Telos — Melee
Introduction
This guide assumes a very strong understanding of everything found in Telos Basic, Stuns And Mechanics and P5 Movement And Timing.
This guide assumes 250%+ and works best at 1000%+, but these rotations still work below 250% with some tweaks. Adjust accordingly from there - below 250%, these rotations can be loosely followed but after that, you definitely want to make sure you follow them.
Notable Enrage Checkpoints and Changes past 999%
⬥ 1000%: P4 one rock will fall, P5 multiple rocks will fall, immortality no longer works P5, and Telos will freedom stuns and binds with a 16 tick cooldown
⬥ 2000%: "So you think you can guard?" Achievement, aka Silver Warden
⬥ 2700%: Tendrils damage required caps at 30,000
⬥ 3300%: The first prayer drain on P3 will smite you from full unless Telos touches the beam
⬥ 4000%: Hard enrage cap; "The True Warden" Achievement, aka Gold Warden
Presets and Relics
⬥ Melee Telos melee Guide illustration
Rotations
Wars
Make sure you have at least 2 bloodlust stacks.
Phase 1
devo + surge → berserk + adrenrenewal → gbarge → meteorstrike → assault → overpower → ezk spec → dragonscimitar spec
Phase 2
wait 1 tick → gbarge → assault → overpower → cane → gfury
Phase 3
zgs spec → gbarge → gflurry → chaosroar → overpower → rend
Phase 4
gbarge → assault → cane → adaptivestrike
Font 1
prep → reflect → tc golem + anticlearheaded → divert → adaptivestrike + stickybomb → gfury → target telos + overpower → punish
Font 2
adaptivestrike → meleebasic → meteorstrike → res → freedom + stickybomb last tick of gcd → target telos + gbarge 2t later → gflurry → varanussmercy eofspec + dive
Font 3
meleebasic → anticlearheaded → adaptivestrike → devo → dismember → chaosroar → target telos + sezk spec → rezk spec → gfury
Phase 5
Red beam rotation
berserk + adrenrenewal + disrupt → gbarge → assault + dive → overpower + powerburstofvitality → varanussmercy eofspec → cane / punish
Green beam rotation
Only used when too low adrenaline, loses ~5 seconds
berserk + adrenrenewal + disrupt → barge → assault + dive → gfury / anticlearheaded → cade → overpower → varanussmercy eofspec → varanussmercy eofspec → punish / cane
Example Kills
Attribution and source history
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