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Violence is one of Shadow Stalker's acolytes, first introduced during Operation: Shadow Debt. He takes the form of 
Limbo wearing Stalker's helmet and the pieces from the Hulta armor set.
As of Update 29.5 (2020-11-19), Violence can now spawn in The Steel Path missions.
Tactics[]
Violence wields a 
Destreza in his right hand, and a single 
Venka claw on his left hand, which deals 
Slash damage with an extremely high chance to proc. He can also cast 
Frost's 
Ice Wave and 
Excalibur's 
Slash Dash. Like the regular Slash Dash, Violence is invincible during the attack, regardless of what other effects are affecting him.
Violence also casts 
Silence periodically. Silence prevents Tenno from casting abilities from within 20 meters of Violence for the duration.
Quotes[]
- "(Player), your arrogance will be your demise."
- "(Player), your Lotus will watch you perish."
- "We will persist."
Trivia[]
- When used against the Adaptation mod, Violence's Ice Wave will grant protection against
Viral damage instead of 
Cold damage.
Gallery[]
Patch History[]
Hotfix 29.5.4 (2020-11-25)
- Acolytes have been given the fancy “boss Health bar” treatment!
Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)
- THE STEEL PATH: ACOLYTES JOIN THE BATTLE & MORE!
- As you play in any Steel Path mission, Acolytes will spawn and attack - defeating the Acolyte grants a guaranteed drop of 2 Steel Essence. Beware! If you get downed by an Acolyte, they'll escape and you won’t receive any Steel Essence!
- The Steel Path Acolytes now have received the same Status Effect eligibility treatment that Liches received in Update 27.3 earlier this year. This means we have slightly increased their health (scaled by squad size) as the Status Effect eligibility makes them easier to kill.
- Reduced the Melee attack damage on both Misery and Malice to avoid the more reported 1HKOs.
- In essence (ha), there is virtually no RNG with Steel Essence anymore. Acolytes will always appear in regular missions (Endlessly in Endless missions.). The time at which they choose to appear may be a bit random, but if you kill mobs, they will come!
- Please note, Acolytes won't spawn in Archwing missions on the Steel Path.
Hotfix 18.4.1 (2016-01-25)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Acolyte, the group he belongs to.
Collapse Stalker
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| Acolytes | Angst • Malice • Mania • Misery • Torment • Violence |
| Bosses | |
| Stalker (Shadow / Protector) | |
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210 comments
That buggy piece of garbage sometimes disables abilities long after he died, had to end my survival mission early cuz I couldn't use my exalted blade anymore. Great job DE, 11 fucking years...
Yea I feel you. Used to rage like that over game-ruining bugs and punch walls/break monitors. After spending over 10k to fix broken monitors and smashed dry wall though, I thought, there's gotta be a different approach to this sort of problem that doesn't involve taking food out of my kid's mouths.
After a coupe months of brainstorming and testing, I have found that the best solution to prevent what I call: "angry-time" is to take your shoes off and have a one on one with your feet, if you know what I mean. For clarification, I'm talking about licking your soles and sucking on your toes while jerking off.
A good 20 minutes of this really takes the edge off, but if you're into it, 2 hours can go by and you won't even notice. You've gotta try it out dawg
Does this guy turn off or ignore Helminth abilities for you guys? I notice Violence never turns off my Nourish when playing my Rhino while both Iron Skin and Roar get turned off.
I've had him consistently disable my Xata's Whisper on Loki so maybe there is a list of things he can/can't affect
Lost sp tyana pass because he teleported me from across the map instead of trying to path to venus tile, thanks
Does Vauban's crowd control abilities work on violence like Khora's ensare which is similar to his tether pads?
If you have Peacemaker active when Violence silences you, you'll be locked in, great way to die
See You Space Cowboy
While Valkyr 4 is active, you won't be able to recast it after silenced (not even after he dies), you'll also be locked out of using primary and secondary permanently. Well technically dying resets it, but it really ruins endless runs. Good stuff.
While Valkyr 4 is active, you can also shred him with slide attacks! :D
True, but he might spawn somewhere farther away and will activate his silence before i get there ^^
The only good Limbo.
Fucking Annoying Bullshit Half-Assed Design.
It's easily doable alone, but in the of constant spam of enemies surrounding him while doing stuff like steel path mobile defense mission. It's just fucking lame. I CAN'T EVEN SEE and these fucking enemies just keep interfering with whatever shit I throw at him.
At least show a really noticeable visible indicator or like throw fucking balls of dispels.
The best solution is just to Kamikaze yourself to kill him or die as fast possible.
Get good tbh
Skill issue
This guy can teleport you to him from 30m away, while you're in void mode right to him...its bogus.
This guy always kills me. I have to run madurai I guess and kill him w OP. He's BS. Sorry, but I'm not putting one ability on my frame just for this ONE guy. All my DR from abilities. Jumping around doesn't kill him fast enough... I need an efficient method for this guy. Maybe Ayanga.
Oh VS is fine esp w a volt specter...we'll see how far that scales and then rolling guard
Me again....unairu + heavy attack
How are you guys still struggling with him..
His Silence is about 10 seconds and is 8m. long - useless idiot.
Shadow of Violence incident, might be a teaser for something new.
I infused Banshee's silence on my frame. Now whenever this guy comes around, I just tell him to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Fuck this guy.
Buy him dinner first.
Make sure he's flattered or it won't work.
Removing abilities and cancelling buffs is not fun. this piece of shit can eat a dick.
Wish i could spawn this guy in simulacrum and kill him a thousand times just out of pure spite
His Silence really needs a cooldown. The amount of times he spams Silence is ridiculous.
Hes not spamming, read again. he will cast silence which blocks all abilities for the duration in range..
So this guy and angst are the acolytes im having most trouble with.(Im still pretty new to steel path). Any tips on killing them?
Use ensnare from khora(either helmint or by picking khora) ensnare locks down all acolytes. lower duration but they are literally sitting dicks unable to do jackshit
This is guy so annoying to deal with. he does way too much damage. really ruined my enjoyment of running steel path survivals purely for the spawn rate.
use valkyr
Just read the comment below yours and its sub-comments, there are many tips that trivialize the fight against him.
How to fight this idiot?
Jump! just jump! he can't jump, and he can't do anything to you when you jump, so he is helpless and hopeless against you when you jump, his nullifying ability (silence conclave mode) applies the same limitation on him (he can't cast it when active, this is my observation, more tests are needed), his other abilities, as well as his weapons attacks, are all frontal attacks of the same elevation of him (and hence: jump!), so just jump tell you to gain ur abilities back and then kill him. Always try to go to narrow and closed areas when u see an acolyte sign to limit the number of enemies and to focus on the acolyte, this is a piece of general advice applicable to all acolytes.
Also zenurik focus school node "Temporal blast" makes void blast "pressing E while in operator" to slow down enemies by 80% for 15 sec, works against acolytes and liches, once the acolyte appears, switch to operator and void blast him, and attack him from one of his right/left sides. he is helpless in this situation completely, works against all acolytes.
You forgot that Void blast also works against disruption demolyst.
Khora ensnare and harrow condemn (both are helminth abilities) both do CC against acolytes providing that u managed to cast them before he nullifies u.
Also xaku gaze.
Banshee and ash 1st abilities augment can strip him from all his armor too making him very easy to kill.
Using all the above, acolytes should never be even a challenge.
As an addendum on the slow down, Banshee's sonic fracture can completely strip their armor for 15 secs (mileage may vary)...
The thorn of steel essence farming since he can nullify all ability constantly