Solo Dark Astoria

I prevented Mot from Devouring the World on 4x8 on my itrial def-capped Fortunata. I really didn't have any problems, though my standard practice was to just use Confuse while invisible until spawns were whittled down to just a confused boss or EB... mostly because I think confusion is just that funny.

My DA/SR scrapper gets flatted by 4x8 spawns in Dark Astoria, which I suppose is the difference between the itrial defense cap and the regular defense cap. Stuff just hits a little more often and there are enough tough mobs around that something eventually takes her down. She's not dying like a blaster but she definitely doesn't have the air of invincibility she had against 50+ blue-side content either.

My namesake Rad/Dark defender spent more time mezzed or dead than anything else against 0x1s in DA, but her build is still mostly common IOs. I came away from my efforts to solo on her with the idea that I needed to hook up with something that could either give status protection or completely didn't need it. Everyone who says DA is too easy should try running it solo on a Defender that doesn't have an IO'd out build.

I had a blast rolling through at +4x8 with my Elec/Nin stalker. The only times I ran into trouble were: When over two rad bosses spawned, during the multiple EB fight in cimerora(used up a full tray of oranges to stay alive), and the final fight(before the AV) where you have 3 spawns right on top of each other.

ive done it afew times on my ss/wp brute now +1
i use the kill 200 map for my purple recipes however if theres 2 sorrow there rad blasts combined with a mob is instant faceplant i open a fight with darkest night from the soul mastery pool and most of the time live (combination of rage and i-o Defence sets help)

my fort whos +3 t4 is only risky if im not paying attention (lots of controls) or something gets a lucky hit in

not tried my ill/rad +3 t4 yet but really id be surprised if it did have problems