So... rularuu

Any tips on dealing with these guys? Having played villains exclusively I've never had to deal with them. Tip missions have now changed this.

My mission began with those kheld PPDs, which are an annoyance to softcapped non DDR toons (playing a night widow atm). But with careful approach I was able to beat them on a +8/+1 map. Got to the objective and mean red-con eyeball appears, with friends... not that he needed them though. He saw me through my stealth, turned 180 degrees and launched some kind of spikes at me from his eyeball ***.

So now I'm running from the hospital and stop to grab some orange insperations. Time for some payback! Zone back in, pop oranges and now I have the upper hand... and then I get placed in a detention field. So I run off to lick my wounds and reset the mish at a lower difficulty. But I have a funny feeling it won't be much easier.

Any information that makes these fights any easier? These guys are insane!

Edit: I should have put this in the player help section... sry about that.

i pretty much play redside exclusively as well, and they do appear very very sparsely thoughout redside only in mishs so they are easy to miss

however tactics to deal with them are basically high resistance, since the eyeballs essentially ignore defense and hard mezzes like holds because some of them are immune to stuff like sleep and fear

they are one of the toughest "legacy" enemy groups (legacy group to me is what existed pre CoV) since they have been around since i2 i think

edit: to be specific one of the arcs that has rularuu in them is from technician naylor, the other couple mishs with them is from efficiency expert pither, and i think one of the mishs from scirocco's patron arc

Great information guys, thanks. What made it so crazy is I had no way of knowing the mission would contain them. They appeared as a new enemy group after the first objective was clicked. And for all of this unexpectedness I'm kinda of glad they did appear. It definitely kept things interesting.

Thanks again!

If I recall correctly Wisps are stunable, Brutes are vulnerable to sleep and confuse, and Eyeballs are vulnerable to holds.

A note on eyeballs: I'm not sure if they still do this, since it's been a while since I fought rularuu with a melee character, but last I remember if you move into melee range with the eyeballs they switch to just using their chomp attack and forget they have eye blasts. This can be helpful for most melees, since the chomp is pure lethal damage with no debuffs, and the eye blasts debuff recharge/def.

A quick trip to Paragon Wiki will show you the scale of the problem: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Soldiers_of_Rularuu

They do pretty much everything single debuff under the sun, including some nasty tricks that no other NPC class pulls off. Wisp Overlords, for example, can detention field players, cutting off aggro-holding tanks from the rest of the team. Rularuu also make extensive use of powers most players are weak too, such as Psionic attacks.

One of the design intents of the Rularuu was to create an NPC class that would cause players to take powers they wouldn't normally take, as well as force players to work together. For example, back when the Rularuu were introduced the only power-sets that had any protection to psychic attacks were the Scrapper Dark Armor Set, and the Stone Armor Minerals power. Even after the advent of IO's, Rularuu are still one of the toughest enemies to face, and are capable of shredding teams that found the Master of Barracuda Strike Force badge easy to obtain.

The wide range of Rularuu classes and abilities basically means you won't be finding any easy tips on how to deal with them. The Rularuu are deliberatly insane.

Much like the Devouring Earth missions the enemy spawns can, and probably will, change even if you are doing the same mission over again. For example, when rescuing the Crey from the DE in one instance you'll be fighting a bunch of the plant DE with the anti-stun pets and the tree's of life; in another instance of the same mish you might find the mission populated entirely by the DE Crystals with the accuracy buffs; and in another instance of the same mish you might find the boulders and the guardians that drop cairn pets. In the same way, in one mish with Rularuu you could be facing off against the big eyeballs; in another instance it could be nothing but brutes; and in yet another instance it could be nothing but Wisps. In some cases, you'll get all of the classes together.


Now, as for sets that fare the best against the Rularuu, those mostly tend to be sets with Psionic Protection, resistance to damage, and high regeneration.

Resist sets tend to fare well since only the Brute Boss class and Ruladork the Weak have attacks that lower player resistance to damage.

Psionic sets tend to fare well because, well, psionic protection is psionic protection.

High Regeneration sets tend to fare well since minus regeneration is pretty much the only debuff the Rularuu do not use.

Which is why Willpower tends to be a good armor set, since it is mostly a resistance set, has psionic protection, and has a high regeneration rate.

Electric and Dark Armors also tend to be really good for the same reasons.

So: biggest tip if you are not a melee set with these powers?

Get one that is and use them as a meat shield. When they die, run.

Also, fire tanks (and probably brutes) work really well against rularuu. I used to run around the palace of storms and fight the rularuu groups there for fun on my fire/ss

I like this thread because it isn't saying "I play red side because there is no challenge blue side"

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Ahhh Rularuu... Nasty beasties.

My E3 Blaster used to farm them in the Shadow Shard back in the day.

For him, Range/Snipes, Holds and End Drain were the tactics that worked
best - Eyeballs get first priority. Wisps and Eyeballs seemed to be pretty
sensitive to electricity. Brutes and Natterlings would just get chain held,
drained and killed.

My Stalkers typically Placate the Eyeball and then stealth by the rest with
the exception of my Elec/WP Stalker who, like my E3 Blaster, is very
capable against Rularuu. Lightning Rod is a beautiful power due to it's tp
in and Blammo mechanic followed up with Thunder Strike.

My SS/WP Brute has less trouble with them than with LB Nullifiers, so he
doesn't do anything special - his High resists and High Regen seem to be
good enough to handle them like any other mob who needs a good SMASHing.

I'm not sure my Widow ever dealt with them much (other than the one or
two pseudo-Shard missions that villains could get). For the most part, she
just steered clear of them in those missions. Again, I think Eyeballs are
the real issue because she can just stealth past the others.

I'd probably try to pull the Eyeball with a long distance power like Nemmie
Staff. In the tip you're talking about (the LB base), you can use corridors
and doorways to good effect to make it easier.

You can also use the "tether effect" - If you don't cause damage, you'd
only take a shot or two (once the eye sees you), but they won't chase
far if you keep on truckin.

Regards,
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PS> I'm gonna have to run that Tip on my widow and see how it goes.

PPS> @Fulmens: That was a pretty crazy event when the Ruu were
swarmin the streets of Paragon - I have a vague recollection of a lot of
hospital trips

For all the reasons stated in this thread, the Rularuu are my favorite enemy group.

@Fulmens, I agree completely, I think I'm the only one who prefers a definition of "hard" to be Carnies and Malta and Rularuu instead of "hard" as in +4/x8. Huge hordes of family are not hard, there's just more of them. Increasing the level just means they deal more damage and you deal less. But Rularuu, they are hard. And I love them.

Take out the Wisp and Over Seer's first they can be pretty nasty, They can be a tough group, then again there are alot of tough groups out there.