ARGUS
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Hi All!
I'm a lvl 35 Ranger and am having a hard time beating Argus! What's the trick to beating him? Thanks, Zothen316 Last bumped on Sep 19, 2016, 2:54:44 PM
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It sounds flippant, but the main trick is not to be level 35. Argus is hard, you need to be overlevelled or have great gear to kill him easily.
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Argus is harder than Izaro, this is by design. Avoid him until you're tankier and overleveled, on all Difficulties.
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Get some move speed boots if you are ranged and just kite him to death, the gate doesn't lock you in his room so you can kite him over the whole level. If you're melee.. follow viperesque's advice.
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Having a way to reliably damage Argus while running from him works well, such as using traps/mines/totems, or just kiting and firing at him from a distance. Puncture could be useful, since he will be spending all of his time running after you, as might other dot effects like poison.
Overleveling to increase your damage certainly helps and makes it less tedious. I had to give him a merry chase in normal (possibly late 30s, since i kept getting disconnected and had to repeat the lab). You can also lure him into traps. The large knife blade traps will inflict a bleed on him. They will help to take him down, but probably won't do the job for you unless you can trap him several times. You may also have to take a hit from him in order to line him up. He does hit very hard and catches up with you easily, so i found that I needed to keep running to maintain distance from him while having enough hp to not be one-shot when he catches me. (Slow typist :P) | |
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Kite while he is frenzied, dps when he isn't.
He is quite a beast while enraged, def not able to facetank it as ranger at that level. [2.2] The Vampire - Tanky 2H Axe Slayer Duelist - /view-thread/1611662 Last edited by Mannoth#4185 on Mar 10, 2016, 2:28:08 PM
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2.2.1 patch is nerfing Izaro on Normal difficulty to make it more accessable for low levels presumably. Argus appears to have missed the nerf bat, though.
I suggest using defensive gimmicks like totems or minions that can hold aggro for a bit. Where there's one they're bound to divide it right in two.
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Stibnites. You can turn his Hit Chance into mush for an age and a half with just one decent Stibnite. I really like my Chemist's of Staunching!
Stone Golems can actually survive a little bit, and taunt innately. The large chunk of Life Regen is also really good for keeping up with the long-ass fucking fight that Argus is. |
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Decoy totem and kiting should work fine. Completely avoidmhim when he's eenraged.
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There's a very easy way to kill Argus.
Argus is like a dog, and isn't very smart. He always attacks the closest enemy to him, be it a golem, a totem, a blink or mirror arrow clone, or the player. So use some kind of distraction and he will ignore you and go after that. Theorycrafter/Build Creator for PORTAL guild
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