Alexei vs. Double Rikti War Zone Challenge (CoH)

Alexei, my Katana/Dark Armor Scrapper in City of Heroes, beating a double Rikti War Zone Challenge on his second attempt. The regular RWZ Challenge is used to stress test top tier scrapper builds, to help show both your and your build's weaknesses. The rules are:

- Solo a group of Rikti 4 levels higher than you
- The group must include 3 bosses
- You must engage the entire group at the same time
- No inspirations allowed
- No temporary powers allowed
- No click accolades allowed
- No deaths allowed

A DOUBLE Rikti War Zone challenge is pretty much what it sounds like - find TWO RWZ challenge spawns next to each other, combine them together into one giant mass of Rikti attacking you that includes six level 54 bosses, then take them out using the above rules. I'm not the only Scrapper that has beaten 2xRWZ, but it's a pretty small club. As a point of reference, my two other main builds with all the videos up here get CRUSHED trying to attempt it. This one ain't easy.*

I was almost out of endurance towards the end of the fight. If I'd have been playing smarter, I'd have turned off Cloak of Fear once all the minions were dead, but I didn't think of it in the heat of the moment. No big deal, since all it caused was a bit of delay taking out the last few bosses. In any case, that's why I sometimes just stand there attacking with nothing but Divine Avalanche.

All of the mobs just standing there are an artifact of recording from a demorecord playback instead of recording live. Sometimes they just reappear in the playback after they're dead. That's also why the user interface isn't visible. My machine is too old to both play the game and record what I'm doing at the same time.

* for Scrappers. I'm guessing that really good Tanks would find it easy.

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• dark
• scrapper
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• Rikti
• RWZ
• challenge

[WernerCoH]

@WhiteNightIIV It's the Talsorian katana, which I believe is now called just the Vanguard katana. You buy it with Vanguard merits at one of the Vanguard terminals, as I recall, though of course you have to go to Icon to actually equip it.

[WhiteNightIIV]

What katana are you using, it looks like it is glowing?