WoW Q - If you knew you WEREN’T going to get the abs man solo, who would you use?
Oakenshield
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From what I’ve been reading, clearly one of the biggest issues if you don’t solo him is the regen. However, most of the options for shutting down the regen seem to be getting to SP2 (She Hulk, Sandman) and by the time you get to an SP2 after a revive he’s already regen’d quite a bit.
Obviously that’s part of the reason this fight is so riduculous, but is there any champ that is best for managing this issue specifically? (Ie quickly dealing with the regen on a revive)
If I can figure out a way to manage that issue I’ll probably give it a shot. If not, seriously considering just taking a pass on this one.
Obviously that’s part of the reason this fight is so riduculous, but is there any champ that is best for managing this issue specifically? (Ie quickly dealing with the regen on a revive)
If I can figure out a way to manage that issue I’ll probably give it a shot. If not, seriously considering just taking a pass on this one.
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No I'm not joking
Enter the fight and build up to just under 2 bars of power, but keep turtled up while doing so to prevent him using a single special. This requires block damage (hence extra healing on revives), but also you can pretty safely parry or reparry since he won’t be refining any forms. Then, just keep spamming sp1 until the cows come home. The tricky bit here is making sure to time your stuns and specials around the Unstoppable timer, as that can mess the whole thing up if he recovers. In my best runs, I could do about 20% HP until I ran out of stuns. My Hulk is 6r3 unduped, but I did put on suicide masteries and boosts for it.
I didn’t count how many revives I used, but I’m estimating around 7 or 8, plus potions, (could have been less but I had a several runs where I messed up the Unstoppable timing. I recommend taking several restarts to get a feel for when you start spamming sp1s in relation the cool down). But as long as you don’t let him use a special, he won’t heal and you can bully him down.
For anyone frustrated by his regeneration and just wants him dead, this is a method I recommend. I tried She Hulk for a while, but she just really wasn’t working for me.
People are still one shot solo-ing it so it can’t be that bad.
“Oh no, my $10,000 roster can’t beat the fight in 30 seconds”.
No sympathy here.
The game broke when they started pushing 7* so fast and now 7* r3?
Lay in the bed you made.
This how I did it:
- start with full combo: MLLLM
- then double medium.
(At this point Absman is just below one bar of power. Be careful not to hit his block, otherwise he will get a bar of power.)
- Another full combo followed by SP1
- another full Combo, followed by Heavy
- this places another stun and puts hulk into gamma mode. The Stun-Chain can begin!
Since you will only have around 6-7 furies, gamma won’t last very long, but my r2 Hulk still does around 250k damage (no boosts, no suicides).
At the end Absman will throw the SP3 and the fight is over before regen kicks in…
Do that 6-7 times, and the fight is over.
Benefit compared to the first method: Stun-Chain kicks in before Abs fills 1 bar of power. This way you don‘t have to block a lot and thus don‘t have to use potions to heal up. 20% revive is plenty for 2 parries…
Also did anyone done robot objectives? I am not valiant so I don't want to skip robot objective,who did you used?
Also: Have you seen that all players that have completed the quest once, will receive an additional point because Kabam acknowledged that the robot objective was too hard?
You can still do it’d if you want one additional point in order to have some wiggle room for future objectives…
I am actually considering it, but I can only about 5% per run with my Nimrod… so it would take about 20 revives. I’m still considering, though…
On your first run, don’t really worry about the regen (he’s already at high health, it doesn’t really matter). Build to an sp3, ideally right after you enter Gamma Rage to apply a massive physical vulnerability debuff. Once in Gamma Rage, your hits are going to be inflicting physical vulnerability debuffs, which, when coupled with 3/3 despair mastery and the one off your sp3, will shut down his healing. Then do the sp1 spam that Cat described and you’ll have massive damage output throughout it.
On subsequent runs, use your heavy attack to manually activate Gamma Rage and start applying debuffs to mitigate Abs Man’s regen. You only need 5 furies to activate, so it’s not too hard to play turtley until you can do it as needed. And always be ready to deactivate his form if he activates it when you don’t have debuffs stacked.
Thanks for the recommendation
But we'll never know, *continues energy rant lol
You too @Cat_Murdock !
Just took him down with hulk for my second kill. Think it was 7 revives.
Trying the same with warlock, but you're right, taking off more than 5% to 10% a try, is tough......