how would you go about fighting Van Leon and Akyrum?

do you have any techniques?
any must-haves?
tips and tricks?

I died 14 times at Van Leon today, but I managed to get him down in about 22 minutes.

I got halfway through Akyrum in 9 minutes, but the game crashed. ;_;

for Van Leon, I let him max out spawns like he's supposed to, but he kept on eating the baby golems(only fought him once before this, with a korean who knew what he was doing).
I have magic crash.

for Akyrum, I just go nuts on him and nail his spawns with chain lightning.
I had never seen a fight with him before, so his animations took a little getting used to, but the only one I care about is DR and I've learned that one.

any help is much appreciated.

character info:

Job - Phantom

• Skill index
• 1st: Haste(useless, so is MG)
• 2nd: Mental Clarity(Power Guard, Rage(none of them hit enough to 1 hit me, so I find PG not worthy of using here))
• 3rd: Combo Attack(Magic Crash and Holy Symbol(I switch between crash and combo, then HS at the very end))
• 4th: Rapid Fire(Chain lightning(I switch between these at akyrum, for when he summons and when he is free of them))

35% PDR ignore
165% boss damage
128k~140k selfbuffed range
12.8k HP

thanks in advance :shine:

for VL, that works, just keep hitting him, he'll eat the golems and summon the boars, eventually he'll cap and simply die.

can you kill the snakes on akyrum?
and i'd crash akyrum's w.def up one, since it's the longest-lasting buff he does (40 secs) and then just bash his head like every other boss (and you can steal DR too no?)

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Originally Posted by ShinkuDragon

for VL, that works, just keep hitting him, he'll eat the golems and summon the boars, eventually he'll cap and simply die.

can you kill the snakes on akyrum?
and i'd crash akyrum's w.def up one, since it's the longest-lasting buff he does (40 secs) and then just bash his head like every other boss (and you can steal DR too no?)

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You can steal DR. The thing is, Arkarium will still take 1 damage, but when you attack him you don't take damage (if you're attacking as a Phantom).

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Originally Posted by PirateIzzy

You can steal DR. The thing is, Arkarium will still take 1 damage, but when you attack him you don't take damage (if you're attacking as a Phantom).

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well, it still lasts less than super-def-up, if he can hit and kill the snakes, then stealing DR is useful.

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Originally Posted by PirateIzzy

You can steal DR. The thing is, Arkarium will still take 1 damage, but when you attack him you don't take damage (if you're attacking as a Phantom).

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well, it still lasts less than super-def-up, if he can hit and kill the snakes, then stealing DR is useful.

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Originally Posted by ShinkuDragon

well, it still lasts less than super-def-up, if he can hit and kill the snakes, then stealing DR is useful.

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I stole chain lightning, so that I can kill the snakes and hit him even when he's on def up, so the only situation I need to steal in, is with DR.
I use crash for the rest.
And I crashed again... I'm thinking something is wrong.
I get kicked with no error or anything.