KCGemini | Grounded: Infused Infected Broodmother solo [NG+4 Whoa! difficulty - No damage] (Double Parry Ed.) @KCGemini | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Official Release v1.4.4.4634

Just like the Coaltana, the Coldtana can mess a spider up.

Her Infusions:
Increased Movement Speed
Increased Attack
Increased Max Health
Fresh Magic Attack
Shockwave
Projectile Bomb
Spicy Magic Attack

There's not much to say past my other videos except that I don't think anyone has defeated IBM with double parries and managed not to get hit. Although I only needed to parry two fast flurries, fighting her this way made not lowering her attack speed a requirement, making the fight a bit more interesting for me.

For IBM's fast flurry, I found it effective to time the block for the first hit as late as possible. Afterwards, one should hold block until the second hit is done. Finally, the third, fourth, and fifth hits should all be blocked with normal timing.

On another note, the nerf to fresh AoE attacks in 1.4.4 applies not only to the player but also to infused creatures with that effect. In 1.4.3, I would have definitely gotten hit by her exploding her infused effects upon her faked death at 0:37 (which is a bug that has yet to be fixed), but now its effect is much smaller than spicy explosions and sour projectiles. The hit radius is almost point-blank now, which is a shame.

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Items and Equipment:
Fresh Coldtana Lv. 15 - With Samurai, it becomes a blender of pain. It also comes with Finale Parry, which increases parry frames by 15 milliseconds for every third hit in a combo for 10 seconds. Successful perfect blocks also give a 25% increase to attack for 10 seconds.

Infused Crossbow Lv. 15 - +Critial Hit Chance (ammo: fresh arrows)

*+Critial Hit Chance - Raises crit chance by 5%

Glowbasa Necklace #1 - Samurai / +Hunger Rate / Finale Fury

*Samurai - Katana weapons get a 10% increase in attack speed every hit. Upon being hit or switching weapons, this attack speed is lost, and only 5 stacks of attack speed can be generated, maxing out at 50% attack speed

*Hunger Rate - Decreases hunger drain by 20% (Not very useful here)

*Finale Fury - Every third hit in a combo temporarily increases attack speed by 20%

Glowbasa Necklace #2 - Fresh Damage Up Best / +Critical Hit Chance / Implant Weakness: Fresh

*Fresh Damage Up Best - Increases fresh damage by 50%

*+Critial Hit Chance - Raises crit chance by 5%

*Implant Weakness: Fresh - Adds a debuff that gives an enemy 50% increased damage to fresh

Note: I switch between trinket #1 for Samuri stacks and trinket #2 for increased damage.

Eyepatch Lv. 0 - Adds 10% more to one's attack but at the cost of taking 25% extra damage.

Fire Ant Arm Guards Lv. 9 (Sleek) - This armor piece has a 10% chance to inflict corrosion upon striking the enemy, which reduces defense by 15% for 10 seconds.

Assassin's Greaves Lv. 9 (Sleek) - Critical hits have a 30% chance of causing a bleed debuff. Since the Infected Broodmother is 60% resistant to bleed, this ends up doing 8 damage a second for 10 seconds.

Koi Scale Helmet Lv. 8 (Sleek) - Gives an extra 15 milliseconds to one's parry frames. This effect stacks with the other armor pieces and is used to reliably parry IBM's fast flurry via double parries. Additionally, its set bonus, Dazzling Riposte, lowers a creature's defense by 20% for 10 seconds upon a successful perfect block. Combined with Finale Parry, one can have an extra 60 milliseconds of parry time, making double parries easier.

I think that Koi armor should have its parry time doubled, as it would be significantly more helpful for its intended purpose.

Koi Scale Breastplate Lv. 9 (Sleek) - Same as the above.

Koi Scale Greaves Lv. 9 (Sleek) - Ditto.

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Food and Drinks: (due to the cooldown for using buffs, I skipped recording these actions)
Perfect Toast - +5% crit chance and +40% to critical hit damage
Boss Sauce - +5% crit chance
Liquid Rage - +10% attack
Green Machine - 20% faster stamina recovery
Boost Juice - +20 stamina

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Mutations:
Blademaster Lv. 3 - Although this will lower IBM's attack damage by 30%, its primary use is reducing the exhaustion timer by 90%, which is more than necessary since Samurai drills through stamina like nothing.
Parry Master Lv. 3 - Every perfect block recovers 100 stamina.
Natural Explorer Lv. 3 - Despite combat significantly reducing the speed this gives, what little it does helps one get a better position faster.
Coup De Grass Lv. 2 - 5% crit chance, stack all the crit.
Trapper Peep.R Lv. 3 - 60% more damage from critical hits, pairing nicely with the other buffs.

Lastly, the Infected Broodmother mount was used for an extra 20% damage increase.