Solo nez definitely isn't easy by any means, and it's still something to be proud of completing. It's just that it's now significantly less difficult than it's ever been outside of the crafting bug weekend. Farming conditional with this method is slow and tedious because you only get one shot at it per character per week, but it's a consistent way to get chances at the gun for solo players.
As someone who would collect 3 (maybe 4 wish wall made me lazy) secret chests on 3 characters every week to buy Tarrabah and Anarchy. I appreciate this vid
dahm should i get that malf ornamnet you were using? or the other one that makes it black or wait is that the ornament but you just put a shader over it???
@@animalicon3535 I personally like the ornament that I'm using ("the pink mist") more than the all black ornament ("aim to misbehave") but it's completely up to preference. You can't put shaders on exotics, even over ornaments, so you can only pick the default malfeasance or the ornaments that it has. I would recommend watching the youtuber Ultraclocked (they do showcases for exotic ornaments) to see which ornament you prefer.
I have no one to play with, so I decided to try and it was the best experience I've ever had, after 73 tireless hours with breaks just to eat and sleep, I finally managed to complete this encounter, now the encounter has become "easy" as far as possible, if you are a solo player, believe me, you can do it.
I feel like, at that point, you’ll understand the encounter enough to be able to do it with others through lfg. Don’t even have to mic. Congrats regardless because it’s a crazy accomplishment
@basedlordprime or consider some people can't talk because of disabilities or even anxiety or simply don't want to interact with humans 😂, your brain must be cooked to not consider this.
This is awesome! I used to solo oracles when I was lfg'ing trying to get Vex Mythoclast because it made the lfg experience more tolerable. There's good people and great players, but the sea of clowns and easily frustrated folks is very real.
I love watching this stuff because deep down I know I don’t have the skill nor the patience to do this stuff. So I heavily respect anyone who can sit down and do this crazy stuff solo.
it's amazing to think that this is easier than hopping onto a call with 5 random people you will probably never talk to again for like 1-2 hours for some people. I have the Tism and social anxiety, (plus I'm trans in a Gamer Space™, so not always the friendliest people), but the lengths some will go to to simply not play with others in an MMO is honestly commendable.
For real, people be complaining about being a solo player but lfg is right there, just use it. I've never had a dedicated "raid team" and have titles and flawless runs
@Purpletrident yes there is really shitty people in lfg but most of the time it's people who want the same thing as everyone else to finish the activity
Gratz on the run, but i do have one question, why when i loadout swap to a Malfeasance, the mag is always empty, but in your video and everyone else, they Malfeasance is full ammo ?
Thanks! If you're swapping from an empty special weapon to a primary weapon, the primary weapon will have nothing in the mag when you swap. If you swap from a special weapon with ammo or a primary weapon to a primary weapon, the new primary weapon will be loaded with bullets in the mag.
Agreed, you could probably get a few BnS shots off after the lucky pants buff expires if you time things perfectly. But you would lose almost all heavy ammo if you swapped back to an eager sword for running and an eager sword makes running a fair bit safer. If you're willing to be a bit risky, going for some shots is definitely not a bad idea.
The solo tag appears on my raid report, but it specifies "Solo (Checkpoint)" rather than just "Solo." The tag itself on the raid report just says "Solo" but when you click on it, and it takes you to the page with the information about the run, it shows "Solo (Checkpoint)." Here's my raid report for reference: raid.report/pc/4611686018488596151 - you can see if you click on the solo tag, it shows (Checkpoint).
Whats the sword that you use to move around so quickly with? I havent played the game in years(I stopped in Shadowkeep) and recently came back to see everyone using that sword to move around quickly, or can any sword do that?
The perk that allows you to go very fast using a sword is called eager edge and the sword that I used here is called the other half which is the sword that can drop from playing dares of eternity (it can randomly roll with the perk eager edge and can be crafted). Eager edge essentially states that whenever you first draw the sword, it gains increased lunge range (with a short cooldown between activations). The technique that allows you to go super fast with this sword is as follows: draw the sword to activate eager edge, jump, light attack (swing the sword), and then swap weapons. If you swap your weapon after light attacking, you conserve momentum from the attack and can start moving around very quickly.
A special ammo finder mod on helmet and probably scav mods on legs for the weapons elements so it gets more per brick probs double special ammo finder mods, also poison kills on things or deaths from abilities as he swaps to sword. So heavy is out when those things die more likely to drop special
7:35 i see you putting legs with x3 kinetic surges on, but wasn't that patched and now we can only use x2? Your 900k dmg seems to be buffed by the triple surges or am i missing a different buff/debuff?
@@tako158 I've been doing some runs myself and believe me, the numbers are right. Maybe you're not taking into account Solo Operative, it makes a huge difference
Builds should be towards the end of the video! I realized I don't have DIM loadouts up for this yet, I'll see if I can quickly create all of them for this and put links for them in the description when I'm at my PC next.
I gotta ask how does one do the mechanics solo, is it guessing trough trial and error and any dark and light seed can be done at any order, or is a specific pattern and if done wrong will just kill you?
After activating a dark or light node you'll be able to see the next dark or light node in the sequence that you need to hit (a small sphere will appear on the node you need to hit). You can see that whenever I hit a node and go back to grab either field of light or flux of darkness, the next node of the same polarity I go for will always have this small sphere. There's not really any guessing involved as you're able to get all the information you need solo (which refuge you need to create is signified by which color nez glows after you snipe his weak spots and the next node in the sequence for both light and dark is always plainly visible). The only instances where you can fail based on mechanics during running are if you create the wrong refuge, are too slow to create any refuge, or are too slow to finish both sequences before time expires.
If you join the D2Checkpoint discord server, there's a channel called "checkpoints." If you click on that, you get a list of join codes which correspond to checkpoints to a lot of raid/dungeon bosses. Usually nezarec is there. Just type /join followed by the join code into the chat when in the game, and you'll join a checkpoint bot at nezarec. From that point, just wipe, respawn, and leave to grab the checkpoint. If my explanation was confusing, the discord server has an explanation on how to use it. It's a great way for solo players to access raid boss checkpoints.
The sequences aren't the exact same each time, but there is somewhat of a pattern you can follow: the nodes generally progress from the side where you spawn to the side where nez spawns. The first node on each side must be the one closest to the first field of light / flux of darkness. After the first node that you hit on a side, notice that there are only two options for the next node, the two nodes closest to spawn. The next node must be ONE of those two options and the node after that must be the other of the two, so you only need to look at two nodes closest to spawn after hitting the first one to know the sequence of the next two nodes. The pattern works in a similar fashion for the next two nodes: the next node in the sequence must be one of the next two nodes closest to spawn and the node after that must be the other of the two nodes that were closest to spawn. The final node on each side must be the one on top of the flower-root-thing by where nez spawns. So at most, there are only ever two options you need to check to see which node you need to go next, and for the first and final nodes on a side, there is only one possible node position. Sorry for the confusing explanation, but I hope this at least slightly helped.
I have an old void warlock run from season of the deep, and all the strats from there should still be applicable now. But I'll still see about uploading a clear on warlock and titan this season though!
Merciless has a perk called Impetus which is basically a buffed kill clip that boosts merciless's damage by quite a bit. I get a kill and reload at the start of dps to activate Impetus, then make sure to get a kill with Merciless just before needing to reload again to activate Impetus again.
After you shoot the last node it’s somewhere around 10-12 seconds before damage starts (it’s relatively consistent I just forget the number) but also you can see the root glow right before DPS starts, which is why he looks straight up before DPS.
Just a great kinetic exotic primary that has good AoE ad clear and doesn't really need to be aimed. Getting 100+ rounds in the mag is great for shooting nodes too.
@@ninety-eight9855 very true Only asking because sometimes eriana is good for shooting nez but that sniper looks pretty good might try using that instead
Yup! This run was recorded post-ITL launch. This method exactly probably won't work post-TFS because solo op is leaving, but you should still be able to consistent solo clears with a heavy GL or rocket instead of an eager sword. But, for now, using no heavy for DPS is very much viable.
Before Into the Light, the spot I'm in used to be almost completely safe from getting booped by nez. However, it appears that as part of the pantheon changes to Nez, his boop attack (the one that yeets you into oblivion) can and will very often reach under the plate and throw you back. His slam also seems to boop you from a slightly farther range, although I can't confirm that one. I've recently been trying to bait the boop attack by strafing a bit just as the boop goes off to maybe avoid it, but it's still very RNG-dependent. I've also been getting thrown around in my runs and am very often yeeted off the back of the hiding spot. It seems like a mixture of RNG and standing in the exact right location to not get thrown around in the spot which is very annoying.
@zzzpyrottv it's a drop from nightfalls. At the time I'm responding to this, it's currently the weekly nightfall reward, though it'll no longer be the nightfall reward at the next weekly reset. So, during this week, you can run nightfalls to farm it.
@@ninety-eight9855 If you're looking to farm Warden's, this week is the best way to do it, it's double loot meaning you'll get two drops of the gun at the end of each run
