Werner vs. Infernal (CoH)

Werner, my Katana/Regen scrapper in City of Heroes, beating an archvillain without using inspirations, temporary powers, veteran powers, base empowerment buffs or click accolades.

Infernal has 25% lethal resistance and puts out a ton of damage. I used the same click strategy that I'd used on Mother Mayhem. It cost me in one fight, where jumping in without Dull Pain or Moment of Glory, and only one Divine Avalanche for the first few seconds let him kill me in the first few seconds. I still think it was probably the right choice overall, as it conserved the powers for when I really needed them, and I was over 90% successful at surviving the alpha without them. Then it was just a matter of surviving long enough to put him down, which wasn't easy.

My fifth fight was extremely close. I had him down to just over a thousand hit points, then he simply hit me faster than I could keep up. It took me seven more fights to get him back to a sliver, and I honestly thought I was going to fail again. I was down to almost no health, and with no clicks available. Fortunately, he missed, and the clicks came back quickly enough, and I was able to finish the job.

I'm definitely getting back into the swing of this character judging the incoming damage, hitting the right powers, choosing in an instant whether to parry or heal, and quickly restacking my defenses after using a heal. Still some mistakes, but I was never perfect at Regen, just good enough to pull it off.

Having fun, which I guess is what's most important.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• CoH
• CoX
• katana
• regen
• scrapper
• solo
• archvillain
• AV