I noticed at lot of vids cheesing him with Schwartz and Silverash in the upper left corner when he spawns in. Baited his attacks with Lee’s s3 + medic so I didn’t have to worry about fast redeploys. Though that cheese strat mostly hinges on getting starting dp relics.
Yeah Schwarz is a prime pick for Playwright. She can camp in the upper left corner when he spawns, and if your relics aren't good enough, you can retreat her once he's at 51% hp, and deploy her again in the upper right corner (thanks Fast-Redeploy module) to finish him off.
Thanks for this vid, literally watched this right before the boss fight lmao. The information about the Playwright’s skills helped me plan out how I wanted to burst his HP down, did it with Pozyomka + Kal’tsit and the ASPD ingot relic (which carried me the whole run)
Thank you so much for this, here's hoping my second attempt at the boss goes smoother than then first after watching this guide. Update: It went very well! Thanks again for the guide!
Thanks for the guide, I based my gameplan off of it. Beat the boss first try but it was extremely scuffed. Pozy and Irene werent quite enough to dps him down so I started panicking, luckily the sniper “instakill when under 30% hp” came in clutch and killed the playwright. Then Ling died and I had to nervously watch as Itfrit , Erato, and Pozy’s typewriter barely defended against the hordes. Ling came back after a while and I won. It was almost like a play with climaxes and plot twists but I barely pulled it off.
Congrats on the clear! Whatever works, works. It's actually pretty hilarious that the 30% HP execute relic works on the Playwright, you can basically bypass his most dangerous phase.
Yeah, there's a bug right now where it affects the Playwright as well. I assume it will be patched out eventually. (Though they didn't with the Ideal City update so who knows)
@@ancardia I have to use this knowledge against him so I can finally get 4th ending Sad fact: I'm trying to get that ending for over 4 weeks and I saw Playwright only 2 times so far. I hate Observation and Dungeon event not appearing when I have good run.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and analysis on the Playwright as well as the awesome Amiya s3 showcase. My first encounter with this boss was a complete accident when i was doing my monthly squad. I got very lucky with all aspd relics and alot of ingots, so i kinda just hurrr durrr uunga bunnga with ejya ntrk surtr specter2 skadi, and luckily managed to clutch kill him when he was half box away from blue box.
it's also possible that the Rng hate you so much, that after 10+ tries to get the Silent ending with selecting the most encounter, but when you got it, no Dps relic. ex got much arts and caster buff but no caster voch.
The fact that he's unblockable and keeps debuffing your operators makes stalling hard. But you can somewhat stall him using slows and binds, if your team doesn't have enough bursts. Since his phase 2 is so dangerous, sometimes letting him walk very close to the blue box is the only way to kill him safely. A great way to stall him temporarily is to bring Ambushers like Ethan, Kirara, and Mizuki (demonstration: ua-cam.com/video/ejjQDqEQAVo/v-deo.html ).
Thanks for the video, loved the visual breakdown of skills and your thought proccess as you fought through the level. Are there special interactions between Playwright's curse, and operator cleansing abilities? Like Lee's S3 and Lumen's S3? Does anyone just mitigate the curse debuff entierly?
I can confirm Lee's talent doesn't block the Curse, and I don't think Lumen does either (otherwise we'd see him in more clears). I don't think anyone can ignore it entirely.
Huh, I just tested this and surprisingly it does! More specifically, if the Dollkeeper gets Cursed and dies, the Substitute isn't Cursed. I assume this works the other way around too but had trouble verifying - obviously, if the Substitute dies to Curse, then the whole Operator is just gone. Though having just played it, it's pretty hard to set this up correctly - you have to deploy the Dollkeeper last and no one else after, and it takes 20s for the Curse to kill an Operator (more with RES), whereas Curse's cooldown is 20/15 seconds.
i got all medals start squades and almost each time Schwarz kill this guy almost on red box. Key units for me on this map Schwarz(s3), Thorns, Nightingale(s3), some fast redeploy's and NtRK(s2) if boss not dead. Most hardest it's find ending relics for this boss and emegency Ursus Desire (worst node ever)
Nice! Schwarz absolutely deserves a spot on the recommendation list. I don't usually think about her much since IMO her range is a little awkward for IS2 maps, but she's undeniably very good vs the Playwright. And I agree, emergency Ursus desire is harder than the actual Chapter 6 bosses.
It only really worked because of the Bladedance and Spinach buffing her heals into the stratosphere. Normally even Saria/Nearl will die to the shamans eventually, you'll need a Medic on them as well.
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I noticed at lot of vids cheesing him with Schwartz and Silverash in the upper left corner when he spawns in. Baited his attacks with Lee’s s3 + medic so I didn’t have to worry about fast redeploys. Though that cheese strat mostly hinges on getting starting dp relics.
wdym by baiting with lee? does he not get cursed or can he get cursed multiple times?
Yeah Schwarz is a prime pick for Playwright. She can camp in the upper left corner when he spawns, and if your relics aren't good enough, you can retreat her once he's at 51% hp, and deploy her again in the upper right corner (thanks Fast-Redeploy module) to finish him off.
1:49 "abilities you want bait with disposable operators"
But how can I bait with disposable operators... If there is none?!
Thanks for this vid, literally watched this right before the boss fight lmao. The information about the Playwright’s skills helped me plan out how I wanted to burst his HP down, did it with Pozyomka + Kal’tsit and the ASPD ingot relic (which carried me the whole run)
Thank you so much for this, here's hoping my second attempt at the boss goes smoother than then first after watching this guide.
Update: It went very well! Thanks again for the guide!
Congrats! My first run was scuffed as hell too. Glad the next one went better !
Thanks for the guide, I based my gameplan off of it. Beat the boss first try but it was extremely scuffed. Pozy and Irene werent quite enough to dps him down so I started panicking, luckily the sniper “instakill when under 30% hp” came in clutch and killed the playwright. Then Ling died and I had to nervously watch as Itfrit , Erato, and Pozy’s typewriter barely defended against the hordes. Ling came back after a while and I won. It was almost like a play with climaxes and plot twists but I barely pulled it off.
Congrats on the clear! Whatever works, works.
It's actually pretty hilarious that the 30% HP execute relic works on the Playwright, you can basically bypass his most dangerous phase.
@@ancardia Shouldn't it be able to only kill normal enemies and not bosses like Playwright?
Yeah, there's a bug right now where it affects the Playwright as well. I assume it will be patched out eventually. (Though they didn't with the Ideal City update so who knows)
@@ancardia I have to use this knowledge against him so I can finally get 4th ending
Sad fact: I'm trying to get that ending for over 4 weeks and I saw Playwright only 2 times so far. I hate Observation and Dungeon event not appearing when I have good run.
Thank you so much for this.
Great video! Managed to delete the catboy using Ifrit and Chalter (which somehow got buffed to having 3000+ base Atk)
Thank you, and congrats on the clear! Some runs are blessed, and that's the fun of IS2 :)
need him in every way possible fr
I would have added gladiia to the lane holder team: with her module, she improve greatly the survivability of the Specter sisters.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and analysis on the Playwright as well as the awesome Amiya s3 showcase. My first encounter with this boss was a complete accident when i was doing my monthly squad. I got very lucky with all aspd relics and alot of ingots, so i kinda just hurrr durrr uunga bunnga with ejya ntrk surtr specter2 skadi, and luckily managed to clutch kill him when he was half box away from blue box.
Thanks!
It's a shame that Nearl Alter s3 can't do true damage to play writer (stupid blocking condition) but least least she ignore some of his defense
it's also possible that the Rng hate you so much, that after 10+ tries to get the Silent ending with selecting the most encounter, but when you got it, no Dps relic. ex got much arts and caster buff but no caster voch.
The fact that he's unblockable and keeps debuffing your operators makes stalling hard. But you can somewhat stall him using slows and binds, if your team doesn't have enough bursts. Since his phase 2 is so dangerous, sometimes letting him walk very close to the blue box is the only way to kill him safely. A great way to stall him temporarily is to bring Ambushers like Ethan, Kirara, and Mizuki (demonstration: ua-cam.com/video/ejjQDqEQAVo/v-deo.html ).
Thanks for the video, loved the visual breakdown of skills and your thought proccess as you fought through the level. Are there special interactions between Playwright's curse, and operator cleansing abilities? Like Lee's S3 and Lumen's S3? Does anyone just mitigate the curse debuff entierly?
I can confirm Lee's talent doesn't block the Curse, and I don't think Lumen does either (otherwise we'd see him in more clears). I don't think anyone can ignore it entirely.
can his curse be cleansed by doll keeper specialist's substitutes?
Huh, I just tested this and surprisingly it does! More specifically, if the Dollkeeper gets Cursed and dies, the Substitute isn't Cursed. I assume this works the other way around too but had trouble verifying - obviously, if the Substitute dies to Curse, then the whole Operator is just gone.
Though having just played it, it's pretty hard to set this up correctly - you have to deploy the Dollkeeper last and no one else after, and it takes 20s for the Curse to kill an Operator (more with RES), whereas Curse's cooldown is 20/15 seconds.
... we need guide to kill cute catboy
... Bad world 😭
Truly the worst ending 😭
i got all medals start squades and almost each time Schwarz kill this guy almost on red box. Key units for me on this map Schwarz(s3), Thorns, Nightingale(s3), some fast redeploy's and NtRK(s2) if boss not dead. Most hardest it's find ending relics for this boss and emegency Ursus Desire (worst node ever)
Nice! Schwarz absolutely deserves a spot on the recommendation list. I don't usually think about her much since IMO her range is a little awkward for IS2 maps, but she's undeniably very good vs the Playwright.
And I agree, emergency Ursus desire is harder than the actual Chapter 6 bosses.
Your Gummy is nuts, can Saria tank in her place solo with no healer? 😢
It only really worked because of the Bladedance and Spinach buffing her heals into the stratosphere. Normally even Saria/Nearl will die to the shamans eventually, you'll need a Medic on them as well.