AAC Light-heavyweight M2 (Savage)

Stand in or around Honey B Lovely's hitbox, then move into your designated quarter with your partner and either spread or stack.

Be aware the outer safe spots are outside of max melee range, so maintaining melee uptime is difficult or impossible, depending on your job.

Unlike Honey B. Live: 1st Beat, this mechanic has no leeway. Every player must take exactly one stack of Infatuated. If any player takes more, Honey B Lovely is guaranteed to be granted Queen Bee due to the Spread Love/Drop of Love at the end, which inflicts a heart stack on all players.

The intended way to resolve the first part of the mechanic is to have your 0-stack players stack up and your Infatuated players spread into two role stacks, so that both of the two stacks are soaked by two players.

However, thanks to the way Heartsick distributes its hearts, there is a simpler way to resolve the mechanic: by simply having all 0-stack players stack and all Infatuated players stack. The 0-stack players can stack in the center of Honey B Lovely's hitbox while the Infatuated players stack outside (usually south) and rotate clockwise to avoid the baited Heart-struck AoEs. Make sure to move together, as all 4 players must be hit by both Heartsick stacks. If done properly, all 4 of those players now have Head Over Heels.

Once the telegraph for Heartsore goes out, the two marked 0-stack players move out of the center immediately. Try to avoid both the towers and the rotating 1-stack players. There are now only two 0-stack players remaining, one support and one DPS; those 2 players must soak the towers (one each).

If executed correctly, all players should now have Head Over Heels, and after the subsequent Spread Love/Drop of Love Hopeless Devotion.

Since each player will have a random number of heart stacks at this point, it is recommended to prioritize having 0-stack or 1-stack players soak towers. Divide your party into 4 groups – you can use the partner pairs from Drop of Venom for this – and have each group preposition within their quarter of the arena.

Make sure that, at the end of this mechanic, there are at least 4 players with less than Hopeless Devotion. This is why it is recommended to distribute the heart stacks among the party evenly. At the end of this mechanic, there should not be any players left with 0 stacks or Infatuated.

If possible, try to give your caster(s) and healers Hopeless Devotion. This exempts them from stacking for Heartsick and avoids unnecessary movement.

Have the party stack center. Separate DPS from supports: supports are slightly north-ish, DPS slightly south-ish.

For each set, check which two players are marked and have those players move out of the center, to the outside of the arena inside one of the 4 safe spots. For the first set, have the marked support go to the northmost safe spot and the marked DPS to the southmost safe spot. After dropping their puddle, they return to the center. Every subsequent player simply has to place their own puddle directly clockwise or counter-clockwise (depending on the rotation of the bees) of the previous puddle.

Be aware that the cardinals may be unsafe during the first set. In that case, go to the safe spot closest to north/south. Whatever the case, try to make sure to always go opposite the other marked player, otherwise there may not be enough space for the last player to drop their puddle next to the previous puddle.

For Bee Sting, it is paramount that both stacks are taken in the center, in opposite corners of the Blinding Love line AoEs. If these stacks are simply taken north and south, there is not enough space available to prevent the other stack from being clipped.

Stand in or around Honey B Lovely's hitbox, then move into your designated quarter with your partner and either spread or stack.

Be aware the outer safe spots are outside of max melee range, so maintaining melee uptime is difficult or impossible, depending on your job.

Have all players spread to clock positions to avoid accidentally touching another player. After each Call Me Honey, wait for both heals and for Magic Vulnerability Up to expire, then have the next Beeloved Venoms to expire go in the center of Honey B Lovely's hitbox to resolve their debuffs.

Be aware that the Magic Vulnerability Up inflicted by Big Burst lasts for 7 seconds. This means that if the debuffs are resolved at 3s or less, a wipe is guaranteed as the subsequent Call Me Honey instantly kills all players. It is recommended to resolve the debuffs at about 7s remaining.

If a pair of debuffs missed their cleanse window, meaning that there is no longer enough time to cleanse the debuff and wait for Magic Vulnerability Up to expire before Call Me Honey, it is recommended not to cleanse the debuff at all and let the affected players die instead. This will not cause a wipe.