Keyes Island Reactor Trial/Strategy
Overview
This is a player-made strategy guide for the Keyes Island Reactor Trial
 Map of the Keyes Island Reactor complex with user created markers |
Reactor Hope
The first phase begins, after players have spawned on the map, either by moving towards Reactor Hope or automatically after 5 minutes. A cut-scene with Anti-Matter will play unless every participant has already done this trial before. The first goal of this phase is to defeat 30 WarWorks that spawn around the Reactor. When the required number is met, all WarWorks will despawn for a few seconds before the second part of this phase begins. Around the base of Reactor Hope, small boxes of electronics are scattered, that start to glow shortly after the WarWorks despawn. Along with the glowing boxes, new groups of WarWorks spawn again. Clicking one of the glowing boxes will bestow the player with a temporary power "Power Cell". This temporary power is needed to fully charge 10 terminals on Reactor Hope in order to re-establish the magnetic containment and prevent the Reactor from blowing up.
The 10 terminals are located on the small walkways pointing towards the reactors core on all 3 levels of Reactor Hope, and all are guarded by small groups of Warworks. Before a terminal can be charged, these WarWorks have to be defeated as they prevent players from using their temporary powers. Each terminal needs 3 charges to be fully recharged, with a small message appearing over the terminal when a power is used, showing it's current recharge level (33%, 66% or full). Power Cells and WarWorks at the base of the Reactor respawn roughly every 2 minutes.
After 3 minutes, Anti-Matter will make his appearance and fly around the area, attacking players. Additionally, every 30 second, the whole map is hit with an Anti-Matter Pulse for large amounts of damage. The time of the next Pulse is shown in the HUD. The only safe location from the Pulse is the in-map hospital, so before leaving the hospital it is good to look out for the Pulse timer. If Anti-Matter is damaged by players, the Pulse will grow in strength.
After all 10 terminals have been fully recharged, Anti-Matter will disappear for a while, the Reactor Hope is secured and battle will continue at Reactor Genesis.
STRATEGY: Have the league leader designate the following groups of players from the teams:
1) AV Puller(s). This should be one or more tank(s) or brute(s) with taunt. It is this person's job to move Antimatter to each terminal as directed by the Temp Power Chief.
2) Temp Power Chief. This person will get ALL of the temp powers. It will be up to this person to tell the AV Puller where to place Antimatter.
3) Upper Level Mob Killers. This should be a small group, typically with a /kin, who attacks and kills the mobs guarding the terminals. Often times, this is scrappers or brutes, fulcrum shifted, who can quickly kill the mobs without hurting Antimatter.
4) Glowy Stealthers. Anyone with stealth ability should move quickly to click on the glowies. As the temp powers are obtained, give them to the Temp Power Chief who will apply them to the terminals. Careful positioning among the boxes and behind walls near the glowies make them relatively easy to stealth without getting agro from neighboring groups. It's often best to clear several slots from your top power tray so you don't have to fumble among the listing of powers to find the temps as you get them. Save up 2 to 4 temps before going upstairs to find the Temp Power Chief.
5) Rest of the league. Stay down below, kill Warworks and stay in the healing bubble provided by league members. For this group, there's not a lot to do except stay alive.
Reactor Genesis
The second phase is pretty similar to the first phase with some minor twists. First, there are no glowing boxes scattered around the reactor's base, but groups of WarWorks containing Goliath War Walkers. These War Walkers will be labeled as Recovery Team Goliath and players have to defeat them to get the temporary powers. Again there are 10 terminals on Reactor Genesis, guarded by WarWorks, but these guards have a problem with their RFID tags so you can recharge the terminals without defeating the guards (for now). After a time of approx. 3 minutes, Anti-Matter will re-appear. In response to the RFID problem, Anti-Matter uses his override code to prevent players from recharging the terminals. Therefore, Anti-Matter has to be near a terminal, for the terminal to be rechargeable.
After all 10 terminals have been fully recharged, Anti-Matter will disappear again, the Reactor Genesis is secured and battle will continue at Reactor Infinity.
STRATEGY: Same as Reactor Hope, only this time there is no separate Glowy Stealther group. They merge into the main league. Since the WarWalkers wandering around at ground level give the temp powers when defeated, it's much easier to stay alive by simply killing mobs and being healed during combat. As temp powers are awarded, again, move quickly to give the temp powers to the Temp Power Chief who will apply them to the terminals. If you get a temp power drop, quickly go upstairs, give the temp to the Temp Power Chief, then then return quickly to ground level and rejoin the main league to kill more WarWalkers.
As with the first reactor, the other three roles (AV Puller, Temp Power Chief and Upper Level Mob Killers) will proceed as before, positioning Antimatter, killing the small mobs guarding the terminals and applying temp powers to the terminals.
Reactor Infinity
The last Reactor is no different from the first two reactors, just that this time the temporary powers are stored in locked bunkers. Players have to bust up the doors leading into the bunkers and get the Power Cells from the glowing boxes inside. All bunkers have a clickable blast door inside that opens up access to two additional Power Cells.
This time, all WarWorks guarding a terminal have to be defeated and Anti-Matter has to be near the terminal for the players to be able to recharge them. After recharging 10 terminals and securing Reactor Infinity, the Anti-Matter Pulse will stop and Anti-Matter will retreat to the Truck Depot for the final fight.
STRATEGY: Essentially the same as Reactor Genesis, only this time the temp powers will be obtained by clicking glowies inside the bunkers. Have the Main League gather and kill a large bunker door at one of the bunkers (unless going for the Bunker Buster badge) and then overwhelm the WarWorks inside. Click the glowies and pass the temps to the Temp Power Chief.
As with the first two reactors, the other three roles (AV Puller, Temp Power Chief and Upper Level Mob Killers) will proceed as before, positioning Antimatter, killing the small mobs guarding the terminals and applying temp powers to the terminals.
Once successful the pulse damage will be eliminated for the rest of the trial. Proceed to the Truck Depot.
Fighting Anti-Matter
Anti-Matter will re-appear fully healed (if players did damage him in the previous phases) at the truck depot. His arsenal of attacks is devastating and he is surely no walk-over. Anti-Matter will have the following powers:
1) Entanglement: Each player will be randomly assigned with either Alpha or Beta Entanglement. Players of opposite entanglements close to each other (Alpha near Beta, Beta near Alpha) will to damage each other. This effect stacks so more players of the opposite entanglement inflict more damage. However, this phase of the trial is so fast paced that it is impossible to take the time to really pay attention to this, and any decent incarnate league should have enough healing that this effect is negligible. However, if it is troublesome, simply have Alpha move to the north of wherever Antimatter is and Beta move south.
2) Obliteration Beam: Anti-Matter will command his space station to fire an Obliteration Beam onto the battlefield. For several seconds before the beam hits the ground, a huge green circle will appear and players should immediately leave this circle. Characters caught when the beam fires will be held, then crushed by the beam itself. Players who exited the target circle (big green area) should be careful to not run back into the field as they can still be damaged after the hold phase ended. Also, fliers should try to stay on the ground because the target circle is difficult to see if it is airborne.
3) Disintegration Ray: Probably Anti-Matter's most annoying attack is his Disintegration Ray which targets one player at a time. A warning will appear above the players head that he has been targeted for disintegration. The character will suffer 3 (or 4) hits of increasing damage and if the victim dies (even due to normal combat damage), Anti-Matter will heal from the event. This can be as much as 20% of Hit Points from one single target and is the main reason for this phase to be the most tedious. Thus, if you are targeted with the Disintegration Ray, move quickly out of Antimatter's line of sight and well away from combat. Do not try to survive through it even if you can, it's not worth the risk to have the AV heal to this amount. Players who survive the disintegration will be drained of endurance.
Three times, at 75%, 50% and 25% of his health, Anti-Matter will freeze time and retreat to small bunkers around the Truck Depot. During this event, he will rapidly regenerate health. The event will temporarily immobilize everyone in the league. Use this time to tab and target one of several clusters of terminals around one of the three nearby bunkers. There are 3 (or 4?) terminals around the bunkers (each side, so be sure to clear both sides) which need to be destroyed. Do so as rapidly as possible to stop the regeneration process. Don't be disheartened if the first time he fully heals, it's likely that insufficient damage has been inflicted to stop this.
The moment he starts healing, the freeze will break and players can rush to the bunker for destroying the consoles. When all consoles are destroyed, Anti-Matter's healing will be interrupted and he will fight again.
Thus, the strategy for this phase is as follows:
1) Attack Antimatter with everything you have. Pets, lore pets, you name it. 2) Watch for the green Obliteration Beam targeting circle. If you see it, make sure you don't queue up additional attacks -- the animation time usually guarantees you will be caught in the beam. 3) Watch if you are targeted by the Disintegration Ray. If you are, break off of combat and hide behind a solid object. Wait till you are no longer the Ray's target. 4) Use the "freeze time" window to tab across the available targets and determine which bunker the terminals are at. Move quickly to them (follow command works well) and blast them with everything you have.
Good luck!
Helpful Macros
As the temporary powers can be gained several times, a macro can make the usage of these powers more easy.
/macro Cell "target_custom_near terminal$$powexec_name Power Cell" - targets the nearest visible Reactor Terminal and queues a Power Cell for activation