Mistress of the Stave Challenge

[b4NXa]

Has anyone got any good idea on how to complete this challenge?

Someone said finding SV patrol and just M1 them, but it doesn't seem to work at all. Staggers dissipate too fast even with WP's Prayer of Might and unpredectability makes it nigh-impossible for me.

Any tips?

[FlemiFøx]

Speed pot and patrol and just spam, you were on the right track.

Did it twice and worked twice (we lost the first match :( )

[b4NXa]

Originally posted by FlemiFøx:

Speed pot and patrol and just spam, you were on the right track.

Did it twice and worked twice (we lost the first match :( )

Seems like I'm just extremely unlucky with this challenge then, thanks

[Angel]

Originally posted by b4NXa:

Has anyone got any good idea on how to complete this challenge?

Someone said finding SV patrol and just M1 them, but it doesn't seem to work at all. Staggers dissipate too fast even with WP's Prayer of Might and unpredectability makes it nigh-impossible for me.

Any tips?

It does work, but in a certain fashion. You need patrol to be relatively far away and spam m1 but on different stormvermins, not the same one, so it could bounce to multiple targets, not just 1 2 3. Done on Cataclysm myself recently.

[Mairu]

Struggling with this one too. Done the patrol with speed pot trick a few times and still no luck, the only one ive got left too before the bugged one is hotfixed

[b4NXa]

Originally posted by Calcium Mommy:

Originally posted by b4NXa:

Has anyone got any good idea on how to complete this challenge?

Someone said finding SV patrol and just M1 them, but it doesn't seem to work at all. Staggers dissipate too fast even with WP's Prayer of Might and unpredectability makes it nigh-impossible for me.

Any tips?

It does work, but in a certain fashion. You need patrol to be relatively far away and spam m1 but on different stormvermins, not the same one, so it could bounce to multiple targets, not just 1 2 3. Done on Cataclysm myself recently.

Have done it on "don't know which" try already.

In case anyone will still need help with that: pot of speed is a must. Approach SV patrol from the side. Divide SV to four groups choose one enemy from each one. Drink potion. Start shooting chosen enemies from the furthest away from you. Then just spam trying to hit different SV.

Only that worked for me and I don't even know on which try. Of course, Legend or Cata for having enough SV in a patrol and them being heavy not to die for long enough.

[Colonel Mustache]

What about the Ensorcelled Reaper's special attack/slam? Does it staggers?

[b4NXa]

Originally posted by Commander Anna-Maria:

What about the Ensorcelled Reaper's special attack/slam? Does it staggers?

Challenge clearly states, that staggers must be inflicted by staff.

[Nox Arcana]

might be helpful for somebody, here's how i did it: gear(staff +10 skaven/armored, charm +5 speed/skaven); talent Death Ascendent(for spell power) + strength potion, custom map Into the nest on legend difficulty for sv patrols. I tried speed potions like many had mentioned, but it didn't seem to work even in twitch mode, you have to be incredibly lucky with crits to stun so many elites almost at the same time, but strength potion did the trick, each projectile becomes a guaranteed stun - met patrol on the bridge and got it on my first try

[Freeman]

maybe concoction? Speed and power at same time. Guaranteed stagger.

[cape]

Got it 2nd time from a rat patrol on Legend with bots and no pots and only had +power against chaos. First failed because I took on the patrol head on and probably just hit the same targets. Wasn't really trying to get this one done but thought I'd give it a shot since I got another patrol without other enemies around. I waited for the patrol to spot my skeletons that were on guard in their path. As patrol moved in I stepped to the side a bit (no one went for me) to flank them diagonally. Started spamming while they were still in formation hitting rear first, then middle and front then just random as they broke up in combat. It was surprisingly fast. After just 4-5 attacks it was done. Optimally when the 3rd and subsequent attacks hit, 3 enemies (assuming no duplicate targets getting hit) should be staggered for each attack due to the sort of delayed cascading effect of the guided bouncing bolts. Guess it's just luck if there's no special logic to the targeting of guided bolts. Just speculation, but figured that they fly pretty slow so thought maybe hitting rear first would compress the frequency of enemies getting hit due to slightly longer travel time to rear than to front.