Pureshadow2

[ QUOTE ]
Once again, if you're trying to take down any of the Nictus Essences then you are doing it wrong. Fastest and safest way to complete this encounter is to focus entirely on killing Romulus 4 times after pulling him to the top of the left/right tower.

[/ QUOTE ]

I agree with Turbo_Ski, Romulus is the one that can be debuffed and easiest to take down. Plus people have problems targeting the correct nictus. Either way, you are killing four of something.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

The Healer Essence targets anyone within 80 ft. and has a targeted heal off of them. So, send one Scrapper into to attack the Essence. If the Scrapper can't do more damage then what is healed off of the Scrapper, then that Scrapper isn't helping to defeat the Essence, but hurting that effort. Similarly for any other melee type that can't outdamage the heal. They need to back off and stay out of range.

Anyone with a ranged attack that is longer than 80 ft can stay outside the range of the heal and slowly whittle away the hp of the Essence. Most ranged attacks are exactly 80 ft., so, unless there is slotting for range, not many ranged attacks will work here.


[/ QUOTE ]

My team tonight/this morning tried both methods to kill the healing nictus. We were able to defeat the other two nictus and finally Romulus without having him rez but couldn't overcome the healing nictus.

We could damage it but it's regen stayed ahead of our damage output. Our problem may have been we only had one blaster on the team but we were doing well up to that point so it was a little disheartening to stall at the end.

We had:
1 x Tank (Me)
2 x Defender (both emp)
1 x Stalker
1 x Scrapper (SK'd up to 50)
1 x Blaster


The best result we had on the healing nictus is when we decided against a plan and just rushed the sucker but just couldn't overcome the regen. It ended up feeling like we needed to have somebody with -regen or a damage heavey team and that left several members with a bad taste about this TF.

[/ QUOTE ]

I had the same problem when Romulus didnt eat the last essense (the healing one). We couldn't bring its health down. I told everyone to back off, so that the stone melee brute and my dual blades brute could beat it down.

[/ QUOTE ]
Did you drag the nictus essence too far out of range or did you break line of sight between it and romulus?

[/ QUOTE ]

The essence was out of sight, it was on the left side of the stairs, while Rom died in the center. I just assumed he auto absorbed them. It turned out okay though, it was fun to beat it down while everyone watched

I assume its possible to kill Rom and not have him rez if the essences are out of sight.

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]

The Healer Essence targets anyone within 80 ft. and has a targeted heal off of them. So, send one Scrapper into to attack the Essence. If the Scrapper can't do more damage then what is healed off of the Scrapper, then that Scrapper isn't helping to defeat the Essence, but hurting that effort. Similarly for any other melee type that can't outdamage the heal. They need to back off and stay out of range.

Anyone with a ranged attack that is longer than 80 ft can stay outside the range of the heal and slowly whittle away the hp of the Essence. Most ranged attacks are exactly 80 ft., so, unless there is slotting for range, not many ranged attacks will work here.


[/ QUOTE ]

My team tonight/this morning tried both methods to kill the healing nictus. We were able to defeat the other two nictus and finally Romulus without having him rez but couldn't overcome the healing nictus.

We could damage it but it's regen stayed ahead of our damage output. Our problem may have been we only had one blaster on the team but we were doing well up to that point so it was a little disheartening to stall at the end.

We had:
1 x Tank (Me)
2 x Defender (both emp)
1 x Stalker
1 x Scrapper (SK'd up to 50)
1 x Blaster


The best result we had on the healing nictus is when we decided against a plan and just rushed the sucker but just couldn't overcome the regen. It ended up feeling like we needed to have somebody with -regen or a damage heavey team and that left several members with a bad taste about this TF.

[/ QUOTE ]

I had the same problem when Romulus didnt eat the last essense (the healing one). We couldn't bring its health down. I told everyone to back off, so that the stone melee brute and my dual blades brute could beat it down.