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Storytime: The peak of the Lich system.

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So, like everyone else, I've been having a lot of issues with the Lich system. Clipping all over the place during the animations, dying a "normal" death when I test requiems that I already know are good, and the lich goes invisible for me during the rest of the mission and ranks up, while the attempt doesn't get tracked on the requiem screen. Yesterday I had six liches spawning on a single mission: the four we were hunting, an allied converted lich that spawned but we had them with a boss healthbar and marked with the lich red thingy on the map for their stay, and then a revisit of the second lich, now one rank higher, for no reason whatsoever?

The system has, you know. Kinks to iron out. But yesterday I had one of those spectacular moments you remember for a while, the peak of the system so far for me, and one of the best coop moments I've had in Warframe so far.

So I was hunting a Radiation lich, as you do, and had requiems 1 and 3 figured out; plus the next attempt was gonna give me 2 no matter what. It was also the first time I was fighting this particular lich at Rank 5, I hadn't met the bastard since the last rank-up, and I was eager to be done with it. He had a… 40something% radiation Ogris? Which isn't great, but I hadn't mastered Kuva Ogris, and since I got 3 fucking Quartakks in a row when I started I'm honestly open to whatever the game gives me.

I also make my Radiation liches with Nyx. I've heard horror stories about Oberon Liches making parties oneshot each other or leaving fields that make them impossible to Mercy after downing, and won't risk that. For those unfamiliar, Nyx Liches basically have a ton of utility: clones, swap, that sort of thing.

So this guy spawns, on a capture with a group of randos, while we're on the way to extraction. He instantly kills the first guy that gets to the marker, up to a good start. Every gun does single digit damage to him. He's just murdering my mr27 helpers like they're made of paper. What is going on here.

It's a ten minute fight, and somehow none of the randos want to bail, only for taking him down to the second bar so I can pinpoint the last Requiem. Wrong one, people get playfully pissy in chat, F, extract.

So back in the ship and with my 3 requiems, I load up the lich screen to see why this guy is so damn tanky. Motherfucker.

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No weaknesses.

Immune to Corrosive.

Resists Slash, Radiation, Toxin.

YEAH BECAUSE I'M TOTALLY GONNA FIND A GROUP OF RANDOS THAT DON'T USE THOSE DAMAGE TYPES ON GRINEER, LET ALONE ON LICHES. I get Nyx back out the closet because hey, if it's gonna be a twenty minute boss, I wanna be invulnerable during it.

By then I'm baffled, but you know, I have the three requiems, let's do this. I change mods, load up into… Mars Mobile Defense, was it? My lich is almost full enraged, so he'll probably spawn, I guess. And as soon as the datamass goes in on the second station, there he is. He spawns (I still do single damage to it with everything, why), makes four clones, runs around ignoring all damage and kills a couple of dudes, switch teleports into the defense objective, oneshots it with the Kuva Ogris. Mission Failed. Half the team doesn't even know what happened.

And I'm just. Looking at the screen. Smiling like an idiot. I can't kill this thing, and it's just dunking on everything and everyone. I'm mr22 clown, but these guys are all 25-28, and a lot of them carry specialised meta shit. I genuinely feel threatened by this fucking lich. This is it, this is the peak of the system. I've made the Final Boss of Warframe.

Here's where the magic happens.

One of the randos doesn't leave the party, and messages me asking what weaknesses the lich has. I tell them none, and the list of resistances "What did you do?" "I DUNNO I JUST SHOT AT HIM". He calls another postgame dude from his clan, and we queue on the same mission. We're doing this man. We're making this happen.

And my lich doesn't show up. So we enter the datamass. Then he just spawns and oneshots the objective again, Fission Mailed. By this point I'm laughing like a madman, I've created a monster, and nobody wants to see it no more. But the recruited folk won't let on, and now have a grim determined personal vendetta against my lich. They call a fourth, since the rando that the game gave us to fill the last slot obviously wants nothing to do with me, and we queue for Capture. At least there's nothing to defend.

So the damn lich spawns, in a balcony in an open area like he knows he's a fucking superboss by now and demands his own arena. Everyone rushes to him, the balcony gets crowded with the shadow clones and the four of us trying very hard not to kill each other with Rad procs while simultaneously dealing meaningful damage. I'm in my Absorb Safe Space so I'm spared the worst, but everyone dies like three times on the balcony alone. I'm walking into melee range so that Sableye Broly can burn time and animations picking my invulnerable ass off the ground and throwing me off the balcony.

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First Requiem, down, second requiem, down. He tosses me over the railing again, and then teleports to me for a Boss Stage Transition. I got grabbed on the instakill thing eleven times on that fucking fight, all of them on Absorb, thank god.

Fifteen Minutes, last requiem, the lich falls. And trying really hard to ignore the "fucking kill him"s on the chat, I wonder. Yeah, I don't have the Kuva Ogris. And 40something% isn't "that" bad. But.

But.

So I convert it. Respect where it's due, and all that. I give one of the requiems used to the guy who stayed with me and organised the hunt, both as a memento and because it's the last one they need for their lich, and everyone sits and talks on their dojo, in which I've been graciously invited for the trade, about how my Lich is the greatest weapon the tenno have for the New War. Exit, stage left.

I've hunted three more since then. But this is probably the peak of what the system can be for me.

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