Spiral Knights - Grasping Plateau information collection thread

Grasping Plateau information collection thread

42 Antworten [Letzter Beitrag]

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:27

Battlegrinder

Here's what I've discovered in my trips through the latest homage to the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Apocrean will help itself if it grabs you and hits you with its soul-stealing suction beam thing. I would assume its vulnerable to shadow damage, but I don't know for sure. You can break the tentacles holding a party member with gunfire, but not remedy capsules. Swords and bombs are unknown.

You get 8 tokens for either killing the Apocrean or finding a grave that has captured souls in it (I'm not sure which, my partner and I were a little busy running away from Cthulhu's gardener to get a good look, and there were so many stray shots being fired that I lost track of where the souls came from).

Graves can contain either: nothing, scarabs, or (maybe) souls.

There are a number of puzzles scattered through the plateau. You earn tokens for solving them. The ones I encountered were:
-Ruins with shadowfire you had to put out to access a button that freed souls. Solution: find water to put out the fire.
-A Grave with a lit blue candle next to it, with an unlit candle on the side. Solution: find fire, lit candle.
-A locked golden gate, with an arcane symbol on the ground next to it. Solution: Unknown, we couldn't find the key.

If you have any other information, puzzles, strategies, etc, post them here!

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:31

Alice-In-Pyroland

Take out a weapon with a

Take out a weapon with a damage type corresponding to the colour of a glowing spire, and a key will spawn.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:31

Rei-Nub

key door

to find the key you need to find a mound of skeleton heads and when you walk up to it will spawn golden scarabs. Upon killing them a key will spawn.

Another one is where a obelisk with a couple purple rings around it you need to kill the harvester(or so my teamates tell me) near it and the kill will spawn

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:35

Khamsin

@battlegrinder

Graves can contain nothing, souls, scarabs, or frozen bombies. Killing the souls gives everyone 8 sigils.

Locked gate, you have to find four trojan statues and break them all to summon the key.

Take out a weapon with a damage type corresponding to the colour of a glowing spire, and a key will spawn.
This might also be the solution to a locked gate. Never seen this yet though.

Another puzzle is three candles, step on the platform in front of them in order to solve the puzzle. Order is random but preset on floor spawn, you spawn an explosion and reset if you step on the wrong platform. Explosion does no damage, so you can use trial and error to solve without finding the solution.

Defeating the boss doesn't seem to have any effect except for causing him to temporary disappear.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:37

Klipik-Forum

If you see a set of three gravestones with different colored candles on each one directly above yellow spiral markings, look around for one extra tall headstone with those same colors. It's a key to which order to stand in front of the candles and you get a bunch of tokens from it.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:38

Khamsin

@klipik

Or use trial and error :)

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:54

Golfdinger

Cloaking with Maskeraith

Cloaking with Maskeraith while no one else is around causes reapers to SPONTAINIOUSLY AND INEXPLICABLY TAKE A HUGH AMOUNT OF DAMAGE and then die.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 16:55

Khamsin

@Golfdinger

He loses tracking on you, so he despawns. Not that strange.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 17:00

Golfdinger

If you watch closely, you'll

If you watch closely, you'll see damage sparks and his hp meter completely depletes, which seems to be how the programmers decided to despawn him when he loses tracking

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 17:30

Halandin

Are the scarabs still weak

Are the scarabs still weak versus elemental in the apocrean levels? Also, are the purple souls weak/strong versus any types of damage? I tried piercing sword and elemental gun against them, not sure which was more effective if any.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 17:50

#10

Fangel

Scarabs are always weak to elemental

The level doesn't change damage, weakness, or the health of the monsters. It just adds new enemies into the mix.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 18:41

#11

Hazardfox

MSI VH FTW

The scarabs will also be able to inflict freeze

About the key room: there are multiple:
For the gate with the trojans infront of it, you need to find the room with the 4 trojans
Another gate has a pillar with an energy line around it, somewhere in the level there is a similar pillar with floor markings (devilite style), walk along the marking to reveal the key. Be warned though as it will also summon devilites

It appears the large reward souls (key gate, etc.) have a chance of dropping one of the exclusive materials, this was on one of my alt knights, soldier rank, and the material was the 3* one,

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 18:48

#12

Halandin

Was the material unbound? The

Was the material unbound? The sigils are bound, so you can't use alts to get sigils for your main...

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 19:02

#13

Sirius-Voltbreaker

You

You will know that the tentacle move is.coming when you see dust coming up from the ground. The move lasts for 8 sec if it hits you.
Run away from it if it comes don't attack. The tentacles move as quickly as a person with msi med so when he is about to hit you, start running. Mecurial is best for this level.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 19:03

#14

Sirius-Voltbreaker

No.

They are bound unfortunately.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 19:11

#15

Fangel

Now to give out a test:

Do the constricting tentacles have any sort of "resist" that could lower its hold time? Freeze resistance? Poison resistance? Or is it its own new stat that we have no resistance against?

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 20:04

#16

Klipik-Forum

Two Things

1: @Fangel: Considering remedy pills don't work on them, I'd guess no.

2: Protip: Don't try to kill the reaper. It drops nothing and just respawns.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 21:12

#17

Snakemittens

Tentacles and other things

The tentacle trap seems to act like an 8 second reskin of freeze. Therefore, any weapon can break it.

It takes exactly 1470 Apocrean Sigils to make one Obsidian weapon, as well as the crowns, mats, orbs, and precursor weapon.

Tentacles make a noise like stretching rubber and are probably reskins of the Ghosts in the Machine ones.

I'm just hazarding a guess, but I think that the Shroud of Apocrea missions will be a recurring thing, like the Kataclysm. My "proof" is that the tokens don't seem to have an expiration date.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 22:05

#18

Hexzyle

When you're this swag this world just bows at your knees

I'm just hazarding a guess, but I think that the Shroud of Apocrea missions will be a recurring thing, like the Kataclysm. My "proof" is that the tokens don't seem to have an expiration date.

Um. Patch notes. Why is it so difficult to read them?

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 22:22

#19

Glacies

*If you Dash as the Apocrean Harvester is using its Hands of Doom, the hands will fly past you, allowing you to safely get away.

*The Grip Debuff lasts exactly 15 Seconds. For those with a Maskeraith, if you use Shadow Cloak at the exact moment it grips you, you can freely sit tight without worrying about taking damage.

*Do not Solo it, I tried and there is no challenge except pain. Lots and lots of pain.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 22:27

#20

Bitsbee

"*Do not Solo it, I tried and there is no challenge except pain. Lots and lots of pain."

I learned that the hard way...

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 22:41

#21

Heroshian

I solo it fairly easily.

I solo it fairly easily. Pro-tip: the attack spawns in a ring around the Apocrean, then stretches in a line towards your location. This line can curve, and the closer you are to the Apocrean the faster it curves. Sit at the edge of the dust storm and dodge perpendicular to your relative path, you will almost always be safe (just remember that the ring around him doesn't always spawn before the wave is sent out)

If you do get caught, hold down your dash buttons. It can let you escape upto half the damage (but usually only 1/3 or less), significantly increasing your survival odds.

Mi, 10/23/2013 - 23:03

#22

Feline-Grenadier

Notes on Apocrean

-Despawns after finding no targets to kill.

-Will flash an image to the targeted player.

-Targets based on a proximity and damage priority. Higher damaging players will attract it more often.

-Music changes based on proximity to the Apocrean.

-Apocrean is susceptible to all statuses.

-Apocrean can still use the laser attack even though it had grabbed a different person. Proceed to free your allies with caution.

-When attacked by the hands from underneath, Knights will go under a condition similar to freeze. Free them using the same methods.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 08:10

#23

Petater

Yup

I guess bullet point 3 is why it has been chasing me a lot more than party members often. I guess it likes damage and ctr max?

I've cloaked before without it dying. Sometimes it'll waltz away, other times it'll die randomly, and even sometimes it'll use speed hacks to find the next person (it'll go GM speed hack speed).

Do, 10/24/2013 - 09:46

#24

Hexzyle

-Apocrean is susceptible to all statuses.

Yet my VT does nothing to him.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 09:50

#25

Battlegrinder

I don't think Curse works on him, since none of his attacks deal damage in a conventional way.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 10:47

#26

Petater

Dat uselessness

And my haunted haze does nothing to the souls.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 11:17

#27

Tinbe

About the green-glowing gravestones

If you hit them^, there's a chance of spawning 3-4 (Didn't have time to count how many because dodging them) Freezing Bombies, not just souls, scarabs or nothing.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 11:19

#28

Lan-The-Wizard

Another Key Solution

Find a gate, but don't have the "Pile of skulls" or "trojan statues" solutions?

Look for an obelisk with devilite writing around it. You know it is the correct one if you hear devilite sounds when you walk near it.

Now to solve it, walk on the devilite writing. You have to trace the lines. This spawns 3 devilites and the key.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 12:27

#29

Skayeth

Many ways

There are many ways to get tokens from one level of the graveyard slender thingey. One can get up to a maximum of more than 500 tokens off one level. How much can you get?

Do, 10/24/2013 - 12:28

#30

Skayeth

Many ways

Update:You can get 1000 tokens from one level.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 13:41

#31

Dmatter

For one of the puzzles,

For one of the puzzles, theirs a candle fire spawner somewhere in the level (a orange candle that spawns fire) and a area with a lit blue candle, an unlit candle, and a orange rune on the floor. Throw a fire to light the candle to get tokens AND a mat spawn. There's also a puzzle with a statue and a single pressure plate under a normal block. only the statue can activate it, and you'll get tokens for placing it on it. Also, one random person has a scrambled map per level, and freed soles disappear if he can steal lost sole from your body (may be a coincidence). I'll do it again today and list any new findings. I also think you can spawn either together, or in the corners.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 13:47

#32

Doctorspacebar

It's a Concrete Jungle out there

Make sure you do not drink a high volume of liquids before attempting this mission for the first time.

Anyone know what in there can be frozen by Shivermist?

Do, 10/24/2013 - 14:05

#33

Sirius-Voltbreaker

Mound

Mound of skeletons. Hit it, and normal dust scarabs spawn. Kill em and the mound breaks. Then there is a button is there. Go on it ya get souls.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 14:25

#34

Maeko

@Doctorspacebar

Souls can be frozen, nothing else, though.

A VT or SS may be better suited.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 17:10

#35

Traevelliath

On T3 Normal mode, you get 2 tokens per soul, while on Elite you get 8 per. On Advanced T2 Mode, you get 2 tokens per. Those are the only ones I've tried.

Also, I'm like 85% sure that when the Apocrea is chasing you, any tombstone you break has a significantly higher chance of spawning Scarabs or Bombies.

Do, 10/24/2013 - 17:54

#36

Maeko

@Traevellianth

That would help explain why I can get a million souls at the start of the map, then bupkiss as soon as the Gardener of Cthulhu latches on to my shadow.

Or it's confirmation bias on my part. One or the other, really...

Do, 10/24/2013 - 19:05

#37

Klipik-Forum

I've noticed that I've never found more than two puzzles on a single Plateau. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Do, 10/24/2013 - 22:38

#38

Hexzyle

When you're this swag this world just bows at your knees

On T3 Normal mode, you get 2 tokens per soul, while on Elite you get 8 per. On Advanced T2 Mode, you get 2 tokens per. Those are the only ones I've tried.

I tried Normal and Elite Tier 2. The former I only got one token per soul, the latter I got four.

Fr, 10/25/2013 - 06:42

#39

Kathrine-Dragon

Good advice

Bring Nitronome
Can break a nearby teammate out while you're both tentacled.

Souls
Corner them and stand on square diagonal. Swing first swing of sword only (two for brandish)

Drakon Users
Flame barrier if caught in the purple spotlight. I've survived it by this.

Fr, 10/25/2013 - 07:45

#40

Magnum-Frost

soul spawn

hmmm, seems to be the opposite for me, whenever the apocrea is chasing me and i take a plink or two at some graves, i get souls far more often then when im not being chased....really ticks me off too, seeing as how if i try to free the souls i will be tentacled(*biting tongue biting tongue biting tongue*) and EPIC LAZOOOOR'd faster than i can even call for help.

Fr, 10/25/2013 - 15:26

#41

Terrty

really glacies?

because i soloed it and managed to die once......

Fr, 10/25/2013 - 17:30

#42

Skyguarder

@Klipik

I've found two poles with 3 candles and the statue puzzle. It's likely that you can find 2 puzzles on one grasping plateau.

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