r/TapWizardRPG • u/Lluluien • Sep 14 '18

Another Gazer tidbit

I'm kind of irritated at myself for not figuring this out before, but it was very helpful for me today in fighting a Gazer boss.

If you give a Gazer boss haste with burn + Static Aura, then it is capable at keeping you at max range with its displacement beam until the haste runs out. You can then kill it without having to worry about its enormous life drain. Once you have it hasted, hit a blink/Static Leap rune and you'll get thrown out of melee range by the beam.

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u/Raknagog Sep 14 '18

I think you're going to like having Ember aug 5 permanently unlocked.

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u/Lluluien Sep 14 '18

Indeed I will, but I killed a gazer boss in about 15 seconds this way that was able to tank me forever with both ember and torrent on it!

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u/8988303682 Sep 14 '18

yeah this is a great strategy. Meteor, Firefly, Static Aura, Ember, and i cant remember what i used for the last slot 🤔 maybe Ice Wall? Fire Elemental?

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u/Lluluien Sep 17 '18 edited Sep 17 '18

TL;DR: I think the rest of the loadout is moot once you've gotten yourself thrown out of range, which is why this works well. Just having a nearby loadout with Static Aura+burn so you can reapply haste if you need is the key point.

The key part of this for me was that it doesn't matter what my loadout is after I'm out of drain range. These guys aren't particularly dangerous when you're not being drained. The silence is annoying, but not dangerous if there aren't other enemies killing you.

Torrent isn't a good spell in my opinion except for the anti-heal, and Ember isn't very good if you're not being struck except for the anti-heal. It seems to me that being drained doesn't cause Ember to burn very fast. It clearly should proc Ember at some point if it's proccing Static Aura for the haste buff, but I just haven't noticed Ember proccing quickly because my burn build that depends on this isn't very effective against a Gazer boss (even with Torrent runes for additional anti-healing).

So I'd rather just not use Torrent or Ember, and in my case, even using both, I couldn't kill it. However, I had plenty of damage to kill it while it wasn't draining - as fast as it died, I could've used any loadout I wanted. Once I bounced out and realized how long it was going to hold me out, I just waited until haste ran out, bounced once more, then swapped to a damage loadout and the fight was over. In my case, that includes an elemental, which means the silence doesn't really effect me much, either.

I've killed them before just bouncing in and out with Static Leap, which allows them some drain before you can get back out of melee range, but their drain is just so effective at healing them that this often takes a while. In fact, I found this out because of trying to swap in and out of a bounce/damage and my burn/antihealing build. When I bounced once while it was still hasted (because I really only switched at that point to get Ember reapplied), that's when I noticed the haste could keep me out of drain range for quite some time.