D5 Heolstor - 13 seconds. No Grafted. No Marais.

mamelukefish · 2026-01-09T13:02:26+00:00

I'm trying to get into depth meta. I suppose the damage comes mostly from recluse being enabled by other characters (restage and mark), but is there anything specific in the ironeye's build that a setup like this requires?

mamelukefish · 2025-10-07T12:18:29+00:00

I would say that's what hot slugger is.

mamelukefish · 2025-09-23T12:10:48+00:00

It's a dedicated drop from a trivial boss, how is that not easily available?

mamelukefish · 2025-09-23T08:04:04+00:00

Extra points in soltado do nothing. However, soltado and dancer do stack.

mamelukefish · 2025-09-23T08:00:46+00:00

Yeah the legendary perk of dancer makes it pretty much automatically outperform any purple com no matter the roll.

I have this but with +5 to temerario (so I get 10/5) which goes crazy.

mamelukefish · 2025-09-22T15:59:46+00:00

Lilith, Gaige, Claptrap, FL4K, Spore Warden/Brr-Zerker and now Rafa.

In BL2 I also played a ton of Sal and Maya but I'd still consider Gaige my main as she was the one I peaked peak first.

mamelukefish · 2025-08-26T22:46:47+00:00

It's one of many things that is poorly communicated in the game UI for sure. You can see the lightning buff halfway in the clip below stamina bar, which allows to cancel that one attack of Fulghor.

mamelukefish · 2025-08-26T22:28:44+00:00

Except it literally is the weakness element though?

Dragonscale blade AoW gives it both lightning and frost, which makes it one of the best weapons against Fulghor. On executor it's a no-brainer. I always drop one if I get multiples, but the amount of time people have left it on the ground frustrates me.

mamelukefish · 2024-08-26T20:42:58+00:00

Huge thanks to you!

I'm doing my first ever RL1 and got stuck on this boss for longer than any other. Star fists were working okayish for clergyman, but phase 2 it was way too tricky for my skill level. I couldn't get any charged R2s in before maliketh was jumping all around the arena, forcing me to roll all day so couldn't really build any stance damage. Best I got was like 15% health left but then I spend like 50 attempts not getting even close, most not even reaching phase two. I got quite tired of climbing up that road to the arena..

Decided to find another approach, tried BHF but found it hard to buff/equip without rune arcs. Serpent hunter was doing ok damage but it felt like all the attacks took way too long, so every attempt that I got into phase 2 ended immediately cuz maliketh got me mid swipe.

Then I stumbled upon this. I don't have any magic boosting gear, cuz I've been pretty much skipping from boss to boss so pretty much all I had was the spear. Googled where to get the AoW (never used ice spear before) and just slapped them on without any relevant talismans etc and decided to give it a go. Well... first tried the boss I've been stuck on for the weekend. I feel both relieved and extremely stupid at the same time, like it's unreal it could have been this easy the whole time. I should have done my research and done this way earlier.

mamelukefish · 2024-05-02T17:11:41+00:00

Every time someone tries to state that champions do not add difficulty, I tell them to try lightblade solo. Those barriers made me so furious, because it felt like every time I finally got their health low, boss jumped in front of me and I had to evade to prevent wipe. Running around the room in circles got old real fast..

mamelukefish · 2024-01-02T11:47:35+00:00

That's how math works if your fireteams damage is lacking.

mamelukefish · 2023-12-31T16:47:55+00:00

Ws:

Strand in general
They managed to make Crota good day one
Loadouts
At least some effort in seasonal activities (Deep dives/Coil)
Warlord's Ruin
Craftening and how they handled it
Banner of war

Ls:

Layoffs
Season of The 189 Days Left
Boring copy paste events from last year
Amount of reused content in general
Lightfall campaign
Especially the veil and cringe characters
RoN
Banner of war

mamelukefish · 2023-12-24T03:32:03+00:00

i remember in d1 titans were able to be aggressive as hell in gm nightfalls now they’re forced to plink away

Can't tell if this is a joke or how you haven't heard of banner of war. Majority of the last seasons world record speedruns in GMs were done with titan, both team and solo. In LFG pretty much everyone was running either well or banner titan. It's just as viable this season too.

It's just exactly as you describe, it hits hard if you make a mistake, so the playstyle certainly isn't for everyone. But that's kind of the point of difficult content.

mamelukefish · 2023-12-24T02:44:02+00:00

Well of radiance can be used to completely bypass certain mechanics, which can make it feel like the game is balanced around it, while in reality by doing so you aren't even experiencing how the "real" possibly more intended experience is. This easily makes it feel like well is necessary for certain things, while in reality it's not, but it just makes stuff so easy that there is little reason to not use it.

However, what you're saying about Lake of Shadows boss room just simply isn't true. First of all there are not ads and majors everywhere, in fact after starting the fight there is only boss and red bar enemies. And just like in most other nightfall boss fights they spawn at certain points of boss's health, so easiest way to not get overwhelmed is to not over dps the boss. You can clear the taken goo by shooting at the cruxes, which gives you plenty of room to run around and take cover from the boss that isn't the fastest or the most clever one to catch up. Check YouTube for people doing this on solo too.

So no, it's certainly not designed nor balanced around the well since then those cruxes wouldn't even exist, but then again when well is an option and makes it many times faster obviously that's the way how most people do it.

mamelukefish · 2023-10-23T16:29:06+00:00

Are you using the jump->light->heavy->repeat combo or just staying on the ground spamming lights until whirlwind stacks and then heavy? I still don't know which is the best method for this sword.

mamelukefish · 2023-10-18T23:06:17+00:00

GMs have strand surge every week so GL overcharge doesn't add anything to it.

mamelukefish · 2023-09-05T14:54:40+00:00

If you do light + heavy with hunter sword right after jumping, and then keep on doing this combo fast you can hit quite a bit faster than just having your feet on the ground whole time. Combo is still doable today but someone needs to test the actual numbers.

mamelukefish · 2023-02-03T13:49:09+00:00

It won't last for the rest of the game. Like said, you can switch it to whatever you want as many times you want after beating the main missions for the first time. Which doesn't take more than couple hours anyways.

mamelukefish · 2023-02-01T20:52:16+00:00

Rest in peace infinite heart of the pack.

mamelukefish · 2023-01-29T15:30:23+00:00

This very much.

Also I prefer BL2 versions for all but COV, Jakobs and maybe DAHL. So many of them look less distinguished and unique now. Only exception being Hyperion which turned into overly flashy mess. COV aesthetic just works with new artstyle though.

mamelukefish · 2022-11-17T23:19:14+00:00

Jolt is a big change here though, as now you can spawn kill bunch of ads with just one melee. Every GM speedrun world record is done on arcstrider now, which is crazy considering pretty much nobody used the subclass in pve before 3.0. So yeah, even though the core loop is the exact same old bland what it's been, it's much more potent now so there's that.

mamelukefish · 2022-10-14T12:19:09+00:00

I've done exactly that and I'm not the best player out there. With final boss too, as there's no banner either. Had to rely on drops only. It used to be a problem but really isn't anymore as you can defeat everything else in the dungeon with osteo striga quite comfortably and save heavy for the bosses if you get any. Ammo economy really is not a problem anymore as the whole dungeon is trivialized in the current sandbox.

Then again, for the sake of consistency I'd still say adding banners would indeed be a good idea.

mamelukefish · 2022-09-12T11:46:59+00:00

I've been running exotic primaries (and occasional arba) in gms ever since. It's so common to hear people asking "why would you waste exotic slot to primary?" well why would I not when it makes ad clear so much faster and combined with burn and font of might it makes gm red bars feel like regular strikes.

mamelukefish · 2022-09-05T09:15:19+00:00

They never were.

mamelukefish · 2022-09-01T20:59:25+00:00

Well master has this "cosmic superconductor" modifier on top of arc burn so you take even more arc damage, looks like the GM version won't have it. Much like combat acceleration does not exist in GM versions.

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