Jade Starlight Forest
Note: Credit goes to Keysnow
Overview
This spot consists of 3 different types of mobs that spawn around 3 different types of items which I usually refer to as ‘towers’. Destroying the towers applies beneficial effects that help you in killing the mobs. When a mob dies, it explodes, causing damage to the surrounding mobs which usually ends up in a nice chain reaction. This helps you clean up packs nicely and not be left with stragglers.
Your rotation generally consists of 3 towers, kind of like Mirumok. Sometimes, when you clear the mobs around a tower, elite mobs can spawn.
Mobs
- Brazier Keeper: Tiny smol dudes
- Lamp Keeper: Mid size dudes. These have a habit of walking a bit further away from you and doing range damage. A bit annoying if they go out of the explosion radius when other mobs die and you have to kill a lone Lamp Keeper so make sure not to let them go too far.
- Winter Keeper: Big dude
Towers
- Totem: Applies a debuff to mobs that lets your bound/float them for juicy down attack damage. My favourite tower.
- Lamp: When killed it explodes, causing the mobs AND you to be CC’d. Additionally it also spawns AoE circles that apply CC, the circles will be cyan, not red. When destroying this tower, make sure to apply the killing blow with a FG or SA ability so you don’t get CC’d and avoid staying in the subsequent cyan circles. My 2nd favourite tower.
- Brazier: The simplest of them all, creates an area of fire on the ground that keeps applying a 5 second 30 AP buff on you while you stay inside it.
Elites
Not all elites are affected by all the towers, some towers work better than others. In case they spawn around a tower that is not effective against them, you can look around for spare towers. Every tower that spawns mobs has atleast 1 or 2 towers around it that dont spawn mobs and just stay there by their lonesome.
You can drag the mob to one of these spare towers if you want. If no towers near you are the most effective solution, then you’re just SoL. Of course, you dont NEED to do all this, you can just kill them normally too if you can’t be bothered by this but it is a way to speed up your grind by a bit.
- Brazier Keeper: Not affected by Totems. Most effective is to use a Lamp to CC them and get down attack damage.
- Lamp Keeper: Not affected by Lamps. Most effective is to use a Totem to CC them and get down attack damage.
- Winter Keeper: Not affected by either Lamps or Totems. Best way is to use a Brazier and get the bonus AP.
Tips & Tricks
- Try to keep mobs relatively close together so all of them get hit by the explosion when one dies.
- You can use agris on the elites for some extra loot
P.S: Elites have longer aggro range so you can actually drag them to an adjacent tower with mobs around it and use the explosions from the normal less tanky mobs to damage the elites faster. However, I haven’t personally looked too much into this as its a pain to do. The elites can reset very easily and go back to their actual tower. Theres also a weird mechanic where the elites sometimes buff the tower and make it tankier. Can’t be bothered figuring that out.
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