Since league is playable again, share your blighted maps stategy

I should mention that I have completed several blight maps before the patch. Haven't tried once after yet. I have a low dps build (~4 million shaper dps) and I have been using the oils to annoiting maps like reduced movement speed or more tower damage. It has been very close to losing when I do win, with unique bosses getting almost within range of the core. I'm normally amazing on tower defense games so I feel like I'm using the towers to their full potential, but the towers are mostly very underwhelming.

The thing is my dps is fine. I kill shit fast but it's all over the place i can't follow the whole map what is going on, and at some point portal gets spawned close or some fast mobs come out that I see too late and i'm at the other side of the map or something.

I played so far few blighted maps from t1 to t6, i failed all over them. I'm almost unkillable but I just can't keep track of everything that's going on.

My general strategy is to slow down things with ice and minions, and put big fire area towers. Seems reasonable but i'm failing it anyway. :/ Tempo is kinda all over the place. It starts slow, and then all of a sudden you have whole pack rushing thru some lane and you are on the other side of the map, like wtf. xD

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DemigodParadox wrote:

Blight maps are a monumental dps check because the bears from physical portals are nearly unaffected by your chill towers, unaffected by your stun towers, ignore your minion towers, and ignore you or your minions standing in their way. Some of the unique monsters also ignore minion towers and anything else in their way. Portals also can and will spawn adjacent to the core with almost, or actually 0 travel distance. Now, minion portal monsters will also ignore minion towers as well.

If you do have low dps (2 million shaper dps or less), you should try to have a few ice cage towers near the core and just try to upgrade every tower on your screen to whatever you think you need. Towers are very underwhelming though and your build is the only thing actually holding them back.

Must be those...

And since when is 2M Shaper dps low damage? xD I mean it's not op damage but still lets be realistic, most of the players doesn't reach 1 mil.

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

The thing is my dps is fine. I kill shit fast but it's all over the place i can't follow the whole map what is going on, and at some point portal gets spawned close or some fast mobs come out that I see too late and i'm at the other side of the map or something.

I played so far few blighted maps from t1 to t6, i failed all over them. I'm almost unkillable but I just can't keep track of everything that's going on.

My general strategy is to slow down things with ice and minions, and put big fire area towers. Seems reasonable but i'm failing it anyway. :/ Tempo is kinda all over the place. It starts slow, and then all of a sudden you have whole pack rushing thru some lane and you are on the other side of the map, like wtf. xD

And since when is 2M Shaper dps low damage? xD I mean it's not op damage but still lets be realistic, most of the players doesn't reach 1 mil.

2 million shaper dps is not easy to get on several builds and it's overkill dps for all encounters before Blight except 5 way legion. Blight maps realistically take about 20 million dps to do constantly without towers. Blight maps WITH towers still takes more dps than any other encounter in the game because of the physical bear rush, unique monsters, and 0 portal distances. My build can simultaneously hold 2 lanes with 2 million dps for each lane. So, if I park at the core and use a fkton of towers and get lucky, I can have a solid chance of winning the encounter.

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DemigodParadox wrote:

2 million shaper dps is not easy to get on several builds and it's overkill dps for all encounters before Blight except 5 way legion. Blight maps realistically take about 20 million dps to do constantly without towers. Blight maps WITH towers still takes more dps than any other encounter in the game because of the physical bear rush, unique monsters, and 0 portal distances. My build can simultaneously hold 2 lanes with 2 million dps for each lane. So, if I park at the core and use a fkton of towers and get lucky, I can have a solid chance of winning the encounter.

20 million dps is Shaper killed in 1 second. How many builds are there with that dps and how many mirrors are they worth?

I don't know such builds except some memes...

2x meteor ring enchant.

use 1 boost tower in the tower cluster fields and then spam meteor with one or two slow towers.

And then just keep repeating that for all lanes that get spawned.

Peace,

-Boem-

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TorsteinTheFallen wrote:

20 million dps is Shaper killed in 1 second. How many builds are there with that dps and how many mirrors are they worth?

I don't know such builds except some memes...

There are several poison builds right now and a frost blades build that have that kind of dps. There are a bunch of other decent damage builds that are between 5 and 10 million dps. You could get away with only 5 million shaper dps if ot was something screenwide like pre-ner cyclone.

I haven't played on the new patch yet, but I have succeeded solo in like 4 or 5 before the patch (failed some too), all of which were alc'd

Here are some things that help me:

- Anoint your blighted maps. Every advantage helps, and it's a good way to spend the crappy low level oils you accumulate. I personally like the one that slows the mobs

- Set up your early towers as far away as you can. Choose a room that is far from the pump to be a kill zone and setup dps and slow towers to weaken/thin out the mobs before they get to you. You need to do this early because you don't want to leave the pump later on in the encounter when things are really hectic.

- Watch the map. The map will tell you when mobs are coming from directions you can see on the screen. If you do this diligently you will never get taken by surprise and be out of position to take on the biggest threat to the pump.

- Damage map mods aren't as important as map mods that make the mobs more tanky. You can easily avoid being hit, so do it. This may only be true if you are not melee, not sure. Never do blighted maps with Beyond....

- Always be doing something. If the pump is not under immediate threat be setting up towers, if you don't have any points for towers go out and kill the mobs away from the pump (make sure you watch the map when doing this).

Some of this stuff may seem obvious, but thinking of it all during the encounter can be really hectic and kind of overwhelming so getting some practice on low level maps helps.

In the end blight maps really are dps checks no matter what you do, so if you were ever going to build a yolo glass cannon char this may be the league for it :D

Bugs are still there.

1) unkillable Rhoa
2) Portals too close to pump
3) Build bug - Unable to build towers. They get "stuck" and you can't click on them or anything.

Great patch.

Strategy? Spam whatever towers the monsters aren't immune to, and kill shit before you or the pump dies.

There's not much more to it that that, really - beside the really obvious tower defense strategies; both CC and DPS towers at chokepoints/intersections.

I still had portals spawn nearly on top of the pump and no towers on the line either.

Strategy wise I usually try to build few Max slow/freeze/etc towers next to far away portals early on

Few minion portals and more slowing towards the pump and then I surround the pump with meteor towers. Did up to t13 already, just wish more blighted maps dropped in general.