Do you think Barkskin is worth it when it only gives roughly 4%-5% DR vs getting something like Fortify which gives about double that? Edit: Oh you know what actually I forgot that the patch hasn't hit consoles yet that show the correct DR values like on PC. My bad.
Only problem I had with this guy on apocalypse was the vicious modifier. Even at max damage resist the slam would 1 shot full health. Felt so good to get the kill eventually
I have vicious hearty on apocalypse and I can't get through the orbs in the second phase. They wipe me out about half the time. I've gotten him down to about 20% left on the second phase. I've been trying for about six hours judging by how many concoctions I've used up.
At the moment doing a new character Nightmare run I’ll probably look for the builds Items and traits after I finished with the run congrats on completing apocalypse.
Great video. Try Challaneger and Archon...Focus on mod only. Nighfall + Dreadwalker+ Twisted wounds. far...far more damage... Probability cord and stone of malovance is must. Zaria Malice is great also Enigma mod...Will give you mod back non stop for both weapons. Great play btw!
You are so much better at me at dodging stuff in this game. Took me about 30 attempts to kill this on apoc, and I was dealing about 4x as much damage lol
Because he is using gunslinger. With gunslinger you have the ammo reserves trait that gives more reserve ammo and also has a perk that increases ammo pickups. Hope it helped😀😁
Not bad but you could halve the clear time running Hunter/Gunslinger with Ravager's Mark/Whetstone, Zania's, Prob Cord, Stone of Expanse, and either Stone of Balance or Warlord's Burden and you can run either Merciless or Nightfall w/ the same Twisting Wounds mutator
Just completed it finally on survivor. I’m not the best at games so the final boss was a struggle 😅 going to try veteran next or maybe I should go onto nightmare? Is it much more of a jump up?
@@vonkur_good idea, bit worried about losing all my progress and being stuck with worlds I can’t complete 😅 will try nightmare on an adventure and see how I go, cheers
I was only on veteran, but the most successful strat I found was to run engineer with Vulcan as my prime, and invader with void cloak. The turret shredded through first phase, and I saved the void cloak for some of the hairy moments of second phase to give me some wiggle room, if I wasn't able to get my dodges perfect. I also ran Crescent Moon with Supercharger on it. Bolt Driver with Momentum and Rotted Arrow. Using Energy Diverter, Archers Crest, Akari War Band, Tightly Wound Coil, and Ring of Diversion. I maxed out Regrowth, Expertise, Spirit, Vigor, Fitness, and Footwork, then put the last 5 into Strong Back so I could wear the fae royal set with a medium dodge. And Engineer comes with Fortify and I'd maxed that archetype out. But my invader was only at level 6. I had a blast with the fight honestly, and it was only veteran so I can't wait to see how it goes on nightmare and apocalypse. Keep up the good work TV.
Wouldn’t timekeepers jewel be redundant as you would constantly be refreshing bleed anyways and you’re not using any grenades or enigma to apply status effects
tried this and the boss bugged out, 10/10 build. if i may suggest a change. swap enigma for any hangun with the song of eafir mod. it kills all the orbs at once (as long as you play solo) it should hit all orbs in s2 as well, but if it doesnt then add points in the amplitude trait. merciless kept my SoE mod available every time the orbs appeared with no change in rings whatsoever (had 10 spirit though). for stage 2 i wouldn't use EoF for the stage one style orbs, as merciless could deal with them with its mod.
Bleed handicaps healing, so twisted rounds on any gun with any build shuts regenerator down. Your choices were fine. If he doesn't have ele resist, try hotshot + elec rounds with lmg + machine pistol. Rings to boost damage by status and for Amulet use corrosive weapon swap. Gunslinger main for Ammo and Invader for free dodges, and this boss will cry.
I hear ya, Annihilation is tricky because there's so much going on visually and it can feel like theres nothing you can do. TV mentions turning the music off (which sucks because the music in this fight is so good), but the annihilation fight becomes a lot easier when you're really tuned into the audio cues. More than almost any other fight iirc his tells also have a very distinct audio cue. For me, that was the key to finally getting the hang of this fight.
Have both, not sure that I can quantify it but the numbers I'm seeing in real time seem better with this setup than the alternatives. Might do more testing.
Have anyone tried extender on merciless? Increases mag by 20 rounds and Increases reload speed... Testing at the tires it does way more dmg then twisting wounds, but they don't have bleed status so i dunno what is better, hate merciless reload speed 😅
@@stealthninja4195 i know, that is why i asked if anyone made the maths in actual fight... Because it is easy to proc bleed on a boss and keep it, specially with this build from True Vanguard
This is a pretty odd build. You're applying bleed constantly, so timekeeper's jewel isn't doing anything for you. Merciless has innate bleed, so you don't need twisting blades. Better to replace it with momentum and timekeeper's with akari war band. And since you're only triggering chains of amplification with bleed, ravager's mark is a straight upgrade. Though you may be even better off with abrasive whetstone.
Bleed 2x basically is stacking constant damage on the boss, without Timekeeper you're looking at a 10 second bleed DoT instead of 20 which allows me to focus on dodging instead of trying to keep a constant up-time on the DoT. I found this to be especially helpful with the Regenerator roll on the boss, helps offset. Plus it keeps the status effects on longer which then boosts my damage output per my amulet regularly. It all works in unison, got the job done quite well given the crappy roll I had on the boss modifiers.
I guess the only thing is it doubles the amulets total explosion damage, would be extremely solid for mobbing and okay for bossing but you are correct in that he swap to whetstone for bossing
@@cavsfightingroom3692 yeah i feel that, her shop mechanic is really annoying. but even ravager's mark which is probably the easiest item to get in the game would be a better choice for the extra damage below 50% health.
lol in board games they say "trust the dice" when you get bad rolls. just means i got it easy somewhere else in my apocalypse run, just gotta roll with it haha!
@@truevanguardgaming wise words TV, wise words. Since you’re reading comments, just wanted to say I love your input on the DCP podcast and listen basically every week on my ride into/from work. Also, killer Remnant 2 content recently man! Keep it up!
I can't believe I forgot to list my Traits. They're as follows:
Potency - 10
Strong Back - 10
Vigor - 10
Endurance - 10
Spirit - 10
Expertise - 5
Barkskin - 10
Footwork - 10
Shadeskin - 5
Siphoner - 10
Do you think Barkskin is worth it when it only gives roughly 4%-5% DR vs getting something like Fortify which gives about double that?
Edit: Oh you know what actually I forgot that the patch hasn't hit consoles yet that show the correct DR values like on PC. My bad.
Awesome run bro. I also love the final boss fight. Once you pickup on the sound cues it gets so much easier..
TV do you prefer Siphoner to Regrowth?
Do u have the sorrow bow handgun
You also forgot to show what fragments are in the heart
Only problem I had with this guy on apocalypse was the vicious modifier. Even at max damage resist the slam would 1 shot full health. Felt so good to get the kill eventually
I’m currently fighting a vicious and hearty one. Brutal with one shots but fun as hell.
I have vicious hearty on apocalypse and I can't get through the orbs in the second phase. They wipe me out about half the time. I've gotten him down to about 20% left on the second phase. I've been trying for about six hours judging by how many concoctions I've used up.
gg bro. apocalypse is pretty insane. really fun playing on apocalypse overall
At the moment doing a new character Nightmare run I’ll probably look for the builds Items and traits after I finished with the run congrats on completing apocalypse.
Nice work as always TV.
Just started apocalypse. Giving this a run! Thx!
Very nice well done sir and nice bleed build
This is it right here I'm still stuck on him thank you tv 🙏 idk how I was able to kill every boss until him.
Great video. Try Challaneger and Archon...Focus on mod only. Nighfall + Dreadwalker+ Twisted wounds. far...far more damage...
Probability cord and stone of malovance is must. Zaria Malice is great also
Enigma mod...Will give you mod back non stop for both weapons.
Great play btw!
U can use assassin blade or the keel ace? The krell axe when throw and hit enemy. Cuz them bleed. Also u can use vampire blade on them? What u think?
For those who don’t know bleed status effects reduce healing by 50%. Great against regen or worthy effect the enemy has
What does thick skin do never seen that modifier
How do you get that armor set? 👀
You are so much better at me at dodging stuff in this game. Took me about 30 attempts to kill this on apoc, and I was dealing about 4x as much damage lol
Build?
Loved your remnant stuff dude. GG on this. Not tried it on this difficulty.
How the hell do you proc the bleed with that gun? Dumb question i know but i run out of ammo..
My latest clear was hugs using coach gun and the double barrel shotty
What relic fragments where on your relic?
What’s your thoughts on the abrasive whetstone
Vanguard I don’t understand how were you not needing to use an ammo crate? I’ve beaten him three times now and I usually need 2 crates minimum..
Because he is using gunslinger.
With gunslinger you have the ammo reserves trait that gives more reserve ammo and also has a perk that increases ammo pickups.
Hope it helped😀😁
How about the rings, blood tinged ring?
What u think ravages mark with it w/out ring of omens
Not bad but you could halve the clear time running Hunter/Gunslinger with Ravager's Mark/Whetstone, Zania's, Prob Cord, Stone of Expanse, and either Stone of Balance or Warlord's Burden and you can run either Merciless or Nightfall w/ the same Twisting Wounds mutator
I also have the glitch still where it doesnt give me the rewards for game clears so I cant even get the stuff off my Apoc, Nightmare, and Vet clears
Just completed it finally on survivor. I’m not the best at games so the final boss was a struggle 😅 going to try veteran next or maybe I should go onto nightmare? Is it much more of a jump up?
try to jump to nightmare cuz there isn't that big of a jump from survivor to veteran. But it is always something you gotta try for yourself.
Try rolling an adventure on nightmare and see how it is
@@niyorkhusroo2735thanks will give it a go 👍
@@vonkur_good idea, bit worried about losing all my progress and being stuck with worlds I can’t complete 😅 will try nightmare on an adventure and see how I go, cheers
I was only on veteran, but the most successful strat I found was to run engineer with Vulcan as my prime, and invader with void cloak.
The turret shredded through first phase, and I saved the void cloak for some of the hairy moments of second phase to give me some wiggle room, if I wasn't able to get my dodges perfect.
I also ran Crescent Moon with Supercharger on it. Bolt Driver with Momentum and Rotted Arrow. Using Energy Diverter, Archers Crest, Akari War Band, Tightly Wound Coil, and Ring of Diversion.
I maxed out Regrowth, Expertise, Spirit, Vigor, Fitness, and Footwork, then put the last 5 into Strong Back so I could wear the fae royal set with a medium dodge. And Engineer comes with Fortify and I'd maxed that archetype out. But my invader was only at level 6.
I had a blast with the fight honestly, and it was only veteran so I can't wait to see how it goes on nightmare and apocalypse. Keep up the good work TV.
U try abrasive whetstone?
No talk about modifiers I was struggling empathy and vicious
Good build but why would you put yourself right over the health and Armour stats?? 😮
Have you tried ravagers mark for the amulet instead? Give more damage to bleeding enemies
Sure have, that was my starting piece but found better consistent damage from this amulet instead
@@TrueVanguardwhy not whetstone?
Wouldn’t timekeepers jewel be redundant as you would constantly be refreshing bleed anyways and you’re not using any grenades or enigma to apply status effects
How do you get 1k of bleeding??
I would definitely trade time keepers jewel for faerins sigil and possibly stone of balance for sapphire dreamstone
can you list the armor you are using?
It’s the Royal Fae armor set
I think whetstone is a better option for bleed build
Yeah. Crit chance+dmg> flat dmg increase
Also use the akari ring instead of timekeeper. Less time but is applied more times and have more crit dmg
@francescolimonta5521 Yeah, I use that one too
I still havent beaten survivor. Im rerolling and getting all the loot per world as I go.
12 days gametime already.
tried this and the boss bugged out, 10/10 build. if i may suggest a change. swap enigma for any hangun with the song of eafir mod. it kills all the orbs at once (as long as you play solo) it should hit all orbs in s2 as well, but if it doesnt then add points in the amplitude trait. merciless kept my SoE mod available every time the orbs appeared with no change in rings whatsoever (had 10 spirit though). for stage 2 i wouldn't use EoF for the stage one style orbs, as merciless could deal with them with its mod.
Where is 3rd phase after cutscene? So easy or... ;)
yeah, i mean one mag from enigma kills those few tiny dogs that just run at you
took me 5 days experimenting different builds to take him down. I finally settled for the full hp infinite relic build to kill it.
Bleed handicaps healing, so twisted rounds on any gun with any build shuts regenerator down. Your choices were fine. If he doesn't have ele resist, try hotshot + elec rounds with lmg + machine pistol. Rings to boost damage by status and for Amulet use corrosive weapon swap. Gunslinger main for Ammo and Invader for free dodges, and this boss will cry.
You make it look easy. I still haven't been able to kill him on a regular run.
I hear ya, Annihilation is tricky because there's so much going on visually and it can feel like theres nothing you can do. TV mentions turning the music off (which sucks because the music in this fight is so good), but the annihilation fight becomes a lot easier when you're really tuned into the audio cues. More than almost any other fight iirc his tells also have a very distinct audio cue. For me, that was the key to finally getting the hang of this fight.
@@samvakariansame, turned of music and liatened gkt the dodge noise lol
If ur gona run Timekeepers then you Have to run Energizing Neck coil. If u don’t or don’t have it, then Abrasive Whetstone is wayyy better for dps.
Have both, not sure that I can quantify it but the numbers I'm seeing in real time seem better with this setup than the alternatives. Might do more testing.
Have anyone tried extender on merciless? Increases mag by 20 rounds and Increases reload speed... Testing at the tires it does way more dmg then twisting wounds, but they don't have bleed status so i dunno what is better, hate merciless reload speed 😅
Twisting wounds doesn’t activate on the firing range cuz bleed doesn’t work on them
@@stealthninja4195 i know, that is why i asked if anyone made the maths in actual fight... Because it is easy to proc bleed on a boss and keep it, specially with this build from True Vanguard
@@Abbe10able just use momentum
This is a pretty odd build. You're applying bleed constantly, so timekeeper's jewel isn't doing anything for you. Merciless has innate bleed, so you don't need twisting blades. Better to replace it with momentum and timekeeper's with akari war band. And since you're only triggering chains of amplification with bleed, ravager's mark is a straight upgrade. Though you may be even better off with abrasive whetstone.
Bleed 2x basically is stacking constant damage on the boss, without Timekeeper you're looking at a 10 second bleed DoT instead of 20 which allows me to focus on dodging instead of trying to keep a constant up-time on the DoT. I found this to be especially helpful with the Regenerator roll on the boss, helps offset. Plus it keeps the status effects on longer which then boosts my damage output per my amulet regularly. It all works in unison, got the job done quite well given the crappy roll I had on the boss modifiers.
The timekeeper's jewel does absolutely nothing for you in this fight, considering your mutator in your primary weapon.
I guess the only thing is it doubles the amulets total explosion damage, would be extremely solid for mobbing and okay for bossing but you are correct in that he swap to whetstone for bossing
abrasive whetstone is an infinitely better amulet for this build than the chains of amplification
Agreed maybe he doesn't have it.
@@charliegemmer4530 yeah since its a random cass item
@@cavsfightingroom3692 yeah i feel that, her shop mechanic is really annoying. but even ravager's mark which is probably the easiest item to get in the game would be a better choice for the extra damage below 50% health.
Bruh got Thick Skin and Regenerator on the last boss, bruuuutal
lol in board games they say "trust the dice" when you get bad rolls. just means i got it easy somewhere else in my apocalypse run, just gotta roll with it haha!
@@truevanguardgaming wise words TV, wise words. Since you’re reading comments, just wanted to say I love your input on the DCP podcast and listen basically every week on my ride into/from work. Also, killer Remnant 2 content recently man! Keep it up!
that was just bad luck with thick skin and regenerator, worst possible roll on a boss.
nah, the worst one has to be thick skin and empathy
@@reeidly yeh, cant heal and the boss becomes a bullet sponge.
Bleed is a DoT "damage over time" not a debuff ...
Bleed also decreases healing by 50% also makin it a debuff