Battle for the Nexus (Rev. 33)

Last updated: Release 16.4

Battle for the Nexus is a dungeon originally released for a limited time in September 2013. After a security breach in the game, the developers created the dungeon as a kind of apology to the players, and the design echos the fight that players had to clear the Nexus of enemies. The dungeon features four fights with dungeon bosses, some of them buffed from their normal versions, and each has a chance of dropping special limited addition items named after the GMs and Devs.

See the Battle for the Nexus Guide for a complete walkthrough on the dungeon.

Key

The Battle Nexus Key was originally only available for a limited time in the Nexus shop, for fame. In September 2016 it was added to event chests as a public drop.

Contents

• Layout
• Bosses
• Drops of Interest
• Tips

Dungeon Layout

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Bosses

A variety of dungeon bosses with higher HP and attack power are the denizens of this dungeon. They come in 3 waves, ending with Oryx 2 breaking open the back wall.

-Wave 1: (Left Wing of the Nexus)
Murderous Megamoth Deux
or
Lord Ruthven Deux

-Wave 2: (Right wing of the Nexus)
Archdemon Malphas Deux
or
Stheno the Snake Queen Deux

-Wave 3: (center of the Nexus)
Limoz the Veridian Dragon Deux
or
Golden Oryx Effigy Deux

-Wave 4 (Back Wall)
Oryx the Mad God Deux

Item	Drops From:
	Lord Ruthven, Oryx the Mad God Deux
	Golden Oryx Effigy Deux, Oryx the Mad God Deux
	Murderous Megamoth Deux, Oryx the Mad God Deux
	Limoz the Veridian Dragon Deux, Oryx the Mad God Deux
	Stheno the Snake Queen Deux, Oryx the Mad God Deux
	Archdemon Malphas Deux, Oryx the Mad God Deux

Sunshine Shiv = Sgt Sunshine
Robobow = NullBot
KoalaPOW = KoalaP
Spicy Wand of Spice = SirRacha
Doctor Swordsworth = DrBearsword
Arbiters Wrath = ArbiterZ

Tips and Strategies

This is your ordinary “gauntlet”-esque dungeon run with old bosses you have encountered but just a little more beefed up. Hence the Deux in their name - yet holding no posession of any “loot” they would drop in the realm, but vanity UT’s instead. Here’s tips on beating these more powerful simulcrums of their realm selves, whether which class you play.

Ruthven Deux

• This should be a rather easy fight without even losing much health, just go in, get a few hits in. Then wait in the main room outside for the bats to clear up, or clear the coffins. Either way, this isn’t a very difficult encounter just very tedious. Be sure to know your confuses if you wait in the boss room though - you don’t want to confuse onto Ruthven as he will instant kill almost anything instantly if you are on him.

Murderous Megamoth Deux

• Try to keep some safe distance to this boss if you are not maxed. Players with some maxed stats can easily go in to deal some damage, but keep in mind that the blue larves also can cause a Inst-Death because of stacked shots. Use the behavior for you, Megamoth is following you around. A Knight could try to stun it and a Archer or Huntress paralyzes. Thats one of the most common strategies. Also a Sorcerer is pretty useful with a Scepter of Fulmination.

Archdemon Malphas Deux

• For the king of all demons, who now has a whopping 45,000 HP. You will find this encounter easier then when you challenge him in his abyss, even with the 35,000 HP increase. The lack of white demons, and lava will make this an easy but long battle. You should be able to stay in the boss room without backing out for a minute.

Stheno the Snake Queen Deux

• The Queen of Snakes, sister of Medusa. Now with 45,000 health. Her battle will be significantly harder than Malphas’s. Watch out for her fast moving grenades, or projectiles. They hit hard and they fly quick. I reccomend staying a distance from the boss. And running out of the boss room if needed to regen.

Golden Oryx Effigy

• The Monstrous golden statue that is hidden in the Cave of a Thousand Treasures. This boss is deadly but easy, it is recommended to stay back and wait for a stun.

Limoz, the Veridian Dragon

• First phase

Try to stand in front of him in a specific spot where the large green shots(Dragon Attack Green Spin Ball) don’t hit you. If you get it right, he shouldn’t be able to hit you. If you have a piercing weapon, use it, it will help to bypass his shield defenses. If you can paralyze, try to paralyze one or a few orbs, so you have a hole in the ring to shoot through.



• Second phase

After his ring of orbs disappears, he will start chasing you. Keep your distance and try to dodge all shots he throws at you. You should paralyze him if you can, it will make dodging his shots a little less hectic.

Oryx the Mad God Deux

• Trust me, this is basically a Oryx 2 in a more confined space. With more health, and the same 3900 damage instant shredding shotgun. He is not one to mess with, the strategy for Oryx the Mad God 2 is simple as always, though.

Rogues, cloak in, don’t even try to get that extra second in lest it spell your death. Cloak out.

Knights, go in clockwise and try to close in on Oryx then stun, use up your magic potions all at once so you can get nice damage in.

Warrior use ggen for this, juggernaut will not protect you from the shotgun if you eat all or almost all of the stars. Same procedure as Knight, close in clockwise, don’t go directly in and get some hits in. Then run out when speedy effect is gone.

Paladin same as melees above, if you have oreo use a weapon like csword or A.S.S and just run in, when the stars are about 1-2tiles away from you activate oreo, then back away. Make sure you know your confuse controls so you don’t go right back into oryx for a second meal.

Wizard/Archer/Necromancer/Huntress/Mystic - Probably the second group that if maxed can handle Oryx the Mad God Deux (2) with ease. Just close in clockwise, stay about 7 tiles away and start firing. When you see stars coming you are far enough to quickly react.

Priest/Sorcerer - probably the easiest group able to withstand Oryx’s madness with little to no chance of death. The wand’s insane range will allow long, very long range to the point that you will almost never be hit by one of his stars as it will take a long time to reach you before you dodge. The Priest’s purification tome will let him easily heal himself of injuries and any status debuffs, and the Sorcerer’s scepter can easily snipe in some extra sb damage.

Ninja - Ho boy, speedy in, go in clockwise, and just fire away. Same strategy as melees as it is basically, the melee with leather.

Assassin - Easy, best class for SB at o2. Just go in, fire a couple rounds of poison, then run out. Rinse and repeat, don’t stay in, don’t even dagger - just poison.

Trickster - very true to it’s name, trickster is probably the hardest class to do WC with, but if used properly will be one of the easiest. Walk backwards towards oryx and fire a decoy, then just turn around and attack him whilst he attacks that decoy - but he will also attack you and people around you while attacking that decoy if you get to close or once it despawns. Never be off your guard!

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