Boss Battles Thread

[Curtiss]

@Mazz; True, my current DB has all of 2% all stat with LUK-scrolled common equips and he's pretty crazy for his level. Too bad for him though, I'm committed to one class now and Nexon had better have something GOOD in store for Phantom. :|

[Pink Bean]

so i finally did this
i kept pressing F11 instead of F10 so i didn't SS my frey damage on zakum with all my buffs q_q
i realized at the very end i was pressing the wrong key

started it at 1:25 so not too bad for a first try..

[Green4Ever]

Pretty happy with how much my PB time has been cut down by.

[See]

Counted heals today, got up to 78. Asura is ridiculous.

Wow, 78? I've only been able to do v2s before Hypers, but today I'm going to try and pull a full run if I can squeeze through. I only have a ~165k range with ~150% boss, 20% total damage, so if anything It'll be by the skin of my teeth.

Because I've never done full, would you mind if I ask you some questions about it?
Like how is the best way to deal with v2s? I MT Mihile (if I can) and spam the rest, but Empress resets target every once in a while now so he resets and he's hard to separate in the first place.
Why did she heal 78 times? I thought max was 35? o-o I'd be lucky to get 35..
How do you get pot locked so little? I've only got basic resist, but I get locked seriously every 20-40 seconds after the last lock runs out, making me unable to attack over half the time.

[Marksman Bryan]

Why did she heal 78 times? I thought max was 35? o-o I'd be lucky to get 35..
How do you get pot locked so little? I've only got basic resist, but I get locked seriously every 20-40 seconds after the last lock runs out, making me unable to attack over half the time.

She can't be killed until <9:59 on the timer. It is 35; heal counting is tricky with doubles, pseudo heals, etc. Just do as many as possible.
Resistance potion gives 30% resist. Helps a ton.

[See]

She can't be killed until <9:59 on the timer. It is 35; heal counting is tricky with doubles, pseudo heals, etc. Just do as many as possible.
Resistance potion gives 30% resist. Helps a ton.

Ohh, totally forgot about those pots. They're expensive so I suppose they're hard to make, but I'll try.

What are doubles, pseudo heals, etc? I'd like to prevent those (or know what to do if they happen) if I can..
So for the 35 heals, just make her heal 34 times then stop damage altogether until under 10 minutes?

[Marksman Bryan]

What are doubles, pseudo heals, etc? I'd like to prevent those (or know what to do if they happen) if I can..
So for the 35 heals, just make her heal 34 times then stop damage altogether until under 10 minutes?

I'll use rough number estimates to try and explain, but it's tough to explain which is why I just said focus on getting as many heals as possible.
Emp heals at ~10% hp, which brings her to ~50%. If aggro messes up, or the damage done when she's close to healing is either too little or too much she will double heal, going to ~90%. This usually counts as one heal, sometimes it doesn't count at all.
When you have 35+ heals, and the timer is <9:59, if you don't do enough damage fast enough when she is in the "healing zone" (~10%-0% hp), she will "pseudo heal." This is the same amount as a normal heal and it amounts to nothing besides frustration and annoyance.

[Pink Bean]

did this for fun. having an aran in the expedition completely kicks fire problems in the nuts

[See]

I'll use rough number estimates to try and explain, but it's tough to explain which is why I just said focus on getting as many heals as possible.
Emp heals at ~10% hp, which brings her to ~50%. If aggro messes up, or the damage done when she's close to healing is either too little or too much she will double heal, going to ~90%. This usually counts as one heal, sometimes it doesn't count at all.
When you have 35+ heals, and the timer is <9:59, if you don't do enough damage fast enough when she is in the "healing zone" (~10%-0% hp), she will "pseudo heal." This is the same amount as a normal heal and it amounts to nothing besides frustration and annoyance.

Ahh okay, thanks so much!

I just tried it and got potential locked 21 times, pigged while in Asura once, and banished while in Asura once.
Got 17 heals in. I think with 20k more range and 30% more resist I'll be posting here once more. ^^

[Sephie]

After selling quite a few equips, I'm extremely impressed with the damage the update gave me.



Even with a crappy weapon, no dojo gloves, no top/bottom, I still managed to cut 23 minutes from my PB solo time from way back.

And yeah, I failed... ._.

[Mazz]

Ahh okay, thanks so much!

I just tried it and got potential locked 21 times, pigged while in Asura once, and banished while in Asura once.
Got 17 heals in. I think with 20k more range and 30% more resist I'll be posting here once more. ^^

Bryan beat me to answering most of the questions, but I think you should be good to go with your stats (100% PDR ignore?), but without a resistance potion it suuuucks. Especially getting pigged/sent out/turned into a bomb mid-Asura.

For V2s I leave them all together, spam Blade Fury until Mihile looks like he's around 75% HP then Phantom Blow him (Phantom Blow will always hit him since he spawns slightly before the others for some reason) while he's doing other attack animations until his DR kicks in, then Chains of Hell until DR wears off, group them together and Asura. I don't bother separating anymore, but MT every time it wears off and FA/TS the others away would work.

I have a lot of resist, 30% base, 20% from level 100 Willpower, 30% from a Resistance potion and 4% from the SS Demon Slayer card. Resistance potions aren't particularly difficult to craft anymore thanks to the evolving world though!

Good luck :D

[Mandalay]

If aggro messes up

While we're on the topic of Empress, have you ever experienced her glitching (freezing, just standing there not doing squat)?

It happens occasionally and I still can't fully explain why (I suspect it's related to Luminous's Push or Kaiser's Slow). @Mazz; had some interesting theories about it being something to do with that aggro list.


Also trivial thing about her heals: I believe it takes first priority. I have a video where she was starting up a pot lock animation but we got her HP down enough where she stopped it and then healed.

[Justin]

While we're on the topic of Empress, have you ever experienced her glitching (freezing, just standing there not doing squat)?

It happens occasionally and I still can't fully explain why (I suspect it's related to Luminous's Push or Kaiser's Slow). @Mazz; had some interesting theories about it being something to do with that aggro list.


Also trivial thing about her heals: I believe it takes first priority. I have a video where she was starting up a pot lock animation but we got her HP down enough where she stopped it and then healed.

She will always do the heal animation, for both manual and auto heals. I believe only her manual heals have a voiceover clip for them, however. So if she doesn't say anything at all it's an auto heal (The good kind of heal).

[Marksman Bryan]

While we're on the topic of Empress, have you ever experienced her glitching (freezing, just standing there not doing squat)?

It happens occasionally and I still can't fully explain why (I suspect it's related to Luminous's Push or Kaiser's Slow). @Mazz; had some interesting theories about it being something to do with that aggro list.


Also trivial thing about her heals: I believe it takes first priority. I have a video where she was starting up a pot lock animation but we got her HP down enough where she stopped it and then healed.

Duoing empress as merc/phantom, yes, we've seen her stand still for no reason. It's been doing that since we started - way before the aggro list was implemented. No idea what causes it, but we always used a rush type move to knock her out of it because hax.
Roughly ~75-100 kills and I have no idea how aggro works. I have rough ideas, but they fail me sometimes. At one point I think we figured out what caused double heals and we didn't have those for a while.. but I'm not sure anymore.

Her auto heals will cancel whatever animation she's in and do the heal animation instead.

[fodjgngf]

Every magnus run i do ever.

[FangelXIII]

This isn't too impressive, but I'm still proud of it. My first ever solo on a serious boss. (yes normal hilla is serious stop mocking me ;_;)

[Stereo]

First complete solo of Dimension Invasion. Feels like the boss has about 2.5 times as much HP as normal Hilla.


8:30 to clear the regular stages, 5:10 to kill Blackheart. Crashed all except the first DR (that one went off 5s after my Crash expired), same strategy as Hilla (30s wait at the start, then 80s after the previous DR)

exp: godly.
rewards: 30% glove atk (regular box), 20 sunrise dews (boss box).

[Phoenix]

Loving DS hypers... Though I went in just to see how far I could get, was not really expecting it to be successful, as shown by my lack of egg buff/familiar T_T Still good amount of weapons.

[Justin]

Loving DS hypers... Though I went in just to see how far I could get, was not really expecting it to be successful, as shown by my lack of egg buff/familiar T_T Still good amount of weapons.

How exactly did you pull this off? Are you hitting cap every single hit? Do you have buff duration? My girlfriend is a slayer and wants to get a successful solo in herself, but we need more information first...her first two attempts have ended in failure...

[Mazz]

How exactly did you pull this off? Are you hitting cap every single hit? Do you have buff duration? My girlfriend is a slayer and wants to get a successful solo in herself, but we need more information first...her first two attempts have ended in failure...

Incidentally, you owe me a resistance potion.

@Phoenix; Also wondering how you pulled it off on a Demon Slayer, I didn't think it was possible :o congrats!