Is Executioner Jerensi in Exiled Redoubt soloable in vet HM?

Jaimeh · March 12

I tried to solo the first boss, Executioner Jerensi, in Exiled Redoubt, but I couldn't get around one of her mechanics. At 80%/50%/30% she will become immune and call out adds, and after you kill the adds, she will spawn a circle underneath a player and then jump to them, and in vet HM all four members of the group have to stand on that circle for the damage to be survived. I tried using the 'free death' buff that can be acquired by killing the first secret boss. This buff procs when your health goes to zero and doesn't let you die, and has a 10 minute cooldown. I could manipulate the fight so that 10 minutes elapsed between the 80%/50%/30% jumps, but the issue is that after 30% she will repeat the jump randomly, so there's no way the buff can be active so frequently, and so I always wipe after 30%. The damage is oblivion type and it's 175k, so I don't know how to evade it. I also tried standing with a companion in the circle when she jumps but it didn't help. If anyone has completed this fight solo in vet HM and would like to share their strategies, or if anyone has any ideas, they'd be appreciated it.

BasP · March 15

Did you have any luck soloing it by now? If not, you could maybe try to use Precognition to escape the jumps. Though I admittedly don't know how often the jumps occur beneath 30% and if you'd be able to build up enough Ultimate to escape them each time.

That said, I just tried that fight on vet (non-HM) a handful of times and Precognition does seem to work at least. I got her down to 30% without being hit by Executioner once the last time I tried it. But I died to the adds afterwards and this was my first time in the Dungeon, so I don't know if I would've been able to survive the next Execute(s).

Edit: Hm, I gave it another shot and I think the jumps will be too frequent for Precognition to work reliably. On non-HM I got Jerensi down to 12% before she did another jump I couldn't evade due to a lack of Ultimate at least. Though using Heroism potions or getting Major Heroism from Trample could help I suppose. I might try that later.

Jaimeh · March 15

BasP wrote: »

Did you have any luck soloing it by now? If not, you could maybe try to use Precognition to escape the jumps. Though I admittedly don't know how often the jumps occur beneath 30% and if you'd be able to build up enough Ultimate to escape them each time.

That said, I just tried that fight on vet (non-HM) a handful of times and Precognition does seem to work at least. I got her down to 30% without being hit by Executioner once the last time I tried it. But I died to the adds afterwards and this was my first time in the Dungeon, so I don't know if I would've been able to survive the next Execute(s).

Edit: Hm, I gave it another shot and I think the jumps will be too frequent for Precognition to work reliably. On non-HM I got Jerensi down to 12% before she did another jump I couldn't evade due to a lack of Ultimate at least. Though using Heroism potions or getting Major Heroism from Trample could help I suppose. I might try that later.

Thank you for the reply! It's good to know that precognition works with the jumps, and yes, it's the execute phase that's tricky since she can do it randomly, so it depends if the ulti is up. I don't have psijic on the character I was trying it with, but I might try it on another character to see if it's doable.