I do NOT understand Reichsman's mechanics on Barracuda

I mean, not at all.

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Big R himself, the temps, or the final encounter as a whole?

The whole SF just doesn't seem right, almost like "Oops! We can't just add this to blue side only so better throw something together ASAP!!"

Brief rundown:

Just before Reich spawns everyone hops into the machine to get temp powers. Some are auto, some are click powers.

---temp powers---

The MM temp power prevents him from phasing. He can still hide in his machine, but he can't phase otherwise. I tend to tell the MMs just to spam it whenever it recharges, but I've been told it works even after he has phased.

The Stalker temp power allows the stalker to go into the two rooms with glowies. Clicking a glowie kills all enemies in the big room other than the AV. There are a limited number of glowies (4 I think).

The Dom temp power holds everything except Reich for a short time.

The Corr temp power kills stuff that is held.

I think the rest just give you protection from end drain.


---the fight---

Typically what a team will want to do is focus on Reich except when he hides in his machine. Ambushes will spawn throughout the fight. So when he is in the machine, just kill some of the ambushes. He hides in the machine 2 or 3 times (I forget). The ambushes are a lot smaller now than they used to be, so typically you can ignore them other than using the temp powers you got to mitigate them. Reich himself does have a high mag mez, so just something to be aware of. With decent support it's not a big deal. The only thing nowadays with the easier ambush spawns that tends to give teams trouble is if they don't have an MM and not a lot of debuff. With no MM he phases a lot, so if you don't have a lot of debuff he will be very difficult to kill.

In my experience?

I've done the SF with no masterminds and had no problems. Just beat him down.

I've done the SF with multiple masterminds and he still phased.

I've done the SF with a mastermind and he still healed like mad every time he got to 50 percent, regardless of phasing.

Maybe you should post a suggestion (gasp!) about changing the animation for his phase instead of some text. Like Fake Nemesis get a bubble around them or MI's becoming more transparent. It is just hard to tell that the MM power is doing anything.

Another strategy, pending on team composition, is to focus on the ambushes until they run out and then just cakewalk through Reichsman's HP. He never actually leaves the main platform so there are ways to get the ambushes to spawn in the tunnels and thus bottleneck as they try to come in the room to attack. This favors a strong dom/corr duo who can time their temps for the best result.

Brutes and VEATs get the end drain redux power. Intriguingly, that's a good way to tell when your temps are running out since the end drain is noticible.

Don't mind Penny....I think she's a little bitter/burned out on all the "Master of" Baracuda runs she's ruined for various people the last couple of months.......

I've already forgotten about most of you

Team wiped last night doing this, to get back to the Nazi we had to fight for every square inch. I guess no one on the team expected this because they would go ahead and try to make it back to the Nazi alone over and over.

...by the way I shall never ever role up a stoner until they make that tier 9 customizable, ugly UGLY!

They might be working on it due to a thread BaBs made awhile back asking how attached players were to the current granite model.

At least there's no AT requirements blue side too...

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