A
B
C
D
1
2
Arena
A
B
C
D
1
2
Hello World Initial Positioning
Spreads on touch
Deadly aoe at 0s (does not hit self)
= Rot
= Defamation / Red
= Stack
= Blue = Get hit by something
= Pink = Have rot fall off you
= Rot Immune
Spreads on hit
Huge explosion at 0s
= Will not get defamation from ‘Critical Error’
Spreads on hit
Shared damage aoe at 0s
= Will not get another stack debuff from the next stack explosion you are hit by
If Blue hits 0s you die
If Pink hits 0s everyone dies
Hello World Icons
And only appear in Hello World #2
2
After
Your
Run along edge of map
4.
2.
After
First
(Solo Tank) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
2.
After
First
After
Your
D Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by 2nd
1.
Near D
D Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by first
To D
3.
After
Your
To 1
Run along edge of map
1.
(No Debuff) (Pick up Rot)
Do NOT get hit by first
C
(+ )
Near D
3.
After
2nd
To D
4.
To 1
1
8s
2
(Split with Tank)
3.
After
2nd
WAIT
(You split with other DPS)
After
3rd
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
Middle
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
A
7.
After
Your
C
(Solo Tank) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
After
1st
12s
3.
After
Your
WAIT
(Split with other DPS)
4.
After
3rd
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
West
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
B
7.
After
Your
C
WAIT
(Other DPS will come to you)
DPS Hello World Cheat Sheet
8s
12s
(No Debuff)
* Towers and rot only in HW2
1.
OT ( / During Hello World Cast)
Tank Hello World Cheat Sheet
4.
(Solo) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
After
1st
1
( / or CD)
3.
After
2nd
WAIT
(You split with short DPS)
After
Your
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
East
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
D
7.
After
Your
C
Then
WAIT
A
2.
3.
After
Your
C
(Get Rescued by Healer)
(Make sure you pick up from Healer)
After
3rd
DPS/OT will come to you
Make sure you
give to them
Then
2
* Towers and rot only in HW2
Healer Hello World “Cheat” Sheet + Notes
Both Heals Start stacked on !!
C
2.
After
First
1.
Near B
B Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by first
To B
3.
After
Your
Run along edge of map
(Wait a second before you move out of C, to give others a chance to position - Don’t pass rot!)
To C
After
Your
Run along edge of map
2.
After
First
B Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by 2nd
1.
Do NOT get hit by first
Near B
3.
After
2nd
To B
4.
To C
(Rescue Tank who had first )
Make sure to give to them
Then
Don’t rescue the wrong tank!
And don’t rescue too early!
- Each red/defamation explosion deals ~35k to a dps/healer (everyone will take 1-2 hits of this over the course of the entire mechanic)
- The group shared dmg on a dps is ~50k. Whichever dps starts with the ‘short stack’ (8s buff) will take two of these hits back to back (4s apart). The ‘long stack’ dps only takes one hit and then nothing else for a while.
- The blue tank (in the stack with the dps) will take 20-30k from the first stack (shared with a dps) and then 40-60k from the third stack (solo) - they may need some attention but unless they're tanking the boss it shouldn’t be that tight.
- The boss auto attacks the main tank (should be the red/defamation tank) throughout this phase. It’s not particularly threatening but you definitely can’t just forget about him.
- Critical error (boss cast) itself deals ~15k.
- After critical error, a tank and 2 dps will run out for towers and defamation (red circle debuff) - they will only return to the party right at the end as Ion Efflux is being cast - these 2 dps will be very low after taking tower + red and will need lots of attention to survive the aoe (in our vod Unhoe dies to this).
Biggest danger points are:
Wait at C
A
B
C
D
1
2
1
A
Near D
1
2
8s
12s
C
(+ )
Near B
Hello World (Debuffs go out)
(- ) (+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
Defamation Pop #1 + Stack Pop #1
A
B
C
D
1
2
C
(+ )
D
B
2
Near D
Then Near B
Reposition (incl. Rescue)
A
B
C
D
1
2
(- )
(- ) (+ )
Stack Pop #2 (No Reposition After)
A
B
C
D
1
2
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ ) (- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ ) (+ )
Defamation Pop #2 + Stack Pop #3
Wait for Pass then
A
B
C
D
1
2
2
C
C
C
(+ )
(+ )
(+ )
C
1
D
B
Reposition
C
A
B
D
1
2
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
(- ) (+ )
Defamation Pop #3
C
A
B
D
1
2
Reposition (Towers)
1
C
Middle Tower
West Tower
East Tower
A
B
C
D
1
2
Critical Error
(- )
(- )
(- )
(- )
(- )
(+ )
(+ )
(+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
Tower Pop
(+ )
(+ )
(+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
Reposition
D
A
B
A
B
C
D
1
2
Defamation Pop #4
(- ) (- ) (+ ) (- ) (+ )
(- ) (- ) (+ ) (- ) (+ )
(- ) (- ) (+ ) (- ) (+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
Ion Efflux
C
C
C
A
B
C
D
1
2
Hello World By role
Another way of breaking the strat down.
It’s the exact same as described before, except with each slide indicating the required movements for just one person.
A
B
C
D
1
2
Blue DPS
1
2
3
2.
After
First
1.
Near D
D Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by first
To D
3.
After
Your
To 1
Run along edge of map
A
B
C
D
1
2
(No Debuff) DPS
After
Your
Run along edge of map
2.
After
First
D Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by 2nd
1.
(No Debuff) (Pick up Rot)
Do NOT get hit by first
C
(+ )
Near D
3.
After
2nd
To D
4.
To 1
(No Debuff)
1
2
3
4
A
B
C
D
1
2
Short stack DPS
4.
(Solo Tank) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
After
Your
1
8s
2
(Split with Tank)
3.
After
2nd
WAIT
(You split with other DPS)
After
3rd
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
Middle
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
A
7.
After
Your
C
8s
1
2
3
4
5
6
A
B
C
D
1
2
Long stack dps
2
(Solo Tank) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
After
1st
12s
3.
After
Your
WAIT
(Split with other DPS)
4.
After
3rd
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
West
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
B
7.
After
Your
C
WAIT
(Other DPS will come to you)
12s
1
2,3
4
5
6
A
B
C
D
1
2
Blue tank
4.
(Solo) (Pick up Rot)*
2.
1.
After
1st
1
( / or CD)
3.
After
2nd
WAIT
(You split with short DPS)
After
Your
C
(+ )
5.
After
3rd
(Wait for it: Don’t run early!)
East
Tower*
6.
Soak
Tower*
Then
D
7.
After
Your
C
Then
WAIT
OT ( / During Hello World Cast)
1
2,3
4
5
6
A
B
C
D
1
2
Defamation tank
1.
OT ( / During Hello World Cast)
A
2.
3.
After
Your
C
(Get Rescued by Healer)
(Make sure you pick up from Healer)
After
3rd
DPS/OT will come to you
Make sure you
give to them
Then
2
1
2
3
A
B
C
D
1
2
Blue (and rot) healer
Both Heals Start stacked on !!
C
2.
After
First
1.
Near B
B Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by first
To B
3.
After
Your
Run along edge of map
(Wait a second before you move out of C, to give others a chance to position - Don’t pass rot!)
To C
1
2
3
A
B
C
D
1
2
Rot (only) healer
Both Heals Start stacked on !!
C
After
Your
Run along edge of map
2.
After
First
B Side, middle ish of room
Get hit by 2nd
1.
Do NOT get hit by first
Near B
3.
After
2nd
To B
4.
To C
(Rescue Tank who had first )
Make sure to give to them
Then
Don’t rescue the wrong tank!
And don’t rescue too early!
Wait at C
1
2b
3
4
2a
Other Hello World notes
1/2/2/3 Defamation pops
Stacks are (Tank + short DPS), (long DPS + short DPS), (solo Tank)
No healer movement at the end so it’s easy(er) to prep for Ion Efflux, but both healers are moving at the start so it’s harder to heal the stacks.
If you have the blue/stack tank take the boss initially, and then the other tank voke after getting rescued, uptime is actually quite good. But if you play it safe and have the defamation tank hold the boss the entire time (which is how we did it in our clear) then uptime is actually kinda poor. We started with uptime strat but stack tank was dying so we changed it; we’ll probably go back to good uptime on reclears.
You could also “swap” 2 and C - i.e. have the long stack be towards the middle and have the healer/mt rot holding spot be against the wall. This moves the stack dps onto the boss so they're not just sitting at the wall waiting for the stacks to go off without being able to hit anything, and also pulls the boss farther out earlier. This would mean that after the solo tank stack, instead of the stack people going to get the rot from the mt, the mt should step in and out to pass rot to them. Would also mean that the ‘nothing’ dps now chills with the 2nd stack group for a bit and will have to step out before the stack goes off (their movement is exactly the same, it just means they don’t get rot anymore). Healer initial positioning also changes slightly but for the most part things would be the same for them.
If you want better uptime, check out slides 37+ for a heavily modified version of this strat which maintains full uptime for tanks/melee.
Bonus slides: Patch
Initial Positioning:
Patch 2 - Tether Break #1
When tethers come out:
healer<->dps red/green teather will auto-break without anyone having to move
Patch 3 - STICKS (Diffuse Wave Cannon)
This dodge is very natural, just rotate slightly around the boss to the safe spot.
Whole party + Blue tank stays together, with red/green tank on the other side.
Patch 3 - Tether Break #2
Blue tank run through the boss in order to break their tether.
Do this as soon as the Diffuse Wave Cannon has finished casting.
Patch 4 - Tank Hands (Oversampled Wave Cannon)
Party stays still
Tanks spread
Easy
Hard
- Party Rotate to other side around the back of the boss -> stay max melee.
DPS do NOT cut through the boss
- Tanks rotate around front of boss and spread from each other
- Tank <-> DPS green/red tether must NOT break here
- Party Rotate to safe side
- Tanks rotate to screen side and spread
(there’s a 4th configuration identical to this one except screens on the left)
Medium
Patch 5 - Tether Break #3
Tanks move to party immediately after the Oversampled Wave Cannon.
This will break the red/green tank tether.
Patch 6 - Tether Break #4
Break last tether (dps<->heal)
A
B
C
D
1
2
Modified Full Uptime Strat
This strat uses the same theory for hello world, except positioning and markers are modified in order to minimise movement and time off the boss.
Defamation order is still 1/2/2/3 and stacks are still (tank+dps8), (dps8+dps12), (solo tank). Tower takers are still moving out (ie. last defamations).
This requires that you make the optimisation where the stack (blue) tank holds the boss until the other tank is rescued in (makes the healing harder on the solo stack tank).
The defamations are squeezed much closer together so you need to be more confident in your positioning - it essentially uses the positions that you would have for a 4x defamation strat.
A
B
C
D
1
2
Modified Full Uptime Strat PoVs
Blue DPS: https://clips.twitch.tv/UglyPlausibleLarkShazBotstix
Rot Healer:
https://clips.twitch.tv/PopularRepleteSheepJonCarnage
Rot + Blue Healer:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AmorphousAstuteLampYouWHY
(+ )
Stack dps be careful because 1 and 2 are flipped compared to the original uA strat.
Blue tank needs to have hate here. Shirk is optional, but is the easiest way to achieve this.
“S of Boss” is essentially just outside of the boss’s hitbox, between D and A (check next slide for positioning)
A
B
C
D
1
2
Initial Positioning + Movement
S of Boss
Stay C
1
A
2
1
S of Boss
C
(+ )
8s
12s
8s
12s
A
B
C
D
1
2
First Defamation + First Stack
A
B
C
D
1
2
Reposition (inl. rescue)
D
Near D
WAIT at 1
C
WAIT at 2
2
A
WAIT at C
12s
Next defamation will hit C anyways - do NOT need to move out.
Should tank swap after rescue so that rot tank has the boss. (can use shirk for this)
Rescue and then move ‘near’ D. (watch your rot explosion) DPS can pass rot to tank so you do not need to pause after rescue.
(+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
Tank movement
After rescue, the tank with rot needs to take hate on the boss (stack tank can just shirk*).
Then they need to do this awkward movement in order to get out of the way of all the other mechanics, whilst not passing rot and also keeping the boss in range of 2.
You have to run between 1 and 2, hugging closer to 1 (so that you don’t get clipped by the stack at 2) but not actually through 1 (so that you don’t pass rot to the other tank) and then move “behind 1”, dragging the boss back in the process.
If you move on the outside of 1 then the boss will come out of melee range of 2. If you move too slowly or not far enough back, then you will get clipped by the solo stack at 1. You can’t stay at C because the healer defamation hits C.
This is definitely the weirdest part of the strat but tanks should be able to do it without losing any uptime (maybe an auto). It’s not particularly difficult but it feels a bit odd.
A
B
C
D
1
2
Long Stack Explodes
(No movement/reposition happens after this stack)
A
B
C
D
1
2
Defamations #2 + Solo (tank) Stack
Around this time the original rot debuffs will begin to fall off, so the next reposition movement you need to be somewhat careful that you do not clip other people with your explosion for the 4 people with rot here.
MT needs to be far enough back that they don’t get clipped by the solo stack.
(rot falls off as you’re moving)
(rot falls off as you’re moving)
Move into 1 to ‘give’ rot to the other tank, and then move back out so you don’t kill them with your rot explosion.
(rot falls off as you’re moving)
(rot falls off as you’re moving)
A
B
C
D
1
2
Reposition (and final rot pass)
1
D
WAIT at 1
1
1
1
(+ )
1
(+ )
A
(+ )
A
B
C
D
1
2
Defamation #3 + MT rot explosion
MT needs to be far enough back that they don’t kill all the people at 1 with the rot explosion.
2 is still free from defamations at this point for melee that want to greed a flank positional.*
A
B
C
D
1
2
Reposition (Towers) + Critical Error
1
Tower
1
You can assign the towers in any way here to the tank/dps who are going to get them.
But keep in mind that the west/D and middle/A towers are in melee range of the boss, but the east/B tower is not.
For best uptime send the tank to the west/D tower, and build a priority list for your dps, where melee have priority for the middle/A tower and ranged prefer to take the east/B tower.
Tower
Tower
A
B
C
D
1
2
Tower pop and reposition
A
For the people NOT taking towers (i.e. standing on 1) make sure you’re not inside the middle tower (because it comes very close to 1).
B
D
A
B
C
D
1
2
Final Defamation
The people without defamation (i.e the people at 1) need to make doubly sure that they do not step out towards the defamations, because the space is quite squeezed here.
This is fairly tight so it’s pretty important to get the positioning for the markers correct and for the defamation people to go ALL the way to the wall.
A
B
C
D
1
2
Ion Efflux
In for heals