So here’s the challenge:
Rule 1: 100% AFK Callagadra kill (Ultimate)
Rule 2: No active skills allowed, only permanent buffs and those that can be triggered while AFK
Rule 3: If using pets you can’t resummon pets or cast any support spells like wendigo totem, blood of dreeg etc.
Rule 4: No pharma
What if we ignore sets and go all in on toughness? I have a 600% bonus to pet hp on one char. Close to 60% phys res. Bleed and Pierce could probably be taken to 85% with eye of dominion.
Been thinking about that one. Can it tank through sunder? So far, aside from warlords and warders, I was able to make only one other char that can AFK the beast, - battlemage. 10k armor, max regen. But killing Calla AFK is … Takes longer than an hour
Attrition would still be an issue and I am not sure pet HP regen can be brought up to the point where they can survive through it.
Then there is the 100% facetank for the player which I assume means facetanking sunder as well without moving.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe it can be done with some weird slow as hell setup, but I am extremely doubtful, even with something like Bat on the Briar (I assume) and Tree for extra AoE heal.
Maybe max’ed out Birb can Mend Flesh to keep everything alive? not sure how effective the heal is these days.
In my head I was thinking basic movement was still allowed but you did say 100% afk… so the trickster/dervish idea is likely out.
Maybe as warder/commando but that brings up a question. How much “no retal” are we talking here because either of those classes are going to have some just by the nature of the skill lines. Like you’d want vindictive flame for hp regen but it also has flat fire retaliation which gets boosted by temper, menhir’s bulwark, etc.
Good point. As long as your retal damage is lower than your main damage it should be fine? It’s reasonable to assume there’s going to be some retal from passive skills and devotions. I’m just trying to exclude full retal builds as they naturally have a huge advantage.
If it has Targo’s or Obelisk’s proc then it’s retal imo
I thought about Ember’s Calling Vindictive Flame build personally but I only play max damah variants of builds and try to evade-tank Calla with them (most often than not they turn out to be a bit too squishy / low chance of winning or very good reactions needed) so I don’t know for how many / what builds are viable for afk tanking if you go full defense / Tree of Cringe etc.
Nice. Yeah, BK is smth that instantly pops up in mind cause it has damaging pets and retal-ish skill.
But talking about the fastest - you probably need to explore builds that can actually proc rr. maybe some archon, maybe elementalist with blast shiled mod stacking. You can have very high uptime on blast shield that will basically negate all dmg.
Go for it. Also Elementalist will have same single rr (can’t press mines). Archon - with Wind Devils and Guardians? Possible, but stacking tank will be hard.
If we allow temp buffs then it would include seals, totems, etc. One could argue that temp pets should also be allowed in that case? What about resummoning perma pets? I was trying to avoid the confusion and simiply make it 100% AFK.
Done. Did hover over buffs/debuffs with my mouse as well as showed gear/skills/devotions during the fight. Character was fully afk tho. Not a retal build.
Wanted to make a faster kill but first couple of attempts got absolutely destroyed because my initial attempt was nowhere as tanky. Can probably be slightly optimised to squeeze out a better timer, but I find challenges like this boring. This is easier than doing properly optimised balanced endgame builds.
not sure how effective the heal is these days.
