So I’m horribly, horribly behind in all my I14 pre-release info review.
Instead, Margie and I have been grinding along on various PI arcs, in particular the first Tina McIntyre Praetorian gig. Unlike previous duos, we decided we really wanted to see if we could take on the AVs as AVs, rather than as Elite Bosses.
We tried duoing some AVs with Psi-clone and Amorpha, but just couldn’t get the DPS up high enough (which, with Amorpha, was saying something). But with Kitsune and Ex-Terra, in particular with Kitsune’s /Rad bits, we thought we might stand a chance.
Two things we learned.
1. Running into a room to confront an AV without prepping yourself first is an excellent way to experience Paragon City’s fine health care system.
2. We can, indeed, duo AVs. Not without difficulty and occasional death, but between irradiating the snot out of them, distracting them with phantoms, and and with Ex-Terra’s spine slowing and damage, plus some careful Endurance management, we managed to take down the four AVs (AntiMatter (twice), Neuron, Bobcat, Shadowhunter) in that arc. Yay.
Big XP, too, natch.
I’m taking souvenir pix of the baddies.
By Sunday night we were well into level 45. Good fun.
Congratulations!
Of course, cranking the diff up high enough for a duo to get AVs is also a challenge!
An Ill/Rad and a spines scrapper is a particularlly lethal combo, too. Good onya!
Basically it needs to be set to Invincible. On Unyielding, they’re Elite Bosses.
It’s not clear which is a better setting, XP- and play-wise, when there aren’t AVs involved. Both of us do a lot of AoE, which would seem to indicate that Unyielding (with its larger mobs) would be better than Invincible (with smaller mobs but higher level).
Ill/Rad and Spines/Regen are working out quite nicely, thank you (obviously). And I just enjoy the character (Kitsune-chan). She almost has too many options to start out on the bad guys (Illusion and Rad both have nice lead-in attacks), but that’s not necessarily the worst thing one could be complaining about.