Bro why you have to do me like that, haha! Get into gear and join the club.
Back when I was a smol barb, one of the Top 10 barbs once said to me, Novo has no GG. Well, I’m right up there with you on the first page budd. GR 141 Done.
This run started out meh, I almost turned it in right away because I hate Waller + Missile Dampener affix. Throw in Worm Hole and it’s instant close for me.
I thought about it for a quick second and noticed the mob type was Summoner + Skeletons. You don’t close Skeletons, especially on a Festering, so I played it out.
Map two was the big Skeletons with the axe and those guys are GG progression as well. I was knocking down Skeletons for daaaays, from small ones to big.
At the end I was saying he better get a power then shield spawned and I instantly knew your RG was Hamlin. He was the only boss that you could have killed that fast and had 30 seconds left.
Hammy the hamster has been good to me, I think three of my personal records are with Hamlin so far.
What’s funny is that this run is no where near as good as runs I’ve had in the 4900 Paragon range. I had 5 amazing GR’s which could have been 12~13 min clears had I not goofed with sub 5K paragon.
Ey guys! Just found a double crit + strengt primal CoE and now I’m wondering if I should witch to the crimson setup instead of F+R. 2350 para at the moment and trying to finish a GR132, allready been close a couple of times but wondering if it would be easier with crimson as it seems 80% of top 100 barbs is using it.
If you are talking about non-season, then I recommend you stick with the “core” setup. Crimson is much more fragile and I expect you’ll find yourself dying a lot if you swap.
Hamelin is an interesting boss. Because of the way he spawns adds, you can kill him almost exponentially faster as your damage increases.
I think what happens is that when he spawns rats, he keeps spawning them until a certain number are on the ground. So if you do enough damage, you can keep him summoning indefinitely.
And the rate of summoning seems to increase the faster you kill those rats, so maybe it’s like he summons at 3x rate till Y rats are on the ground, then 2x rate till there’s 2Y rats, and then 1x rate till 3Y rats… or something like that.
I’ve noted that when pushing high with Leapquake, you can’t do enough damage to make this happen without both a power and a channeling pylon (as a result, Hamelin is a worse boss than Saxtris or Binder)
Luckily, Rend doesn’t have that issue!
Both the CoE/Crimson and the F+R / MoC setups are good. F+R does a little more damage in general, while Crimson is a bit more fluid to play and also gets a bit of damage boost from channeling pylons.
If you have good gear for both setups, then try both and just pick whichever feels more natural to you.
I just assumed that because he spawns the rats at 75%, 50% and 25% HP, with sufficient damage and area damage killing the rats just causes him to hit the next HP breakpoint before the previous breakpoint’s adds have finished spawning, so that by the time you’re on the adds for 25% you’ve still got some from 75% and 50%, leading to huge numbers of adds for your AD to work on. I just know that any time I get this boss, the time for 75% to dead is shorter than 100% to 75%.
Hmm, I feel like he can spawn rats even near 100% life. (This is part of what makes him less good than Saxtris for Leap- those “early” rats eat Stricken stacks). And the total number of rats also seems to increase dramatically if you are killing them quickly. (Even while staying within, say, the 75-50% “increment”).
For reference, 2 videos, both Hamelin at high push. First one, just a power, second one, power + channeling. Note the rat spawns…
I think there may be some truth to this. I just reviewed my 132, 138 and 141 hammy kills and he definitely kept spawning more rats at 132. 138 and 141, I couldn’t kill them fast enough so he stopped after his threshold was reached.
Yeah. It might actually be kind of a combo of what MB is saying and what we’re noticing- i.e. maybe he can summon a few rats anytime, but he only has the potential for a huge fountain of rats at the 75%, 50%, and 25% life points-- but in each of these cases, he keeps summoning until the condition of “X rats on the ground” is met, meaning that if you can do damage quickly enough, you can keep the fountain going all the way from 75% life down to 0%.
The most extreme example of the “Ratsplosion” I’ve encountered was when I was pushing with Pro-Slam, and got Hamelin and a Power. After a little Stricken stacking, I took him from around 90% life to dead in less than 20 seconds… just absolutely insane. Really wish I had recorded it!
Finally managed to clear a GR132 for rank 57 Europe! This one was tough and I spent way more keys than I thought I would. Still have 400 keys left though so guess GR133 is next.
Thanks! Yeah ive only been farming Keys and doing rats for a few days while waiting for the leaderboards to get fixed. Now I’m looking forward to some serious fishing hehe
