Well in a nutshell I took the plunge. Bought 12 stims and took my dual blade toon straight in solo. Level 20 was put to the test. 6 stim later I won. What a rush. Crits everywhere. Seriously wish this one time there was blood Thanks cryptic.

Congratulations! you are now my hero. :D

No. I am everyones hero !

Fight Club is generally my litmus test to see if I want to take a character any further. My DB character definitely outperformed all of my others in it - Eye of the Storm mowed through everything and I only ended up dying once (as I had the misfortune of aggroing both the Mechanic and the Sorcerer in the ring at once and I fumbled on a block).

Do people really have that much trouble with this mission? I've done it with 3 (4?) characters now, each doing it around level 18-19 solo. Died maybe a couple of times but it never felt really difficult or anything.

I agree on the litmus test thing.

First char (fighting claws) soloed it with a bit of careful pulling and only a couple of deaths.

Second char (pure summoner) couldn't do it.

Third char (Venemous breath) cake-walked it.

it really does show up the relative strength or weakness of a character.

Congratulations. But just 1 silly question…..what are stims? Sorry, maybe I’m not aware of that term yet.

The "MARS Stims" - the health packs you get at certain vendors.

If you still don't know what I'm talking about, post back- it's a big boost at level 11 to be able to purchase cheap heals.

Stims are essentially the healing patches/albative shields that you craft with the Arms crafting set only you buy them from vendors instead of making them yourself. If you don't PvP you probably never knew they were for sale :)

Fight Club has gotten much easier for me, mostly because I'm bringing higher level toons in now.
(I now do both Desert and Canada before trying Millennium City).