Thanks man, very thorough explanation!
I was wondering because I was thinking of solo:ing Dream Warden on my 170ek with ml 9 and because ml 10 is required for using E-bombs I needed to boost my ml, which are essential for solo:ing this quest.
I did it a couple of weeks ago now and like you mentioned I went with Tropical Fried Terrorbird.
It worked very well throughout the whole quest EXCEPT for the mend what's broken part where there's Silencers nearby almost all of the quest faces since they lower the ml.