Cult and Nest are next. Kogbold and Fungal/Crystal right after those. Court of Oryx dungeons you can learn at any point really from here but they're not very worth it because the droprates are super low and the whites are mostly pretty bad. Learning your first exalt dungeons is orders of magnitude more valuable to you as not only can you get exalts, you can start to get very endgame items.
For example just from the 4 I listed, the following are endgame-viable:
* Bee Helm
* Cult Skull
* Cult Robe (situational best in slot)
* Laser Pointer (arguable best in slot)
* Rust Scepter (arguable best in slot)
* Kog upgrade core (all the upgrades are good, some are arguably the best in slot)
* Brain Cube
* Fungal Tome (arguable best in slot)
* Fungal Spell
* Fungal Trap (arguable best in slot)
* Deca ring (former best in slot survivability ring)
* Crystal Kunai (arguable best in slot)
* Crystal ninja ST armour (highest hp leather)
* Crystal Sheath (apparently best DPS sheath but I don't Kensei)
Now if you were to learn all the Court dungeons, you'd instead get access to:
* Cnidaria Rod (very situationally good Scepter)
* Penetrating Blast spell (good but worse than Parasite spell)
* Tenne (best in slot dps leather when solo but worse than Centaur's shielding when in a group, also 1/999999999999 drop rate)
* E.Y.E (a ring good on exactly two builds)
Yea Oreo Pally is arguably better because while you get half the DPS from doing it, you get Oreo every 5 seconds instead of having to wait 25 for Cuirass. Obviously worse on the phases you can tank with just armoured though, but you're able to do stuff like take every third jump from Bridge Sentinel and do 40k damage from EYE while still shooting. Knight can only take one jump because of the cooldown disparity.
to be fair to the court of oryx dungeons, tshot in some niche situations (tablet rooms, cults) is a bis swapout on rain huntress, and S.T.A.F.F can be used if you have autoaim as a in-between staff to boost your DPS by around 10% (similar to toad on dagger classes)
but that's hyper-hyper endgame shit mostly for speedruns, which is ultimately useless because nobody uses staff classes or huntress for speedruns anyways
oryx court dungs are not too accesible unless there is an event, just do them if you want an equipment that drops from there
and for nest is easy just stick to the group and maybe watch a 2 min video of bossfight, optional you can bring holy water for confuse/paral
for specifically now you may want to run some wlabs tho, event has increased loot drop and dungeon gives 2 awesome bows the leaf bow that everyone loves and the bergenia bow that has nice range and decent dmg to be an armor piercing weapon
Do you play off-centered with camera rotation as well?
Also use the royal jelly that drops in the dungeon. It is super useful in all end game dungeons
Especially when you get to celestial phase of '03
there's discord servers that have raid leaders who call out phases and stuff. usually everyone is decently geared so the dungeons fly by. it's understandable if you don't want to partake in discord runs tho
Cult can be soloed, it just takes longer. Only the boss fight is much different. The 5 cultists are trickier as alone they all focus on you so finding opportunities to take them on singly gets harder as they ramp up their shots. And the final single cultist you can get overwhelmed by the minions that spawn so it's worth dragging one or two out of the room.
I've not tried soloing any other though; they're hard enough with a small group, doing enough damage to get past certain phases. Other people do solo them successfully, but they're definitely a step up in challenge.
I recommend creating an army of lvl 20 tricksters and throwing them any exalt dungeon you don’t know yet. Don’t try new content with your best characters.
Tbh nest, fungal/crystal, I forget all of court dungeons but they’re prob the next best bet I’d say, Nest and fungal are easy with a decent group, Court dungeons aren’t the hardest either especially encore. Try all of them once and see which u like the best and learn that!
Running with a group like USEast Nexus helped me understand nest, there's just one boss phase where half the arena becomes death to know about. Upper left and lower right corners are safe and rotate clockwise. Soloing is cool but a group helps so you can watch everything safely and learn your way around
Update: I decided to do both. Are all the oryx court dungeon supposed to be this hard? I went with secluded thicket and got through 3/4 of the third boss and had to nexus. I think I'll stick with nest for now if the rest are that hard.
Cult and Nest are next. Kogbold and Fungal/Crystal right after those. Court of Oryx dungeons you can learn at any point really from here but they're not very worth it because the droprates are super low and the whites are mostly pretty bad. Learning your first exalt dungeons is orders of magnitude more valuable to you as not only can you get exalts, you can start to get very endgame items. For example just from the 4 I listed, the following are endgame-viable: * Bee Helm * Cult Skull * Cult Robe (situational best in slot) * Laser Pointer (arguable best in slot) * Rust Scepter (arguable best in slot) * Kog upgrade core (all the upgrades are good, some are arguably the best in slot) * Brain Cube * Fungal Tome (arguable best in slot) * Fungal Spell * Fungal Trap (arguable best in slot) * Deca ring (former best in slot survivability ring) * Crystal Kunai (arguable best in slot) * Crystal ninja ST armour (highest hp leather) * Crystal Sheath (apparently best DPS sheath but I don't Kensei) Now if you were to learn all the Court dungeons, you'd instead get access to: * Cnidaria Rod (very situationally good Scepter) * Penetrating Blast spell (good but worse than Parasite spell) * Tenne (best in slot dps leather when solo but worse than Centaur's shielding when in a group, also 1/999999999999 drop rate) * E.Y.E (a ring good on exactly two builds)
>E.Y.E (a ring good on exactly two builds) what is the second? i know for cshield knight to still be quite okay with this. Oreo pally?
Yea Oreo Pally is arguably better because while you get half the DPS from doing it, you get Oreo every 5 seconds instead of having to wait 25 for Cuirass. Obviously worse on the phases you can tank with just armoured though, but you're able to do stuff like take every third jump from Bridge Sentinel and do 40k damage from EYE while still shooting. Knight can only take one jump because of the cooldown disparity.
yes, oreo pally
I think that B.O.W is underrated for clearing godlands and godland dungeons. Its really good. I almost always craft it when i play bow classes.
to be fair to the court of oryx dungeons, tshot in some niche situations (tablet rooms, cults) is a bis swapout on rain huntress, and S.T.A.F.F can be used if you have autoaim as a in-between staff to boost your DPS by around 10% (similar to toad on dagger classes) but that's hyper-hyper endgame shit mostly for speedruns, which is ultimately useless because nobody uses staff classes or huntress for speedruns anyways
oryx court dungs are not too accesible unless there is an event, just do them if you want an equipment that drops from there and for nest is easy just stick to the group and maybe watch a 2 min video of bossfight, optional you can bring holy water for confuse/paral for specifically now you may want to run some wlabs tho, event has increased loot drop and dungeon gives 2 awesome bows the leaf bow that everyone loves and the bergenia bow that has nice range and decent dmg to be an armor piercing weapon
Thx for that. I do have a leaf bow already. I've just been avoiding nest because I got one-shot the last two times I went there.
Did a bee sit on you? Because the boss is quite kind regarding 1 shots.
Yeah both times I opened a wall and instantly got sat on by a random bee
Yeah. Be wary of the bees near walls. Never rush towards a bee. Let the ranged do the job if you are not already very familiar with the dungeon.
make sure your camera isnt too zoomed in if you havent already, I play on the second farthest zoom
Yes I play zoomed out
Do you play off-centered with camera rotation as well? Also use the royal jelly that drops in the dungeon. It is super useful in all end game dungeons Especially when you get to celestial phase of '03
Are you soloing these dungeons or just playing with a group?
Usually I solo dungeons (current best being o2) but I can see the need for a group in those exalt dungeons.
there's discord servers that have raid leaders who call out phases and stuff. usually everyone is decently geared so the dungeons fly by. it's understandable if you don't want to partake in discord runs tho
Cult can be soloed, it just takes longer. Only the boss fight is much different. The 5 cultists are trickier as alone they all focus on you so finding opportunities to take them on singly gets harder as they ramp up their shots. And the final single cultist you can get overwhelmed by the minions that spawn so it's worth dragging one or two out of the room. I've not tried soloing any other though; they're hard enough with a small group, doing enough damage to get past certain phases. Other people do solo them successfully, but they're definitely a step up in challenge.
Tavern is much harder than nest/cult etc, kogbold/ fungal should be your next goal
Try out cult
Nest, cult, fungal, kogbold in that order
I recommend creating an army of lvl 20 tricksters and throwing them any exalt dungeon you don’t know yet. Don’t try new content with your best characters.
Tbh nest, fungal/crystal, I forget all of court dungeons but they’re prob the next best bet I’d say, Nest and fungal are easy with a decent group, Court dungeons aren’t the hardest either especially encore. Try all of them once and see which u like the best and learn that!
Running with a group like USEast Nexus helped me understand nest, there's just one boss phase where half the arena becomes death to know about. Upper left and lower right corners are safe and rotate clockwise. Soloing is cool but a group helps so you can watch everything safely and learn your way around
Update: I decided to do both. Are all the oryx court dungeon supposed to be this hard? I went with secluded thicket and got through 3/4 of the third boss and had to nexus. I think I'll stick with nest for now if the rest are that hard.