Archvillain

This article is about the NPC enemy. For the Archvillain accomplishment badge, see Archvillain Badge.

Overview

Archvillains are extremely powerful entities. They con +5 to their level. They typically have tens of thousands of HP (ten times that of standard bosses), substantial regeneration, increased damage, and near-immunity to mez two-thirds of the time. Approach with extreme caution and several teammates.

Archvillains will spawn as weaker Elite Bosses against teams which are small and/or using low notoriety settings.

Archvillains are also noteworthy for having strong debuff resistance that scales by level. As of Issue 9, this resistance applies to -RunSpeed, -Recharge, -Endurance, -ToHit, -Defense, -Perception, -Regeneration, and -Recovery.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
AV Res Mod	0.60	0.60	0.61	0.61	0.62	0.63	0.63	0.64	0.64	0.65	0.65	0.66	0.66	0.67	0.67	0.68	0.68	0.69	0.69	0.70

Level	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
AV Res Mod	0.70	0.71	0.71	0.72	0.72	0.73	0.73	0.74	0.74	0.75	0.75	0.76	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.79	0.80

Level	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55
AV Res Mod	0.80	0.81	0.81	0.82	0.82	0.83	0.83	0.84	0.84	0.85	0.85	0.86	0.86	0.87	0.87

So, for example, while it might seem as though a Defender's Radiation Infection should be valuable against Captain Mako in the Statesman Task Force, to deal with his Elude, it is in fact heavily resisted. 3-slotted, it would do -61% Defense, which should cripple him, but as it's against a +4 enemy it is at half strength (-61 * .5 = -30.5), and as it's against a level 54 Archvillain a further 87% of that is resisted (-30.5 * (1 - .87) = -3.965%), leaving the net effect approximately a third as useful at bypassing defense as an Insight inspiration. Likewise, even against an even-con AV, a 50's Lingering Radiation's mighty -500% Regen debuff will be dropped to approximately -65%.