the room with duplicates. I had him at best to half health before he healed back up to full. Stacking Midnight Grasp and Howling Twilight did nothing to stop his regeneration.

I'll try it with the envenomed dagger later.

Only time I had problems was when I had it set on +2. I reset my difficulty to -1 and TAMO! down in 10 seconds.

Nothing else is needed besides -1 and grab some insps from the hosp right next to the mission and TAMO.

*Then A Miracle Occurred!

Inspirations didn't do anything for me. Dark blast is not a great blast set for sustained DPS. The benefit of it is tar patch + the -regen from MG and HT + the -resist from tar patch. The combination is usually enough, but I couldn't get him below half health before his regen completely outpaced my damage.

I can sit there forever as long as he doesn't get a lucky shot, and even when he mezzes me my main problem is waiting for my toggles to recharge.

I don't have torrent, although I do need to respec to account for inherent fitness and those freed up slots have to go somewhere.

I'll try the hardsuit. I've been meaning to give that specific temp power a try anyway.

Yeah, so. No way my D3 can do this solo. I just don't have the damage output, even capped with inspirations. I couldn't even keep him perma-held with Petrifying Gaze to prevent bifurcation, and his regen was out of control after two bifurcations, even taking my -regen powers into account.

Thanks for the advice, all, but it didn't help, and telling me that your D3 could pull it off is useless to me.

I've been tempted several times over the years to reroll this character with a blast set that doesn't suck. Might do that now, given this trapdoor bs.

Or maybe I'll go ahead and use that HVAS.

Well, I know you probably won't need this info, but in case it's useful to someone: what I ended up doing was spamming Tenebrous Tentacles on him to keep him in my Tar Patch, with Dark Servant on him as well to help keep him rooted and his toHit debuffed. I kept him on the platform and not in the lava. (Rooting him gave me leeway to run off and defeat his clones when I got the bifurcation warning without him running somewhere annoying, and keeping him in the center made it easy for me to pop up and look for clones).

The main thing that I can think of that would have made a difference was that my high recharge let me keep HT on him more of the time. It seems likely to me that this is a bigger difference in effective DPS than running at the Defender damage cap, especially against something with strong regen.