Havoc's death: Overwhelming nature.

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yotmato wrote:

This is the most misunderstood boss in the game. I'll try to explain it:

- The tornados are a reskinned version of Spark, with a very big negative modifier to projectile speed, and a very big positive modifier to duration, thats why they wander around the room for a long time very slowly. It also deals physical damage but this is common knowledge.
- The boss utilizes 2 different setups of "Tornado-Spark"
- The first is the CWDT version, the boss uses a very low level CWDT linked to his "Tornado-Spark" spell, because of CWDTs internal cooldown, this causes fast hitting attacks/spells to fill the room with tornados very fast. Whats the catch? This tornados barely deal any damage, you can see how Havoc walks around the tornado-filled room, without leeching and his ES barely goes down at all, then suddenly he almost insta-rips, what happened?
- The second "Tornado-Spark" setup this boss uses is the one that actually kills people, it has the same graphic, the same projectile speed, the same duration, the only difference is that this version is selfcast, independant of the CWDT one, and he only casts it every once in a while. It deals a fuckton of damage in comparison to the CWDT version of his Tornado, and it has a very clear casting animation. All this Academy boss rips have a thing in common, they are facetanking the boss in melee range, and when the boss casts 4 or 5 Tornados when he has GMP, remember that Spark shotguns, and this is exactly what happened here. Havoc is fine until the boss decided to SELFCAST 5 tornados in his face that basically destroyed him through leech.

So basically the strat vs this boss is not give a fuck about his CWDT tornados, pay attention to his animation, and whenever you see your HP/ES actually going down, you know you are standing in a selfcast Tornado and all you have to do is move away 2 inches.

The CWDT Tornado-Spark is designed to cause chaos and confusion and damn it does a pretty good job at that, considering how old the game is and how basically almost no one has a clue how he actually works.