One blapper, 4 purples, 30 seconds worth of pounding, one dead Cyst. That's the usual way I do those things, other wise an all out blitz with the tank tanking the Cyst works pretty well. I did not know about the "Kheldians being strong against Cysts" thing, so I'll keep that in mind in the future.
EDIT: Dropping a Thunderous Blast or some other nova or massive AOE control like EMP blast works miracles after someone's soaked the initial alpha strike. Moments like those are why "oh [censored]" powers were invented.
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As a Ws player. Let me say that if you find a cyst, I have a suggestion for a nova player (like myself) for dealing with it. If you have Eclipse, get into a mob, drop it, then go to town on the crystal. with the amount of resists going from Eclipse, you will take very little damage from the crystal or its explosion.
Funny thing, my Spines/Dark Armor Scrapper actually seems to make a decent Cyst killer. My approach has generally been to leave the team and buff/rush the crystal. My AoE toggles and powers tend to keep the Nictus occupied while I slam away at the Crystal.
Did this last night and (unfortunately) my team followed me in. It was a horror show, since when the Cyst blew up (they were all fighting the Nictus for some reason) only the Warshade and I were untouched. Everyone else had only a sliver of health left.... Ouch.
Any idea why a Spines/DA would work for this? I'm pretty heavily slotted with IO sets, but beyond that...?
I'm guessing dark energy resists on spines/dark?
But with my WS...I find it a lot easier for the team if I solo the cyst, with it spawned for more than 1 person...a heavy hit ecclipse always seems to do the job for me. That plus double mired, and I can just go to town on it.
Just finished doing LGTF and a cyst popped up..the ice tank and I ran in, I eclipse, mired up, unchain essence (Dead body near by) and then nuke, pop a blue, and im back in the game to take out the rest.
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With regard to WS: many triform builds may lack human damage to be effective in that form, especially early on. Most WS human damage is AoE and DoT. You are probably better off going at it in Nova form then finish in Dwarf. Double mired dwarf will have sufficient damage to get it done. And since many nicti are going to spawn, you have plenty of targets to buff from.
Nicti leave no bodies behind, so remember you can't use stygian circle on them.
regardless of AT, use Hasten if you have it since the Nicti will stack slows on you
"go in with every shield you got" is wrong. Use a shield only if it protects against energy damage, or lethal (and i think fire) for the final explosion only. Of course if the Cyst is surrounded by enemies with a different damage type you need to use that one too.
Crystals can't be mezzed or confused. Confusion can be used on mobs surrounding the crystal though (as with the AV mentionned above)
Crystal sees through invisibility as has been mentionned.
If you get overwhelmed, especially the the slows, use your phase power (Nebulous form or Quantum Flight), the slows don't last that long and will stop accumulating while phased.
I think your guide goes a little too far along the lines of "only khelds can deal with it". Plenty of other ATs can. anything that can dish out damage fast and resist the explosion can do it.
By the way maybe I missed it in your guide, but the crystal explosion will generally take out most of the nicti, which is another reason to only deal with the crystal.
Generally you can't find the crystal in the see of nictus, so the bind above is really handy. you don't have to have it pre-bound though. I have it on my khelds, but on my other characters I type it on the command line as needed.
I also find that blaster snipes can be a great help, not sure if they cause more nicti to spawn, but Aim+BU+snipe will take a significant chunk out of it and the blaster is safe from the final explosion.
I think mostly people need to know that a cyst is not the end of the world, don;t panic, go in with a plan that is NOT everyone rushing in, and you'll be fine.