originally posted in:Endeavor
Alright all. I've been putting in some thought to the best classes to run vog hard mode atheon fight with. This is just theory and obviously it can and will be done with any mix of six classes.
There are also two ways we can run Atheon. One being relic holder drops relic to assist with oracles and the other being sending an extra guy through the opposite portal. This being said I will post what I believe to be the best for both and why.
Relic Holder Drop Method:
3 Gunslinger Hunters (Relic Holder) (Outside Team)
2 Voidwalker Warlocks (Inside Team)
1 Defender Titan (Outside Team)
The inside team will consist of one gunslinger hunter who will carry the relic. Let's keep in mind that if the other classes do their job there should be no reason the relic holder needs excess armour or recovery. However, agility does come in handy. The times vengeance is precisely 30 seconds long and will start as soon as the last oracle is killed. Atheon does not move or attack until 20 seconds time vengeance. The strategy is that the relic holder immediatly leaves the portal after the second to last oracle has been killed. This way the holder can get to the middle and get off a whole 10 seconds of relic shield supers before the bubble is needed. All in all, agility = DPS. The reason we want a gunslinger as compared to a blade dancer is as follows. The blade dancer has the highest agility in the game but is very closely followed by the gunslinger. The gunslinger passively does the highest gun based damage in the game. This means more damage to oracles and more time actually holding the relic. Also, everyone will have their super going into the portal. The gunslinger can shoot three (or 4) times before picking up the relic to ensure a safe journey to the portal and the blade dancer cannot. The other two inside fireteam members will be voidwalker warlocks. These two have the main job of killing the mobs inside the portal with their supers. Their damage on oracles will suffice just fine afterword. What's important is keeping the relic holder alive and the sooner we kill the mobs the better off we are. Voidwalker supers will be best for this.
The outside team will consist of two gunslingers and one defender titan. The two gunslingers will split up and each have their own portal. The defender titan will swing to the portal that needs opened. The two gunslingers are once again used purely for their gun DPS on both Atheon and the supplicants compared to other classes. The gunslingers will set up by their own portals and kill supplicants as they spawn while the defender titan opens the portal. If any trouble ensues they can bubble and make sure that portal gets open. However, this is best case scenario and assumes everyone does their job. This makes the defender titan's main job to buff the entire group for times vengeance. The titan will bubble the back portion of the island to give everyone weapons of light buff during Atheon. This also allows a safe place to escape once the relic holder drops the bubble around 5 seconds.
Onto the next method. This method we send one of the gunslinger hunters through the portal they open to assist the inside team. We will send the hunter that is assigned the his/her portal after the side is called. The defender titan will move up to the front of the open portal to spawn kill supplicants. This way the relic holder can choose if he wants to drop the shield to help. Some teams with less damage may want to do this so they have 4 people shooting oracles. The only difference is the relic carrier will be a blade dancer for that little extra speed.
I think that about covers it. Thanks for the read.