Guide to Dry Top Events

Guide

Hello and welcome to SAND's Dry Top event guide! Dry Top has 2 main parts:

  1. Crash Site
  1. Sand Storm

Here is list of the Dry Top event table on the wiki.

1. Crash Site

During Crash Site (First 40 minutes) there are events happening throughout the map. We run the events using 4 different squads:

  1. Prospect Valley Squad
  1. Cliffs Squad
  1. Uplands Squad
  1. Floater Squad

New events spawn every 5 minutes and repeated every 15 minutes. (So an event that happens at :00 also happens at :15). Since this part is only 40 minutes that means the 3rd set of events only happens twice.

The following is event cycle for each squad.

COLOR LEGEND

Green - These events can get bonus points!

Red - Precautions for an event!

Purple - Achievements for people wanting to get achievements

1. Prospect Valley

This is the main squad and usually has 10+ people.

  • Crystals (00, 15, 30)

    Bonus (if inquest fails to capture crystal)

    Hit and run - Use a rock to knock a crystal shard out of inquest hands.

    Grab crystals and throw in baskets (need 20 crystals). Don't let inquest get crystals.

  • Tootsie (00, 15, 30)

    Bugged!

    Try(?) and kill Tootsie

    • Save DPS - She runs the first time. Don't break until she's under 90%. Then a quick cc if a second one happens.
    • The issue is that the cc doesn't work like normal. The cc stops Tootsie from running, but the cc bar is shown before Tootsie is even ready to run. So if it breaks to early, the break bar will be recharging, but Tootsie will run.
    • Sometimes it just doesn't work. Usually you have to do Tootsie a couple of times.

  • Nochtli (05, 20, 35)

    Upscales - Send a small group to do Nochtli after Colocal while the rest of the squad goes to captives.

    Sparring Rock Master - Defeath Nochtli without falling off or leaving the top of rock.

    Defeat Nochtli.

  • Captives / Champion Golem(05, 20, 35)

    Good time to do llama achievement

    For captives, you need to free all the captives from the pods (don't worry about ads). For Champion Golem kill all the things.

  • Town (10, 25)

    Decimate the two veteran thrashers and the veteran tendril in the middle.

  • Injured Zephyrites (10, 25)

    Bonus (if no zephyrites are lost)

    You need to rescue 12 zephyrites. Inquest will spawn and attack zephyrites. It helps to have a couple of people guarding the entrance as mobs will spawn there and take out the Zephyrites running.

    • Swiftness/superspeed will help them get out faster
    • Heal the zephyrites.

2. Cliffs

This is the secondary squad which needs 4+ people

  • Supplies (00, 15, 30)

    Upscales

    Heist Hinderer - Prevent skritt from raiding supplies.

    Kill the Skritt Thiefs and don't let them take the supplies. (Other mobs won't take supplies so focus on thiefs).

  • Rustbucket (00, 15, 30)

    Send 1-2 to start Rusty while everyone else does supplies.

    Rock 'n' Roller - Do event in under 5 minutes

    Throw charged rock at Rusty in order to get his defenses up. Rusty will be attacked 3 times.

    • Bugs sometimes - Sometimes Bakker doesn't appear and/or you aren't able to talk with them.
  • Beetles (05, 20, 35)

    Upscales heavily (only want 1-3 people max)

    Kill beetles and give beetle remains to Bakker.

    • Sometimes Bakker doesn't spawn or you can't interact with them.
    • If event finishes and you have extra beetle remains; save them for next time!
  • Aspect Suit (10, 25)

    Kill champion.

    • You'll want to be on bunny at the beginning to cc the champion.

3. Uplands

1-4 individuals (Some people like to solo this whereas others like to have more people)

  • Victims (00, 15, 30)

    Fails Quickly - Be there at start

    Upscales

    Kill the tendrils before they kill the sleeping lazy humans.

    • You can use the "Makeshift Tendril Smashers" to kill the tendrils while they're underground.
  • Tendrils (Uplands Oasis)

    Bonus (if never burrows)

    Upscales

    Kill the tendrils.

    • Must kill small tendrils before you can kill larger tendrils.
    • This is normally done by floaters, but you should double check it's been done.
  • Golem (05, 20, 35)

    Kill champion golem.

  • Vine Bridge (05, 20, 35)

    Kill mordrem until vine bridge forms.

    • Doesn't always happen and usually handled by floaters as well. You should double check it's been done after champion inquest.
  • Champion Inquest aka Light bridge (05, 20, 35)

    This event has two parts:

    1. Gather electricity from the basket to the electricity teleporter.
      • You get knock backed and lose electricity if you get hit.
    1. Go fight champion inquest on the other side of the light bridge.

4. Floater

Only need 2-3 individuals

  • Tendrils (Prospect Valley) (00, 15, 30)

    Bonus (if never burrows)

    Kill the tendrils.

    • Must kill small tendrils before you can kill larger tendrils.
  • Tendrils (Uplands Oasis) (00, 15, 30)

    Bonus (if never burrows)

    Upscales

    Kill the tendrils.

    • Must kill small tendrils before you can kill larger tendrils.
  • Shaman (00, 15, 30)

    Talk with Shaman to start the event. Kill all the baddys.

  • Vine Bridge (05, 20, 35)

    Kill mordrem until vine bridge forms.

    • Doesn't always happen.
  • Serene (05, 20, 35)

    Upscales

    Help Serene recover her 6 crystals. Inquest will fight her along the way.

    • If she dies, you have a set amount of time to revive her.

    Very slow!

    • Serene likes to run towards enemies and walk back towards the task at hand. When she starts attacking the inquest at the crystal, focus on all other inquest first. (Like this she runs around less)
    • Don't kill enemies too far ahead of time as they will respawn and Serene will run backwards.
    • Do not attempt to do this during the 3rd round as you will not have enough time.
    • If baskets starts while Serene is going on; send one person to basket (aka, if you are alone; leave Serene and go to basket). If you finish baskets quick enough, sometimes you can make it back in time to revive Serene and finish this event. (Down timer on Serene does not reset)
  • Baskets (10, 25)

    Fails Quickly - Be there at start

    Upscales

    Bonus (if inquest don't steal supplies)

    Kill all the inquest! If they kneel at the basket then they have "stolen" the supply and therefore you don't get bonus.

2. Sand Storm

During sand storm (final 20 minutes) there is only one global tag. This is normally our glorious leader, Moon! There are two sets of events (one in the 1st ten minutes, one in the 2nd ten minutes). In each set we normally do Dust mites and Haze followed by some champions/legendaries.

  1. First 10 minutes
  1. Second 10 minutes
  1. Other events we normally skip
  1. First 10 minutes - :40
  • Dust Mites

    Kill all the dust mites! (How are there so many dust mites?!)

  • Haze

    Unfortunately does not upscale

    Help protect Haze. If you look closely they change hair all the time!

  • Skritt Burglar

    Baby DPS - Only 1 hit needed for gold

    Llama Drama - Get turned into a Llama by the skritt burglar (Best chances are when you are really close to the burglar)

    Kill Skritt burglar and get shinies!

2. Second 10 minutes - :50

  • Dust Mites

    Kill all the dust mites! (How are there so many dust mites?!)

  • Dust Mite Twister

    Kill the dust mite twister

    • Someone should pull the twister to the path of Haze so you can do both at once.
  • Haze

    Unfortunately does not upscale

    Help protect Haze. If you look closely they change hair all the time!

  • Skritt Queen

    Baby DPS - Only 1 hit needed for gold

    Tier 4+

    Kill the queens 8 protectors and then kill the queen!

  • Legendary Giant

    Demolish the legendary giant! (Or more accurately, get thrown around by the giant.)

    Condi cleanse, stability, and reflects for Sand Giant!

  • Dust Monster

    Demolish the dust monster.

    Dust monster is only done if we are not doing the next cycle and if we have enough time.

3. Other events we normally skip

These events normally aren't worth the time considering their effort and/or they don't scale well.

  • Eway

    Upscales

    Sand Shield - Prevent Researcher Eway from falling below 25% health.

    Help protect Eway! (Usually 3 hits makes achievement fail, so be ready!)

  • Explosives

    Grab explosives, use 1 to find devourers, use 2 to plant devourers

  • Skritts

    Stop the skritt from stealing crystals. (multiple events happening all at once)

  • Chickenado

    Upscales

    Chickenado Chaser - Catch a chicken from the tornado.

    Tier 3+

    Hit tornado until it throws chickens. Grab chickens before they die.

    • Only happens 2nd ten minutes