[Guide] Kelsaik Nest Lancer Solo (Updated)

  • ~ Kelsaik Nest Lancer Guide ~



    This is an updated version of Kelsaik Nest Lancer solo guide.


    Video guide (watch in 1080p):



    1. Weapon:

    • +12 Wonderholme Quick Lance or +12 Nightforge PvE Lance.
    • 14 crit rate, 8.6% more damage to target with highest aggro, 6% more damage.
    • If you have Nightforge Lance, as 4th roll get 0.3 crit damage or 4.5% attack speed.
    • Nightforge Lance isn't really much better than Wonderholme Quick Lance - it will make your runs faster only by 20-30 seconds.
    • You can also get Wonderholme Keen Lance, but you will need to roll 4.5% attack speed instead of 6% more damage.

    2. Chest:

    • Wonderholme Chest or Visionmaker Chest or Nightforge Chest.
    • Doesn't have to be +12, it's enough to get +9.
    • It's important to roll 15% more damage on spring attack.
    • Other rolls aren't very important.
    • If you really want to, you can roll for: restores 0.4% HP when attacking, 6.9% less damage from frontal attacks, 6% less damage, 8% more HP.

    3. Boots:

    • Wonderholme Boots or Visionmaker Boots or Nightforge Boots.
    • Doesn't have to be +12, it's enough to get +9.
    • 6% movement speed, restores 1% MP, 4 endurance.
    • I recommend getting Wonderholme Boots, as they restore more MP than Nightforge Boots.

    4. Gloves:

    • +12 Wonderholme Gloves for Berserker or +12 Nightforge Gloves for Berserker.

    • 2.25% attack speed, 5 power, 9 crit rate.

    • Don't use Lancer Gloves, as they don't increase your power.

    5. Earrings:

    • Zenith Earrings or Cascade of Desire or Sharp Noctenium Earrings.
    • Very important to roll decreases stun duration by 10% on both earrings.
    • The second roll isn't important. It's nice to get 4.5% more HP or restores 0.48% HP.

    6. Necklace:

    • Kelsaik's Focus or Kelsaik's Rage.
    • 2 crit rate on rollable stat.
    • If you feel like you are too slow, get Kelsaik's Focus. Otherwise, get Kelsaik's Rage.
    • This necklace has a hidden 3 power stat. It's a better choice than Zenith Necklace.
    • This necklace also has Pulsing Flame, which will stagger Kelsaik, giving you more time to DPS.

    7. Rings:

    • Zenith Rings.
    • Very important to roll 4 crit rate.
    • The second rollable stat isn't important. You can try to get 0.04 crit damage.
    • Zenith Rings are better than Rings of Pain. I spent many hours testing it, and with Zenith Rings my runs were faster by 30 seconds (on average).

    8. Crystals:

    • 3x Mutinous Crux and Fine Carving Crux.
    • 4x Fine Vigorous Crux.
    • 4x Pristine Powerful Zyrk.
    • You can also try replacing Pristine Powerful Zyrks with Pristine Carving Zyrks.

    9. Glyphs:


    10. Consumables:

    • Onslaught Scroll of Savegery V.
    • Nostrum of Energy V.
    • Not really necessary, but you can also use Mana Elixir VIII.
  • Vigorous crux is a bad idea,better with 4x anarchics.


    Also kn necklace might kill you if you need to take debuff and kn gets staggered.Of course you can chose to switch earlier but this means getting hit more often,lowering your dmg uptime.


    Didn't watch video,hope you are not enraging him.

    When in an awkward situation, peeing everywhere asserts dominance and makes you alpha as fck.

  • Do we really need another KN guide?


    GRat - I've no idea why you think anarchic is better - you're not going to be getting hit by anything if you're not dumb about switching your debuffs.


    Even with a single claw you can stand about 5m away and get the debuff switch.


    Saying you NEED a +12 modern T14 lance is funny too, you can easily do this with a +9 Steadfast lance - though of course - that will be less efficient.

  • @Lolita
    This is a guide to clear it as quickly as possible. Of course you could do it with t11 lance, but why would you want to do that if you can get t14 Wonderholme?


    And answering your question: yes, I think we need a modern KN guide. The last one I saw was targeted at t12/t13 gear.
    Also, I've recently seen too many lancers who either: a) still fail to solo KN, or b) take over 10 minutes to kill Kelsaik.


    So, in essence, this guide should help them shorten their clear times.

  • The guide is nice and all but what kind of person confidently says you should aim for crit rate on a boss that has the highest crit resist rate of any boss in the game.
    Quite frankly that makes little sense to me.

  • Ok some Criticism:


    Weapons are dpswise in that order:


    NF PVE > WH Keen > WH Quick > WH Intense.
    Explenation: Never ever roll Critrate onto your weapon if you ONLY use it to farm KN solo. Wasted Stat.
    Allways roll (priority order): 8.6% damage against monster with highest aggro > 6% damage > 4.5% attackspeed > 0.3 Critdamage.
    WH Keen over Quick because you get 8.6% as base, Quick only has 6% base, same as Intense.


    Jewelry:
    - Rings: ALWAYS RING OF PAIN!!!!!!!!!! Critrate is just stupid, 6% flat damage + higher attackmodifier scale so much better, at least against Kelsaik.
    - Earrings: Zenith Earrings. Roll Stunduration reduce on it, but it is not necessary because you can dodge the stun easily after some time of practice. and even if you get hit, will never ever kill you unless you let the powerbuff stack up to 4 or 5.
    - Necklace: Zenith Necklace: 7% Attackspeed > 3 Power, especially if you block cancel a lot!


    Gameplay: Why would you enrage it after 30%, what do you want to achieve with that? Him not spawning Crystal? With the setup i just explained you will have enough damage to kill him befor he spawns it, without even relying on some lucky crits. And even if you can't kil him befor, you will be way faster without enraging him, because HE WILL STAND STILL and you can just attack him, and does not do all this jumping around and stuff.


    Can't argue with the other stuff tho.

  • WH Keen over Quick


    Never ever roll Critrate onto your weapon


    LMAO @implying intense is worst. I'm done here \o/

    DPS spreadsheet~


    Cleared data due to new patch, not playing much myself so data will rely on whatever people send me.
    (Full screenshot so I can see which instance and boss to avoid cheating + see consumables used. Last time got data from some boss when people claimed it was another, max hp gave it away)

  • When wil ppl see that rolling 0.3crit multiplier in pve is just dumb :'D never ever roll critdmg if you want to use the weapon for pve only.

  • "But I crit more with it!"

    DPS spreadsheet~


    Cleared data due to new patch, not playing much myself so data will rely on whatever people send me.
    (Full screenshot so I can see which instance and boss to avoid cheating + see consumables used. Last time got data from some boss when people claimed it was another, max hp gave it away)


  • LMAO @implying intense is worst. I'm done here \o/


    I'm only talking about KN Solofarming as Lancer. Tell me in which way Intense is superior to Keen.
    Keen stats:
    - 8.6% Damage to Monster with highest Aggro
    - 0.3 Critdamage
    - 14 Critrate
    Intense stats:
    - 6% Damage
    - 15.5% more Aggro
    - 14 Critrate


    Ofcourse in overall playing Intense is better on Lancer, but for KN Solo, Keen weapon is the way to go!

  • Ah right, forgot lancer got 15.5% more aggro on intense instead of some dps stat and didn't know it got crit rate O.O In that case you are right, for kn keen better.

    DPS spreadsheet~


    Cleared data due to new patch, not playing much myself so data will rely on whatever people send me.
    (Full screenshot so I can see which instance and boss to avoid cheating + see consumables used. Last time got data from some boss when people claimed it was another, max hp gave it away)