Solo Epic Koregos, Fractured in Time

I don't even know where to start with this one.

By far the most difficult and rng-feeling solo I have ever done in this game. This even tops master root of nightmares in my opinion. There is so much that goes into this, from little things during mechanics to the seemingly randomness that is damage. This might be a bit of a long read.

I'll start with the mechanics. While involved, they aren't terribly difficult on paper. There is a movement check with the chronons and with the raid being -20, you actually have to pay a fair bit of attention to not get instant-killed in some parts (mostly koregos lasers). The lightsaber was honestly invaluable for surviving, this would have been FAR more difficult without it. The worst part of the mechanics was by far the Iatros room. That room feels harder than some encounters on master do, which is kind of crazy to me considering the difference in deltas is 10.

Next I'll talk about damage. This is probably one of the worst damage metas we've ever been in because it's almost entirely hardware based and even then it feels like its rng at certain points, especially on this boss. The better your computer is, you just flat out do more damage than people with worse hardware. I am fortunate to be pulling 200+ on one of the most graphically demanding encounters in the game, but even that wasn't enough to make chunking consistent. This issue was especially prominent on the flying phase, from my experience there was basically only a 30-40% chance that you could actually do any damage to the boss at all, and that falls even lower when considering trying to chunk every grenade.

I guess I should mention, this entire challenge is only possible because of killshot being bugged. Basically, it can break through anything that's immune (whether it be shields or specific mechanics) which allow for some pretty interesting challenges like this one. There are some others, but they are not really practical or there's still a missing piece that makes them impossible (solo exhibition and duo rhulk), but it trivialized some encounters like gatekeepers.

I think I've said about all I wanted to say, I did not have any amount of fun or enjoyment running this whatsoever, but I am completely relieved that it's over.

Merry Christmas, if you celebrate!

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Loadouts:
Phase 1+2 Mechanics: https://dim.gg/2za2hji/Vanguard
Phase 1+2 Damage: https://dim.gg/bya6xoa/Void
Flying Phase Mechanics: https://dim.gg/ri3tprq/Support
Iatros Room: https://dim.gg/slkfjdq/Alpha
Apotheosis Swap: https://dim.gg/yghrjga/Beta
Final Stand: https://dim.gg/jicll7a/Nightfall
Final Stand/Flying Phase Damage: https://dim.gg/oxzlzui/Prismatic

Timestamps:
0:00 Fake Phase
1:24 Phase 1
4:07 DPS 1
4:49 Phase 2
6:55 DPS 2
7:44 Phase 3
11:30 Flying DPS
12:27 Final Stand Setup
13:19 Final Stand

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