Learning how to do Nex?

[Shadiochao]

I want to give Nex a try before the team activity dies down and/or the drops aren't worth it anymore, but I don't really know anything about how to do it. I'll most likely be killed without putting up much of a fight right now since I'm not sure how reliable each guide is.

 

I have a few questions for someone preferably experienced at Nex to answer

 

If you used a guide to learn how to do Nex, which one was it?

If I mess up at some point, how badly will it affect the rest of the team?

Is it more common for a team to split drops or not?

Is it easy to die while looting your grave?

and is it possible to use fixed mode in the boss room?

[jettrider]

Meant to type this up for a while, this is a bit of a checklist, not a full guide.

Not including a gear section because there are a lot of methods at this point. Straight range gear, void, SOL, etc. Your gear will depend on the team you go with.

This is general enough to not include gear.

 

General

 

-Have full special attack before you go in (getting to GWD drains it so drink a dose of special recover). Overload, brew up to 1150, restore once, and replace these with 4 dose potions.

-Quickprays are Protect from Magic, Piety, and optionally Protect Item.

-Make sure you have a teleport, antipoison/Sanfew, overloads, bolts, all your gear, and all your equipment slots filled.

-Have an overload timer and don't panic brew when you are getting 500 lifepoints back.

-KO potential is highest during the Smoke phase (from the mage attack, getting pulled in, and potentially getting hit with her special attack in the center.

-The worst places to mess up are not luring Nex during the shadow phase (massive team damage) or running away during the Blood/Zaros phases which decreases damage while increasing healing.

 

Form One - Smoke

 

-In larger teams you should DD and have one person stand to the east or south to take the cough

-In smaller teams, you should spread out around the spawn and try to stay 1 square apart to prevent virus spreading

-On spawn, quickpray, make sure you're OL boosted, and claw spec. After these specs, turn on Rigour.

-Two schools of thought after specs if Nex doesn't immediately call Fumus: stay in center to minimize magic damage or stay on the edges to avoid "There is no escape"

-Kill Fumus (using melee if you have it)

 

Form Two - Shadow

 

-ONCE FUMUS IS DEAD HIT NEX ONCE THEN SWITCH TO RANGE PRAYER. Nex does not change forms until you hit her once, which matters when you switch from mage to range prayer and back.

-Spread out a bit. This form hits more damage the closer you are to Nex. If you are far enough away and are praying range, she will only do 20-30 damage at a time.

-If Nex gets on you try to move away since Nex will start doing small but consistent damage in addition to her normal attacks when she is on you, but keep attacking in between running clicks.

-Move away from the black spots on the ground ("Fear the shadow")

-When Nex calls Umbra, whoever she is on needs to run away to the opposite corner and drag her away. If everyone just stands at Umbra, Nex will stand next to the group and deal massive damage. Dragging her away lets the rest of your team kill Umbra with no damage taken.

-Kill Umbra (using melee if you have it), hit Nex once, and switch back to mage pray.

 

Form Three - Blood

 

-Nex starts off this phase with a siphon so do not attack when she switches forms.

-By now you should have a claw spec (if not drink special restore). Use it.

-If you brought melee gear, you should be meleeing this form. Try to stay together since moving around does not affect damage taken and only makes it harder to deal enough damage to cope with Nex's healing. Also, if you stay in melee range she will use her healing magic attacks less and call Cruor sooner.

-Nex's Blood Sacrifice is unavoidable if you are in melee range, so keep your prayer as low as possible without running out so halving your points won't be a huge deal for your supplies.

-Nex siphons after she does 5 attacks following the Blood Sacrifice. Make sure you DO NOT HIT NEX WHEN SHE IS SIPHONING.

-Ignore the blood reavers, or if you want you can kill them while Nex is siphoning.

-Kill Cruor with melee, nothing of note here, and hit Nex once to transition to the Ice Phase.

 

Form Four - Ice

 

-Move to the southwest corner because Nex will freeze you and you still want to be close enough to Glacies to range it even if Frozen.

-Nex has two special attacks during this phase, both of which are avoidable, but both of which turn your prayer off and deal significant damage. Her normal attack freezes you for a second but does not hit very much.

-"Die Now in a Prison of Ice" traps one person inside a 3x3 icicle box. You can free your teammate by breaking the ice directly next to them (diagonally does nothing). If you are trapped inside, first safe as high as possible because Nex can hit 200s (because your prayer is off) while being stuck in the prison can do 700s. Then spamclick outside of the box so that you will run out immediately if someone frees you. Note that running into someone else's prison of ice does not do the damage to you; only one person is vulnerable.

-"Contain This!" creates a 6x6 icicle structure around Nex. It is avoidable if you run away from Nex when she says this, though sometimes she moves very quickly and puts it around you anyway if she is targeting you. It turns prayer off and can hit 300 or so, not as much as the prison. Note that even if you're killing Glacies, you should still avoid this attack and continue ranging Glacies from outside the box.

-For that reason I suggest killing Glacies with range. Don't forget to free teammates stuck in ice.

-After Glacies is dead, you should all DD or stay within Nex's melee range. The most common place to DD is where Glacies was standing, but it doesn't have to be there. Remember to hit Nex once...there is a short pause before her next form starts attacking and you don't really want to be frozen after Glacies is dead.

 

Form Five - Zaros

 

-Nex switches between no prayer, soul split, and protect melee. She also heals 6000 hp at the start of this phase to make this form last 12k lifepoints.

-Like phase 3, you should stay in melee range. Nex has a multitarget mage attack again which, combined with soul split, makes her a pain. You should be trying to do as much damage as quickly as possible during this phase, and keeping her in melee range means you can constantly attack her and she does attacks that deal less damage while soul splitting.

-Nex attacks the person with the lowest defence stats. If someone brought a Staff of Light, have them use the special and brew down so Nex melees them with reduced strength.

-You can melee Nex during the first two prayers if you want, but switch to range for the third because her deflect deals back a huge percentage of the damage you do.

-If you brought a decent amount of spec restore, use a claw spec here.

-When Nex says "Taste my Wrath" run away in any direction. Don't run early though, there's time.

[Shadiochao]

There is a lot to remember there, so if I shorten it to this:

 

All

Always be OLed

Attack to change forms, but don't attack when siphoning

 

Smoke

Magic Pray

Spread out or stay away from people who are infected (or healthy if it's me)

 

Shadow

Range pray

Use longrange attack? and don't let her melee

Move from black spots

Go to other side of room when mage is summoned

 

Blood

? Pray

Stay in melee range and melee/range

Let pray stay around 5-38

 

Ice

? Pray

Go southwest immediately

Safe and spamclick outside when trapped, free others

Run when "Contain this"

Hit once as soon as mage dies and DD somewhere

 

Final

? Pray

Stay in melee range and range/melee

Have a high def bonus

Run when "Taste my wrath" ASAP?

-

 

and keep it on my screen while I kill Nex, should I be fine?

I'm planning to use this

 

I'm not sure if it's for a small team or not though, just whatever I can find

[ghjkl]

Use arma or void, not karil's

d boots serve no purpose as I assume from no melee geaer you are not meleeing.

[Shadiochao]

What boots should I be using? Other than rangers boots, since I'm not comfortable with risking 22m there just for 8+ ranged attack yet.

[Soma2035]

What boots should I be using? Other than rangers boots, since I'm not comfortable with risking 22m there just for 8+ ranged attack yet.

 

If it's really that big of a deal, lend your ranger boots to a team mate, who will lend you theirs in return. That way you both protect them.

 

Honestly though, if you're not ready to risk 22m to do well, you don't belong at Nex. You're going through at least 300K per kill in supplies anyways, and likely risking Chaotics.

[Shadiochao]

Risking it is not the same as spending it for supplies.

With supplies I have a chance at making it back, but if I die and lose 22m worth of boots then that's just 22m gone for no reason.

 

I went to look at a mass earlier and some person had silly jester boots on anyway, so I don't think it's that much of a problem

I don't mind losing chaotics though, they are easily replaced.

 

Also I'm not experienced at it, it should be perfectly understandable I'm not willing to risk so much on my first ever trip =/