Progression

Spent most of the afternoon on as Lynn, and, between soloing and PUGging, got her up to nearly 24. She’s great in a group with decent healing and buffing, but remains a bit brittle on her own. Not much to easily do about that, alas.
In the evening we hopped on as Psi-clone and Amorpha. I’ve been feeling apprehensive about playing them, not wanting to deal with AVs and coordination with other heroes and stuff like that. After our last AV battle, I was gun-shy about duoing one.
Instead, we worked on some old story arcs, then tackled our initial AVs with the new Elite Boss settings (with 2 players, we can be up to Rugged, the middle reputation setting, and have the AVs spawn as Elite Bosses).

1. Black Swan: Dark energy attacks in the Necropolis. The latter meant we could hop directly to her and bypass the various Shadows (which were decent but not spectactular eats).
   Came up as a level 48 Elite Boss (orange). And went down, pretty quickly, as same. I had to cast a couple of heals on Amorpha, but by and large Black Swan was a cream puff for us.

2. Psychic Babbage: Psychic attacks in the ruined city. Amorpha had this one in her hopper. He came up as another level 48 Elite Boss (orange) for us. Hopped directly to him (the various clockwork in the city conning blue and white), got all our buffs ready, and … launched.
   As in “ate our launch.” I mistimed my initial hit, so he spent some initial focus on me. My psychic defenses were doing okay, Amorpha started whomping on him, things were …
   Bam. “Gah!” Heal. Heal. Jump. Bam. “Argh.” Oh, and look, Amorpha’s down, too.
   Hrm. Off to hospital. Replan strategy to actually take dude not just seriously, but seriously.
   Go back. Line up. Prep. Fire off my buffs. Gargle chicklets. Tap the Vanguard medal. Twist the Wedding Band. Initially attack with the Phantom Army on the opposite side of Psychic Babbage.
   And the rest was rought but manageable. He wasted his alpha strike on the phantoms, and we may not have locked him down, but we kept him pretty distracted until we could take him down, down, down.

3. Dominatrix: Grav controller in a warehouse. We’ve been on a dozen missions against her, and they’ve never been very life and death. In this case, she conned as a level 49 elite boss (red). And, after warmup on all her BDSM punks, it was not a very big deal.
   Had her locked down, had her distracted, had her taken care of without a lot of pain and anguish.

Good times. We discoed after that, which we took as a sign that we should call it an evening.
The elite boss versions are giving smaller XP, of course. But as long as we don’t die trying to duo them, we should be okay.