mobicera wrote: »

I honestly didn't prepare my tank in any abnormal way. I run with my olo/yolna/masters set up to enable more burn.
Occasionally some dps wear iceheart.
That is really all I did for my no deaths.
Really it boils down to knowing every mechanic.
And in some cases fighting a broken game like being able to actually sneak when fighting Tracy in vmos ><
If you can burn through it, do it!

Ok. I think "being more careful" in general is a good start. As you don't need to combine speedrun with no death. ;-)

Ignoring Frostvault no death for now, because of the game always crashing at the final boss. But many others should be pretty ok.
Sloppy tank work in combination with reckless DD's is usually the problem I think. We missed it because of a brute manhandling one of us in Mazzatun yesterday at that "calendar" puzzle, before the last boss. It simply oneshot one of us, right out of the blue. Maybe a tank with good CC can prevent such accidents...

And yes. Sneak at the indrik boss sure is broken now, You will be unable to enter sneak most of the time, when it disappears the first time. :-/

You are overthinking it.

The best setup is the classes you currently play the best and the no death will come from skillfully avoiding and mitigating damage. Nova will not save a no-death if someone is oblivious to avoiding damage with many of the dungeons.

@FrancisCrawford Nothing really, normally. I know tank has Battalion Defender and the usual most common tanking sets in his inventory. It should work with Earthgore(?).

When tank goes NB, he has Bolstering Darkness for a more defensive option - which I believe is a very good one (I know, from tanking myself). I have been leveling Reviving Barrier and Bone Surge to the full, when turning in all the pledges for a few days, and I think all have Barrier and other shield options fully leveled too.
We slotted Bone Shield during that bombarding phase at Lair of Maarselok a few days ago, and it worked just great there. From an initial wipe to zero deaths when we did. ;-D I'm not used to utilizing shields on stamina toons in PVE, so it was pretty new to me. Frankly not even thought of the possibility before.

Guess I will suggest a Barrier rotation for more dangerous moments. I think the damage will be ok with a couple or Barrier. I am rarely the one knowing/keeping check on what happens at certain % of bosses etc., but it's not unusual that our tank goes like "Now hold on! Slow down the damage on boss, just xxxxx now before xxxx" or whatever hahaha...

We will see how Falkreath goes tomorrow, I'm still missing the no death for that myself - and I'll suggest that over repeating the hardmode just for an extra undaunted key.

Thanks all for the input! This vet/hm stuff is kind of new to me. I've mostly been struggling to get certain monster sets (for PVP) until recently, and never really cared for skins and achievements etc. I got hooked though.

Ok, I found a good solution for no death now, just changed my build a bit. Went with Mighty Chudan and switched Barbed Trap for Deadly Cloak - oh, the difference.
We practically ran through Fang Lair, speedrun and no death. Had a wolf blown at me at the "skelly exhibition", and it barely got me half down in health, compared to one shotting me last time it happened. Don't think we made any other changed than Blade Cloak and Bloodspawn or Chudan, and it worked great. A bit lower damage of course, but for no death it's not number one priority I guess.

Taunky wrote: »

The best setup is communication and coordination.

Random one shot AOE's doesn't care about your coordination, especially does it ignore your communication if you are stunned och knocked back or otherwise CC'ed, when it hits.

Not that you tried being helpful, but as I wrote above - I have found a good solution already.