Thanks for doing these vids, hope you dont mind if I ask some questions: - you state to briefly attack the assimilator above the transformer then focus the transformer (aka not killing the assimilator). On the right you state you forgot to briefly attack the assimilator so your teammates had to finish it. If you're flying a single target build and only briefly target the assimilator, wouldnt your teammates need to kill the left assimilator as well as you only briefly attack it and then focus on the transformer? In other words, why only briefly focus the assimilator and not just kill it? - you mention flanking a lot, iirc the white arrow on the top target image shows you're flanking or does it show which side you should be hitting to flank it? I'm even more confused at 7:10 in the vid, the white arrow moves from the "top" shield to the "bottom" shield, were you still flanking it the whole time? Hope this isnt as vague as I think I described it, can't seem to full wake up today.
Questions are great! 1) The reason I don't usually finish the Assimilators off before moving to Transformer is that the Transformers are "juicier" targets since they don't have shields. They'll take more damage with all of the debuff floating around, and the AOE from the tank and other players will usually finish off the assimilators, which speeds up the run. On coordinated runs, we'll have a small gravity well pulling spheres into the transformer, so small AOEs will also hit more targets by a faster switch to Assimilator. It's a speed thing for DPS chasing; there's nothing wrong with finishing off the Assimilator, it's just a little slower if you can trust your team. 2) Flanking is usually shown by the white arrow point downward. It's a little slow to update so I didn't start flanking the cube until 7:10 as I came about. If you have your damage floaters on, the yellow string of "flankflankflankflankflank....." above the target is another good indicator.
@@stobetter sweet, I've been going through you guys' guides (mechanics ppt) and specific build guides quite constantly, really appreciate all you guys do for the community/noobs like me. And thanks for anwersering. I doubt we'll ever do speed runs on console but wouldnt mind trying to get more organised runs in, these vids help a bunch
I run random pub as a support tanks using beta3 as well as suppresse3 using repulsor1 for the pull instead of gravity1 so i can use photonic2 working hand in hand with boimer. I only use this build for random pub unless i get korfez then i use more of an adaptive build to make up for random rng
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Thanks for doing these vids, hope you dont mind if I ask some questions:
- you state to briefly attack the assimilator above the transformer then focus the transformer (aka not killing the assimilator). On the right you state you forgot to briefly attack the assimilator so your teammates had to finish it. If you're flying a single target build and only briefly target the assimilator, wouldnt your teammates need to kill the left assimilator as well as you only briefly attack it and then focus on the transformer? In other words, why only briefly focus the assimilator and not just kill it?
- you mention flanking a lot, iirc the white arrow on the top target image shows you're flanking or does it show which side you should be hitting to flank it? I'm even more confused at 7:10 in the vid, the white arrow moves from the "top" shield to the "bottom" shield, were you still flanking it the whole time?
Hope this isnt as vague as I think I described it, can't seem to full wake up today.
Questions are great!
1) The reason I don't usually finish the Assimilators off before moving to Transformer is that the Transformers are "juicier" targets since they don't have shields. They'll take more damage with all of the debuff floating around, and the AOE from the tank and other players will usually finish off the assimilators, which speeds up the run. On coordinated runs, we'll have a small gravity well pulling spheres into the transformer, so small AOEs will also hit more targets by a faster switch to Assimilator. It's a speed thing for DPS chasing; there's nothing wrong with finishing off the Assimilator, it's just a little slower if you can trust your team.
2) Flanking is usually shown by the white arrow point downward. It's a little slow to update so I didn't start flanking the cube until 7:10 as I came about. If you have your damage floaters on, the yellow string of "flankflankflankflankflank....." above the target is another good indicator.
@@stobetter sweet, I've been going through you guys' guides (mechanics ppt) and specific build guides quite constantly, really appreciate all you guys do for the community/noobs like me.
And thanks for anwersering. I doubt we'll ever do speed runs on console but wouldnt mind trying to get more organised runs in, these vids help a bunch
I run random pub as a support tanks using beta3 as well as suppresse3 using repulsor1 for the pull instead of gravity1 so i can use photonic2 working hand in hand with boimer. I only use this build for random pub unless i get korfez then i use more of an adaptive build to make up for random rng
There are many ways to do it, and many builds that will work. If you find it working well for PUGs, great! PUG runs need support tanks too.
@@stobetter that they do. I know when i enjoy seeing new people playing elites.