Memespec for Arcane Artifact Challenge

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https://imgur.com/a/ZdjhJ
904 ilvl
Talents: Amplification, Mana Shield to survive, Incanter's Flow, Resonance for damage, Chrono Shift for kiting and sprinting, Erosion and Temporal Flux for faster casts. Need Mystic Kilt of the Rune Master for the mana return too. I also used Burning Wish for when both Mark and Power are on cooldown for shield or when all 3 targets are stacked but it isn't required.

Tactic: 4xExplosion -> Barrage, repeat. Weave Slows and Shields as needed. Don't worry about capping Missiles stacks, save them for shield if AoE isn't viable (such as polymorph or enrage).

Save Nova for tight situations only, such as enrage+valkyries or lowhealth+counterspell burst. Save Mark and Power for shield and don't stack them, save Warp for last phase, don't stack with potion either. PAY ATTENTION TO VALKIRIES AND RUNES ABOVE ALL ELSE. This isn't a dps race. At the end there's no more healing so be careful with damage. Once the axe-guy dies it's a cakewalk.

Useful Weakauras:

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Extra useful one:

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[Forrader]

Congratulations on your new artifact skin, it's really cool. I would advise to wear Chest leg or Prydaz for additional shields, it adds up to your surviveability a lot.
Time warp is also better in the beggining, later on you don't have enough time to burn long enough and last phase is really easy.

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Congratulations on your new artifact skin, it's really cool. I would advise to wear Chest leg or Prydaz for additional shields, it adds up to your surviveability a lot.
Time warp is also better in the beggining, later on you don't have enough time to burn long enough and last phase is really easy.

Thank you, but i don't have them. It shouldn't matter much tho, Burning Wish was nice to help on shields too. Timewarp at the end is especially useful when you still need to stand still and quickly cast some Blasts on the shield with Temporal Flux.

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Why would u play with temporal flux? It is much much weaker than OP. Arcane challange is actually 3 targets cleave by giving up of OP u are reducing your dps by tons. Moreover temporal flux is even not viable for ST fights as it burns mana too fast.

For reference here is video i made a while ago:
https://youtu.be/xhM68Gn9KbA

Like you can see temporal flux is not that good as most od the time you are casting AE, and you can break shield easily without it Tbh if i would have new Golden trait back then i wouldn't even bother with casting AB.

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Why would u play with temporal flux? It is much much weaker than OP. Arcane challange is actually 3 targets cleave by giving up of OP u are reducing your dps by tons. Moreover temporal flux is even not viable for ST fights as it burns mana too fast.

For reference here is video i made a while ago:
https://youtu.be/xhM68Gn9KbA

Like you can see temporal flux is not that good as most od the time you are casting AE, and you can break shield easily without it Tbh if i would have new Golden trait back then i wouldn't even bother with casting AB.

Having time to cast things is at a premium, that reduction in cast time helps a ton in this niche situation, this isn't a patchwerk fight. Yes, numbers wise it might give me a bit more dps but this is a survivability fight, getting a few casts faster keeps me safer.

[rap87]

Glad to see someone else tried 4x Arcane Explosions vs just single target. I have the Fire Challenge and Frost Challenge Complete. I'm around 905 ilvl with Arcane right at the latest Golden Trait...I MS Frost. That said I only have the Kilt and Helm. I noticed I could easily get into the last phase, but I wasn't having enough damage to get the Axe guy killed fast enough with the Ancestors casts coming closer and closer....

The shield items for me would make this fight cake walk...cake walk...I switched tactics to just grouping them all up and Arcane Explostion with Arcane Power as much as possible...DPS went up quite a bit and I was able to get Axe guy to about 20% before I keep eating it....again if I just had a shield item this would be crazy easy...you could take so many more hits and just stand and cast, or Arcane Explosion more...

Going to try again this week, but glad to see with this tactic and without a shield item you pulled it off. I just need to get patient. 8 min tries over and over get draining. I literally feel like Frost and Fire gave me more adrenaline rushes and this one is rather easy tactically, but just need to get that last 20%...

Congratulations Again!

[trm90]

I approve of your guide! I completed the Challenge in first week at 901 using memespec and no defensive legendaries, and followed a similar tactic (rotating burst cooldowns and not stacking them for example). And yeah this fight is a battle of attrition, you have to be so patient. I only ever wiped because I'd get tired after 4 minutes and got sniped by a Valkyrie wall.

One thing that helped me personally in the last phase was a) sheeping Sigryn when the Runemaster shield came up, and b) saving Frost Nova only for Valkyrie walls.

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I noticed I could easily get into the last phase, but I wasn't having enough damage to get the Axe guy killed fast enough with the Ancestors casts coming closer and closer....

You can use one of the following to ignore and eat through it:
* Have 100% health and a new Prismatic Barrier to soak the exposion, doesn't always work tho and you will end up at very low health.
* Iceblock
* Invis damage reduction
* Some weird tanking trinket??

Going to try again this week, but glad to see with this tactic and without a shield item you pulled it off. I just need to get patient. 8 min tries over and over get draining. I literally feel like Frost and Fire gave me more adrenaline rushes and this one is rather easy tactically, but just need to get that last 20%...

Congratulations Again!

The valkyries are the worst, so easy to miss them, this is why i use that second weakauras to make sure i don't miss it. And thank you!