movement and well timed cooldown abilities are your friends in that end-fight. while the animation is very short, it is not very difficult to dodge if you know what to look for - try jumping over your melee target for these short ques or circling tightly around the hitbox base.[...]
- Whispers of Return. My experience as a melee player tells me that the red-named koprus are a big problem in R10, especially when playing solo. Since you can't CC them (as easily as the other orange korpus), your only chance of survival (if you don't have adequate defenses) is to avoid Mind Seeker. But predicting it in close combat is not the easiest thing in the world, as the trigger is very fast, and backing off in time is not so easy. Add a bit of lag, and you're done. Oh, right, lag has been fixed and is no longer a problem
In summary, the quest itself is not a big issue, but the boss can be painful. In any case, the shrine is within reach, so if you feel like completing it, you can.
Thanks for your input, was wondering if you could expand on Cooldown abilities and movement? Which ones are you using?
You can also probably get that from the Dark Gift of Drizlash, the Nine-Eyed Spider from amber temple for an hour long buff
Correct, you can also obtain the additional +2 profane by using the Amber buff, but personally, even though it only takes a couple of minutes, I would never do it... a +2 doesn't justify the boredom of repetitive farming every hour, at least for me.
Have you ever tried the self resurrection buff to see how it work?
Hey! Considering that you lose the Dahlver-Nar gift when you exit the quest, I don't think it's useful
Great build! The assassinate animation is slow enough that you can turn once you start the assassinate and often get a third target. Prior to the assassin pass many years ago I used to be able to assassinate 4, but something changed with that update preventing more than 3 unless there is something I am missing.
I have never seen 3 (unless I remember incorrectly), always 2. I don't think offhand proc and doublestrike are relevant since you can assassinate two targets even using a single weapon with swf.
I use to be able to Assassinate 3 and very, very rarely 4 before they removed Double Strike/Double Procs effects.
Yes in the current game I'm only able to Assassinate to mobs at once but FreeToPlay is stating they can Assassinate 3, with moving from 1st to 3rd mob, and that is what I'm wondering how they are able to since it seems it got hard coded to just Assassinate 2 mobs for now, TWF or THF.
I previously issued a challenge for anyone to prove more than 3 assassinates, and no one was able to do so (and this was many years ago). What seemed to be happening, in every case, was 2 assassinates and 1 single-shot kill (where a normal strike did enough damage to kill the target). It's probably a moot point, but I've been convinced for a long time that more than 2 actual assassinates is a myth. I've played something like 40 TWF assassin lives (much of that solo and moving at my own pace) and have yet to see more than a double.
You might be right about the third kill.
Back when level cap was 28 I would solo and assassinate 3 mobs if they were close enough to shift my angle as the assassinate was going off, it seemed to work more consistently back than, when you would jump into(fall into) the assassinate as you were falling into the hit box and if you would rotate your character as well towards the third/fourth target.
SD Epic Moment may not be good for an assassin but it has got synergy with tanky toons (High AC). On my build it is the best Epic Moment I can have. Love it. I can kill big group of trash in a few sec and also gives me 30 sec greater chance to survive in tough situations.