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[BreakJohn]

ok, so long story short i;ve been pugging FC castle for a hew hours now. i have zero clears to show for it. its not like i have been playing with total scrubs either i have been matched up with a few names i recognize from the leaderboards. whats the deal with this difficulty? who was this meant for? the 60 guys above me in the ranks? i'm not saying perilous was super easy but the jump from that to this seems insane. 

 

now that i got that off my chest, does anyone have some strats for this mode? maybe a certain team comp? i'd like to hear how some of you guys are feeling this mode. (and clearing it  )

[HeroicMass]

Send me a FR. Well get sone games soon

[Wavebend]

ok, so long story short i;ve been pugging FC castle for a hew hours now. i have zero clears to show for it. its not like i have been playing with total scrubs either i have been matched up with a few names i recognize from the leaderboards. whats the deal with this difficulty? who was this meant for? the 60 guys above me in the ranks? i'm not saying perilous was super easy but the jump from that to this seems insane. 

 

now that i got that off my chest, does anyone have some strats for this mode? maybe a certain team comp? i'd like to hear how some of you guys are feeling this mode. (and clearing it  )

 

The same compositions you would use for heartbreaker. That or spawn camping

[llandwynwyn]

ok, so long story short i;ve been pugging FC castle for a hew hours now. i have zero clears to show for it. its not like i have been playing with total scrubs either i have been matched up with a few names i recognize from the leaderboards. whats the deal with this difficulty? who was this meant for? the 60 guys above me in the ranks? i'm not saying perilous was super easy but the jump from that to this seems insane. 

 

now that i got that off my chest, does anyone have some strats for this mode? maybe a certain team comp? i'd like to hear how some of you guys are feeling this mode. (and clearing it  )

 

Heavy promoters, the 1%. Most people playing aren't ready for this.

[Cirvante]

Block the spawns. This requires a bit of coordination, but will make the games much easier. We were able to do some 9-12 minute runs earlier.

[heartsofruin]

With good gear it's kinda tuned for minimum 30/30/30 stats. It's annoyingly long though. So I'm not sure tuned is an appropriate word here. But it should be doable.

 

After 5 clears taking 1-1.5hrs (ugh) each though, I'd love to learn how the spawn blocking is pulled off. Does it require everybody to be able to hold positions by themselves? At 30/30/60 I'm not at all confident I could manage that.

 

I wish I could have 12min runs, it would at least reduce the sting from the dragon dropping grey item turds on her way out.

[Fiddzz]

New weapons in the chests mean new difficulty to use them in.

[BreakJohn]

finally cleared a few rounds, after i finally got a few decent people together we didn't wipe once. however it still takes us pretty dam long to clear. 

[Snakebite]

After 5 clears taking 1-1.5hrs (ugh) each though, I'd love to learn how the spawn blocking is pulled off. Does it require everybody to be able to hold positions by themselves? At 30/30/60 I'm not at all confident I could manage that.

 

Technically you only need two people to hold down spawns, and with more players you do not need to be quite as precise as with two.  This video should help show where these locations are exactly.

 

 

Zone

1. One just below the stairs leading up to the bridge, one on the rubble near the door to the next zone.
2. One near the fire in the center of the zone, one near the door to the next zone.
3. One just to the left of the hole at the top of the stairs, one right next to the gong.
4. One near the door off to the right after climbing the second set of stairs, one in the inside corner of the walkway leading to the tower.

Hope this helped.  The last zone can be a bit tricky, especially on Nightmare and above.

[konfeta]

With good gear it's kinda tuned for minimum 30/30/30 stats.

That seems to be very, very optimistic. Unless you mean good gear to be nightmare dragon drops.

[heartsofruin]

Hope this helped.  The last zone can be a bit tricky, especially on Nightmare and above.

 

Thanks. Damn, seeing how much time could be saved, I just lol at the runs I had today. Hell if I can get a pug to pull that off on even just one or two zones, that'd already be a huge time saver for me. Will try it sometime, hopefully.

[heartsofruin]

That seems to be very, very optimistic. Unless you mean good gear to be nightmare dragon drops.

 

Well on my runs so far, everyone was sporting perilous dragon gear. It's doable at 30s as long the group is fairly balanced and nobody goes rambo /shrug

[konfeta]

Huh, maybe I should give Nightmare pugs a few more tries then. I know there are some super promoted generous souls who carry us little publics.

[Zorinho20_CRO]

Huh, maybe I should give Nightmare pugs a few more tries then. I know there are some super promoted generous souls who carry us little publics.

I met yesterday some fresh players on Nightmare and gave them a hand to wave 5,but even an almighty AW couldn't handle such barrage solo

[Pork]

I did 2 successful runs with me (stats in 40s) my gf (all stats less than 20), one guy on the pc leaderboards and a pug. Its really not that hard, you just need a dispeller, barrier ****** and preferably a guard smasher. Zither can fill 2 of these roles via power chord and his barrier.

Go read the Art of Nightmare difficulty by Sun Tzu breakjohn because you are way out of your depth here.

[Pork]

Huh, maybe I should give Nightmare pugs a few more tries then. I know there are some super promoted generous souls who carry us little publics.

Dont leech. Its such a scummy thing to do and youre only increasing the chances of failure. Play perilous till you get good gear and stats then give nightmare a try.

[Pork]

Block the spawns. This requires a bit of coordination, but will make the games much easier. We were able to do some 9-12 minute runs earlier.

Proof or it didnt happen. Thats ridiculously fast, my runs were almost 3 times that amount of time.

[konfeta]

I met yesterday some fresh players on Nightmare and gave them a hand to wave 5,but even an almighty AW couldn't handle such barrage solo

Well, I tried to join as a Virtuoso into a 2 AW and 1 Keeper group. They tanked like bosses, but our collective damage output was laughable and we got wiped out on level 4 with 34930493043903 Pride Demons spamming chain knockdown. We sort of could kill things up to that point with their PotA and Cold Beats/Power Cord, but.... 923423849032840329483209482309483209483 pride demons don't care about lightning damage.

[TeamLexana]

Dont leech. Its such a scummy thing to do and youre only increasing the chances of failure. Play perilous till you get good gear and stats then give nightmare a try.

Unfortunately perilous and threatening xp got a nerf bat. Really not fair for balance since the leaderboard peeps can promote Hella fast now and the grind for everyone else is so much slower.

This is coming from a leaderboard no lifer as well, lol. Well, higher than 90 at least... last I checked.

[Aggrojagg]

Unfortunately perilous and threatening xp got a nerf bat. Really not fair for balance since the leaderboard peeps can promote Hella fast now and the grind for everyone else is so much slower.

This is coming from a leaderboard no lifer as well, lol. Well, higher than 90 at least... last I checked.

 

What's the reduction in XP?

[ParthianShotX]

Unfortunately perilous and threatening xp got a nerf bat. Really not fair for balance since the leaderboard peeps can promote Hella fast now and the grind for everyone else is so much slower.

This is coming from a leaderboard no lifer as well, lol. Well, higher than 90 at least... last I checked.

 

I'm actually quite disappointed.  

[OTFv-]

Is their a nightmare xp bug, bcs twice after the match I didn't receive xp (they were both on round 5 wipes)

[Cirvante]

Proof or it didnt happen. Thats ridiculously fast, my runs were almost 3 times that amount of time.

 

The completion time on the scoreboard screen is wrong, it showed ~20 minutes when we cleared in ~10. I can't be arsed to make a video, but we blocked all the spawns and had two ringers. Frost Dragon was taken down ridiculously fast by a Virtuoso or two stacking songs.

[konfeta]

Unfortunately perilous and threatening xp got a nerf bat. Really not fair for balance since the leaderboard peeps can promote Hella fast now and the grind for everyone else is so much slower.

Wait, really? I wasn't paying attention before, but what level would you get from doing a normal threatening run at level 1? It puts me to 7 right now (and then 9, then 11, and then I go into perilous on most classes, which I think jumps me to about 15-16).

[Luke Barrett]

As far as I know nothing was touched with XP amounts for the older difficulties.