M2S Guide - AAC Light-Heavyweight M2 Savage (Honey B. Lovely)
Summary
TLDRThis guide offers an in-depth strategy for the Arcadian M2S boss fight in a game. It covers positioning, mechanics, and phases, emphasizing the importance of avoiding heart stacks to prevent the boss from gaining a powerful buff. The guide details the sequence of attacks, including 'Splash of Venom', 'Honey Be Line', and 'Tempting Twist', and provides tips for the 'Love Me Tender' phase and the final heart phase. It concludes with advice on the 'Rotten Heart' mechanic and the 'Sheer Heart Attack' finale, aiming to help players defeat the boss efficiently.
Takeaways
- 😀 **Team Composition:** Assign partner positions with tanks, healers, and DPS in specific roles to handle different mechanics.
- 🐝 **Venom Mechanics:** Be aware of 'Splash of Venom' and 'Drop of Venom' mechanics, which dictate player positioning for later attacks.
- 💔 **Heart Phases:** Manage 'hearts' by avoiding unnecessary damage to prevent long stuns and increase in boss damage.
- 🎯 **Positioning:** Use specific positions for spreading and pairing up, crucial for dodging mechanics like 'Tempting Twist' and 'Honey Be Line'.
- 🏰 **Towers and Hearts:** Prioritize towers based on heart count to balance the team's health and avoid reaching four hearts.
- 🔁 **Combo Rotation:** Execute the correct rotation for 'Center Stage' and 'Outer Stage' combos, alternating between in and out positions.
- 🚫 **Avoid Stacking:** Do not stack during certain mechanics to prevent unnecessary damage and heart gains.
- 🏃 **Useful Abilities:** Utilize abilities like 'knockback immunity' and 'Sprint' to assist in dodging and avoiding damage.
- 🕒 **Timer Management:** Pay close attention to timer-based mechanics, especially during the final heart phase with 'alpha' and 'beta' debuffs.
- ⏳ **Endgame Strategy:** In the final phase, manage debuffs and execute a coordinated attack to defeat the boss before the 'Sheer Heart Attack' cast ends.
Q & A
What is the recommended partner position assignment before the fight begins in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-It is recommended to have tanks with ranged, healers with melee, and to assign spread positions for two different patterns.
What are the two different spread patterns mentioned in the guide for the Arcadian M2S fight?
-One pattern has healers and ranged out while dodging inwards, and the other pattern requires everyone to be out with tanks on the left and DPS on the right.
How does the 'Splash of Venom' mechanic work in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-The 'Splash of Venom' mechanic stores spreads for later, indicated by a buff that signifies something is stored but doesn't specify what, so players have to remember the mechanic.
What are the two tank busters that the boss can cast in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-The two tank busters are 'Killer Sting', which targets the top player in agro, and 'Stinging Slash', which targets the top two players in agro.
How does the 'Honey Be Live' mechanic affect the fight in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-The 'Honey Be Live' mechanic causes raid-wide damage and transitions the fight into different heart phases, affecting player positioning and mechanics to be dealt with.
What is the purpose of the towers that spawn during the 'Love Me Tender' phase in the Arcadian M2S fight?
-The towers give players a heart when taken, and the goal is to manage hearts effectively, prioritizing players with the lowest number of hearts to balance the team's status.
How should players position for the 'Center Stage' combo in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-For the 'Center Stage' combo, players should dodge telegraphed AOEs to the center, dodge out at intercardinals for the second hit, and rotate to dodge further ground AOEs.
What is the strategy for dealing with the 'Alarm Pheromones' mechanic in the Arcadian M2S fight?
-During 'Alarm Pheromones', bees spawn and target line AOEs at players. There is no good way to dodge this mechanic other than paying attention and using knockback immunity and Sprint to assist in dodging.
How do the 'Poison Sting' mechanics work in the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-The 'Poison Sting' mechanic targets a random support and a random DPS with a marker, and these players must drop puddles where they stand after the cast finishes, then move out.
What is the key to surviving the final heart phase of the Arcadian M2S encounter?
-In the final heart phase, players must manage alpha and beta debuffs, ensuring that players with the shortest timers on their debuffs go in to cleanse them, avoiding raid-wide damage.
Outlines
🐝 Introduction to Arcadian M2S Fight Strategy
The video script begins with a cautionary note about the evolving strategies for the fight against Arcadian M2S. The guide is introduced by Honey, who lays out the initial strategy focusing on partner positions, emphasizing the need for tanks with range, healers with melee, and spread positions for two different patterns. The boss mechanics are explained, starting with 'Call Me, Honey' and the subsequent 'Splash of Venom' or 'Drop of Venom', which dictate player movement. The guide details the boss's attacks, including 'Tempting Twist' and 'Honey Be Line', and the importance of dodging inwards or outwards. Tank busters 'Killer Sting' and 'Stinging Slash' are introduced, with specific strategies for handling them. The guide then transitions into the first heart phase, explaining the mechanics of 'Center Stage' and 'Outer Stage' combos, the use of towers to manage hearts, and the importance of dodging 'Love Me Tender' and other attacks. The segment ends with a reminder to prepare for the 'Honey Bee Finale', which involves raid-wide damage.
💔 Advanced Mechanics and Heart Phases
Paragraph 2 delves into the complexities of the fight, starting with the second heart phase where players begin with zero or one heart. The guide explains the role-based distribution of hearts and the importance of managing them to avoid being stunned and giving the boss a 'Queen B' buff. The mechanics of 'Spreading Love' and 'Drop of Love' are introduced, which are stored for later use. The guide then details the positioning and rotation strategies for 'Love Me Tender' and the handling of 'AOE' attacks targeting specific players. The use of towers and the distribution of hearts are further explained, emphasizing the need to manage hearts effectively to avoid raid-wide damage. The paragraph concludes with a discussion of the boss's 'Honey Bee Live' ability, the spawning of 'Worker Bees', and the need for players to dodge these attacks effectively. The guide also covers the handling of 'Poison Sting' and the strategic placement of 'Puddles', leading up to the third heart phase.
🕒 Timing and Coordination in Final Phases
Paragraph 3 focuses on the final stages of the fight, where timing and coordination are crucial. The guide explains the countdown mechanics involving 'Alpha' and 'Beta' debuffs, and the importance of coordinating the explosion of these debuffs to avoid raid-wide damage. The boss's combos are detailed, with specific strategies for dodging and managing the associated mechanics. The paragraph emphasizes the need for players to stay within their designated color zones and to manage the towers effectively. The guide also covers the final heart phase, where players must manage their debuffs and coordinate their movements to avoid damage. The video concludes with a discussion of the 'Rotten Heart' mechanic, the 'Sheer Heart Attack' ability, and the final push to defeat the boss before it can cast 'Honey Bee Lovely', which would result in a wipe. The guide ends with a reminder to kill the boss before the end of the 'Sheer Heart Attack' cast bar to avoid a game over.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Arcadian M2S
💡Position Assignment
💡Mechanics
💡Hearts
💡Dodge
💡Stacking
💡Tank Busters
💡Cleave
💡AOE
💡Raid Wide
💡Magic Vul
Highlights
Assign partner positions with tanks and healers strategically.
Healers should be ranged, and melee should be positioned accordingly.
Spread positions for two different patterns are crucial for dodging mechanics.
Splash of Venom stores spreads for later, while Drop of Venom stores pairs.
Avoid getting hit by mechanics to prevent gaining hearts and the boss's Queen B buff.
Center Stage combo requires dodging AOEs and positioning to the center.
Outer Stage combo is the reverse of Center Stage, starting out and moving in.
Tank Busters require strategic soaking and positioning to avoid high damage.
Love Me Tender mechanic involves spawning towers that affect heart counts.
Prioritize towers based on heart count to balance the team's status.
Dodge Love Seeker and incoming Hearts from normal mode while avoiding stacked damage.
Honey Bee Line and Tempting Twist mechanics require precise dodging and positioning.
Alarm Pheromones cause worker bees to spawn, requiring careful dodging.
Second heart phase introduces role-based heart distribution and new mechanics.
Poison Sting mechanic requires targeted players to drop puddles in specific directions.
Group up based on roles for the final tank Buster and stored mechanic release.
Final heart phase involves debuffs and timed cleansing to avoid raid-wide damage.
Sheer Heart Attack is the boss's final attack, requiring swift damage to avoid defeat.
Transcripts
warning this guide features weak one
strats for the fight Arcadian m2s better
strats can and will be discovered if
they haven't already so be
mindful hi guys and welcome to a Hector
lecture Guide to the fight Arcadian m2s
this is honey be
lovely before the fight begins assign
partner positions I recommend having
tanks with range healers with
melee you're going to need to have
spread positions for two different
patterns this one has the healers
enranged out while we're dodging inwards
and this one where everyone has to be
out has t Killers left DPS
right finally you'll need clock spots
for one mechanic at the very end of the
fight I recommend using standard clock
spots the fight starts with a raid wide
call me
honey afterwards a splash of Venom or
drop of Venom splash of Venom will store
spreads for later drop of Venom will
store pairs for later here we'll have
splash of Venom cast so it'll store
spreads for later
this buff here signifies something is
stored but won't tell you what so you
have to
remember now the boss will cast either
tempting twist or honey be line tempting
twist will show first this is a donut
AOE make sure you dodge inwards and then
after the AOE goes off these honey
puddles will appear that force all
players to dodge out at inner Cardinals
if you're spreading have tanker left DPS
right the boss will Now cast the
opposite Venom mechanic so since we did
Splash first now it's drop of Venom
meaning pairs will be
stored we now get the opposite attack
too here's honey be Line This is a line
AOE through the middle of the Arena
Dodge to the side and the Honey puddles
mean that you always need to Dodge
inwards in Middle soak this while
dealing with either the pears or the
sprads the boss will Now cast one of two
tank Busters either killer sting or
stinging slash killer sting is a double
tank Buster targeting the top player in
Agro soak it with your off
tank stinging slash targets the top two
players in aggro for a cleaving tank
Buster off tank needs to be second in
aggro or your top DPS is getting
murdered have them spread out as these
cleave much wider than they did in
normal
mode we now have a raid wide honey be
live first beat and we transition into
the first heart phase players will start
with either zero one or two hearts these
Hearts work almost identically to how
they did in normal mode if you get hit
with a mechanic you gain a heart if you
get hit by something you were supposed
to dodge you gain a heart if you get to
four Hearts this time you're going to be
stunned for what feels like an eternity
and the boss is going to get a stack of
the Queen B buff this both heals the
boss for about 1% and also increases
their damage for the entire rest of the
fight so avoid this where
possible to start off we're going to get
Center Stage combo or outer stage combo
for Center Stage combo which I'll show
first there's going to be telegraphed
aoe's on the ground Dodge those while
also dodging to the center meaning in
cuz there's a donut at the
start the second hit of this combo will
always require you to be out at an
intercardinal the number way marks are
far enough finally you need to rotate
now to dodge the other ground aoes and
since we were in first we'll be out for
the final
hit outer stage combo is the exact
reverse of this start out while dodging
the ground
aoes get out at an intercardinal it's
always out an intercardinal for the
second hit of both Combos and then
finally go in while dodging the other
set of ground
AIS the boss will cast Love Me Tender
and towers are going to start to spawn
there will be 11 Towers in total and
every time you take a tower it gives you
a heart start by prioritizing players
with the lowest number of Hearts Because
by the end of all of these towers the
goal is to try to get it so that every
player is on at least two hearts some
players will need three hearts where
possible leave towers near to the boss
for tanks and melees
and if healers in range take the ones
further
away if you soak these towers correctly
and nobody's been hit by anything else
at the very end you should have five
players that are on two hearts and three
players that are on three
hearts Dodge love Seeker by going out
and then prepare to dodge the slow
moving annoying Hearts from normal mode
some of these will be spawning middle of
the boss and going inwards some of them
will be starting outside and coming
towards players just dodge them while
you're doing this you need to look out
for Love Me Tender to be cast because at
the end one player with the lowest
number of Hearts will be targeted for a
stack marker the stack marker divies up
four Hearts between all the players
stacked in it any players with two
hearts should group up together near the
boss take the stack and then Dodge
afterwards finally there will be the
opposite combo of what you had at the
beginning so if you had Center Stage
first now it'll be outer stage Dodge the
combo and the boss will follow up with
honey bee finale raid wide damage and
we're back into the normal
Arena you're going to get a tank Buster
this will be the opposite one of what
you got at the beginning of the
fight and now alarm pheromones worker
B's start to spawn in the outside of the
arena and will Target line aoes at
Players there's 16 total bees that are
going to spawn and I'm sorry but there's
no good way to dodge this it is very
much you just need to pay attention
because of how random the bees are use
your eyes and Dodge the best you
can two things to make this a little bit
simpler one don't forget you have
knockback immunity if you start getting
in a pinch pop this so that you will
take an AOE but you won't die because it
won't knock you into the wall and don't
forget Sprint is there to help
you however you dodge these at the very
end of it the boss cast honey be live
second beat and after more raid wide
damage we're into the second heart phase
this one starts with players having
either zero or one hearts and it's role
based meaning two supports will have one
heart two DPS will have one heart the
boss will cast spreading love love which
is spreads or drop of love which is
pairs this is going to be stored for
later and just like in Honey phase
there's a buff to signify something is
stored but you had to have paid
attention to the cast bar to know what
was stored to position for this next one
have all your players with one heart
stacked perfectly middle and your
players with zero Hearts can either
stack as you see here with supports
North DPS south or you can actually have
all of your zero heart players just
stacked together the boss will cast Love
Me Tender and the zero heart players are
going to get targeted with mechanics to
of them get stack markers two of them
get puddles these Stacks don't give a
vul so you can overlap them without
issue either way they're diving up eight
hearts between four players so
everybody's going to get two hearts when
they soak them rotate clockwise to dodge
the puddles making sure you stay Max
melee so you don't clip the players that
are on the inside after three puddles
Towers appear but hold fire on these for
now you're also going to get some AOE
targeting two players in Middle we'll
deal with those in a second after the
fourth puddle the stack goes off giving
all players in the stack two hearts
those players will continue to rotate
and the rest of the players need to
spread out now so they can see are they
the ones targeted by the AOE the players
targeted with the aoes in this case M1
and Main tank they're going to just make
sure they spread and don't overlap this
on anyone else the other two players
need to soak Towers these towers can
either spawn east west or north south
have your supports take the one that's
in north or west and your DPS take the
one that's in south or east
after the tower is resolve the a will go
off at the same time and all players
should be on two hearts this is
important because the boss will Now cast
either honey be line or tempting twist
we Dodge it like we did
before in this case it spreads so all
players spread and as the spreads hit
players get their third
heart honey be finale will do raid wide
damage and cleanse all of the hearts
bringing us back to the normal
stage we get either a splash of Venom or
a drop of Venom so remember what the
cast was and remember what's stored for
later it's going to be a while there's
another alarm pheromones cast and we get
bees spawning in this sort of square
pattern poison sting will Target a
random support and a random DPS with a
marker these players are going to drop
puddles where they're stood when the
cast finishes they're going to go out I
have the support going out Northwest the
DPS going out Southeast but you can have
them go out wherever as long as you're
on the same page this is what the
pattern of AOE will look like from the
bees and it's going to repeat as will
the puddles until every player's been
targeted and forced to go out to drop
puddles since we're going to have to
drop eight puddles around the outside
there is a simple way to make these
puddle drops easy the second bees are
going to spawn and these will either be
counterclockwise or clockwise from the
original bees since these bees that just
spawned are counterclockwise you can
just have every player drop their next
puddle counterclockwise from the player
of their role so for instance H1 look
where they're dropping their puddle the
next support targeted is main tank
they're just going to go slightly
counterclockwise of that puddle and they
will be in a safe spot and a perfect
place to drop their puddle DPS are doing
the same thing on their
side keep in mind the bees don't have to
spawn counterclockwise if you'd like to
use this as your way of spreading them
out you need to pay attention to which
way the bees spawn if you'd rather just
wing it or use another method as a
priority that works
too when you finish dropping all your
puddles group up as rolls with tanks and
healers together in the north DPS
together in the
South One support and one DPS will be
targeted with stacks and you want to
stay nice and tight in because there's
still aoe's going on from the worker
bees but make sure you're spread out
enough that you're able to not overlap
these
Stacks at the end you get another tank
Buster and now the boss is going to use
up the spread or PA it loaded earlier
here it would be a honey bee line with
spreads after all that's done honey be
live third beat goes off and there's
raid wide damage in this heart phase
every player starts with zero Parts but
everybody has the debuff that you see
over on the left side of the screen one
roll will have 26 seconds short timer
and one roll will have long timer 46
seconds in this case DPS have the short
timer as this counts down the boss will
cast either spreading love or drop of
love so pay attention to what's been
stored for
later the boss will Now cast one of its
two combos while dodging this combo you
want to stay within your color by that I
mean main tank an R1 normally group up
at the one way Mark they're going to try
to dodge this mechanic entirely on red
way marks either one or a same thing for
off tank and R2 but on yellow way marks
and so on Dodge the combo as we did
before
in outed
intercardinal out dodging the second set
you'll see there's some Towers but don't
worry about those for now instead the
debuff that's on the DPS is about to
explode this is a giant defamation AOE
so they need to go all the way out where
they were
spread and all the tanks and healers
need to hide all the way
middle this debuff when it explodes is
going to give a heart to all of the
players and now the tanks and healers
need to deal with those Towers simply go
to the tower nearest to your usual
corner where you go for
Partners at the end of this everybody's
on one heart and now it repeats but with
the other combo once again Dodge this
entirely in your usual color way mark
spot
this time after the third hit tanks and
healers need to go all the way out where
they're spread currently making sure
that their defamations don't clip the
DPS who are hiding middle as soon as
they explode DPS go into the tower
towers spawn so that there's one near
every corner go to your usual partner
spot finally the boss will finish up
with either a honey bee line or tempting
twist and this will use up the spread
repairs that was stored earlier resolve
it as before and it'll give you your
third heart before honeybee finale ends
this final heart
phase we get one more tank Buster before
rotten heart before this cast finishes
make sure that you've spread at your
clock spots and you can be just on the
edge of the hip box this is a very
hard-hitting raid wide so mitigate it
heavily we'll be in a brand new Arena
and all players have either an alpha or
beta debuff you don't need to actually
pay attention to that all you need to do
is pay attention to your timer the way
these debuffs work is if an alpha and
beta both touch they explode doing raid
wide damage wait until you've got about
5 seconds left on your debuff or until
everybody's healed up and have the two
players with the shortest timer go in in
this case main tank and R1 they go
middle and high five raid wide damage
goes out and you get a magic fold go
back to your spot and wait the boss will
cast raid wides in between these your
magic vul will fall off before this hits
as long as you pop it early
enough wait until you have enough health
or until there's about 5 seconds left
and have the next two players go in
once again a raid
wde and now the next two players every
time it's the players who have the
shortest timer that go in here it's M1
and M2 on 5 seconds
left and after a third raid wide in
between the final two players cleanse
their buff you have to cleanse these
Buffs otherwise they kill you but you
need to make sure you don't cleanse them
too fast because cleansing two while you
have the magic V up will kill you you
when all is done the boss will cast
sheer heart attack and you've got till
the end of the cast bar to kill the boss
because when it's finished honey be
lovely is going to instantly give all
players Full Hearts give themselves
stacks of the queen bee stacking buff
and after a couple of seconds of you
dancing around aimlessly unable to
attack the boss it's game over thank you
for watching hope you found this useful
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