Is it still possible/profitable to drag alts through FSC? If so, what's the technique?
Dragging alts in 2018
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 07:43
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:44
#2
Yes, you can alt farm
Yes, you can alt farm FSC.
Basically, make sure you have:
Chaos, Blitz, Electron Vortex, Brandish on your main (max dmg and ctr), and make sure both you and your main have a Maskeraith pet at least level 15 so the shadow cloak ability is active.
Regular FSC takes 25 mins, dragging an alt through makes that total about 30-35 minutes. I have only done it with 1 alt, doing it with more than 1 alt becomes exponentially more difficult, since you have to time the shadow cloak on your main and your alt with the enemy spawn and aggro time, and if you mess up you are going to waste a LOT of sparks.
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:52
#3
Interesting, I would like to know how you guys are managing to cram FSC into 25 minutes though. It takes me 40 min. + solo..... and I've been doing this a loooooong time, so I'm not some noob that just doesn't know what he's doing. (X_X )
Are you talking about speed runs? If that's the case, I could understand.
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 11:03
#4
Fsc speedruns are way below 20 mins. 25 is a normal time if you kill most of the stuff. Killing everything fast is the key and the weps mentioned above help you do so.
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 11:25
#5
Double Glorp*
How would have I known? ( 'u')
I've done it with 3 alts, that took roughly 55 mins total.
No pets needed for any of them, but I did have to practice with just 1 alt at first. I found plenty of spaces where alts can be safe with minimal movement. The path I took was sorta speedrun strats as it involved getting the most amount of cr in the shortest amount of time.
I ran with Full Chaos, using Glacious, Blitz, Polaris (I'll explain why), and Electron Vortex. Pet I used was Maskeraith with MSI med buff. Trinkets: Both Health Pendant.
What I mostly concern with in FSC alt running is the aggro. I use Electro Vortex for the arena runs where my alts are dragged in right away, blitz for the trojans, and Polaris for the 3rd floor arena as there will be a ton of zombie spawns with my alts vulnerable so I try to aggro as many of them as possible, most of the time they lose 1 emergency rev.
1st floor: Use main for first few zombie spawns, then go for the turrets.
2nd floor: Just move alts away from the center map and your main can do the rest
3rd floor: Might require 1 emergency rev lost on the first arena, but after that take the left path.
4th floor: On the last arena, take care of trojan first, then right away move as many alts to the top left or right area (Break only one solid block, preferably the top side)
Final floor: Move alts to bottom right ride behind the water spot and keep aggroing enemies + Vana
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 12:42
#6
Well, alright then. I'm a little perplexed. I posses Chaos, Blitz, Electron Vortex, Brandish on my main account and I'm not bush-wacking, but it still takes me a while. Anyone know of a video I could watch for strats? I don't think my efficiency is lacking, but idk. Maybe I'm missing something. ( :T
Thanks, btw.
The short answer is yes, if you only have one monitor you can alt-tab through your applications that running to move the other character once your main takes out all the enemies. There is a path you can follow that sufficiently gets your alt(s) safely through FSC without dying but this will be a loooooong response if I included the whole procedure.
Just make sure the alt(s) are in a location where there's a least possible chance enemies or obstacles will attack them. Use your main to aggro enemies and time out when you should move the alt(s) out of the way.
It'll take an extra 25 mins~ to finish the run. but you'll get 2-4x the amount you'd normally get.