Here is my video for soloing the orb of light in Arah as an Engineer. As far as I know I’m the first to do this without resorting to consumables (portal device). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AwqjyDuvNA
After some testing I found out that the orb does damage as a percentage of your max health (15% per tick) and toughness doesn’t reduce it. So, you should be able to use any gear that has +Healing Power, but not Vitality.
I know the video quality isn’t too great, but this is my first recording; I had to downscale the recording (done with OBS) or there would be alot of dropped frames, and going back to the lower resolution was uncomfortable and would require me to change my whole desktop resolution (I tried just the game resolution, and it wouldn’t record properly). If I do alot of future recordings, I might buy a separate capture card to produce better recordings.
edit: calculated the actual percentage damage taken from the orb = 15%. adjusted above too
Nice work. I was toying around with the idea of engi soloing the orbs few months ago but never got around to trying it out. I wonder if it would be possible to do without healing gear.
I just tried that once, and rocket boots doesn’t come off cooldown soon enough if i do that. I tried it naked though to try without healing gear. I plan on testing more stuff on Sunday. I’ll update if I can manage without healing gear.
I’ll try to post there as I think of stuff later. I don’t run meta builds though, so might wanna keep that in mind for any info I post. For starters though, “toss elixir b” is useful against abom boss in arah path 2 – just toss it on whoever is in charge of rifles as the abom stomps to prevent the knockback (stability).
It turns out to be possible to do this without healing gear; it is just much harder to pull off because the bandages heal much less. New video showing this at http://youtu.be/ZNpSM-ju4Gs
description of the run:
Go to the rock you can jump on/over. Equip med kit. Drop a stimulant (skill 5) somewhere before the rock you are on. Drop 3 bandages in a row after the rock. Drop supply crate at the second corner (50% point). Drop 3 more bandages between your first set of bandages and the supply crate drop. Drop another stimulant near the bandages. Run back to the corrosive light globe; as you do, trade med kit for AED, equip elixir gun, and use super elixir (skill 5). Take an orb of light. Use super speed (toolbelt skill) and rocket boots for great distance. Pick up all bandages and stimpacks on the way and use healing mist (toolbelt skill). Activate AED when your health drops to 30% after you pick up all the bandages from supply crate. Aim and use rocket boots when its available again. Place the orb in the globe (and hope the NPC doesn’t mess you up by talking to you, as she did to me the first time i made it – not in the video).
Special thanks to SlyDevil for the idea to use gadgeteer and super elixir (elixir gun skill 5).
