I finally made it to the bosses after a large number of failed PQs. Started immediately after patch and kept running with randoms who didn't know what to do and parties that weren't equipped for the fight. I wasn't expecting to get anywhere close to beating the bosses.
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There was no way we were going to be able to take down 900m HP with only two DrKs, two NLs, a Shadower, and a handful of third jobbers. Half of our group died or left. But I did manage to experience the fight before letting myself die due to a lack of getting anywhere and tons of pot consumption, and I noted a few things:
This fight is MUCH easier than we thought.
- The thief is not physical immune. I could do damage to it, and my max base range is only in the 3300s with MW/12 att elixir. I think our wdef formula is incorrect, because we're getting the same results we do with Anego. High wdefs do not make as huge of an impact as they should.
- Nothing in the room does more than 3.1k damage with good defense. I didn't bother with HB, as you can see in the screenshot.
- There is no lethal poison. There's a variety of ways you can get poisioned, and I got hit with the 1/1 several times and I was poisoned, but I didn't die because of it. The poison means you just need to use an allcure afterward.
- Margana does Zombify, but the Zombify status animation does not show up. There is no way to tell that you are zombified other than your pots working at half effectiveness and Heal killing you, which didn't happen due to a lack of a Priest.
I think as far as strategy goes, all you need is a team of warriors to rush Rellik and Red Nirg together into one corner and kill them, while another group works on Hsalf in the other corner, and a team of strong attackers takes down Margana, who is the easiest to kill, and the most annoying, because of Zombify. Once Margana is down, the attackers move down to Hsalf and finish him off, then join the group killing the last two.
The PQ is easy if you go with friends instead of randoms who have no idea what they're doing. The fight seems pretty easy as well, it just takes a long time to kill them. I think people died mostly due to a lack of inexperience and not knowing what to expect, rather than anything really being that hard. Margana should definitely be taken care of first to save pots. Bring lots of all cures. That's about it.
Edit: Oops, guess the Warrior never used attack up when we were fighting it. I was soloing him for a short period of time and I never took more than 3.1.
Also, the archer's 1/1 poison is easy as hell to see. He charges an arrow up and you have plenty of time to move out of the way.
There was no way we were going to be able to take down 900m HP with only two DrKs, two NLs, a Shadower, and a handful of third jobbers. Half of our group died or left. But I did manage to experience the fight before letting myself die due to a lack of getting anywhere and tons of pot consumption, and I noted a few things:
This fight is MUCH easier than we thought.
- The thief is not physical immune. I could do damage to it, and my max base range is only in the 3300s with MW/12 att elixir. I think our wdef formula is incorrect, because we're getting the same results we do with Anego. High wdefs do not make as huge of an impact as they should.
- Nothing in the room does more than 3.1k damage with good defense. I didn't bother with HB, as you can see in the screenshot.
- There is no lethal poison. There's a variety of ways you can get poisioned, and I got hit with the 1/1 several times and I was poisoned, but I didn't die because of it. The poison means you just need to use an allcure afterward.
- Margana does Zombify, but the Zombify status animation does not show up. There is no way to tell that you are zombified other than your pots working at half effectiveness and Heal killing you, which didn't happen due to a lack of a Priest.
I think as far as strategy goes, all you need is a team of warriors to rush Rellik and Red Nirg together into one corner and kill them, while another group works on Hsalf in the other corner, and a team of strong attackers takes down Margana, who is the easiest to kill, and the most annoying, because of Zombify. Once Margana is down, the attackers move down to Hsalf and finish him off, then join the group killing the last two.
The PQ is easy if you go with friends instead of randoms who have no idea what they're doing. The fight seems pretty easy as well, it just takes a long time to kill them. I think people died mostly due to a lack of inexperience and not knowing what to expect, rather than anything really being that hard. Margana should definitely be taken care of first to save pots. Bring lots of all cures. That's about it.
Edit: Oops, guess the Warrior never used attack up when we were fighting it. I was soloing him for a short period of time and I never took more than 3.1.
Also, the archer's 1/1 poison is easy as hell to see. He charges an arrow up and you have plenty of time to move out of the way.