Nine Swords

BrokenPieces wrote:
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• I might be wrong, but it looked to me that standing on the platform during the cast time of Rending Reality causes the filth damage.

BP

I noticed this too. What I think happened was that because Kiss and Grakz were burning the Shade before Rending Reality even started caused the filth up top to clear before the raid could make it to the edge of the area and head up top.

My recommendation: DO NOT follow Flappy to the center when he runs to the center of the arena to to cast Rending Reality, just jump down to the platform to the top. At least for this past run, the Shade was already dead every time before Rending Reality was even started, so there was no need to wait.

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Mellified wrote:
I took a build that could expose (so whatever I hit takes more damage) from range (an aoe chaos builder) and also tried to use the gadget of 5 instant stacks of weaken/debil/corrupt on Flappy whenever it was off CD. I could also add something that would debilitate on pen or crit so decrease the outgoing damage of things that I hit.

What do people reckon? Did it help (tanks - I'm really asking you here) or with two tanks is the extra weakening not needed? It is useful for the adds? Or would more dps be more useful? Comments gratefully received!

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You're the reason! I could NOT in any way shape or form figure out how the hell we got stacks up so fast. It was definitely helpful!!! I'd say to keep using the build if you're comfortable with it and you're happy with the DPS you are doing. It would definitely be helpful for you to shoot the Spiders and adds ASAP to help the offtank weaken/debilitate the Spiders, thus killing them faster. At the very least, do keep using that awesome gadget on Flappy anytime its off CD, unless stacks are at 10 already!

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TS-13 wrote:

BrokenPieces wrote:
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• I might be wrong, but it looked to me that standing on the platform during the cast time of Rending Reality causes the filth damage.

BP

I noticed this too. What I think happened was that because Kiss and Grakz were burning the Shade before Rending Reality even started caused the filth up top to clear before the raid could make it to the edge of the area and head up top.

My recommendation: DO NOT follow Flappy to the center when he runs to the center of the arena to to cast Rending Reality, just jump down to the platform to the top. At least for this past run, the Shade was already dead every time before Rending Reality was even started, so there was no need to wait.

Edit: Finished my thoughts on this post.

I would say hit flappy a couple of more times and then jump down. Rending Reality is quite a long cast so there is plenty of time to do that and everyone should be having RJ anyway.
Also iirc a spider will spawn, kill it before going to the upper platform. To avoid that later on when you jump down to the lower platform you end up right next to the spider and spider says "thanks for the meal!"

@Mellified, I would say more dps.

From what I saw, you can keep smacking him till half of Rending Reality cast time if you have RJ equipped. Yet, there was still filth damage during our try.

Never seen filthdamage during the cast, but there is a lot of filth patches you can walk in to on the platform, so maybe that was the reason?

Thanks for the feedback - I'll definitely keep using the Contraption of Pestilence (I now know it's name) and I'll test doing more dps rather than weakening on the next few runs.

Just a thought - I took Sleight of Hand hoping that it would cleanse my filth stacks, but it didn't (or at least I didn't think it did!). If the filth stacks are getting too much how about all the pist/shot dps take Win-Win with a rampant augment to cleanse everybody at regular intervals? I'm sure they must have a spare slot, it's not the healing that is important and we are in a handy bunch for a lot of the time.

From my experience it has been enough for the healer to carry it, but i guess it depends on how much the dps like to bath in the filth.

Mellified wrote: If the filth stacks are getting too much how about all the pist/shot dps take Win-Win with a rampant augment to cleanse everybody at regular intervals? I'm sure they must have a spare slot, it's not the healing that is important and we are in a handy bunch for a lot of the time.

Mel this might be a good idea. The solution to this problem was the Barrier Potions that Kiss and Chaos kept emphasizing. I personally was using them too absorb the damage from filth, it seemed enough to keep me from dying and getting back to the group even if I was thrown into two filth piles in a row.