Morning Star Specialist

[Meewile]

Please explain to me like I am 5 what the hell should I do because I don't ♥♥♥**ng get it.

That quest description is so weirdly written that I would rather try go figure out how the most complex Path of Exile builds work, than try to decipher this.

Should I hit 1 enemy 100 times and do that 40x?
Should I hit 40 enemies with one morning star 100 times?

I have no clue

[rumsbums]

As far as I understood it, you have to hit >40< enemies with >1<Morning Star activation >100< times.

But it might also be with just 1 Morning Star projectile because I just ran into the ghost wall for 20 minutes and it counted maybe 20 times.

[MaxNChachi]

My understanding is it's for one singular morning star to hit 40 enemies on one swing between when it starts and when it ends 100 times. I don't know if the bonus for the chain doing damage counts, but an agony run on the 2nd stage should do the trick.

[Meewile]

Since it swings primarily vertically, hitting vertically 40 enemies seems really hard, even more so if it is supposed to be with one Morning Star. Dunno how to go about doing that one honestly, these achievements are starting to get weirdly specific and more annoying than fun.

[Alive Deadman]

I got that achievement by pure chance, here's what I used in case you need some help:

Character: Shieldmaiden. The shieldmaiden doesn't have a lot of DPS so your ball will hit a ton of enemies with each cast thanks to that.

What to pick: Anything that gives force

Pick any stage with MASSIVE amounts of enemies in agony mode. The Haunted Caverns were perfect for me. If you have the skills that make the Morning Star move in a butterfly pattern instead of just 8 it helps a ton. Multstrike can help too.

[Rayray51one]

The way i did it is to use the Sage after you've unlocked the ethereal traits with him. Get a bunch of area and multi, and then take the ethereal traits that reduce your damage. Take enough of them and you literally cant deal damage to anything. Easy achievement, but understand that this will lose you the run eventually.

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

Originally posted by rumsbums:

As far as I understood it, you have to hit >40< enemies with >1<Morning Star activation >100< times.

This was correct. You need to hit 40 enemies with 1 cycle of the ability; repeated 100 times in a single run.

So you want to increase the area etc of the ability, not increase damage.

[Kaivo]

Originally posted by Meewile:

Since it swings primarily vertically, hitting vertically 40 enemies seems really hard, even more so if it is supposed to be with one Morning Star. Dunno how to go about doing that one honestly, these achievements are starting to get weirdly specific and more annoying than fun.

If you're having trouble with that aspect of it, definitely go for the Morning Star's 'Chain' trait at rank III, VI, and X. It increases base range and angle size, so it should make each morning star attack hit a larger overall area.

I'd also try to do the run with Morning Star only, so its not competing with other abilities for hits and kills. I got it on the first hall with Morning Star only and a couple Chain traits. And played Sage, so had things like Spread weapon proficiency increasing the range further.

[Ulyaoth]

Morning Star
Multistar - Handle - Chain - Handle - Multistar -
Chain - Multistar - Handle - Multistar - Chain

If you pick both Upgrades, you will have alot of Stars almost 360 around you, where the Chain can also hit. in the later waves you will hit so many enemies at once, it will be way more than 40 per cycle.
If you unsure if its enough, you can walk over to the Ghost Wall on Forgotten Viaduct and stand beside.

[who user]

Probably hit 40 enemies with a single cast. I did it together with Hailstorm specialist. Just pick both skill upgrades and everything related to multistrike and base projectile quantity then go to first area on agony. Worked for me so it should work for you too.

[Meewile]

Thanks for all the advice guys.

Originally posted by Alive Deadman:

I got that achievement by pure chance, here's what I used in case you need some help:

Character: Shieldmaiden. The shieldmaiden doesn't have a lot of DPS so your ball will hit a ton of enemies with each cast thanks to that.

What to pick: Anything that gives force

Pick any stage with MASSIVE amounts of enemies in agony mode. The Haunted Caverns were perfect for me. If you have the skills that make the Morning Star move in a butterfly pattern instead of just 8 it helps a ton. Multstrike can help too.

This was the one I was able to get it with, but really appreciate all the help and tips that u came up with here.

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

Yeah taking me a while to learn this ability but i think what you wanna do is double the trait for multi strike and dont auto attack. like build up a massive horde and then flail em down

[Meewile]

Yep, Maiden on the first map on Agony, turned off auto-attack, took only defensive or utility traits along with traits for Morning Star and had it by the 14 minutes mark. Was kinda nervous it isn't working until it popped up cause there still isn't an option to view quest progress mid-run.

[Jaeus]

I cleared it on the achievement I tried it going big on Area and Multistrike, but I think I did the 1st or 2nd map for enemy quantity.
Doing Frozen Caverns or the new map is just a terrible plan for any "# of enemies" type of achievements.

[Hunger]

I CLEARED BOTH GHOST WALLS WITH IT KILLED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE GHOST WALL WARRIOR, MAXED IT WITH MULTISTRIKE AND ANGLE AND I STILL DONT GOT IT. AFTER 3 ATTEMPTS ON THIS I RAGQUIT TRYING.

[Meewile]

Originally posted by Hunger:

I CLEARED BOTH GHOST WALLS WITH IT KILLED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE GHOST WALL WARRIOR, MAXED IT WITH MULTISTRIKE AND ANGLE AND I STILL DONT GOT IT. AFTER 3 ATTEMPTS ON THIS I RAGQUIT TRYING.

I think I saw devs saying that ghost wall no longer counts but am not 100% sure. Anyway, try it with Shieldmaiden on First map Agony, taking only the Morningstar spell, taking only Force, Area, Range traits along with defensive ones, then all Morningstar traits except damage and you should be able to do it. Also turn off autoattack when you are sure u will be able to stay alive just with shield bash and the spell itself.