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Black Stone Dragon Combat Achievements

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Introduction

This guide will go over how to complete the Black Stone Dragon Grandmaster Speed Killer combat achievement, and assumes you are already familiar with the basic mechanics of the encounter which can be found in #ed2-basic.

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Presets and Relics

⬥ Necromancy necromancy

⬥ Range Melee Hybrid range melee

⬥ Melee melee

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Melee Grandmaster Speed Killer melee

⬥ Having a slayer task is highly recommended, as well as dragonslayerperk and dragonslayer

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War's Retreat

dba spec → sezk spec → darkness / invokelordofbones (to stall)

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Black Stone Dragon

dive + rezk spec + meteorstrike + vulnbomb → divert → berserk + (equip lengmh lengoh) → gbarge → gflurry → chaosroar → varanussmercy eofspec → (equip 2h) cane → anti → prep

First Hand

gbarge → assault → overpower + dive

Second Hand

adaptivestrike + vulnbomb → gflurry → adaptivestrike (if not dead) + surge

Third Hand

overpower → adaptivestrike → rend → gfury → meleebasic (if not dead) + surge

Fourth Hand

(equip mwspear + jawsoftheabyss) dismember + vulnbomb → slaughter → (equip lengmh lengoh) adaptivestrike → meleebasic → rend → adaptivestrike → meleebasic → gfury → (equip vestmentsofhavochood) meteorstrike

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Note: try to kill the fourth hand with meteorstrike

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Black Stone Dragon

adaptivestrike + vulnbomb → berserk + adrenrenewal → divert → gbarge → gflurry → dragonslayer + overpower → chaosroar → ezk spec → assault → varanussmercy eofspec → punish

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Necromancy Grandmaster Speed Killer necromancy

Perks
⬥ Robe top of the First Necromancer firstnecrorobetop     • Dragon Slayer dragonslayerperk     • Crackling 4 crack4 + Relentless 5 relentless5 ⬥ Robe bottom of the First Necromancer firstnecrorobebottom     • Impatient 4 imp4 + Devoted 4 dev4     • Invigorating 4 invig4 + Mobile mob
Abilities
⬥ Darkness darkness ⬥ Conjure Undead Army conjurearmy     • Have all 4 conjures selected ⬥ Greater Bone Shield greaterboneshield ⬥ Dragon Slayer dragonslayer
Other
⬥ Tier 100 weapons shardofgenesisessence     • May be less consistent without ⬥ Equilibrium equilibriumaura ⬥ Ring of Vigour Passive Unlocked rov ⬥ Pray soulsplit and ruination     • sorrow may not be as consistent ⬥ Ripper Demon ripperpouch with ripperscroll     • ripperscroll autofire set to 1

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War's Retreat

warsretreatteleport dummy: Get 5 residualsoul stacks and 8 necrosis stacks at wars.

Outside BSD Room

conjurearmy + equip cinderbanes → lifetransfer → commandghost → invokedeath → splitsoul → commandskeleton

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Black Stone Dragon

surge + dive + tc + bloat + vulnbomb → deathskulls + dragonslayer → volleyofsouls → touchofdeath → necrobasic → deathguard90 eofspec

First Hand

invokedeath + vulnbomb → soulsap + Place 2 dommine → bloat → commandskeleton → soulsap → touchofdeath

Second Hand

bloat → soulsap → invokedeath → omniguard spec → necrobasic → soulsap → necrobasic

Third Hand

invokedeath → bloat → commandskeleton → touchofdeath → necrobasic → soulsap → necrobasic

Fourth Hand

invokedeath → fingerofdeath → necrobasic → necrobasic ‎ ‎→ nat → commandskeleton → touchofdeath → necrobasic to full adren

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Flight Skip

lifetransfer + vulnbomb → livingdeath + adrenrenewal → touchofdeath → deathskulls → divert → splitsoul → dragonslayer + bloat → volleyofsouls → fingerofdeath → fingerofdeath → touchofdeath → deathskulls → commandskeleton → deathguard90 eofspec → kill with basics

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Ranged-Melee Hybrid Grandmaster Speed Killer range melee

⬥ Rotation strives for 1:10-1:14.

⬥ This rotation is NOT recommended for standard kills, only for the grandmaster achievement with a kill timer significantly faster than using Necromancy if desired.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎• Strongly recommended to only spend time building 10 leng stacks primordialice at wars AFTER practicing rotations on each of the four hands individually.

⬥ Dragons slayer task. Kill dragons until about 5-10 left on task to maximize genocidal genocidal perk.

⬥ For combat dummy placement, click exact spot shown in the example video.

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Perks
⬥ Elite Dracolich Hauberk edracobody and Vestments of Havoc Robe Top vestmentsofhavoctop     • Biting 4 biting4     • Crackling 4 crack4 + Relentless 5 relentless5 ⬥ Elite Dracolich Chaps edracochaps and Vestments of Havoc Robe Bottom vestmentsofhavocbottom     • Impatient 4 imp4 + Mobile mob     • Dragon Slayer dragonslayerperk + Genocidal genocidal
Other
⬥ Tier 100 weapons shardofgenesisessence     • May be less consistent without ⬥ Mahjarrat Aura mahj ⬥ Kal'gerion Demon kalgpouch with kalgscroll autofire set to 1 ⬥ Jas Dragonbane Arrows jasdragonbanearrow + Deathspore Arrows deathsporearrows in quiver pernixsquiver.

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War's Retreat

warsretreatteleport dummy: Auto with lengmh lengoh to build 10 primordialice stacks → Set dummy to max hit mode bolg deathsporearrows build 4 deathspore stacks → dba spec → sincend

Outside BSD Room

dummy + rincend + deathsporearrows gricocaroming → nat → zerk + dive → anti + surge → freedom

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Black Stone Dragon

gbarge + vulnbomb → assault → dragonclaw eofspec → overpower → havoc → chaosroar

First Hand

1x dommine + dragonclaw eofspec + vulnbomb → masterwork2hsword cane + dive

Second Hand

lengmh lengoh spec + vulnbomb → gfury → meteorstrike → punish (if not dead) + surge

Third Hand

gbarge + equip bolg edracobody deathsporearrows → bolg spec + vulnbomb + 1x dommine → gricocaroming → ecb eofspec → rapid → mds

Fourth Hand

divert → gricocaroming + vulnbomb → deathsporearrows incend → gdeathsswift + adrenrenewal + jasdragonbanearrow → piercing → mds → bolg spec → piercing

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Flight Skip

mds + vulnbomb (you want to be at 3 bolg bolg stacks after greater dazing for optimal remainder of this rotation) → ecb eofspec + (4t) smokecloud → shadowtend → gricocaroming → rapid → dragonslayer + dbow eofspec → sgb eofspec → dbow eofspec → gricocaroming → if not dead, finish with another dbow eofspec

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Example Kills
⬥ Melee Example melee ⬥ Necromancy Example necromancy ⬥ Ranged-Melee Hybrid Example range melee

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