Time for another as-it-happens Necropolis thread
Well, it's time. Cyber weekend has come and gone. I've done with Incursions for the month. AQ and War have just finished. And I've ground out a fairly insane number of revives in places I won't mention.
It's fine for a Necropolis Run from a button-mashing hack. And since I'm on a personal thread count of 99, I figure the forums can handle one more of these Necropolis threads for my 100th. I'll make the title obvious, so people can skip it if they want to. Like DNA did, I'm going to update the thread as I go, to motivate myself into keeping going. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery after all. Interestingly, whilst my predictive text does get the word flattery right, it also suggests the word 'disaster' as an option. That can't mean anything, can it?
I'm pretty busy in real life, and I can only put in a couple of hours a day, so I'm guessing this run will take me most of the week. Strap in...
I've gathered quite a few tips from threads like these, which I'll try to make apparent in case they're helpful. I called myself a hack before - what's my actual skill level? Good at parrying, mediocre at Dexing, and absolute rubbish at Intercepting. Speed isn't my strong suit: most BG seasons, I barely crawl over the line into the Gladiator's circuit.
What could go wrong?
Well, going in with a 6* Aegon that I've only taken to 4/55 Sig 120 may not be the best start. I'm frugal with resources, and I reckon that ultimately I can save those 80 Sig stones and just spend an extra dozen or so more revives ramping Aegon up; and 200 Dust with the same. So I don't Ascend him; because basically, I'm cheap.
My team is what's probably becoming a classic:
Aegon: 6* 4/55 Sig 120 (Relic = 6* WS)
Shuri: 7* 2/35 Sig 20 (Relic = 6* Vision)
Wiccan: 7* 1/25 (Relic = 5* GR)
Heimdall: 5* 5/65
Proxima: 6* 2/35
I remember to attach the Winter Soldier relic, avoiding the Black Panther one: in case anyone didn't know, the Black Panther relic messes you up against the Grandmaster.
Revving up Aegon on Mr Fantastic is not fun. It's not really a challenge either - hit, bait, throw specials, quit out to bank the combo periodically. The main issue is the occasional Evade that happens before I hit 150 Combo; followed by periodic deaths as I push him too far back and kill myself hitting him when he's got his back to the wall. Although more than one time, I do that on purpose, just to bank my combo.
I'm glad I brought Proxima. She makes the ramp-up a lot easier. And she'll still add a bit of Fury Potency later.
20 revives and he's down, with Aegon at a combo of 750. That's about what I was expecting. Maybe I can do this...
The next fight, I've been planning to do with Shuri. I got very lucky Awakening my 7*, and took her to r2 with resources from Cyber Weekend. Before going into this fight, I quite like Shuri.
As she runs towards Namor, I realise that I've forgotten to put any boosts on. I'd avoided using them for Aegon, because they'd be counterproductive - more damage would mean less ramp up. Never mind, let's see how it goes unboosted.
Ten minutes later, I don't like Shuri any more.
I ******* love her!
At the first attempt, despite forgetting to use any boosts, I solo Namor. I literally never lose my combo, finishing on something like 900, which I'm too shocked to screenshot. I do take note of the time - nine and a half minutes.
Am I... good at this?
No. No, let's not kid ourselves. I look again at what just happened. Shuri takes literally everything hard about this fight - his damage reduction, the passive damage when using Contact Attacks against the wall, facing lots of Unblockable Specials whilst Rooted - and she puffs the hard parts away like she was blowing on a dandelion clock. Basically all that's left is the Root, which is barely an issue since she can just hold block.
That wasn't skill. It was just patience, and a little strategy. Still, I'm feeling good.
Attuma doesn't really help me to sustain that emotion.
Shuri is supposed to be good against Attuma. But on my first attempt, because I don't want to parry him, I also don't place enough Shocks to remove his hydration. Quite soon, he goes Unstoppable, and he pushes me back... and back... and I'm dead. I take a look at Attuma's health bar, sitting at a healthy 97% and think hard. That's not really sustainable. I need to block more, and just take the hit damage so I can place Shocks to strip his Hydration away. Oh, and I need to use some boosts. Lots of them.
It works. With a better play strategy, I take about 40% of Attuma's health, and the same again with the next try. He goes down with three revives.
I can't say this enough: Shuri is nuts.
Time for a sleep. I hear that Air Walker is not fun. I take a look at DNA's thread to read what he's written about Air Walker, and pale slightly. Yep - sleep.
I write this up, and post it in the morning when I wake up. Time for Air Walker - and hopefully an update later.
Must try to remember to change my mastery set-up once I've got past Captain Britain, and switch to Aegon full time, though.
