The Tomb is fourth Zombies map, taking players🥂 to the depths of an excavation site to uncover dark secrets and recreate the iconic Staff of Ice from past entries. But crafting this wonder weapon is far from the only easter egg on this map.

As with all past BO6 maps, there is a mainline easter egg that players can finish on either Standard or 🐻Directed difficulty, awarding a unique Staff of Ice skin and calling card for your trouble. If you're willing to complete some puzzles and fight a tough boss, this easter egg shouldn't take you more ꦕthan an hour to complete. Before you jump in, make sure you bring the right gear.

Loadout Recommendations

The Tomb has a fairly short easter egg with a multi-phase boss fight towards the end. You'll need to reserve one of your weapon slots for the Staff of Ice wonder weapon, plac༺ing significantly more🃏 pressure on your weapon choice. The good news is that most tried-and-true kinetic weapons work well for this easter egg.

Weapons

You can't go wrong with the ASG-89 for this easter egg. This is arguably the best kinetic weapon in all of Zombies, pumping ou🧔t absurd DPS with a massive ♊40-round magazine once Pack-A-Punched. Throw on Dragon's Breath if you own it to further increase this weapon's damage, although it's not needed.

A good alternative to the ASG is the AMR Mod 4. This weapon turns into𒀰 a fast-firing DMR when Pack-A-Punched. High bullet penetration and fast ADS make it perfect for killing fodder zombies, special units, and even elites if✃ you can aim for the head. It will also pass the DPS check on the final boss without much issue.

If you don't like using semi-auto weapons, assault rifles are your next best bet. The AS VAL has one of the highest DPS values in the AR category and gets triple the magazine 🍎size when Pack-A-Punched, allowing it to meet DPS checks while melting elite zombies ൲with ease. Just be wary of your ammo reserves with this gun.

Finally, you'll need the Staff of Ice to complete the easter egg. Fortunately, crafting this wonder weapon is one o🌜f the first steps of the easter egg, so you shouldn't have to worry about getting it from the Myst🗹ery Box or Gobblegums.

Augments

You'll want augments for every single perk, ammo type, and your chosen Field Upgrade before you start this easter egg. If you only want the bare essentials, get Tribologist for PhD Flopper and Armor Mitigation for Jugger-Nog. Tribologist effectively turꦜns your slide into a short-range dash that makes dodging attacks fairly easy, which you'll need to survive the final boss.

Hardened Plates should come as no 🦄surprise here. It greatly increases the damage mitigation of your armor plates, reducing the amount of HP damage you receive while you have armor in your vest. We can pair this with Shields Up, one of our Gobblegums, to tank a few hits from the possessed zombies you fight in the final easter egg step. Without this augment, you'll be downed immediately.

Stamin-Up has a couple of augments you should bring, especially if you're solo. Hot Foot effectively doubles your movement speed for five seconds after you land a kill with your tactical or lethal equipment. Throw a grenade into a pack of zombies, then use your newfound movement speed to quickly reposition. Finally, we suggest you run Free Faller if you dislike puzzles. There's a puzzle halfway through the easter egg that✱, when failed, will force you to take fall damage. Free Faller ensures that failing this step won't ꦆhurt you.

Equipment

If you want to proc Stamin-Up's Hot Foot augment, you'll want to bring a Combat Axe and craft LT53 Kazimir grenades once you're in the match. Both items deal t⭕rue damage and don't have to worry about scaling, making them effective for🔯 the entire match.

As for your Field Upgrade, Aether Shroud is by far your best option. Zombies will ignore your presence while active, which allows you to reposition or eliminate high-valu🐟e targets wh⭕ile invisible. It makes the final step of the easter egg significantly easier, especially for solo players.

Gobblegums

Perkaholic and Idle Eyes are standard Gobblegums for an easter egg run. You will save tens of thousands of Essence through Perkaholic alone, letting you get fully geared ✤up for the final fight before Round 30. Idle Eyes gives you a panic button that stops time. We suggest holding onto this until the last wave of the boss ༺fight.

Shields Up might seem strange at fi🌟rst glance, but it's the only way to survive the attacks of posse❀ssed zombies during the final easter egg step. These enemies nearly one-hit kill you by default. However, if you pair Hardened Plates with Shields Up, you'll have so much DR that you can tank a hit from these red-glowing zombies. It'll make solo runs significantly more forgiving.

Easter Egg Prerequisites

Completing this easter will require two things:

1. Pack-A-Punch must be opened.
2. You must create the Staff of Ice.

Pack-A-Punch is found on the opposite end of the map from spawn. It'll be marked on your HUD and is your first main objective, s𝓀o it's impossible to miss. When you reach the Subterranean Temple (quadrants G4/G5 on your map), interact with the pedestal to activate a dormant portal. Use the Dark Aether portal to reach the Pack-A-Punch device. This will start the easter egg.

Most of the quest steps will also require you to own the Staff of Ice, this map's unique wonder weapon. You will craft the Staff of Ice as one of the easter egg steps, so don'ඣt worry if you can't get one from th🎐e Mystery Box. At least one player needs the staff to complete the easter egg.

It's also worth noting that the final boss is absurdly difficult for solo players, arguably🦹 the hardest boss in the game. We highly recommend you aim for Legendary T3 weapons, T3 vests, and all perks before you fight the final boss. Aim to start the final step before Round 30 to make it as easy as possible.

Create The Staff Of Ice

This section gives a brief overview of how to craft the Staff of Ice. If you'd like a more thorough walkthrough, check out our 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Staff of Ice guide.

There are three components you'll need to craft🐬 the Staff of Ice, most of which are tied to short constellation puzzles🍬 we detail below.

• Monocle: Drops from a Mimic in Round 8.
• Staff: Drops from the constellation puzzle in the Tomb (quadrant D3).
• Head Piece: Drops from the constellation puzzle in the Neolithic Catacombs (quadrant D5).

Monocle Component

The monocle component drops from the first Mimic zombie you kill. One👍 is guaranteed to spawn during the eighth round. If you forget to grab the Monocle from its corpse, the next Mimic you kill will drop one.

Staff Component

Your next component is the staff itself, which you'll find in the Death Perception room (quadrant D3). Uncovering the staff will require you to complete a short constellation puzzle. To get started, shoot the floating purple crystal in the room. It will respawn after 30 seconds in a new location within the room. You're looking for the crystal to s💙pawn next to the mural on the left side of the room.

Once the crystal is in the right place, the painting of the bull will begin to display Roman numerals around its body. You must shoot the Roman numerals in order from lowest to highest; the symbol hierarchy is the exact same. For example, four🦂 is written as IV, which correlates with a V-shaped object with a dash to its left. The number seven, or "VII," would have two dashes to the right of the V. See the reference image above for examples.

If you fail to shoot the correct one,ಞ you can continue right where you left off after a few seconds. Failing three times will cause the constellation puzzles to move locations, requiring you to restart.

Shooting every symbol in the correct order will form a constellation, spawning a Dark Aether orb after a few seconds. You are now locked in the room and must eliminate every zombie the orb spawns. There's no time limit here; take your time. De༺feating all the zombies will spawn the staff component and a Max Ammo power-up.

Head Piece Component

Obtaining the head piece requires you to complete another constellation puzzle, this time in the Deadshot Daiquiri room (quadrant D5). Keep destroying the purple crystal until it respawns near the crafting table. A new constellation puzzle will appear on the wall. Shoot the Roman numerals in order, then kill a🥃ll the zombies spawned in. The head piece will spawn next to the constellation wall once all the zombies are neutralized.

Creating The Ice Staff

Now that you've collected all three components, enter the Dark Aether through any portal on the map. Walk up to the runic wall at the center of the nexus and activate this. You must now defend the Staff of Ice against an onslaught of zombies for roughly 60 seconds. You can fail t🎐his step, so make sur🐎e you're ready before starting.

There aren't any mechanics or nuances you need to worry about here. A Pack-A-Punched weapon and some perks are all you need here, altho🌌ugh killstreaks can help as weꦆll. Surviving the onslaught, you'll be able to claim the Staff of Ice as your own from the rune wall.

Upgrading The Staff Of Ice

As with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Citadelle Des Morts easter egg, you'll need to upgrade your wonder weapon before c🍃ontinuing the quest. If you haven't already, exit the Dark Aether and walk towardsℱ the spawn room.

This step requires you to freeze three purple crystals with your Ice Staff within ten seconds of one another. For clarity, you need to freeze the floating purple crystals that spawn in each room, not the Salvage crystals that occasionally spawn. Since you🍰're timed here, grab PhD Flopper and Stamin-Up before you start. Pick either route towards the Subterranean Temple (😼Quick Revive room) and start from spawn.

Step Confirmation

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If you freeze all three cry🍒stals in time, Archibald will make a quick comment on what you just did. If he doesn't say anything, you need to destroy the frozen crystals and try again.

With the crystals frozen, return to the Dark Aether through any Tomb portal. You will now notice that some of the debris floating in the sky will have runes etched onto them. Use the Staff of Ice to shoot any runes you find on the floating meteors. There areꦇ three ru❀nes in total. Take note of which runes you activated, as you'll need to memorize those shapes for the next part.

Activating all three runes will cause one of the portal exits to lock up. Exit the Dark Aether Nexus, then go to the dormant portal. It will have a wall of runes that mimic the ones you saw earlier. Shoot the three runes you activated in the Dark Aether with your Ice Staff. Inputting the wrong code will cause you to fall immediately after🐼 you enter the portal. This won't hurt you if you have the Fast Faller augment for Stamin-Up.

Do not move after you🔜 activate the portal. If you accidentally run off the platform, you꧂'ll need to repeat this step again.

If you input the correct code, a Dark Aether orb will spawn on the platform you teleport to. Interact with the orb to start an escort step. Here, you'll need to stay close to the orb and kill any zombies that spawn. Escorting the or🎃b takes precedence here. If you wander too far from the orb, this step will automatically fail and must be reatte𒁏mpted.

The good news is that the escort section is fairly short, lasting roughly a minute. An Amalgam will spawn towards the tail end of the escort section. You don't have to kill it to complete the step, but it will make the last few seconds rather tricky. Melt it quickly or find some way to slow the Amalgam, using your Staff of Ice or Cryo Freeze rounds to keep the zombie at bay. Once the orb infuses the rune wall, hold out the Staff of Ice and interact with the orb to receive your new upgrade: Ull's Arrow.

Charge The Zombie Statues

Surrounding the rune wall are four massive stalagmite-like structures with statues at their base. Each statue correlates with🤡 a🥃 certain monster type, as shown below.

Statues must be activated in the order listed below, from top t♕o botto🌳m.

While in the Dark Aether, walk up to the Vermin statue at the base of the southeast pillar and equip your Ice Staff. If you press the fire select input, the staff will swap to a healing mode. Shoot a healing orb at the Vermin statue crystal to charge it. The crystal will be bathed in purple fl꧂ame if done co🅺rrectly. Grab it and exit the Dark Aether.

Once in the material realm, make your way to the m🍌atching statue location—the Vermin statue at the Dig Site, in this case—to continue the quest. Interact with the statue to start a timed offensive. You'll need to kill as many enemies as possible until the statue is charged. Vermin statues will spawn Vermin zombies; Parasites will spawn Parasites, et cetera.

A successful trial will charge the crystal once again. Grab the charged crystal and return it to its respective Dark Aether statue. For example, if you charged the Vermin crystal, you'd head back to the Dark Aether and interact with the Vermin statue to plant the crystal. Some of the Dark Aether portals will be locked during this escort step, ꦺso be careful. You ✤need to repeat this for all four statues to finish this step.

Crystal Health

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Charged crystals are fragile and can shatter from sustained damage. Taking four hits will break a charged crystal, requiring you to restart that statue challᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚenge.

Defeat The Sentinel Artifact Boss

Charging all four pillars will empower a nearby gateway. Head to the pathway in the northeast corner of the Dark Aether Nexus (quadrant G3). Interacting with the nearby pedestal will assemble ওa bridge that leads to the Sentinel Artifact, this map's final boss.

Point Of No Return

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Once you start the boss fight, you must finish this encounter to complet🎃e tꦰhe easter egg. Make sure your team is ready before proceeding.

Sentinel Artifact is broken up intoﷺ three phases: an add phase, a DPS phase, and an elite phase that kicks in later in the fight. The artifact is effectively a prop here, emitting a giant laser that sweeps a🃏cross the arena. It should go without saying, but don't let the laser hit you. Use cover on the outskirts of the bottom and top floors to stay alive.

After the artifact ascends twice, it will begin to energize a zombie statue and become vulnerable to damage, denoted by a blue glow around the artifact. You must shoot the artifact from behind to deal damage. It has a fairly massive heaℱlth pool and will require some serious firepower to break. If you brought an ASG or AMR, that shouldn't b🔴e an issue.

Failing to shatter an artifact will spawn🍰 an additional wave of zombies. The zombies that spawn are determined by the statue the artifact was damaging at theꦛ time. For example, if any artifact were damaging an Amalgam statue, an Amalgam would spawn.

Shattering the artifact this way will cause it to split into multiple pieces, effectively duplicating itself. You'll now have to deal with two artifacts, but the process is the exact same as before. Repeat the add ⇾ DPS cycles until four artifacts are active.

Phase Two

Once there are four artifacts, a third phase is added to the equation: elites. Instead of directly dealing damage to the artifact, some artifacts will transform into possessed variants of elite zombies, denoted by a bright red or white glow. Zombies with a red glow will drop an artifact on death, which you can then shatter to damage the boss.

You'll have to fight three waves of possessed zombies in this fashion, starting with a Mimic and ending with an Amalgam. The Doppleghast wave is arguably the hardest due to its speed. Now is the time to use any Gobblegums you have. Idle Eyes will completely trivialize this part. Run laps around the bottom floor to avoid the lasers, pelt a𒆙way at the zombies with your kinetic weapon, and stay alive above all else.

After you've dealt with all the possessed zombies, it's time to finish the boss. Every artifact you've freed will now fire its beams at the real copy of the Sentinel Artifact on the second floor. Shoot at the physical artifact with everything you've got. If you fail to break it here, you'll need to repeat the eli💜te wa✅ves again. Break the artifact to complete the easter egg.

Easter Egg Rewards

Completing the easter egg will award you with The Tomb Calling Card for both Multiplayer and Zombies. If you completed this easter egg during ꧃the first half of Season 2, you'll get a special variant൩ of this emblem to denote your early, non-directed clear of this EE. A unique skin for the Staff of Ice will also be unlocked for use in Zombies.

Should you decide to stay in the match, you'll also be awarded every perk, three Flawless Pack-A-Punch crystals, and a plethora of Legendary weapons to choose from. You likely won't need all this gear since you had enough firepower to defไeat the Sent🐈inel Artifact, so don't feel pressured to stay once the easter egg is over.