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I'll be waiting on the highland, with its wonderful serenity.
Where the stars glow and the brooks flow, that's my way of life.
When the mountains on the highland, and the nature is surrounding me, when the wind blows, that's all I need.
I'll be waiting on the highland, with its wonderful serenity.
Where the stars glow and the brooks flow, that's my way of life.
When the mountains on the highland, and the nature is surrounding me, when the wind blows, that's all I need.
May I ask who Hexos is? People in my guild struggle with him and I've wanted to get that mushan and they keep talking about Hexos and reading this has confused me so much. Why'd ya need to spin round and round in circles? Is this one of those times when clickers are at a huge advantage? Curse my small hands. Yes I've got long fingers but not long enough apparentlySylviaDragon wrote:I have not looked into it that much since i got my mount and do not want to go visit some of those suckers again. I know they are retiring a lot of the lvl 90 achives but I cant find anything about new bosses. I feel like we probably would have seen the new guys in beta by now if they were going to be there at launch so maybe they will just scale the old fights up to 100. don't know if your progress would be saved or reset like at the start of an arena season but i have not seen anything about the rewards being removed. I'm sure the mount and pet are safe at least.
just a little cheat for hexos...
If you are a clicker like me and just cant managed to mash the buttons and keep spinning then ask a real world friend for help. I was playing with a broken mouse so there was no way i could have gotten him down otherwise. if i wasn't giving all my attention to spinning, my mouse would bug out.
simplify your rotation down to your big cds and your most basic filler spells since you only need to pull 100k dps to kill him in time and then just have you and your buddy practice your respective jobs. I taught my sister the most basic parts of my BM rotation and just put everything on my main hotbar for her to mash while i practiced spinning. it was actually rather fun- i enjoyed that boss more than all the others due to the teamwork and the excitement of downing him together.
also a tip for the spinning part of the fight, don't look at or focus on your character. only watch hexos. I found that if i was trying to pay attention to what was coming at MY character i would react too late and since Hexo is a good two steps away from you, he would hit the wall. if you only look at him and concentrate on when he needs to move instead of thinking its your character that needs to move, then you have half a second of extra reaction time.
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I think this is a "find what works for you" - when I did it the only thing I focused on was where the maze opening was, and the single pinpoint my camera was pointing at. Your toon can be facing any random direction but as long as the camera is pointed correctly, it will register that you're navigating safely.SylviaDragon wrote:also a tip for the spinning part of the fight, don't look at or focus on your character. only watch hexos. I found that if i was trying to pay attention to what was coming at MY character i would react too late and since Hexo is a good two steps away from you, he would hit the wall. if you only look at him and concentrate on when he needs to move instead of thinking its your character that needs to move, then you have half a second of extra reaction time.
Hexos is (currently) the first boss at Rank 8 in Brawler's Guild—he's the first boss you'll encounter if you did the bosses that BG launched with but haven't touched it since they added ranks 8-10. He's also known as "the Super Hexagon [expletive]" and he is absolutely not for clickers because keyboard turning will NOT turn you fast enough, no matter how hard you press down on it, haha. His gimmick is basically that you're rooted in place in the center of the arena and Durumu Jr. (the special boss-style observer) is latched onto your face.* Bright purple shapes in a variety of styles but often with only one (MAYBE two) breaks are created at the edges of the arena and slowly get smaller and smaller, centering on your character. If your character's face and/or Hexos himself (who, remember, is latched onto your face*) touches one of those purple lines, you instantly die**. The strategy for beating him is to be able to do 11.2? million damage in about two minutes while constantly swiveling your camera up to 180° around so as not to die. You have VERY little time to glance at CD timers and basically no time to move your mouse to click on a button (some people die in the time it takes to reposition their mouse after you get several "spiral sets" in a row—there are 5-8 different shapes that you dodge through, though they're put together randomly).Kayro wrote:May I ask who Hexos is? People in my guild struggle with him and I've wanted to get that mushan and they keep talking about Hexos and reading this has confused me so much. Why'd ya need to spin round and round in circles? Is this one of those times when clickers are at a huge advantage? Curse my small hands. Yes I've got long fingers but not long enough apparently :?
Ah, that'd explain why my pet would do such a strange dance around us, only really joining in for KCsXella wrote: My best advice is to not rely on your pet for damage if you're a pet class, unless your pet is ranged. Hexos is actually the fight I originally went survival to do, because the pet relies on the server to tell it where to be and sometimes "where to be" is not in range of where Hexos actually is. Or something. They may have fixed that by now (she did the fight back when it first was available and my other two characters that've done it weren't pet classes), though the warlock I was watching do it the other day didn't seem to be having much luck with her felhunter, either. The video above also mentions making audio cues for your CD abilities since you won't have the time to look at any visual cues you may have set up (be that something like weakauras or just glancing down at your ability bar to see if it's still got a cooldown going) and to be honest I'm a little angry at myself for not having thought of that sooner, cos it makes perfect sense, haha.
The poor thing was even more dazzled than me myself /hugglepet
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It's not a bug. It's intentional. Like I said, Hexos isn't the actual fight... the maze is. You have to beat the maze to win, and the maze will often finish its current pattern before despawning. So even if Hexos himself is dead, even if they announce you've won, you still must survive the maze to win.Meggers wrote:Be wary, hexos can bug and kill you after he dies.
