Tail phase (The Hueycoatl)
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Tail phase (The Hueycoatl)
| Type | Mechanic |
| Videos | 2 (first 2024-09-25, latest 2024-09-26) |
| Main source | Dead Content on Release (OSRS) |
Tail phase (The Hueycoatl) is a mechanic topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2024-09-25 and 2024-09-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.
Methods
- On The Hueycoatl's tail you are guaranteed to hit if crush is your highest attack style, so primarily-crush weapons like the Bopper maces always hit while a scythe, whose highest style is slash, does not.1
- After the head reaches 50% health, tail waves come out of caves that you must dodge; Gnomonkey kills the tail while meleeing, and then finishes the head.2
- The Hueycoatl's tail phase caps your hit splat at 9 and guarantees you hit if crush is your highest style, similar to Araxxor.3
Stats and numbers
- The Hueycoatl's tail has a damage cap of nine, so you cannot hit higher than nine.1
Tips
- Double-hit weapons are very good on The Hueycoatl's tail because of the damage cap of nine, which he calls counterintuitive but true.1
Gnomonkey's opinion
- Gnomonkey says the tail phase's damage clamp purposely makes scythe and other high-priced items bad and made the Blood moon set rise in price because the Dual macuahuitl are crush and hit twice, which he says encourages merching by mid-level players.3
- Gnomonkey says there is no way to speed up the tail phase other than having a lot of people.3
- Gnomonkey says Scythe is not best in slot on the tail because it has a low crush bonus, which also affects weapons like Soul Reaper axe and Lance that crush with a higher stab or slash bonus.4
- Gnomonkey says that instead of making the tail weak to Bopper maces, which already are good on the rest of the boss and roughly third best to camp, Jagex could have made it weak to earth spells to teach gear switching.5
Revision history
| Date | Video | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-26 | Dead Content on Release (OSRS) | Added: 5 statements (method, opinion) |
| 2024-09-25 | HUEYCOATYL GUIDE - Release Day (OSRS) | Page created: 4 statements (method, stat, tip) |
| ## See also |
References
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HUEYCOATYL GUIDE - Release Day (OSRS), 2024-09-25. ▶ 3:57 ↩↩↩
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HUEYCOATYL GUIDE - Release Day (OSRS), 2024-09-25. ▶ 7:06 ↩
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Dead Content on Release (OSRS), 2024-09-26. ▶ 2:01 ↩↩↩
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Dead Content on Release (OSRS), 2024-09-26. ▶ 2:34 ↩
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Dead Content on Release (OSRS), 2024-09-26. ▶ 3:01 ↩
Category: Mechanics