
Originally Posted by
Flonne
The skipped a lot of the mechanics of that fight, and level 90s aren't overpowered compared to lower levels so they could just as easily have lost if they weren't an experienced group with good meshing skills. Going a bit into depth on the fight, there are several reasons that they did what they did. First, if the Mage had fought in the battle, they would have lost, straight up; Shiro talked his confidence up so high that he actually wanted the leader to lose so he could take over the guild, that's why he didn't participate in the fight. Naotsugu was just there to draw attention (in more ways than one); one thing they haven't mentioned that they probably should have is, Shiro and Nyanta both have Phantasmal gear specifically designed for their builds (Phantasmal is the highest tier drop in the game and literally only a select number of them can even exist in the game at one time), Shiro's add's +2 to number of thorns and Nyanta's I believe adds +attack hits on his rapidhit. Naotsugu quit a year before them and uses comparably low tier gear at this point, so he is only tanking that well because he has experience with it. Anyway, the goal here was to do three things; remove the mage from the battle, stack thorns twice to burst him down from max HP, and most importantly, to trick the enemies into thinking their healers were not all dead; that's where Serara came in, and that's why Shiro had her cast HoTs on the ENEMIES as well as allies. It's a very weak HoT, but the enemy was overconfident so they didn't even check to see that it wasn't from their own healers, they just assumed it was. Meanwhile, Akatsuki was slowly picking off the healers one by one (they were in the 50s range so she could 1shot each without using cooldowns), then used her super on the 90 mage to 1shot him as well. In the original content, they did not all die at once, that was just for effect in the anime.
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