I've been farming for the March To Axis one shot, looking for that elusive Coat. I started off with my Cyc, but after about 20 something runs I quickly realised that this was going to take a while and likely required a bit more finesse, someone a bit more specialized to the the task. Especially since Coat of the Skull is such an awesome item, and it's inevitable that I would eventually want more than one, so instead of grinding my way towards that one meal, I decided to teach myself to fish so to speak, and decided to find someone who could clear it a bit quicker, and train them up for the role.
Here I'm using a Moon Knight build equipped with Ziggurat for travel (which I swap out while Red Skull is dusting off his Coat after the cutscene), and a Malekith's Medallion to help BURST DAMAGE him down before he can pop his Shield, and a Falcon Insignia, which is basically Black Panther's, but the move speed helps out (and I have a very nicely rolled one). This isn't the best time possible on this, this isn't even MY best time possible, if you watch this run I made a couple of mistakes, and the spawns weren't anything amazing either, nor was my RNG particularly when I fought the first Hulkbuster, and as far as my gear goes the rolls are nothing special, and most my stuff is i66, purple insig, only using Asgard Relics, Signet Ring instead of Xaviers, a very meh Pet, etc, etc, so optimally I could definitely shave a few more seconds off with this character, but this was still a very solid run and my Shadowplay kept derping earlier, and with my current gear I won't be getting significantly higher, be really pushing it to get under 3.40 (edit: since the original post, found a new shortcut at got under 3:34). The main contributions to the length of this terminal is definitely travel time, the 1min delay on the doors, pathfinding through the complex, and Red Skull's shield shenanigans anyway, so I think once you hit a certain point there isn't a great deal of improvement to be seen.
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Takedown tracker has me at clearing this one shot over 100 times now, and as you can tell by the video I've been running 3x RiF buff's the entire way through, and I still haven't gotten my coat. However, I'm ever drawing closer to that Takedown III achievement, and it's a matter of time before I get a drop too I hope. He's actually dropped a bunch of wierd stuff for me including all his other personal boss drops multiple times on each, as well as a few OTHER boss's drops that I didn't currently have, like a nicely rolled Spider Clone Serum and a Sinister Cuirass, so that was interesting. Wish me luck.
I'm kinda new to this community, but browsing some of the threads in the "General" category a lot of the general response to people posting apparently anything at all, has not been super encouraging for me to post a thread like this, but meh I'm going to post in anyway and just add this disclaimer that this is NOT a brag, I'm 100% sure other people can do it faster than me, and I'm not claiming to have set any new record or something like that. I'm just posting because I put a fair amount of effort into really dropping my times on this terminal, I wanted to share my findings, and also hear how other people are doing it!
Here's some tips/thoughts for anyone doing the same:
---- A teleport is necessary, no matter what character you are using, if he doesn't have a TP, throw a Ziggurat on, no matter how much damage you are getting out of that 4th artifact you will save much more time by keeping a Ziggurat up. Don't worry, there is a window after the Red Skull cutscene before you can attack him anyway, it's perfect to swap back out to your DPS artifact without it costing you anytime, you can see me do this in the vid.
---- On that note, after you find Agent Woo, the two Access Code waypoints will spawn randomly. Always follow them counter clockwise, or at least go for the bottom-right-iest one last, as there is a little ledge you can hop down to the complex door with a teleport (you can see me do this at 1:05 in the video), and the alternative of trying to TP or dash down the path doesn't work for some reason, might have something to do with the fact that you are descending levels but there is invisible walls that force you to walk it, more or less. At the start of the map, make sure you TP up the left cliff by clicking in the top left corner
---- Multiple characters have the potential to do this very well, if not better than Moon Knight. I know Blade and Emma have a whole lot of burst and stand a good chance of melting Red Skull before he can activate his shield. Elektra and Scarlet Witch can instagib the Hulkbuster spawns to immediately snap his shield back off. My buddy @Aoyama tells me he does it with Silver Surfer by using his Irresistible CC once Red Skull calls his Hulkbusters to shield him to cancel it, by reacting to some animation tell that Red Skull has. A bunch of possibilities out there, I couldn't tell you how they all actually play out because as I said I'm fairly new and I don't even own most those characters.
---- save your ultimate for if you mess up against Red Skull and he gets his shield up. And make sure you remember to use it for this. Stops you getting annoying bogged down by him chillin on 2 hp behind shield
---- I tried Clea team-up, she seems stronger than Deadpool if she works, but much less reliable, shes pretty hit and miss with her Rune. Deadpool generally seemed to line up his CC perfectly to delay his shield after I set my proc's and DoT's up, but this might not hold true for every character. Speaking of team-ups, you can try using team in Calldown mode if necessary for slightly more burst.
---- I didn't post the specifics of my build here, because I suspect nobody really cares about Mr Moon. If anyone is interested let me know and I will share though.
Let me know how this terminal is going for you! Any experiences with it I'm interested in hearing, thanks for your time. Praise the Moon! All hail Konshu, the God of Critical Hits!!