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Tenebri
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99.9% of my kills have been range, however for the little extra chance of fang ive decided to mage.

any tips on maging araxxor? perks ability bar set up? (revo) (i cba with manual)


ive done 5 kills now and all seem to be terrible. so any advice, all guides are either 3 years old or just not guides...
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06-Feb-2018 21:07:25

Lathow
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There is almost no material on mage spider, when I looked up it was either 2:30 kills using c4t, or casual 8 minute 0% kills by some guy with a tortoise and chaotics, and nothing in between those. I'm not sure why, but I guess melee is convenient because you don't need the zerk aura anywhere else really, you have 100% accuracy on p4, and your armor costs 1/8th of the mage version.

I'm not sure what tips I can give besides kill the boss as fast as you can. What might be my biggest tip is surging away and running while keeping your distance, which avoids being attacked for a few seconds, but if you're using revo this won't work. Also with regards to the above, try using maniacal, if not your kills can/will be up to 50% slower (I have missed 7 attacks in a row on p4) which is really bad.
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07-Feb-2018 05:38:16

UrekMazino
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Freedom will clear bleeds, you will need to space them correctly when doing higher enrages.

None of the debuffs stick (including spellcaster gloves), so you're better off using blood barrage, AA won't always go off after using a defensive if you're using staff on revo, but will if switched to wand.

Debuffs don't work but affinity debuffs do, so bring a g staff if you wish to, especially since Arraxi has low affinity to mage.

Dealing with mirrorback is a pain since you have 3 basics that are aoe, and they often walk under rax, only way I know how to deal with it is take it slowly, kill them one by one while avoiding using dbreath/corruption blast/chain until mirrorback is dead.

Idk if its an NXT problem, but sometimes its hard to tell if you're outside of swipe range of rax, it may look like you're 4 squares away but really you're only 2 squares away, only around it is walk back 1 step at a time until rax moves, then move back 1 more square. Same applies to shadow path p3, when spec is used, walk to the edge closest to rax, the walk back 1 space at a time to make sure you're out of swipe range.

My inv set up is: wand and shield, g staff, pf switch (I only really use sunshine doing middle path when its 2/3), s ovl, sup renewal, replen, 1 restore flask, 6-8 brew flask (won't use all, but just in case, same amount whether is nihil or yak), sharks/rocktail (depending on enrage), and item protect portent.

Hope this helps.
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08-Feb-2018 06:00:52

Primal Puppy
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I only mage now since last hilt to get at rax for set.

I use anima core seren legs with subj augmented top (would be t80 but not got second crest yet). Primeval helm, gloves and boots (non achto cause lots of spare teci) and amulet of souls. Nox staff has crackling 3 + p4e2 and garb has vb+mobile and ed3. Usually only rax when it's 2/3 cause mirrorbacks are ass.

Yak will have sharks in it and inventory is supreme ovl, prayer renewal, adrenaline pot, ee, 1 pray restore pot, 9 brews, 3 restore flasks and a shield (farseer currently). Shield has mobile+something on it as well.

If I'm taking bottom path, I build to 100% adrenaline before starting p2 then surge to the light. Darkness is spent alternating between resonance, preparation and devotion (surge is always off cd when the light moves because of mobile). Pretty boring. Acid path just wait until first spec after 55% acid run to second from the top space on ramp and then deeps. I usually just tank the egg bomb or cade if it's kamikaze spider on the ramp. Deeps p3 (sunshine is good), deeps p4, at 50k start building adrenaline, devotion at 35k, adrenaline pot + onslaught then s/he dedded.

Abilities I just have dragonbreath, sonic blast, corr shot, impact, sacrifice and combust with tuska wrath on second bar as backup and wild magic + ashpyx and sunshine. Secondary bar has debil, devo, reso, preparation, freedom, anticipate, barricade and the three deflects (plus food/brew bound).

Try to alternate between anticipate and freedom (you'll have to tank bleeds quite often though - just take it like a man).

Hopefully that might help as well :) If you mage on 2/3 it's not too bad but on 1/2 or 1/3 it's a bit icky.

08-Feb-2018 18:35:54

UrekMazino
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Few things that I want to point out that you can change to improve your kills.

Primal Puppy said :
Primeval helm, gloves and boots (non achto cause lots of spare teci) and amulet of souls.


Don't use tank gear, you don't need the defensive resets or the armour bonus, you're better off using even subjugation for the magic bonus. Virtus gloves and boots are also pretty cheap atm,
so you might as well get them. The faster you kill Rax, the less damage you take.


Primal Puppy said :
Nox staff has crackling 3 + p4e2 and garb has vb+mobile and ed3. Usually only rax when it's 2/3 cause mirrorbacks are ass.


Crackling should be put on your amour and have aftershock 3 on your staff instead.
seeing as that you have the spare cash to go for p4e2, you can't use the excuse that as3 is too expensive to get :P
Perks for armour should be Biting 2 + vb, ED3, Impatient, Crackling 3 + mobile
rare, but once again, not nearly as expensive at P4E2
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Primal Puppy said :
Yak will have sharks in it and inventory is supreme ovl, prayer renewal, adrenaline pot, ee, 1 pray restore pot, 9 brews, 3 restore flasks and a shield (farseer currently). Shield has mobile+something on it as well.


Super prayer renewal is better than renewal, its also cheaper per pray point restored. Don't you think having a pray renewal, prayer pot, and 3 restore flasks is a bit excessive? I can get by with just a super pray renew and 1 restore flask, I don't even finish up the restore flask unless I've brewed down my stats a lot. Note down how much restore doses you have at the end of a kill and you'll know how much you can cut down next time. You don't need mobile perk on shield when you already have it on your armour. Most people put turtling on shield but you don't use cade at rax
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09-Feb-2018 16:24:00 - Last edited on 09-Feb-2018 16:29:35 by UrekMazino

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Cont.

and absorbative/lucky reduces your reso heal so that's counter intuitive. Might as well keep turtling on shield for other bosses even if it doesn't benefit you here.


Primal Puppy said :
Secondary bar has debil, devo, reso, preparation, freedom, anticipate, barricade and the three deflects (plus food/brew bound).


You don't need cade or reflect at Rax. For the suicide spiderlings, just surge away when they come near. You could use reflect when Rax is already <5k hp and you have to wait for it to move on to p3 on middle path, but you should prioritise using devo and reso his AA.
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09-Feb-2018 16:27:43

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UrekMazino said :
Don't use tank gear, you don't need the defensive resets or the armour bonus, you're better off using even subjugation for the magic bonus. Virtus gloves and boots are also pretty cheap atm,
so you might as well get them. The faster you kill Rax, the less damage you take.

You seem to have missed the part where they can't use the GE
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