The best way I’ve found to deal with Hurricane-using mobs (Tsoo Sorcerers and Banish Pantheon Storm Shaman, usually) on a melee character is to just keep running away until the duration runs out and then whittle them down before they fire it up again. Kinetic Melee and Energy Melee are pretty effective against them as well, because the Disorient effect in a lot of attacks will, if you can land a hit, cancel the Hurricane.
That might work for sorcerers and storm shamans, except that this particular AV seemed to have about a half-second of downtime between when it wore off and when she re-cast it.
And with AV regen, you can’t afford to spend much time not doing damage, or you end up starting over. It’s amazing how much even one good -Regen debuff helps with AVs. (And GMs.) Even so, with Mary, you need something to help you land hits, which is why Dark wasn’t on my list of best choices. Dark support would have helped, but not as much as a Rad primary.
My Martial Arts guy is awesome at stunning people. I pop in and hit them right away and stop them from doing it.
That was not a fun fight for Hellfury, though she was the one member of her team not to die at some point. We went in at level 32, and Mary was level 36 by the end - add that to the hurricane, and the end drain from the lightning flying around, and it was pretty much my nightmare scenario. Oh, and the running away.
I am doing an alt build for Hellfury with more knockback protection.
I finally ran the House of Horrors this weekend. Found it tedious and dull, but ymmv. Got in a MSR on my brute, got 2.5 levels of experience and I missed out on the pylons. Also ran Summer Block Buster again on my dark/dark corrupter. Team had another corrupter, a defender, and an Arcanos Soldier. We debuffed the shit out of everything, and just steamrolled. Smoothest run I’ve ever done.
The House of Horrors doesn’t have a lot of replay value, but I do love the visual assets.
I saw last night that I’m the Perfect Master. What!? This tyranny must end!
So, who should have the supergroup leadership?
I finally got Bal back to 50 last night, in a surprisingly fast-rolling pickup Sara Moore TF. Then I unlocked my Alpha Incarnate slot, which also went faster than I expected. I’m not sure if the elite bosses were easier to deal with because I have more efficient slotting this time around, or if something else has changed, but Trapdoor and the Honoree folded like cheap suits. (The Echo of Minos took longer, but only because he triggers Unstoppable at low health.) I took time to get a Shivan shard for support, but didn’t need it. Now I just need to farm up the stuff to actually start making Alpha powers.
I still need to run House of Horrors for the badges. I think I’ve got all the other event badges now.
Thanks to this thread, I’ve been trying to get back into CoH for the past week or so. The rubber-banding, though, is killing me. I’ve got almost as good a connection as I can here in Edmonton, but I guess the distance from the servers is what’s doing me in.
Not it!
Well, there are about 8,072 candidates for the position, but 8,061 of them are Mr. Rik.
One is reminded of Ponder Stibbons’ coup of the Unseen University.
Any advice on taking out Nosferatu in the Ouroboros story arc? He’s kicking my butt.
Bring friends or outlevel him. He’s stupidly overpowered and has a massive self-heal that goes off when you finally manage to wear him down. Picking up a Shivan from Bloody Bay might help, if you’re determined to solo him and don’t mind going into a PvP zone for a temp power.
He kicked my butt, too. None of the other Dopers were on at the time, so I got help from someone in the LFG channel… who ended up killing him using a Shivan from Bloody Bay, and then took me there and showed me how to get more.
FTR, the PVP zones on Everlasting aren’t insta-gank zones like I expected they’d be. In fact, I think that people harvesting meteors are generally the only ones there.
Hmm, the servers are located in Canada, though not sure exactly where.
LOL 
Actually, though, I think only six or eight of my alts are in CECIL.
Congrats, Bal! I need to get a Sara Moore in tonight…
The coup was successful! Balanced has now taken over the supergroup leadership. Because when I asked in game if he wanted it, he said “it doesn’t matter”. That’s the kind of passion we need, so I handed the fasces over to him.
Wow, it’s just like when I was nominated and elected president of an Theatre Alumni Association while I was in the bathroom.
In recognition of this…er, honor, I went and got the “Knows No Fear” badge, so I can be a Fearless Leader.
Well, really, it was one of my most perversely cherished badges on Bal in the old days, because obtaining it is grueling, while also being a reminder of how far mission design had come. The Dark Astoria/Incarnate arcs give you better opportunities to feel like your character is really a badass than anything else in the game, and the mission for that badge is one of the reasons.
[spoiler]It’s the finale of Sister Solaris’s arc in Cimerora, and you’re told that an army of monsters is about to descend upon the battered city-state. They want you to lead the heroes of Cimerora against the army…but the mission gives you a choice: you can take them with you, and basically have the entire Freedom Phalanx as backup…or you can tell them to stay behind and protect the city, because you will take on the army alone. The latter choice unlocks the badge when you finish the mission.
Then you get into the mission and find out that they weren’t kidding around–it’s an army. It’s full of spawns of 20+ Talons of Vengeance and packs of bosses (10 bosses in each spawn, I think), in tight enough groups that single and small pulls are almost impossible. The final encounter has two elite bosses, surrounded by several regular bosses. And it’s a defeat-all mission–there are objectives for taking out each part of the army.
The mission took me over an hour, and I had to make several trips out for more inspirations, but I wear the badge as validation of my stance that Defenders–and specifically Empaths–can solo.[/spoiler]
I hear you. I’ve been president of a gaming organization for more than 10 years now because my phone died during a meeting. The rest of the board nominated me and voted while I switched phones, and I’ve been stuck with it since.