Solo Witness - Hunter

Honestly, this is probably one of my least favorite encounters in the entire game. I had no intention of doing this originally, but the bugged taken orbs made it a lot easier, so I decided to run it for that reason. There's a lot of things to consider when doing this encounter, which I'll get into below.

I'll start with the taken orbs. For those who aren't aware, the seasonal taken orbs that drop from enemies and give reputation aren't supposed to drop in raids, yet as of a week ago they started to. If you are rank 10(?) on the path of ambition, picking up one of these orbs gives you a 100% damage boost (double damage) for 15 seconds. This is absurdly powerful and allows for some pretty crazy cooks on bosses like this one. There are some other bosses that it works really well on which I will have some clears of later on, but for now this is a good showcase of how strong they are.

As I stated prior, I have a pretty strong distaste for this encounter, and a huge part of that is the mechanics. In a solo setting, they are entirely RNG past the first set of hands, which can get pretty frustrating if you get unlucky in later phases and lose multiple coinflips in a row. For me, this was a pretty big issue, and was what caused a good portion of my wipes.

The other thing that fuels my distaste for this encounter are projectiles being solid. Since the chieftans don't despawn during damage, they end up shooting at you the entire time, and their projectiles are solid. With this, the projectiles can very easily block your abilities and weapons, including rockets (which tend to literally blow up in your face.) This is what caused the most wipes for me, and as you can imagine it can be pretty frustrating to lose multiple runs in a row to projectiles.

Besides those, I will say that witness damage is a lot of fun and the rotations on hunter are always enjoyable to learn. It's nice to actually need to execute properly during damage instead of standing still and holding fire.

That's it from me, I had a lot to write mostly because I didn't give myself enough time to clear this last time it was around, so it felt good to get everything I wanted to say down in one place. Loadouts and everything will be below, as always.

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Loadouts:
Mechanics - https://dim.gg/nrjhq7y/Arc
DPS - https://dim.gg/zzsxgcy/Strike

Timestamps:
0:00 Phase 1
2:19 DPS 1
3:17 Phase 2
5:47 DPS 2
6:49 Phase 3
10:19 DPS 3
10:59 Final Stand

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