Gotta say, the 1st new Dwarf map is nuts on Legendary.

[Talia Sendua]

Imo even harder than the Tower with Siennas Sister. MUCH harder.

Your experiences so far?

[Ing. Ithiridiel]

One shielded stormvermin too many.

Also the final event spawning so many packmasters and assassins with each wave made me lose a part of my soul.

Its fun.

[scoticus]

Originally posted by Talia Sendua:

Imo even harder than the Tower with Siennas Sister. MUCH harder.

Your experiences so far?

Definitely.

I've beat every map on Legend as it stands, but holy Sigmar, the second mission's large gate section is murder, especially if you don't have good ranged equipment, or you're out of ammo.

Take weapons that hit hard or have recoverable ammo: javelins, throwing axes, gatling gun.

Seriously, the javelin saved my runs more then once as Handmaiden.

[Chizakura]

As soon as I saw that the new portraits were tied to cata, I just had to get them so managed it the first night(?) with a group of randos (though I'm sure I see 1 semi-regularly). We managed all three in... 5 attempts? 1-0 on the first, 1-1 on the next two.

I do recall the first being the hardest even though we managed it in one go. When we failed once in each of the next two, they were just more about getting lazy and kinda being taken by surprise, not the overall difficulty of the levels/areas?

I think it has to do with the fact that the first one spawns so many specials on you in continuous waves and it punishes you for it the longer you linger which can especially be a problem if you're having issues moving the barrels safely through the hordes of enemies through pretty constricted areas.

Hilariously enough, the portrait challenge got moved to recruit so... yeah XD

[DeMasked]

Originally posted by scoticus:

Originally posted by Talia Sendua:

Imo even harder than the Tower with Siennas Sister. MUCH harder.

Your experiences so far?

Definitely.

I've beat every map on Legend as it stands, but holy Sigmar, the second mission's large gate section is murder, especially if you don't have good ranged equipment, or you're out of ammo.

Take weapons that hit hard or have recoverable ammo: javelins, throwing axes, gatling gun.

Seriously, the javelin saved my runs more then once as Handmaiden.

Second Mission on Cataclysm is probably the hardest of the 3 maps imo. Thankfully you can use the grimoire spot for funneling enemies and it's a decent defensive area. Having someone with a movement skill for interacting with the event can be really good as well.

[Mania]

Originally posted by scoticus:

Originally posted by Talia Sendua:

Imo even harder than the Tower with Siennas Sister. MUCH harder.

Your experiences so far?

Definitely.

I've beat every map on Legend as it stands, but holy Sigmar, the second mission's large gate section is murder, especially if you don't have good ranged equipment, or you're out of ammo.

Take weapons that hit hard or have recoverable ammo: javelins, throwing axes, gatling gun.

Seriously, the javelin saved my runs more then once as Handmaiden.

Oh yeah, that would’ve been brutal on my first Cataclysm run if Huntsman didn’t have such insane ammo sustain. Repeater rifle never dips below 30 bullets even if I “fan” it. Also fortunate my team was composed of Battle Witch, Warrior Priest, and SotT with javelin. So luckily no ammo issues at all.

[Ghoul Hunter]

I still need to explore the events and give them some testing, to see if they have gaping holes anywhere.

You'd be surprised how many events are not infinite, for example. These are easy, because you can just turtle somewhere until the spawns end.

[Red Sabre]

The brewery event is as bad as I remember. You can't see enemies comming untill they are already in your face. Speaking of that. A group of rat monks spawned in front of me taking me down and killing me instantly. The other two are fine except for the part where you have to be on a platform to lit the light. I somehow got killed by a ghost rat nowhere to be seen despite being protected by my invurnerable shield.

[Nakaris]

First map on cata twitch absolut makeable. Fog room can be tricky because of all the shielded SVs but doable.

Second map can break your neck at the first event because there is no pause after the event there is still rats, elites, specials coming and coming and there are 2 boss triggers right after the gate spot. But all in all i like it and hope they wont nerf it.

Third map is the most easiest in my eyes technically even the best map for speedrunning

[Frostbeule]

For people suffering the event because of shielded Stormvermin, bring Sienna Battlewizzard with Flail, Victor with Flail and face smash them. ;)

[Randy Marsh]

you can one shot shieldvermin with a handgun. Ranger is pretty good

[^_^]

The brewery map is hard if you can't deal with elites, the snowy bomb map is hard if you can't deal with specials and the 3rd map is the easiest probably.

[No emaN]

A Mission of Mercy before the finale event, go upstairs, pull the lever, and bam you have a shortcut by jumping up the broken pillar. You can easily have two allies stay at the bottom and quell horde while the other two place barrels. If you want a brainless strategy even with a bad team, IB and GK hold bottom, SoTT + any other character sits up top by barrel and glimpses to lift with staff so the bottom combo can kill specials, if you're running javs then kill specials, and use your F to make space for the barrel carrier. The event can get done quickly and painlessly if the team is in sync. Bottom grabs barrel, tosses it up, they place it x3, and done. If you're alone a dash career makes the job infinitely easier with barrel tosses.

For the first event on Mission of Mercy you should be using the ledges to clear out shielded SV kiting them around in a pathway to keep going up to use the elevation to expose the shields and get stagger bonus. If you can't it's literally two shoves to break guard or a push + whatever weapon combo is most efficient to break their guards. If you are by your team you guys can wallop em into submission, group up. There's a hold spot on one of the ledges where I've held that position with one other player, as we've killed all the elites and backed off a little if we needed it. Any career combo can clear this event easily unless you got silent zerker'd in the behind without Barkskin and the team doesn't res.

[A5G_Reaper]

Did it first try on legend with bots. First map was a torture bc they keep suiciding to gun rats at the barrel stage. That aside, it's pretty fun overall. The occasional lack of (or misleading) markers are so annoying though.

[Talia Sendua]

Originally posted by Red Sabre:

The brewery event is as bad as I remember. You can't see enemies comming untill they are already in your face. Speaking of that. A group of rat monks spawned in front of me taking me down and killing me instantly. The other two are fine except for the part where you have to be on a platform to lit the light. I somehow got killed by a ghost rat nowhere to be seen despite being protected by my invurnerable shield.

You call that worse? I had a plague monk kill me through the closed door. 10/10 bug free :D

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Mercy was rough, haven’t played the other two yet. Having to rely on Pyro’s lucky shot really was proving to be a liability for a change.