Gollux

This is same strategy I use on hell mode but with beam dance. If you can move and attack, then you can use this strategy.

On hard however, I can snipe from the side due to hypogram field keeping the curse mobs at bay.

Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason (other than for convenience, possibly) why you choose to use Beam Dance in Hell mode, but Snipe in Hard mode? The boss mechanics should generally be the same for every mode, right? I'm thinking for Hell mode you have another partner to clear the curse mobs, but idk I just find using Snipe the entire time a whole a lot better. Time isn't too critical for the jaw part, so I guess it's just preference.

It's been several days now, and I skimmed the thread somewhat, but I still have a question.

We know that difficulty clear 4 = 150 items [or we hypothesize to the best of our knowledge].

What would be the difficulty for 140 items? Me and a friend have been duoing hard mode for 140 items, but so far we have gotten a lot more solids and some cracked pieces.

Two clear difficulties appear for us. One person sees only one clear difficulty. The other person sees two clear difficulties. Usually the person who only sees one clear difficulty sees clear difficulty 5, while the other sees clear difficulty 5 and clear difficulty 3. We usually let the person who saw clear difficulty 5 click the heart.

For 140 items on hard mode, should we be letting the person who see clear difficulty 5 click the heart or the clear difficluty 3? Or does it not matter?

Minimum clear difficulty for 140 items should be 3? Drop rates seem to be quite erratic for any mode, you're not always guaranteed to get the highest level item, or any item at all.

I believe it was hypothesized earlier that each time one leaves the map, the clear difficulty is lowered by one for that person. I can corroborate this theory for Hard mode.

But I'm a bit unsure how you and your friend are getting clear difficulty 5 for Hard mode, I thought that was for Hell mode only?

Seeing how the drops are quite random, there's no definitive way to test that last part, but it would be safer to have the person with the highest clear difficulty click on the chest.


Edit: Okay, well that's interesting.. v