Just completed General Assembly on legendary in WorldTier 5 as solo this morning (after 3AM). It was very hard but doable. Took me a straight 7 or 8 hours.
One guy in the end in the assembly hall could even see me through walls and shoot sniper rifle at me through walls.
I am new to the game and don’t have Barrett Bulletproof Vest or The House, so this was a test if legendary is worth the time to get exotic caches. No it isn’t.
I just recently got up to level 30 in the main game so was playing GA for the first time and tried it on Legendary.
By now I have been to the dark zone to rank 80 and got four pieces of Nomad which saved me 7 or 8 times. Also had Recovery Link which activated once while Nomad was on cooldown.
Main tactic was to “funnel the mob” as someone well said it. Drag them out and take out one by one. NPCs are very strong for solo. Rule 1 is keep distance.
There was one face-to-face encounter with NPC partly “prepared” with several seekermines and turret, and even with landing headshots from LMG I barely made it with Nomad activating.
I used the HungryHog which gave 58-73K per headshot and a 700 Carbon rifle.- gave best shot at 380-430K which helped step 1 of destroying the MedStation quickly while the Medic was repairing it with a blowtorch in the entry yard.
After the med station was out it was a matter of time and landing 50–60 assaultrifle headshots from bridge per NPC and many many seekermines as I did run out of sniper ammo (ran with extra +53 and +51% ammo capacity) in the entry yard and had to switch to Bullfrog with 12X scope as backup which gave 40-50K per shot. Gear not optimized (again, relatively early in the game, 1st try at GA).
In the underground parking lot the mob that re-spawned behind me did get me as I was running to retreat back to the tunnel even with hitting a medkit and Nomad and Recoverylink activating, so the NPCs are very strong (I have 420 or 430K stamina by now). I got respawned in the underground parking (I guess I passed the checkpoint after clearing out the previous parking mob).
Lack of ammo boxes for solo made me use pistol and seekermines and turret a lot to save the ammo in the tunnel and in the underground parking.
Seekermine delay explains the long time it took, so maybe more electronnics can save time.
Tried stickybomb but found it less effective as it didn’t offer a one-shot advantage but did expose me to line of sight high damage.
Overall, doable as solo with (relatively) mid-level gear but takes many hours so does qualify as “legendary”. After ammo restock it gets easier but not without surprises. Have fun.
If you set your sticky bomb skill to instant-use it will eliminate that. In the settings, there is a use skill, and an instant use option just a couple of lines below that. It takes just a bit of practice, but basically you'll put your crosshairs where you want it to fire and it shoots it. If you do pop up above the cover, it is just for a split second. WAY better than the other way. That said, I wish this were a per-loadout setting. This works great for sticky, but not for some other skills. Even seekers I don't use this because I want to be able to throw them closer to the enemies, particularly on legendary.Originally Posted by TM1. Go to original post