Kronos vs Quantumshock

Last night, well for the past 3 days, my friend and I are working through Crimson's story arc. I have played through this with most of my level 50 characters so I am familiar with it and know what to expect. For the past two days, I have expected an ambush of monstrous proportions. Read attack by Kronos. Last night that came to fruition.

Quantumshock, my Electric Armor / Energy Melee tanker, and Tindoor, Robot / Time Manipulation Master Mind, came out of the last mission and there he was. My first impulse; RUN! I experienced fighting him on two occasions after completing the Wildfire mission, both times he face planted my characters (Knight of Khonsu (Level 50 Scrapper) & Dragon Maiden (Level 50 Brute). Tindoor and I were on Skype together and I said, I am taking him on, while Tindoor said, "OMFG your nuts!" Maybe. I looked at the clock, 9:30 PM. I attacked him.

Now, as I have mentioned before, Quantumshock's design is up on the design thread. Keep in mind; he is not an Incarnate though I have unlocked my alpha slot. The only changes I have made to him since posting his design was swap out Mako's (2 sets) for Kinetic (2 sets) in Barrage & Energy Punch, while slotting 'Absolute Amazement' in Whirling Hands.



This picture shows Quantum dead center with Tindoor on the right. That was at the 15-minute mark. Tindoor's bots died as fast as he could bring them back. He himself ate ground 3 times before this picture. At one point, we had Kronos' health down a quarter before Tindoor and his bots face planted.



This picture is at the 25-minute mark, Quantum is still going strong. Not once did I have to neither pop a health inspiration nor use my Energize during this time-period. I did, however, have to use my Power Sink due to Kronos' ability to drain endurance, not often mind you, but enough for me to start considering retreating.

Tindoor and I both agreed that we were not going to take him down. He wanted to withdraw, I told him to go to the Tram station and T-port me there so I did not have to do a fighting withdrawal. However, looking at this massive combatant, I just could not quit. I wanted to defeat him. I told Tindoor to broadcast for team members and passed him the star. This beast was going down.



This picture is at the 45-minute mark. We now have 2 brutes, a stalker, and a defender at this point. Up to this point, the stalker, and 1 of the brutes face planted, while the second brute was forced to back off to recover, including Tindoor. I do wish I had recorded this action on video. This would show our team's health bars and all the action as it played out, thus proving what I saying here.

Tindoor noticed how much nastier Kronos was getting. I said that was because we have 5 more level 50 team members. At this point, I am using Power Sink more frequently and had to use Energize twice.



In this picture, Kronos is about to go do. You can see where the team members are. The defender is back on the left, the stalker is back under the right arm of Kronos, one of the brutes is under the stomping foot, and the other brute is behind Kronos to my right. Tindoor is directly above me. Moreover, if you look carefully, you can see his last surviving bot to the far right. At this point, it is 10:30 PM. I have been fighting Kronos for an hour. Just to give you the perspective of how long I had been fighting him, both my accolade powers, Eye of Magnus and Geas of the Kind Ones, fully recharged twice before this monster died.



Finally, 5 minutes after the above picture, Kronos crashes to the ground! Woohoo, Team Quantumshock did it. Everyone rejoiced. The badge was a great reward.

I am proud of the fact that my tanker fought this giant monster and did not face plant one time. While my teammates did at last one time, some more than the others. Of the two brutes, only one (the one fighting on my right) did not, though her health was beat down near that point.

People can say what they want about a tanker; however, my experience fighting this Titan of Titans proved, at least to me, a Tanker is not irrelevant, nor is he useless. Furthermore, I kept this beast’s attention and all the hate and discontent he could dish out.

Don't rain on his parade, Johnny. Save your tanker loathing for other threads.

Grats, Khonsu! It looks like you had a great time.

Congrats, Khonsu! Well done!

(and yeah, don't listen to Johnny...someone must have pissed in his cornflakes this morning)

Grats!

Pretty poor form there JB.

First, nice job, you survived Kronos.

Couple nitpicks: You are electric armor. You should be immune to end drain. If you needed power sink, it was because you burn more end than you recover. My DA tank did not have this issue with Kronos.

I don't believe you tanked Kronos. At least not particularly well. The mark of a good tank is how well his team survives. You have his aggro. Spin him, kite him, do what you have to do to keep the team safe.

Many congrats. Don't forget to thank your support char. probably not dieing had a lot to do with farsight/chrono shift/temporal selection and risking dieing by coming close to heal you.

Look, I'm just giving my opinion, as I have tanked Kronos, and I have kept squishies safe.

Justify it however you want. AoE can't hit your team if you stay away from them and keep enemy attention. Did you try to move away from your team? Attempt communicating that they should not be near you?

Every attack except the footstomp is targetted AoE. If the melee teammates are dying to that, your job becomes kiting. Footstomp will not be used if Kronos does not get close.

I know I wrote a guide on this stuff. At the end of the day, cannot save people from themselves, but you need to try.

Only Footstomp is PBAoE, though. The others are either RANGED AoE (meaning targeted on someone) or TARGETED AoE, meaning placed below their target. Just FYI.

And none of those attacks has a -End component to it.



I still think you did a fantastic job, but you do mention some things that aren't backed up.

My personal theory is that your time buddy was boosting your recharge with Temporal Selection and therefore you were attacking more than usual. Combine that with the periodic crash of hasten and you'll see your end bar suffering.

Don't let the OCD nitpicking min-maxers get you down. It's impossible to please them anyway!

As long as you and your team mates all had fun, that's all that matters. And it looks like you all did. Gratz!

Cool story. It's always fun to complete a challenge you know most would have given up on.