I can't claim origination of this, but for anyone looking for a way to completely cheese HotK, I tried this out and it totally works:
Double up on the Wings of Crow (aka Crow Feather) item, get the Tranquility mutation (lower skill cooldown), and then level up Tactics (purple) to 12+.
If you're not familiar with Wings of the Crow, it makes you hover above the ground and shoot lightning down for 4 seconds. With Tranquility and high levels of Tactics, the cooldown will be well under 8 seconds, meaning that with two of them, you can basically always have one active.
It doesn't do a ton of damage, but a lot of the enemy AI, including HotK, can be easily "confused" by a flying playing character. Basically, you can hover directly on top of HotK's face and he'll just flip back and forth trying to face you and won't attack. So apart from the few times he spawns in other enemies, you can attack him with pretty much zero chance of getting hit.
Even though the DPS is relatively low, it doesn't even take that long to beat him, since you're basically doing damage the entire time. Makes the fight trivially easy. What's funny is that does, however, make the High Castle level a bit harder. A lot of the enemies there are better equipped to deal with a flying player (especially the guys that shoot the energy projectiles) and giving up your grenade/trap slots to hold two Wings of the Crow does hurt a little. Ice bow helps a ton for dealing with that level.
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