Starcraft 2 ESSENCE OF ETERNITY - Hard Guide - Purity Of Purpose!

[@bobandal]

I looked at quite a few KZbins regarding this achievement but this one seems to be the easiest out there. This is mainly because you reduce the choke points from four to just two. Your bunker layout at west is efficient because the siege tanks will fire at both ends. At east you let Artanis die but the siege tanks placed above the highest fortress not only protects you, it protects Zagara enough to keep her alive.

[@Airdrifting]

The easiest way to do this is to build planetary fortress and mass siege tanks. After the initial waves, build a planetary fortress on top of the Protoss ramp ASAP, have 3-4 SCV repairing it while splitting your early tanks between your expansion base and Protoss base, also put a line of turrets along the edge of the cliff near Protoss base. You can also use a planetary fortress to defend your expansion with some siege tanks. Later you want to start making vikings / merc vikings and have about 6-8 of them to take out broodlords / bcs / carriers in Protoss base and top of your expansion. Zerg's base will fall eventually since you couldn't build on the ramp due to creep, but it should hold out till the last few minutes. Just add two more cc/plantetary fortress on top of the final ramp with some siege tanks and you are gold.

[@zuphix1802]

In my game, Artanis' entire base is wiped out by 6 minutes and in yours he hasn't even had his first attack by 8 minutes... Don't know what trigger I'm hitting that makes it come earlier. I had to skip the fourth Bunker on the North to make the first Planetary Fortress earlier, and pull all the Marines out of the Bunkers for the 6 minute attack on South. Then I rallied the reinforcements back to the North and it's still not enough. Edit: Actually I've had to change so much about my strategy that it's not even the same anymore, this guide no longer works.

[@christophertrinh9526]

Finally got this achievement after a few tries (May 28, 2021), with a few minor differences: 1) I used Kerrigan's beam to stop the first wave of Ultralisks that attack Artanis. This uses 3 shots, which still keeps you under the threshold and keeps Artanis alive a little longer, for those whose macro / micro aren't quite as fast. I did not bother to get Artanis's gas after he died, and did not need it. 2) I pulled in the first order of Hel's Angels Vikings just a tad early to destroy the first wave of battlecruisers that attack, preventing my command center and a few tanks from being destroyed. 3) Towards the 18:00 mission time point, Kerrigan at ~82%, a massive attack came in on the southern side that overwhelmed my defenses, despite having ~16 vikings and 12 tanks (8 + 4 siegebreakers) on the southern side. It included a large group of Aberrations, Brood Lords, 2 battlecruisers, and 2 carriers. I reloaded at this point a few times, and managed to pull through by rearranging my siege tanks carefully so that the SCVs could repair the command centers. I had maybe 20 total SCVs (I had maybe 4000 minerals by then) to repair, and made it through this part, losing a few siege tanks, a bunch of vikings, one command center, the barracks and the bunker. I started to rebuild the destroyed command center, barracks, etc., but nothing was complete before the next wave (where Amon is throwing everything he has) came in. That said, I quickly hired a bunch of mercenaries at the end (Jackson's revenge, more vikings, more siege breakers, basically everything available), and Kerrigan was able to get to 100% in the middle of that last wave. 4) Note that the upper left side held admirably in the general configuration from the video. I put in 5 tanks there slightly earlier, and also filled in the bunkers sooner, which I think reduced the amount of needed repair. I stationed 4 vikings up there until that last attack at 18:00, where I pulled those vikings into the southern defense point.

[@theonethathungers5552]

Doesn’t work anymore. Either balance changed units in campaign, or this is a lucky run. You either don’t have enough resources, don’t have enough forces, or don’t have enough scvs repairing. Bottom literally walks over my forces with two abberations tanking all the damage from 2 siege breaker groups and 4 siege tanks along with his wall. I even put missile turrets earlier and changed up macro timing to go for earlier gas or rush minerals for bunker and marine spam, but it doesn’t work anymore on this. Find another tutorial for this.

[@coheedmonstar33]

I just beat this mission, for people saying its impossible or the game changed or something, its not as bad as I thought. I had some trouble at first which is why im here, but decided just to give it another go. Ill give you some tips. Start off by building scvs and get your second base going asap, grab the refineries right off the bat so you dont have to worry about gas. Shift click an scv to go around and pick up the gas/mineral pickups so you get a lil boost to your economy. Build a command center at the top by that one bunker, one by artanis, and possibly one to the left by the other bunker right below the natural (2nd base). those will act as kind of a shield which you will put at l;east 5 seige tanks behind. Then start massing any and all kinds of units at each point where battles happen, marines, medivacs, science vessels at least 2 of them at each location for healing your mech. Also keep at least 5 scvs at each location just pop em over there so they can heal when necessary. Also make sure you get your upgrades. double armory for the upgrades, maybe another engineering bay but its not essential. Dont bother with medic just the medivacs. Use up your special call ins like the war pigs, seige tanks ect where you can. Dont bother building ANY bunkers or turrets, its unnecessary and will just waste your time. I didnt buuld a single one. Also use kerrigans lazer beam attack whenever you can, dont be afraid to use it, might drag the game out a lil longer but as long as youre pumping out units youll be fine. But only use it against the big enemies like seige tanks, carriers, broodlords, THORS especially! Dont let a single thor get close. This keeps you from having to scramble around. Also SAVE the game every couple minutes, that way if you get pushed from one side really bad and it knocks out all your defense in that side you can go back a save or two and pump that side up and be ready for it. This should be enough advice to get you through. By the time I won I had only lost artanis's side but enemies weren't flooding in or anything so if anything I could have kept going if i had to. Near the end, youll have more minerals and gas then you know what to do with and you should keep getting supply capped so your units will only come out every now and then when some get killed, build command centers and other bullshit around kerrigan so if they do happen to break through and youre at like 95% or something like that, those will help give you that couple extra minutes maybe to see it through.

[@Smurfrow]

Just played for this achievement and struggled quite a bit. What I found is that Kerrigan can weaken the units with a lot of hp before killing them. Just ensure you stop her before she actually completely kills them. Then your other units can essentially one shot them. I managed to have both my allied races towards the end. This video has a great opener though.

[@Conta85869]

Thank you so much for this simple walkthrough. Was working for this achievement for days. I know I am late to the party, but thanks so much.

[@Pohvi]

The enemy attacked with absolutely everything at once at around 83% /18 minutes mark and just absolutely wreck everything in it's path. No matter how much defenses i have, they won't be enough against the deathball. Only and if only the attackers split up theres a chance for me, but so far they just all run up to kerrigan.

[@NotAZombie-r9z]

I had way more defence at the bottom and still lost.... So random.

[@knubswak]

Not sure if this mission was tweaked over the years, but Artanis dies on the first wave but only takes out about 1/4th of the units. So my SE choke gets the brunt of ~3/4ths of the first wave, but my the defenses aren't setup for that much yet. The one time I was able to hold the Artanis wave, Zagara didn't hold enough and my choke, which had x3 times the tanks, couldn't hold the Artanis wave and the Zagara waves at the same time. And that was while even using Kerrigan's beam to kill a couple units at the start. I never got close to finishing the mission. It'd be interesting to know if you are able to repeat this strategy. Because TBH, if Zagara had held as good as she did for you on any of my four attempts, this would have worked great. Update: I tried it again but I added another strat to the mix: use the Celestial Beam to injure, NOT KILL, the heavy units. It took a few accidental kills to get the timings right (obviously be careful not to kill too many). Bringing them down to near death made it easier for my defenses to cean them up. It even kept Artanis alive for THREE waves, and Zagara alive and effective for most of the mission. It does add an additional layer of micro, but with a few saves/loads, it was effective.

[@seenixa9082]

I've just completed this mission before checking out the video. Getting a few banshees out at the start (I believe I defended Artanis 1st wave with ~3?) then keep building banshees and vikings, you can easily save even Artanis. Also before you get set up, beam down a few of the thors. I think I ended it with 13 kills on Kerrigan.

[@lforliseli4949]

Btw Kerrigan isnt allowed to have a kill count over 15 but for some reason it didnt count as i complete the challange when she had exactly 15 kills so be cautious. Another point is that you can use Kerrigan to lower hp of your enemies and it wont count as kills obviously so you can use that.

[@alvazortroz3852]

Min 4:12.... Hilarious man! 🤣🤣

[@Occilol]

I dont get this...in my games Artanis got overrunned at 7:30 gametime and i cant defend that entrance...

[@HugoStiglitz1942]

Me too, try to send a few marines and siegetank from ur upper entrance down. U need ur defences 1 min earlier then this guide

[@MusicaX79]

The issue is on the first wave into Zagara's base, if it pushes in enough to make her fight she will then step out from the back and come to the front defenses. Her damage combined with her rebuilt defenses make her aggro any forces coming from the right. HOWEVER if she doesn't come out from the back from the first wave then the Zagara will spend the game rebuilding none stop. as a result she will eventually take to much damage and die along with her defenses. the enemy forces will then split from here one half will go for Karagan the other goes for Zagara to finish her. SO save scum right before the first wave comes if they make Zagara come out you should be good to go if not load the save if that doesn't work then just restart since it's super early.

[@zergrush8709]

This video has it on hard, not brutal. on brutal artanis gets overrun much faster.

[@jakobwichmann7953]

I highly recommend going with planetary fortresses at Artanis base + missile turrets and 6'ish siege tanks or so. I had a buckload of siege tanks nestled back deep in Zargaras base and 2 planetaries blocking the ramp up to my base along with turrets and more siege tanks to boot. Same strategy at my own entrances. 3 fortresses at my expansion + turrets and siege tanks. This was how I got through brutal and was less micro intensive on my end since I just had to have 4'ish SCV's at each planetary for repairs and rebuilding of turrets as they got blasted. The first couple of waves was the most intensive until you get yourself settled in. Once that's done you can go for Vikings or whatever you'd like for extra buffing your air defence. Hope this works out for you guys :)

[@scsicommando]

Same here, even if you survive that 7:30 wave, a later big wave of three successive Terran, Protoss, Zerg attacks will easily mop up any siege tank/PF/bunker/turrets you have. Easiest was training many Spectres early. Use them to assist Artanis and Zagara. 2 dozen of them can easily destroy battlecruisers, colossi and ultralisks and almost smash any wave they send at you. Surround Kerrigan with many PF.

[@pablolarrahona]

As 2021, zagara dies early so this is kinda much harder... actually I can’t do it T.T

[@jeffreywarf]

I looked into the map editor and this map was updated on July 24, 2020 so this guide is no longer applicable. I do not know ANYONE who has been able t get this achievement post-update EDIT: I Guess I'm the first to do it post-update. Video uploaded on my channel

[@DarthCristian]

This video helped me a lot!!! I recommend to study video and train in normal because help to improve the timing!!!

[@canuck2xtreme]

Zagara dies pretty quickly when I try this and that right side gets melted no matter how much I have there. A maxed army with vikings, tanks, PFs and bunkers, and it didn't matter. No way to rebuild before next wave. So frustrating. And I'm trying it on hard... FML I don't know how I'll survive Brutal.

[@S3IIL3CT]

i had way more siege tanks and battlecruisers instead of vikings, worked as well

[@zergrush8709]

important to note that this achievement is nigh impossible on brutal.

[@zombie-survivor]

Defending Zagara base is very easy. Use spectre as the enemy will not send any detector unit.

[@kai7050]

Can you block the enyrance with spectors, that no enemy can reach your defend?

[@jeffreywarf]

@@kai7050 doesn't stop air units

[@kai7050]

@@jeffreywarf then use clocked air units for example like wraiths

[@jeffreywarf]

@@kai7050 upload a video of yourself doing that, I'm sure it'd be very helpful to those trying to get this achievement

[@Nanology101]

Why is this so hard, I've tried like 20 times. Someone link a save file, for the love of all that is unholy! :D

[@ppkgaming210]

She's pretty good at dealing... (Zagara died)😂

[@LuisRdzG10]

I just can't pass this mission, fucking hell is so quick

[@williamoliver4594]

lol this was definitely done on normal

[@voljintan8493]

cant achieve anymore..