My journey to soloing Vergamot as an unwashed night lord

I was never especially interested in Vergamot, until one time about 5 months ago when I was trying to clear it on my buccaneer Edgedancer, and I was in a party with the pro player Nightz777 . I thought it was really sick how he dodged all the seds and knew all the attacks, and I decided I wanted to be like him, so I set myself the challenge of soloing Vergamot.

Unfortunately, I don't love my bucc enough and I decided to do it on my night lord. My night lord never hp washed, but I'd heard a bunch of people on the forums say that Vergamot's attacks are all dodgeable, and theoretically anyone can fight it, so I figured with enough tries I'd eventually beat him. I watched some videos of vergamot and tried to learn his attacks, then I started my attempts.


It didn't go very well, and after 5 days of dying to the same attack twice a day, I eventually looked into it and did some measuring. It turns out that Vergamot's minigun attack doesn't give any indication until about 500ms before the damage hits. Since triple throw's cast time is 600ms and average human reaction time is close to 200ms, this attack is undodgeable a significant amount of the time.

So it turns out everyone who claimed that all of Vergamot's attacks are dodgeable is a dirty liar. My little challenge was impossible (edit: I am a dirty liar) without bending the rules a bit. Luckily, every other attack is definitely dodgeable, with indications given more than a second before the damage hits. And the minigun attack has some limitations. It is used only at the beginning, with the minigun breaking as soon as the first body goes down. It also is pathetically weak, only doing up to about 10.8k damage (from my experiences). I figured I could use the chocolate basket I had saved from the valentines event to give myself HB for 1 hour, which with some HP from pet equips and event equips would get me to just above 11k hp. During the 1 hour I could hopefully kill the first body and be safe from the minigun. To me, the basket is basically like using a HB mule so it doesn't really count as soloing, but whatever.

Sadly, my game lagged and froze and I couldn't pot and died to like the second attack and my basket was gone. Then I realised I can just use GM buffs in the same way, if I'm ever online when they happen. Around that time, I didn't play ML for a while, but recently I came back and took up the challenge again, and finally today I was online during some GM buffs! After receiving them I went straight to Vergamot and started the battle. I also had gotten echo, but I'm already cheating a bit so who cares.

With the GM HB for 1 hour, I could survive the minigun, and also the cannons which was convenient because I got hit by them a bunch during the first body. I was scared I wasn't gonna beat the 1st body within my 60 minutes, so I started using energizers to up my damage a little bit. Turns out I may have worried needlessly, I had almost 10 minutes of HB left when the first body died.

10 minutes into the second body, my HB disappeared and the real challenge finally started. From then on, if I took any attack I would die. I started playing safer, giving myself extra time around the cannon attack to make absolutely sure I wouldn't get hit. But even then I messed up one time during the second body and the only thing that saved me was my avoidability giving me a lucky miss. For the next 20 minutes I ducked and dodged all the other attacks, and slowly beat the 2nd body.

The third body had a new attack that was unfamiliar to me, and I got hit and missed once more before I got the hang of it (the damage happens really late in the animation). After that, I got into a rhythm and it was actually pretty boring for a while. But it got more exciting towards the end when I thought I might actually make it! And I did! With some help from GM buffs and a lot of LUK, I finally soloed Vergamot

 

lol yikes I never even tried to outrange it. Welp that's a little embarrassing, thanks for the information though. May have to edit the post and take back calling everyone a liar haha