I was looking forward to the CoE videos in the video guide sticky, because a lot of people I’ve pugged with have trouble there. In particular, I was hoping that they’d show how to deal with Subject Alpha. I have about 2000 more CoE tokens to grind up for my Warrior (probably gonna need another 1200 or so when I get my Thief to 80), and I would highly appreciate it if people were somewhat less terrified and terrible when it comes to him in my pugs and stopped dying 10 seconds after getting in range of him, especially with the waypoint placements of paths 1 and 2. Unfortunately, the only videos up of CoE right now kind of show the group failing pretty hard at Alpha, so I’m just gonna write my own little guide here and hope that someone will be willing to learn from it or contribute. Subject Alpha is just absolute terror to most people from what I’ve experienced.
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I’m not going to give you exact group strategies or whatever (DO THAT YOURSELF), but I will hopefully be able to make you less terrified of the second ugliest thing you’ve ever seen. Also note that these are all my own observations and I’m a mostly solo/duo player – I ONLY pug, and pretty much only play this game with one other person, who doesn’t run any dungeons. So I won’t claim to have the entire thing analyzed (in fact there’s some stuff I am unclear on myself and would like to test, and with red circles everywhere it’s pretty messy). This is also all off the top of my head, so… hopefully I’ve got a great memory lol. If you see something off or flat out wrong, just tell me and I’ll check it when I can.
