Most people know me as Elssha or El. This room is also the location of the first of the 5 books for the bonus achievement ( first book seen in the picture of the table), but these books have multiple spawns in each of the areas, and won’t be part of this guide.After you gather the flares and stims, you can click the panel to open the door to the pens and begin the encounter. SWTOR 6.2 Release Date and December 2020 Events Dec 2, 2020. High damage attack when Target leaves melee range. The Octagon has three (open) entrances. Like previously, they have to be killed before the final panel can be clicked. This allows the battery carrier to grab and use the battery while everyone else swaps back to the boss. In SM ONLY, the game will not let you use a third (lethal) dose. In HM, these will not drop off on their own, and need to be cleansed. When the fight starts, a large circle of light (think spotlight) will shine over a significant portion of the map, and Huntmaster will immediately teleport into it. This will protect the team from the adds you ran past. This fight CAN be single-tanked easily, and depending on who becomes the battery carrier (more on this later) getting more DPS makes the fight go easier. Adrenaline Rush is a buff when Huntmaster’s health gets low – preventing you from killing him. This is very protective when dealing with adds – on which the debuff lasts 3x as long! Have one person click the panel to open it.If the group has any speed buffs, you will want to use them right before the door opens (predation, etc) so that you can run through the hallway and into the octagonal room. Note; in the picture above the two gates the droids keep closed have already been opened. If the DPS (or healing) is low enough to require a third flower; note that you will have to deal with adds. They can run out of the fire ring, though that does not do much damage, and can easily just stand there until he does a conal. These appear as yellow/purple arrow debuffs, as well as icons over each player’s head. Tx-1Ch E. Gas is a puddle dropped every 5 stacks of Venom Synthesis, resetting these stacks. Acid Blast spits out a yellow circle that stays on the floor until you wash the floor, centered on the tank holding Apex. An over-grown Lake Crab, like you saw in earlier encounters. One thing is if the group has enough cleanses to counter the effects of contagion. The Stalkers will follow. However, it is also worth noting that the boss does no (other) damage while casting/channeling either ability, therefore interrupting them means the tank will be taking more melee attacks. When you first come in from the last boss, you will enter via the north entrance on the (level 1) map below. Carrying the battery is a full-time job in HM. This will make life easier on the battery carrier and help your group progress through the fight. This creature is fixated on a Huntmaster and its focus cannot be changed. Below is about the tightest pattern you want to have. Learn about every mechanic of every boss encounter and find out the best working strategies to defeat them. You will want to hug the right wall of the hallway, trying not to aggro the Reaper as you run past. That tank then picks up any remaining and newly-spawned adds. These guys apply stims that will icrease alacrity and speed, while reducing incoming heals. Alternatively, in 8m HM (16m DPS check is too tight, so starter pattern is different), if the battery carrier is quick on making the flares and will re-charge the battery right after, you CAN wait and let him gain stacks until the light turns on (reducing/removing them), placing a flare right as it goes off. Primal Fear is a 6second buff (debuff) that causes everyone/thing to do a lot less damage. Besides the battery carrier, the fight is fairly simple for everyone else. I’ve drawn the most-direct route to the first boss’s location on the area map below. This makes them do and take 20% more damage for each defeated Trandoshan. Added with Charger knocked down and stunned. Second best is a ranged DPS. Each player is marked as either left or right debuff. Healers watch to cleanse the DoT. Ayhis & Eru is a flame conal. Armormech Leveling Guide (6.X) Biochem Leveling Guide … AoE centered on every player; must be cleansed. Later, after defeating the Trandoshans, the door to the right part of the upper facility (the door just past where the player arrow is in the lvl 2 map) and the path to the Huntmaster fight will open (more on that later). Ideally, you want to have the DPS kill it while it’s still stunned. Hydrochloric Pools look like small red domes. When the pink  Nom circle drops, that person needs to just keeps moving. The creatures that show up attack him as well if he gets caught outside the light. Apex gives everyone a yellow or purple buff, and his cannons get the same symbols over them. At 35% Huntmaster will jump to the Lake (as if to do another Holdout), at which point he starts rapidly regaining health, foiled when Shelleigh comes out to play. They also need to get a feel for the flow and be far more pro-active with the battery to not fall behind. Ideally, you want to have the DPS kill it while it’s still stunned. Here you will find your Swtor.exe; as before we are going to change this to "Run as Admin" (*Right Click, Properties, Compatibility, Tick "Run this program as administrator", Apply, OK, close) Now lets go back to your Firewalls and add the exclusions in … Adds also have a few ‘extras’ tacked on. The main facility has two levels, and in order to get to the next boss (The Mutant Trandoshans) you will have to do another mini-puzzle. If one of your tanks is a Shadow/Sin, they should hold Hissy, stealthing out when the other two drop. The entrance is located a brisk walk from the spawn point in the following locations; Once in phase, you’ll want to make your way to the northern part of the map, though the path is a bit convoluted, and has several places you can wander off in the wrong direction. Apex is kept in flares placed along the route, and the next flare can be placed as the last one expires. A complete guide to SWTOR’s Nature of Progress Operation on Dxun in Veteran Mode. They attack anything (you, or Huntmaster!) It’s best to stack for this, each only taking one hit… or preferably behind a designated player that’s immune to knockback protecting others (god bubble sorc/sage, hydraulics/hold the line, etc). I would strongly suggest a ranged DPS kite Greus throughout the fight, leaving him for last. A Charger can spawn at either of the two doors NOT leading to Apex (Top door on the overhead image above). Frigid Claws is a basic attack that applies stacks of Sublimation. AS SOON as the coils go down, players need to pop any speed boosts and run, regardless of what adds (even the Crab) are still up at the rock. As you run, more adds, including extra Crabs, Chargers and Hunters will try and catch you. I suggest placing the first one to the left (the blue circle on the image above), and continuing until the Reapers are killed (and prioritize killing those as soon as possible). Once placed, you can move out of it. Fortress looks like an omnidirectional Entrench/Hunker Down. The first wave will include some Felshade Hunters and Stalkers, the latter of which two DPS should bait (one in the left, one in the mid pen area (where the purple arrow is) so that their red puddles drop there, before running toward the middle of the room for a tank to pick them up. Titax is focused, dropping him to ~30%, then moving him to one side of the tracks. This effect cannot be broken. This will protect the team from the adds you ran past. This stacks, so the longer she’s up, the bigger the heal check. The second wave will consist of 4 Shadow Walkers, which need a Flare  to mitigate.After this second wave, the Enforcer Droids will power-up, and they will create two rings that buff adds around them (outer yellow, inner red) by casting the Optimization Protocol. Master of the Hunt is a de-stacking buff that counts down each time Huntmaster kills something (usually a Lurking Beast, but also players). Quickly jump out of the circle, or get eaten. These are the only flying adds you’ll deal with here, and they’ll spawn behind you, opposite your path out of the octagonal enclosure. Otherwise, this run will be harder to do without having learned it in SM and add needless time to future prog. SM is quite forgiving though, and your group might find other methods more to your liking. The wash station, again, functions as it did in SM, except it requires TWO charges. Stim production will automatically stop when the tray fills up with 12 stims. Each stack causes damage. Contagion places a green ring around each player. Placing it back in this transformer refills it to full, though unlike SM, the battery takes time to fully charge, gaining one bar at a time. The more boss-like Adds are the Warden Droids which prevent opening security doors. These will be the same guards you’ve dealt with before fighting the Mutant Trandoshans. Note, this forfeits any unused Flares/Stims from the previous boss fight, Running quickly, the coils should power down right as you reach the right door, allowing you to continue directly through, If you are planning to kill the Reaper, you let it fight the bull in the hall as the group gathers in the lower middle of the Octagon above it. The color of the circles on the icon above the station shows if the flares are ready, cooking or empty. If you do end up aggroing them, this will be an important place to use flares. They drop little Hydrochloric Pools that function the same way Red’s did. In this overview beginners guide, I’ll help you answer that question and see why you may want to complete a conquest each week. This value decreases over time so long as the Apex Vanguard is in combat. REMEMBER that these puddles stay until a wash, and can re-infect players as long as they are up. User account menu • We did it! ), and having an add-strategy isn’t as essential as it is in harder modes. This is also where you will first encounter Lake Crabs that have an affinity to pull players out into the open. Increases maximum health a small amount with each stack. The path across the roof is below, going from the lower left of the image to the upper right; Beyond this is another set of stairs, just like the one you scaled up, except you can hop down these until you walk out and down the ramp in the following room. The Stims do different things depending on how they are used. Don’t forget that these have far less health than the others – adjust train call accordingly! Drag the droid into it, then continue to drop more flares as needed while focusing the droid, moving slowing toward the middle of the door. Crush the Weak is a leap AoE attack, where Titax jumps on whoever has the lowest health when the channel starts. The Felshade Reapers are the highest damage-dealing adds you’ll encounter here, but are nerf’d significantly by the flare, and they take more damage as well (due to the Blinding Light debuff)… which is also a reason many groups try and skip aggroing them (here and in the next encounter). If it does, the tanks need to bounce the charger back and forth while DPS finish the job. The Nature of Progress Master Mode (Nightmare Mode or NiM if you are old school) continues to receive updates, fixes and tweaks as well. For the actual fighting, skip down alllll the way to the last couple images in this guide; specifically the Security Control Center Map in this guide, which has 3 purple arrows coming down from the top, and two Droid icons at the bottom. ), Culling Shot does a good chunk of damage outside the red circle as well, but inside it’s a one-shot. Flares are protective. This means they take damage as they run around, sometimes far away from the main group (so a healer needs to watch them, and break off to heal them as necessary). Feeding Shelleigh (throwing beasts into her lake) gives her stacks of Crabby Demeanor, which increases her health. Master Mode Dxun/Nature of Progress video guides/walkthrough. The closest player to Huntmaster, who is in between Huntmaster and the targeted player, gets shot and knocked back. The Flares create an AoE that nerfs the damage output of many of the adds, protecting you. Bosses are labeled with numbers from 1 to 5. Standing to the left or right of the flare lets the tank keep Apex in after an Acid blast. The advantage of stacking them against the center is allowing ranged to remain more stationary. The station starts full, with (3) flares ready to be picked up, so this player should be at the station and pick them up as soon as the boss is pulled. The others should make their way inside the room while one person is clicking and hold the beasts on the empty side of the room. Deploys a powerful omnidirectional shield barrier around the caster, granting tremendous defensive bonuses so long as the user remains within the fortress boundary. The light will gradually make itself smaller, becoming quite cramped, then slowly oscillate around the map. Only the person Titax targets should be in this so that others don’t take unnecessary damage. This cast can be interrupted, though few groups go this route. Stims work the same way they have elsewhere, though the Accuracy boost becomes far more important than the crit boost (for countering Blinding Spray during Voltenator). While in Fortress, Huntmaster will continue shooting the tank with his ranged attack while reflecting damage. These will be located in various spots; Once the right one is found, you can go up the steps at the bottom right of the image, where you’ll jump through a broken window half-way down the hallway, to fall into the Train Station where you will face the Mutant Trandoshans. The huntmaster is a boss you’ll have to burn down to 30%, while waves of Lurking Beasts (tweaked Felshade Reapers) spawn. It is advisable to aggro the adds below and kite them up to the area above the stairs, where the debuff goes away; as healers won’t have as tough a time healing you. In story mode, the adds shouldn’t present too great a problem, so stopping to kill each pack should still be doable. They also do a bite that progressively slows you. I recommend stacking everything. Aim Red away from the group, which should be sitting fairly close to the flower. Requires a tank swap. Flares here are placed on the grate in the middle of each slot, placed right after an acid blast in the next area, so that the tank walks into a freshly-placed flare as they move out of the acid blast. While this makes them faster to burn down, it also makes all their attacks more dangerous. Venom Synthesis is a stacking buff Hissy gains until spiting a cloud of Gas. Note that these abilities show up elsewhere in the operation as well, with the same (or almost same) function. Which tank takes which shot often depends on the strategy and tank class, optimizing based on how the group plans to deal with the adds (i.e. Otherwise, I’ve successfully tanked all bosses in 5.0 and 6.0. The 16m pattern changes to further prioritize not charging the battery as long as possible, to give DPS as much time as possible to drop Apex below Peak Performance stacks and prevent early enrage by minimizing the amount of health regained by  Photogenesis. The tanks grab Titax and Kron as they spawn.The Kron tank holds him at the upper right part of the main room (near the ramp). The Fan station uses ONE charge. Second highest health pool; significantly higher than Greus and Kron. The slow he applies makes this more tricky, but doable. There are 6 Flares and 8 Stims on the left side of the door of the room you start in (finished the last encounter in). Since Flare circles are roughly the same size as the (initial) acid blast puddle, they need to be placed ahead of the boss (tank walks Apex into them) and dropped after an Acid Blast. It’s wise to sap (stealth CC) the medic in the pack next to the panel, then start channeling. Knocking down Huntmaster will stun the Charger, and it will become Confused and Infuriated, which increases its damage output (and turns the bull an angry red). This will allow them to get flares and return to the group quickly. that dares step out of the light. Written and compiled by Herc and , Edited by Xam Xam Overview A Guide to the Huntmaster encounter in The Nature of Progress (Dxun) Operation. I learned NiM Raiding with , and mostly play on Imp Satele Shan. Accessible from Onderon and taking place on the Onderonian moon of … I am a Sin tank main, and have been playing SWtOR since early 4.0. Otherwise, you can now walk in from the East entrance of the starter zone (the one that’s been green since you defeated Red), which takes you to the lower-left entrance on the map below (level 1). I will start with some generalizations, then move on to specifics. Several DPS each pick up 2 extra Stims while the Tanks take all the Flares. Entering one will kill them automatically. This fight represents the first real coordination check in this operation.Here, you will fight four beefed-up Trandoshans, two of which will be waiting to fight you, and another two will jump down a minute later.Each has a unique affinity (Fire, Ice, Strength, Toxicity), and has to be dealt with a different way. Death Pact is a stacking buff that any surviving trandos get when one is killed. Temporarily ignoring threat rules. It is often better to sacrifice a lagging player ( anyone outside will automatically die) than getting lots of adds NOTE: their body will teleport (from anywhere in the Lake Enclosure, not just the hallway) to this door once it’s closed, and they can be rez’d/stealth rez’d in the short time before the first add spawn. The Tank can minimize the number of swaps by kiting Shelleigh in a large ring around the enclosure (basically treating her like Eyeless; white path in the image above), since she can’t really do her attacks while trying to catch you. If you gave everyone a single stim, this would be the best time to pop them, keeping you from being knocked down on your way there. Nom casts a quick, small, pink ring on the ground, indicating the area where Shelleigh will eat whatever is still there. Explore two new planets, a new Flashpoint on the war-torn world of Corellia, a new Operation set in the lush jungles of Dxun … The creatures that show up attack him as well if he gets caught outside the light. Once the wash goes off, turn around and head the other way. If this proves difficult, players may want to kill some of the adds on lvl 1, allowing someone to force pull the battery carrier from the bottom to the upper balcony, making things go faster. Unlike SM, Titax needs to be aimed to punt the player holding him into a canister (barring major layered cheeses) to survive.The stacking buff from killing other trandoshans requires that the last two die together, or the last trandoshan starts one-shotting.Besides the Greus kiter, and the tank holding Titax, people should be staying out of everything (conals/AoE’s/etc) to minimize damage.Unlike SM, it’s far easier to fail a push (have them get back up from Torpor) since the train takes longer than the channel. Immune to taunts. Series of shots, knocks back closest target directly in front of Huntmaster. The tank needs to point this away from the group. If the wash is late, you can continue, dropping one ring in the center between the stations. Created for VULKK.com by Elssha This is a very thorough guide explaining every last detail you need to know about the Operation. They also outright kill the flying adds, though that leaves behind an exploding mini AoE. 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