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Date of upload: Jul 17, 2022 ^^
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RYD date created : 2022-07-24T19:25:10.978812Z
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Hey! As someone who recently started an IDV channel, it's cool to see another channel that's a bit ahead of me in development and see how you're doing and what your experience has been like. Also, as a hunter main who recently discovered that I love Wax Artist, this was a fun video to watch. In response to your vid, I have some tips I've learned for you or anyone watching that wants to join the Wax army and help crush those horrible survivors.
Like many Bon Bon players learn, DON'T spam your ability and pray something hits. Wax is the same. The wax % has a 12 second timer from your last wax hit before it wears off. So use that time to pick your shots, light them up when the shot is clear, and shut it off when you're repositioning. Be patient.
Don't use the Wax block whenever it's off cooldown, it is VERY inefficient and will clean out your wax supply. It is very useful strategically though. The 2 most common uses for it are 1) when you feel that 12 sec timer running thin and you can't get a clear shot to reset your time, drop the block on them to buy yourself another 12 secs to keep their wax % alive. 2) when you have them at 75% or above and you want to quickly hit 100% without waiting for a clear shot or some harasser to save them, drop the block on them to end the chase.
Basic strategy with Wax is get surv up to 80% (NOT 100%) and try to get a hit on them. As you recover and they run away, shoot them from a distance to hit 100% and go collect your prize (wax block is killer for this). 80% is the magic number bc that is the max speed debuff (-6%) you can apply with wax. The closer to 100 the better WITHOUT hitting 100, bc it'll be that much faster to freeze them after you recover from hitting them.
Chairing near someone decoding a cipher is always best. Wax needs to disrupt ciphers during chairs or he will lose. Wax block is easiest way to freeze ciphers but remember it's really inefficient so if you have time to just shoot the machine, do that. Also you can shoot any part of the machine, even the top antenna if an obstacle is blocking the machine.
General hunter tip: Never show kindness to Novelist. Purge the scourge.
General hunter tip #2: if you have time, always pick up failed Prospector magnets so they won't be around later when they could be a problem.
When to use the hot wax: generally only activate hot wax after you have applied a lot of cold wax and are ready to apply the damage. Shooting hot wax on cold wax will continue the wax %, but it doesn't work the other way around. If you activate hot wax too soon, shoot them awhile but don't get the 100% and hot wax ability timer runs out, when you switch back to cold wax, you start back at 0% and all that hot wax was just wasted from your limited supply. Also, when applied cold wax timer runs too long, it wears off gradually, but when applied hot wax % timer runs too long, it just drops to 0 immediately.
Good luck Enderknux and all my fellow Wax Artists (and Feasters!)
Also, I appreciate any comments to my own vids if IDV fans want to check them out. :) Happy Hunting!
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As someone who played wax artist quite often, there're quite many playstyle you can do with him.
*General tip:
- Wax artist general soft counter most surv in the game, all surv with stun ability can become vulnuable during chase and harassment as you can just shoot wax on them with 75% or more and they can basically build their own grave. Freezing surv can make perfume, owl, shield from professor useless as you can wait them out then hit them after which might require good timing. Some good counters against Wax Artist (for me generally) is any surv with reading hunter's location early in the game like Seer or The Mind's Eyes as reveling Wax Artist's location early can really mess him up as creating distance can prevent him from shooting wax and freezing surv early.
- You can double hit a surv by shooting surv with around 90-95%, hit the surv, then try to shoot wax to 100% to freeze them and get another hit again. Having second present (hot wax) unlocked while camping a chair is very strong as you can basically double hit rescuer and prevent save.
- Without first present (shoot wax ball), it would be extremely time consuming and inconvenience to close window this way, i recommend shooting wax and chasing surv at the same time
- After obtaining first present, shooting wax ball at the window that surv is running toward to prevent them from vaulting. Also, when chasing suvr in a location with multiple window, adjust the location of the wax ball so it can close most of the window.
- Using wax to prevent surv from priming last cipher is very strong as it can lengthen the game
- Wax can run out easily, use them wisely and only shoot when possible to shoot
*Persona web:
- If you want to utilize max present power then you can use 3-9 persona web with faster pallet breaking. It boost the present quicker so i can use hot wax as early as possible. Surv can get 25% when they stun you so with this build you can get aggressive, break the pallet and continue the chase. However, i only use this build in open maps as it's easier to shoot wax to freeze or damage surv with wax and hot wax in open maps like Moonlit River Park or Eversleeping Town.
- Some closed maps are great counter to Wax Artist as he can gotten himself looped by surv for so long in an area so you can get 3-12 persona web to prevent that from happening.
- Or you can play standard build like many other hunter with 3-6
*Recommending traits:
- Teleport: Applying pressure on cipher and finding surv easier
- Blink (Of course): Quicken up the chase
- Abnormal: As wax can prevent surv to prime and fix ciphers, this can pair up nicely with freezing cipher then abnormal. Also wax prevent surv from priming while abnormal is performing
- Peeper: Recommend in small maps as it give wax artist direction where and when to shoot wax and also mind gaming.
- Listen: Yeah this is kind of a troll one but using this while chairing surv to early hit them as they have to move to get to the chaired surv which will give away their location but if they dont move then chaired surv might move into second phase. Suitable in low rank tho although i won using listen in rank sometime lol
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@enderknux-idv
1 year ago
Whoopsie daisy, it takes 1,000 to monetize, not 500! Guess we have a bigger goal to hit! :>
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