User:GlazedHam/Operation Plague Star

=Operation Plague Star Guide= Plague Star is an event that occurs periodically on the Plains of Eidolon. A large Infested Boil has landed on the Plains and Konzu has a bounty to go and deal with it.

The event is current broken into a few major parts. I will provide strategies for each of them as follows.


 * Get the Thrax Toxin
 * Put the Toxin in the Mixer
 * Take the Mixed Toxin to the Drone
 * Escort the Drone to the Boil
 * Battle the Minions of the Boil

Essential Items

 * Eidolon Phylaxis - increases the number and difficulty of basic enemies in the final stage
 * Infested Catalyst - increases the number and strength of the Hemocyte mini-bosses

These are used in the mixer stage from your Gear Wheel. Don;t forget to equip them!

Stage 1 - Retrieve the Thrax Toxin
You must travel to a cave in the NW corner of the Plains. Find your way down the cave interior and steal the Thrax Toxin from the large yellow receptacle thing.

NOTE: You cannot use Archwing, Operator, or Flight abilities while carrying the Toxin. However Nova can use Wormhole to teleport long distances with the Toxin.

NOTE: You CAN use Archwing to get to the cave, rather than walking.

Stage 2 - Mix the Toxin
Once you have reached the Mixer, place the Toxin in and then you will be able to add 4 of each Eidolon Phylaxis and Infested Catalyst.

NOTE: If you cannot sufficiently burst down the Hemocytes, you may opt to just use the Phylaxis instead (for a slightly smaller reputation reward, and no cystoliths).

NOTE: Titania can instantly burst the dropships as they come in. Meaning the defense mission is just a waiting mission.

Stage 3 - Take the Toxin to the Drone
Again you have to manually carry the Toxin to the drone. Bullet Jumping is the only real way to do this part unless you have a Nova modded for Wormhole distance.

Stage 4 - Escort The Drone to the Boil
You must follow the Drone as it makes its way to the boil.

NOTE: Loki can speed this process up by using Switch Teleport to swap the Drone closer to the boil. Rinse and repeat to lower the time it takes for the Drone to travel.

Stage 5 - Battle of the Boil
One the drone has reached the boil enemies will start to spawn form Pods that will appear around the arena. It is not advised to kill Pods since they provide better spawns so you can kill faster and raise the mission percentage.

At 25% intervals, if you have use Infested Catalysts, Hemocytes will spawn. They increase in strength each time. You have to kill the Hemocyte in order to unlock the percentage bar and continue progressing.

Stage 6 - Return to Cetus
Head back to the gate.

NOTE: Your party should use Archwing to fly back and reduce mission time.

Party Composition

 * Titania - modded for high Razorwing fire rate and damage (duration, strength)
 * Rhino - for good % damage buff (duration, strength, range)
 * Loki - modded for range to swap teleport the Drone (range)
 * Nova - for transporting the Toxin with Wormhole (range)

You may use other frames if you don't have these of course. However, you won't be completing the event in under 10 minutes.

Essential Gear

 * Sarpa with Shattering Impact - for Armor Strip
 * Corrosive Projection - for Armor Nullify
 * Weapons with high damage and especially Fire Rate

Killing Minions
High damage large area of effect weapons are create for killing the spawned Infested.

NOTE: You can increase your percentage faster by killing the spawned enemies and NOT the pods.

Killing Hemocytes
The Hemocyte is a re-purposed Lephantis with additional mechanics.
 * Immune to status effects
 * Has damage cap per bullet of 600 (so a Lanka will do diddly squat to it)
 * Has periodically vulnerable points on each head
 * Corpus head opens its face to expose bright green weakness point
 * Grineer head (the one with the scythe) opens both its blue faces when swinging
 * Infested head opens its orange gills when firing the homing rockets

To quickly kill a Hemocyte you will need a weapon that can hit 600 damage per bullet and fire as fast as possible. A good weapon for example would be the Soma Prime. You want to mod for raw damage and crit since the Hemocyte is immune to status. You will also want to mod for Corrosive since that has the highest % damage modifier against him.

As you fight more and more Hemocytes their Armor starts to get crazy. If you plan on killing all four you will want 4 people in your squad using the Corrosive Projection aura mod.

If you do not have 4 Corrosive Projection auras, the Hemocyte will still have some Armor, you can remove this with the Sarpa and Shattering Impact. Once his health base turns red instead of yellow he is completely Armor stripped. Alternatively, a maxed Unairu operator with the Armor Strip dash can just dash back and forth through the Hemocyte a few times for the same effect.

The teams Titania will be absolutely murdering the heads as they spawn by using Razorwing. Time to kill for the Hemocytes (once they've walked out of the boil) should be less than 30 seconds, 10 if you're good.