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ARENA FOR BEGINNERS
This brief guide is for written for knights who have never tried Planar Arena and would like to run it for AP/Planar Pendant quest/loot. It's based on my experience running with full legendary, no arcane pet parties at level 41 with adjustments for level 46. I welcome other experienced Arena runners to leave comments with more helpful tips for Arena beginners.
MUST have:
- At least minimum stats, skills and gear for elite:
- Rogue: 3700hp, 625dmg, 1600 armor petless no elixir
- Sorcerer: 3500hp, 700dmg, 1400 armor petless no elixir
- Warrior: 7000hp, 450dmg, 2400 armor petless no elixir
- Ankhs (at least one kit/25 ankhs), a lot of hp and mana pots (never ask for mana heal from mages, never use Combat Medic skill)
BETTER if you also use:
- Damage bonus elixir for faster boss kill
- Damage reduction elixir for better protection (fewer deaths mean fewer ankh used. Damage reduction elixir is cheaper than ankh kit)
SKILLS:
- Rogue: Aimed Shot, Noxious Bolt, Shadow Piercer, and choose between Shadow Veil and Razor Shield for 4th skill
- Sorcerer: Firebolt, Frost Bolt/Timeshift, Lightning, Arcane Shield
- Warrior: Juggernaut, Chest Splitter, Windmill/Axe Throw, Horn of Renew (both Juggernaut and Horn have to be upgraded with taunt)
PETS:
- Must have: Kelvin
- Maridos, Singe, Gyrm, Shadowlurk, Stanlee (for party buff)
- Nekro, Blinky (for better protection through shield and boss dmg and armor debuff, )
- Toor, Stampy, Swift, Yowie, Dovabear, Fantasma (for stats, dmg boosts)
- Slag, Breeze, Slobber (for enemy control)
Note: make sure your Arena pets are capped to max out their passive ability
ARENA BASICS
Bosses: Bloodhammer, Ferrix, Frostr, Glob, Mother, Rutger, Challenger (super rare)
Environment:
- Poison pools (blue circles, drain life)
- Spiders
- Enraging obelisk (pink stone behind boss. If hit by skill/pet will start 60 second countdown to boss enrage)
- Vortex crystal (purple crystal surrounded by red circle, pulls player in
- Mushrooms (mushroom explosion can push you away and deal enough damage to kill)
- Proximity ring (purple and pink ring. If you get it, STAY AWAY from your allies. The ring insta-kills)
- Arena is accessed by talking to Hox (an NPC in Kraag between the Beastmaster and stash wagon)
- Arena is an elite timed zone. Once timer starts noone else can join.
- One arena run consists of killing 4 bosses in a row.
- Reward for completing a run is an Arena Masterchest (not-tradeable). An Arena Masterchest may contain:
- Planar Gladiator legendary helm/armor
- Vial of Undead Ectoplasm (ingredient for crafting Nekro)
- hp/mana pots
- 10 ankh
- super rare Arcane Fossil (ingredient for crafting Nekro)
- epic junks!
FIGHTING IN ARENA
STAND STILL and only move a little to avoid red zone when you meet these environments:
- Spiders. More spiders will drop if you move around. The spiders can be easily killed but with less of them around you can kill boss faster.
- Poison pool. The more you move the more pools spawn. Hug the wall (stay close to the wall), find places where the pools dont overlap and stand there firing skills.
- Mushrooms. Hug the wall, lure boss down and don't approach the Arena stage where the mushrooms spawn.
MOVE MOVE MOVE! when you meet these environments:
- Proximity ring. Move away from your allies when you get the ring so you don't kill them by accident. Move away from your allies who have the ring. Maneuver around the arena so you can still hit boss without killing/getting killed by your allies.
- Vortex crystal. Run in a circle around the Arena while still firing shots (warrior can run with their pet still attacking boss, so not too far out). For rogue: you can stay and keep firing, then use charged Shadow Piercer to get safely to the other side of the arena.
ENRAGING OBELISK.
Safe method:
- Everyone stay close to gate when you see pink stone behind boss
- Everyone use Kelvin
- Rogue use uncharged Aimed Shot to lure boss down (except for Mother, she can pull you up with her web and accidentally trigger enraging stone. Try walking up to her)
- Warrior use Horn to gain aggro once boss is near gate. DPS class starts hitting. Take turn keeping boss stunned using Kelvin.
- Don't run away too far from gate, your skill might hit enraging stone. If you have to run to avoid red zone/poison pool, don't fire skill.
- If enraging stone gets accidentally triggered, DPS class switch fast to crit/dmg pets, warrior stay with Kelvin, hit boss harder till (hopefully) it dies under 60 seconds
YOLO method (this is actually quicker, safer):
- Equip Maridos, Singe, Gyrm, Shadowlurk, Stanlee, Ribbit or any pet that gives you dmg/crit boost, e.g. Toor, Blinky, Nightshade, Nilbog, Slobber, Dovabear, etc (look for dmg % on your pet's happy bonus)
- Attack boss with skills combos
- If boss enrages DPS start kiting boss, warrior stun with Kelvin and drawing aggro with Axe Throw and Horn (don't stay within melee range, boss one hit kills when enraged)
SPECIAL BOSSES/ENVIRONMENT COMBO
- Rutger in Mushrooms. Go to the middle of right wall when you see Rutger. Rogue drop veil and fire uncharged Aimed to lure boss down. Fire off skills and don't move. If no vortex crystal/prox ring/poison pool appears, the environment is mushroom but you don't see it because it only spawns on the left side of the arena. If you don't die in this environment you get Mushroom Madness achievement.
- Stahl in Spiders. DPS class go to middle of arena, don't move, take turns dropping veil, and fire off skills. From the middle of arena, DPS class can hit Stahl wherever he goes without having to move (and make more spider drop).
USING KELVIN
- For safer (if maybe slower run) use Kelvin whenever you see these one-hitting bosses: Bloodhammer, Frostr, Glob
- Either take turns using Kelvin skill (100% stun) or
- Save Kelvin's skill for when you are cornered (boss coming at you, you have nowhere to go because of pools/rings/being slowed down by Frostr's blue pool)
USING BLINKY
Keep Blinky's skill ready for when boss (especially Glob, Frostr) about to do a windup attack (big red zone) or rush attack (long red zone) at you or your party.
MAGE SHIELD
When fighting Rutger keep shield ready for when he does DoT attack (marked with red skull icon).
Also read:
Jirikjurasek's guide to tanking Arena
Haligali's guide to Arena environment identification
I hope these tips help. Good luck with arena runs, knights!
Last edited by ilhanna; 01-28-2016 at 12:04 AM.
You're right. Thanks. Weekend brain. Editing.Originally Posted by avikk
I'm not one for solo shenanigans so hence I'm proud of this, T2 solo time with damage elixir from Klaas......
My 7 pet rotation system prioritised :
Toor, Maridos, Singe, Nightshade, Blinky, Gyrm, Stanlee.
Although I don't have it, I'd recommend Breeze, one Breeze is enough in a party.
EDIT : main pet chosen and its Toor, I will only replace Toor with Maridos if I'm in a weak team and need that crit and HP, otherwise Toor's damage AoE wins.
Plus Toor pet stacks
Pull elite mobs in traps, hit Toor AA, mage drop a clock, watch them burn! Or even just hit AA and have a mage drop a clock.
Last edited by Xorrior; 09-08-2015 at 07:33 PM.
Hey xorr sorry if this is long overdue but here's your signature...
Hey xorr sorry if this is long overdue but here's your signature...
Thank you XY!
Hello fellow Knights!
Thank to all those who have been running arena with me, both back at lvl 41 and now at lvl 46. Especially to Ilhanna, Azapauele, Gurukay, Killerxyler, Vig, Trizalana, Salsie, Dash and Metallica. Throughout all those runs i have been able to get all the achievement’s except Child’s Play, which prevented me from getting the Dimensional Gladiator achievement.
Then a few days ago, i ran around 20 runs in the arena, and suddenly my eyes fell on something new! The replacement ‘challenger' was at last standing there in the arena. So now i finally have all the arena achievements!
Then 5 runs later i looted my first Ancient Planar Pendant recipe!
And when i then later that day opened the the Elite Arena Master’s Chest i had looted in the previous runs, i looted my first Vial of Undead Ectoplasm!
That is what i call a lucky and productive day in Arcane Legends!
PS. I ran a few more runs after looting the vial hoping for my luck to strike again in form of me, looting a fossil, but guess that will be another day...
Last edited by DK; 09-09-2015 at 03:10 AM.
Collector of items for all classes.
Congrats dk!
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GET READY TO PARTY!
Trinity Knights will soon celebrate its 2nd anniversary this month. In the run up to the big day, we're going to have contests that will keep us busy in game and out of it.
Full contest announcements will follow but just a heads up, here are some things you can do to prepare for them:
1. Sign up at STS forum so you have an account you can use to post contest entries.
2. Practice taking game screnshots and uploading them. See guide here:
http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...y-device-Guide
3. Join Trinity Knights Line group so you can ask questions about the contest, schedule parties, etc with other knights even while off game.
4. If you haven't already, get to level 46. The contest will involve some elite runs.
and badly missing u guys !! -_- good luck to all of u !! Will be back in action soon !!
Hey Dash, we miss you too! Hope Twitter and SF are treating you well.
dasshhhh
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Rengol dailies today I looted 2xChaos, Finesse and Fury. Very nice
nice! gz, xorRengol dailies today I looted 2xChaos, Finesse and Fury. Very nice
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Time to get busy!
Just briefly:
Double orc tag till Monday, 9/14. Make sure you do the Ren'gol dailies. You need orc tags to buy Nomerite ingots to craft legendary Orcslaying gear. And when you have finished with the Orcslaying quests, you can start on mythic Glintstone crafting quests, which requires moar orc tags to buy Cryogem Fragments with (for more info on Orcslaying and Glintstone crafting read THIS and THIS). But even if you're not interested in crafting both Orcslaying and Glintstone gear, do the quests anyway because you will need the tags to buy recipe for crafting Stampy, the new craftable arcane pet.
If you have been neglecting Planar Tombs lately, start running it again because you need Planar fragments to buy ingredient for Stampy.
And to make farming even more exciting, our anniversary event Bounty Hunter will reward you handsomely for running maps, killing monsters and looting goodies. It's an event for all of us. Whatever you feel comfortable doing, wherever you prefer to farm, you have a chance to compete in this contest. So I hope a lot of you will participate.
As we're nearing the guild's 2nd anniversary on September 21, I'm also inviting you to share your memorable TK moments or create unique birthday card to mark the event. Scrapbook is an event to challenge your creativity and talents off game, a place where you can show that your wit is as sharp your weapons in game.
Hoping to see many of you busy with crafting farming and anniversary events. See you in game.
OK so I couldn't sleep because a mage said soloing normal Ren'gol map for orc tag dailies isn't doable on legendary gear. Hence this experiment:
Gear
Pet
Good ole Ethyl <3
Number of death
0
What worked
quick freezing bomb throwers while they are stunned from fireball; killing healer and armorer first; luring mobs from their group and killing them separately; keeping shield and pet aa ready for emergencies (as opposed to spamming them whenever their cooldown ends)
So whenever PUGs drive you nuts and the guild is busy and can't party with you for Ren'gol dailies, try soloing. It isn't so bad really, even when your gear isn't OP.
Disclaimer
This post is not an excuse to stop your efforts to get good gear and pets that will help improve your stats.
Happy Aniversary!
Hi Pure, please repost this on the TK Anniversary event Scrapbook thread if you want to enter it as contest entry:
Happy Aniversary!
http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...test-Scrapbook
And welcome to TK.
Sure thanks. Will do.
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