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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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He's got 'Psychic Shielding' but that doesn't help against the GM; only against Emma Frost or Delirium nodes.
If anyone has done that recently and can confirm or seen something different, let us all know.
The best Necropolis run to date, when ranked by elapsed time in descending order, enters its fourth and hopefully final day. Just one fight to go: the Grandmaster. So far I’ve done a pretty good job of working hard to be half as good as Seatin is when he has no idea what he is doing, but I don’t want to take any chances with the GM. I’m going to be spending some time this morning studying the GM, in between watching Miami obliterate the Raiders and Pittsburgh inexplicably figure out how to score points in football without gaining any yards.
My R4 Aegon has a base attack of 3992. An R5 has 4619, and an ascended Aegon should have a base attack 20% higher, or about 5543. Which means an R5 ascended Aegon has 39% more attack, and about the same increase in health. In pure raw numbers the ascended R5 has 1.4 x 1.4 = 1.96x more damage potential, almost twice as high (it isn’t that simple because the extra health doesn’t help in situations where you are insta-killed by something, but it isn’t a terrible estimate). This doesn’t count the slightly higher CR, which increases the Necro timer by a few seconds.
If I was using an ascended R5, I would have expected my revive use to drop by something between 1.4 and 1.96, so from 122 or so to between 87 and 62 revives. When I normalize that effort, that doesn’t seem too shabby. I think a lot of people would be happy to know they could reach the GM in 60 to 90 revives. I basically spent an additional 40-60 revives to push to go now rather than wait. Which also doesn’t sound too horrible either.
This is how math can be used as copium.
My current potion inventory:
18 single revives, but I would like to try to not use those larger ones if I can. I have 13 team revives in overflow, so I should try to use those up. If I count those as single revives, I have 18 revives to burn on the GM. Actually, 19: the arena 22 hr event is up, and I can grind that out to get one more revive. I also still have a ton of 7 hour crystals, there’s probably at least fifty revives in the Paragon ones, then a bunch more in unopened TB ones and Cav ones.
I’m pretty sure this will be a unit less effort. I did buy those two Necropolis potion bundles, but in retrospect I probably didn’t really need them. Oh well. At this point it is just a question of how well I can finish the run, how cleanly or ugly I can take the Grandmaster. Even 120+ revives in, I still want to at least try to keep the number as low as possible.
This morning I snapped awake with the same feeling we had as kids on Christmas morning. If Santa Claus was a serial killer who tried to murder you in exchange for the gifts.
You'd better not cry ...
You'd better just hide, I'm telling you why...
😉
He’s checking it twice…
Don’t wanna be around when he rolls his dice…
the Nameless GM’s comin to town
I’m not getting any faster, and I think I have the fight ingrained in my brain. I also grinded out the arena 22 hr event, so I have one more revive. It’s go time. Breathe, relax. You and me, Grandmaster. You and me.
congrats dna!!🥳🎉🎉
Citing That's Incredible proves you are indeed an old fogie.
How do I know That's Incredible? Err.... umm... can't talk, have to get to the restaurant before the early bird special is done....
Dr. Zola
The Grandmaster took one hour twelve minutes to bring down. I want to say he’s not as hard as I thought he would be, except I made two catastrophic errors. The first one was that Black Panther relic. Do NOT bring that one. I entered the fight and immediately died. Wasn’t sure why, so I revived and jumped back in, and immediately died again. On the third revive I finally realized what was happening: I was waiting for bans, but the bans were being obscured by the BP relic’s vulnerability call out. Which meant I was probably getting light banned without knowing it and failing immediately.
So just don’t use lights, right? Except if you don’t and just use mediums and heavies, you will eventually get everything banned except lights. Which is problematic. I tried to play around this for a few revives before deciding to just Aegon through it as fast as possible. There was just too much for my brain to keep track off when piling on the prompt problem,
The other mistake I made was thinking that I could make best use of my expiring team revives by reviving the whole team and using everyone. That ran into the problem of everyone but Aegon dropping dead too quickly to matter due to recoil masteries. I could take those off, but, you know. The other problem was switching between Aegon and Wiccan. Going back and forth between reverse controls and normal controls was causing me to make too many muscle memory mistakes. I tried to get into an alternating rhythm, but in retrospect I should have just stuck with Aegon.
So except for the fact that my phase one was borked due to bringing the wrong Relic, and I shot myself in my own foot trying to be cute in phase three, I guess the fight went okay. I ended up using 16 team revives and 11 solo revives. Really, that’s about 27 deaths that matter, plus a ton of deaths that were less actually useful and more running up the scoreboard for the Necropolis milestone rewards. I suspect there’s an additional fifty death in there of me just throwing Proxima, Nick, and Heimdall at the GM because why not, but I stopped doing even that after a while, because it was just throwing off my rhythm.
Final Necropolis milestone count: A lot, probably around +180, although many of those were throw aways from team revives, they still count. I’ll have to go back and do a proper count And I didn’t need to spend units, and I did not need to open any more seven hour crystals. I did buy those two Necro potion bundles, but I would have been able to do it unitless without them. I still have 20 L4, 16 L5, and 15 L6 solo health potions still in overflow. And no, I’m not going back to do another path and use them. Will I eventually explore Necropolis? I think eventually, yes. But I am more likely to try to get good with the less spendy options like Shuri or Wong before attempting another path. Or at least have a fully ranked and Ascended Aegon. One face bash R4 Aegon run is plenty.
I’ll have more to say about my run after I’ve had a nap and some time to reflect. Also, give my buddy Zola a shout out, he’s started his own Old Man Run although his Old Man Run is going much faster than mine, with much fewer revives (he’s using a more diverse team and a top of the line R5 ascended Aegon).
FYI: I got Mutant from the R3 gem. I wanted anything except tech because I don’t have awesome options there. I decided to jump on the Shuri bandwagon and pulled tech for both class crystals. And promptly pulled G2099, and G2099. So I’m done opening crystals for now. Unless something dramatic happens, the mutant gem is almost certainly going into Domino, but there’s no rush for that (I can wait until next level up, because of course I will).
And yes, completing Necropolis does in fact satisfy the “complete quest” objective. Yay.
Is there a geriatric alliance? I’m ready.
I've done one run of every everest content but never explored any except ROL, Gauntlet and EOPs. If I do a 2nd run myself it might not be until after cyber weekend, but I can't imagine doing this 5 more time unless I get 7* versions of the counters like Shuri.
Good luck and looking forward to the journal!
In other words, I found this incredibly helpful - not just for finishing the path, but also for enhancing my overall enjoyment.
It's been fun checking in and hearing how the run was going. And to get some idea of the commitment of resources/time that will be required. I'm thinking I'll take even longer (in days), as I don't get a huge amount of play time around work + family.
If it took over 64 hours, I'd be surprised if I can commit that much time in the space of less than a fortnight - yikes!
Good luck with your run, too, @DrZola
When I tell my kids about my old fights (actual hurty ones) the funniest stories are the ones where I got X^%*ed up.
If I only talked about the wins, besides coming off as a proper wanker, I wouldn't have too many stories to tell anyway.
If the intent was to make it sound like a "regular" scrub could actually do Necro, mission accomplished, hell, even I think I'm half a chance after reading it.
Good job mate!
So that's why I couldn't see what the prompts were. I had to pause the fight and read each time
He gave times for each fight. It was far far short of 64 hours to actually do the thing. Probably closer to 6-8 in actual real time.