Challenge: Solo Lusca on different ATs without repeating powersets

[Silverado]

Greetings everyone, my name is @Silverado. I've been playing since live on both Freedom and Virtue. City of Heroes is my favorite, and no other game I've played (WoW, SWTOR, Wildstar, Overwatch) was able to fill the void during its absence.

 

Anyway, I like having fun with the flexible build system the game offers that lets you do crazy things, like soloing signature AVs and GMs. 

One of my favorite challenges is soloing Lusca, because I find it hilarious that "one of the biggest challenges to any Giant Monster hunter. One 8 man team may simply not be enough and depending on team composition some times even three teams fail to defeat the GM." (as described in the article) can be taken down by one person.

Do you have what it takes to participate in this challenge and take down the Giant Octopus in Independece Port on different ATs?

 

The rules of the challenge are:

• No teammates
• No temp powers*
• No "Lore" summons (as per @nihilii's suggestion)
• No T3 inspirations or above
• No repeating powersets*
• Proof is required (screenshots, videos, etc.)

 

* An exception could be made for Prestige Powers from the P2W vendor, since the impact they have is minor.

** That means if you do it on an Ill/Rad Controller, you cannot do it on a Sonic/Rad Corruptor, since you'd be repeating Rad

 

To start off the challenge, I will submit my Blaster (Beam/Mental) and Defender (Therm/Ice). 

 

Edited April 3, 2020 by Silverado

[nihilii]

14 hours ago, Silverado said:

* An exception could be made for Envenomed Daggers on Melee ATs

I think "no incarnates but envenomed daggers" makes the challenge vastly less interesting than "incarnates but no temps, period", because EVERY melee AT would end up spamming Envenomed Daggers as the prime source of their effective damage output.

 

The required DPS to win becomes 1 or above. Ok, probably more than 1 DPS because you don't want your 300 dagger charges to run out too soon. But in general, significant -regen is autowin against Lusca, especially on melee ATs where it's trivial to build enough mitigation to passively survive the incoming damage.

Incarnates even with Lore are somewhat more interesting, in that you can't keep pets up all the time and you do have to manage them so they don't die. Heck, incarnates *without* Lore is possible for melee ATs and ought to be a decent challenge.

[Shred Monkey]

8 hours ago, nihilii said:

I think "no incarnates but envenomed daggers" makes the challenge vastly less interesting than "incarnates but no temps, period", because EVERY melee AT would end up spamming Envenomed Daggers as the prime source of their effective damage output.

 

The required DPS to win becomes 1 or above. Ok, probably more than 1 DPS because you don't want your 300 dagger charges to run out too soon. But in general, significant -regen is autowin against Lusca, especially on melee ATs where it's trivial to build enough mitigation to passively survive the incoming damage.

Incarnates even with Lore are somewhat more interesting, in that you can't keep pets up all the time and you do have to manage them so they don't die. Heck, incarnates *without* Lore is possible for melee ATs and ought to be a decent challenge.

I agree that I would prefer to allow incarnates powers and not temps. 

 

But I wouldn't say envenomed daggers makes it easy.  The tentacles are nothing... those shouldn't require -regen.  But the head is still hard.  In my experience, envenomed daggers are far from instant-win.  They actually just get you from "Man... I'm really close, but I'm not quite winning" to "Oh man, I think I'm just barely winning, now... Ohhh... no...Did I buy enough of these things? " 

 

[Silverado]

15 hours ago, nihilii said:

Incarnates even with Lore are somewhat more interesting, in that you can't keep pets up all the time and you do have to manage them so they don't die. Heck, incarnates *without* Lore is possible for melee ATs and ought to be a decent challenge.

Fair enough, I think that sounds reasonable. I'll edit my original post.