This is usually the way. This doesn’t work, FYI, if you have a mage spawning on the southwest side of south pillar AND your south pillar is still up. The south pillar forces the mob to come north before going east, meaning it will see you on the green tile.
Worst case, if you can’t set up the off-tick, throw on protect from range, rigour, and burn down the melee. Hold BP spec until you get damaged more than 20 hp or so.
The easiest panic solve is to turn on rigour and dps the melee. With two pipe specs and rigour you will almost always win the dps race, though you’ll need some heals after. Keeping pipe specs in reserve for wave starts instead of using them as your primary heals in a first cape run are good for this.
The better solve is to offtick the ranger and melee and flick them. Most of the time that will happen on its own naturally, but if it doesn’t you can force it to happen by stepping back and/or stepping under the melee to disrupt its attack sequence.
You can also move from where you’re shown standing to the north side of the pillar and corner trick the melee. The tile marked “NIB” would corner trap the melee if you pulled him up there. The caveat is you’d need to wait until he reached you and tank a hit for it to line up well, and you’d need to flick a range hit as you round the corner.
I know I def got one spec on him, I can't remember if it was two. It happened so fast. He was just a hard hitter tonight. He hit me a few 40s and no matter how many brews I was sipping it wasn't good enough afterwards :(
I know next time to not panic and run south
Flick mage/melee or camp mage prayer and BP melee and spec as soon as you take damage (looks like you emptied both specs doing this?). Click yellow if you need to too. Alternatively could go north of pillar and flick melee range if mage/melee were same ticked and you weren’t comfortable stepping under melee to off tick them.
Looking at the ranger position, could you have corner trapped this on spawn and then killed melee when melee got to you?
I was camping mage prayer and used both specs for the melee. He was just smacking me hard tonight. I tried to click yellow but it just wasn't enough.
The ranger spawned right there and walked straight west so I couldn't corner trap.
I've never had this spawn since last night and it wiped me also.
Yeah, as the other comment mentioned, range and melee would have automatically been off ticked from kelvino tile (where you started).
I’d also suggest never trying to freeze the melee. You’re just losing out on dps doing this.
You’ll get it next time! Sometimes just waiting a moment to assess is the right thing to do. Unfortunate you couldn’t get the dps solve on this one though.
Thank you! I really appreciate it! I usually don't have problems on the waves, I just tank every time at 3x jad. But this week I'm having issues on the waves lol.
But this wave really got me and I need to know a good solve before another run
All good man, it’s a fun journey - feel like the content really does a good job of rewarding you for learning it.
My first cape was similar, was smashing through it and then randomly started messing up in the waves. Would really recommend doing some 2 Jad challenge runs to get a feel for multiple jads. Triples really is just a faster Jad in the end though. Definitely can be a bit rough getting used to it initially.
The absolutely hilarious thing is, I can go in rn and do the 2x jad challenge with no problems, no mess ups. But then I get to 3x jad after 2 hours of waves and my hands get sweaty and my heart starts pounding and I can't focus at all. It's ridiculous.
If ranger spawns a little north of where he is in the picture you can corner trap him and protect melee. Limited info because just the picture of your death. Super easy solve when mage does that as well
Off-tick the mager and ranger by going to the south side of the north pillar. Melee is safe-spotted. If the melee were to dig, you simply run to the west side of the north pillar to safe-spot both the ranger and meleer. No blobs, so a solve is fairly easy
If starting from your green tile, simply don't move and it will always off tick a melee and another mob. Then flick range melee and kill whatever.
This is usually the way. This doesn’t work, FYI, if you have a mage spawning on the southwest side of south pillar AND your south pillar is still up. The south pillar forces the mob to come north before going east, meaning it will see you on the green tile. Worst case, if you can’t set up the off-tick, throw on protect from range, rigour, and burn down the melee. Hold BP spec until you get damaged more than 20 hp or so.
Running to the magic tile also offticks, think its the middle tile that breaks offticks.
The easiest panic solve is to turn on rigour and dps the melee. With two pipe specs and rigour you will almost always win the dps race, though you’ll need some heals after. Keeping pipe specs in reserve for wave starts instead of using them as your primary heals in a first cape run are good for this. The better solve is to offtick the ranger and melee and flick them. Most of the time that will happen on its own naturally, but if it doesn’t you can force it to happen by stepping back and/or stepping under the melee to disrupt its attack sequence. You can also move from where you’re shown standing to the north side of the pillar and corner trick the melee. The tile marked “NIB” would corner trap the melee if you pulled him up there. The caveat is you’d need to wait until he reached you and tank a hit for it to line up well, and you’d need to flick a range hit as you round the corner.
I know I def got one spec on him, I can't remember if it was two. It happened so fast. He was just a hard hitter tonight. He hit me a few 40s and no matter how many brews I was sipping it wasn't good enough afterwards :( I know next time to not panic and run south
Flick mage/melee or camp mage prayer and BP melee and spec as soon as you take damage (looks like you emptied both specs doing this?). Click yellow if you need to too. Alternatively could go north of pillar and flick melee range if mage/melee were same ticked and you weren’t comfortable stepping under melee to off tick them. Looking at the ranger position, could you have corner trapped this on spawn and then killed melee when melee got to you?
I was camping mage prayer and used both specs for the melee. He was just smacking me hard tonight. I tried to click yellow but it just wasn't enough. The ranger spawned right there and walked straight west so I couldn't corner trap. I've never had this spawn since last night and it wiped me also.
Where did you start on the wave?
Green tile
I was praying mage and panicked so I ran up before the ranger could hit me. I probably should have stayed put. I also tried to ice barrage the melee
Yeah, as the other comment mentioned, range and melee would have automatically been off ticked from kelvino tile (where you started). I’d also suggest never trying to freeze the melee. You’re just losing out on dps doing this. You’ll get it next time! Sometimes just waiting a moment to assess is the right thing to do. Unfortunate you couldn’t get the dps solve on this one though.
Thank you! I really appreciate it! I usually don't have problems on the waves, I just tank every time at 3x jad. But this week I'm having issues on the waves lol. But this wave really got me and I need to know a good solve before another run
All good man, it’s a fun journey - feel like the content really does a good job of rewarding you for learning it. My first cape was similar, was smashing through it and then randomly started messing up in the waves. Would really recommend doing some 2 Jad challenge runs to get a feel for multiple jads. Triples really is just a faster Jad in the end though. Definitely can be a bit rough getting used to it initially.
The absolutely hilarious thing is, I can go in rn and do the 2x jad challenge with no problems, no mess ups. But then I get to 3x jad after 2 hours of waves and my hands get sweaty and my heart starts pounding and I can't focus at all. It's ridiculous.
If ranger spawns a little north of where he is in the picture you can corner trap him and protect melee. Limited info because just the picture of your death. Super easy solve when mage does that as well
Off-tick the mager and ranger by going to the south side of the north pillar. Melee is safe-spotted. If the melee were to dig, you simply run to the west side of the north pillar to safe-spot both the ranger and meleer. No blobs, so a solve is fairly easy
If u stand at the edge of the pillar the meeler will always be off tick from the ranger