EDIT: It's possible to kill him before he tower-heals :P
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Yup it's easy if you know the strategy :P Could be insanely hard if you simply use brute force. The part where it splits up your group, yup it's so annoying right? LOL...it's more annoying when you're in a PUG and you're the only one who knows what to do :P You didn't use auto-attack? I'm not sure if that helped you in your kill...maybe try more test runs? I can't do runs atm, I'm at work :/
Anyone would like to join me attempt beat this boss using only gold-purchased elixir? Need 1 Bear, 2 Birds, and 1 more INT mage. I'll be on in around 4-5 hours from now? LOL, sorry, work before play comrades :P
IGN: Lakandula
Well, kicked him a few times now...
And yes, it helps if 2-3 players are on elixiers.
The point is if u can't combo and he fills up his hp u can keep on trying a few times until the boss dies...
If ur party is not thrashered it's more difficult.
I tested the 3 plat armor and it helps in combination with a str set.
Killing the boss is more luck than skill, cause all groups I joined keep spamming skills randomly.
I'm not sure, even if I watch my fellas and try to hit the right skill button after their attack the timing still seems difficult.
It's easier to spam ur skills in a certain order and repeat it. If the others do so as well it will eventually activate the combo lol
I know, doesn't sound very pro, but I'm not at a point where I can contribute to the combo at the right time xD
Will do some further testing later... I still need to clear the infested deck ^_^
So, how do we beat him?
Has anyone seen a new elite drop yet? I am assuming not, or that person would immediately post on the forums to show off their new loot. Doesn't seem like much of anyone is running the map right now..
I was just thinkin the same kiitz. I wonder what these "elite dark pinks" are
Full party on thrasher (1bear, 2 bird, 2 mage) kills him half of the time before he heals himself...
Nice details
So if you need a tanking bear in this dungeon wouldnt that make us dex/int bears useless? I think i see a respec coming soon
Or... You could get a group of trasherheads who know how to play their class right, and kill him about 100 times an hour :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1TbP6RXFEQ
Well, I have to give STS credit for trying to resurrect boss battle strategy with this one. It is definitely different based on reading the description. However, I don't really consider it a true "strategy battle" when the design tactic is just to make insane damage and one-shot the party down to defeat. That's just plain lazy design. And taking away potions just to make sure the one-shot moron will win? Probably the lamest thing I've seen STS do to date (and they've done a lot of lame things).
What's even more frustrating is that we know they can make true strategy boss battles (e.g. cockroach in sewers), but they couldn't be bothered here. It's obvious they just wanted to drive more elixir sales, so they just threw together a titanic tower of damage and called it a boss. STS does get one very slight head-nod for the mega combo thing, but the rest of the lameness far overshadows what cred that factor otherwise would give them.
The funny thing is that this faux-strategy boss will be nothing but cannon fodder in a few caps when people come slumming back to him in god-like gear and squish him in 15 seconds.
If ur party is thrashered it really is no prob ^_^
The only thing is a winning party will stick together, so others have no chance to join the train for an hour xD
That was a really fast run. What is crazy is that I am sure you guys did that over and over again for the full hour and still no one with an actual elite weapon to show off. I really want to know the stats/proc on these weapons!
Let's call it 100 runs, x5, so 500 runs and no elite weapons. We know the drop rate should be less than 0.2% then so far.
That's pretty much how it goes in an elixir party :P But I hope more people realize that this boss is beatable even in a non-elixir party. For me, the process of beating this elite boss is what makes it "fun", not to mention, you will save real money and make lots of friends in looking for that "right" team, isn't that awesomesauce? What's sad about it now is that only the elixir folks group together and everyone else is left in the dark on how to beat this boss (many of them thinks this boss is unbeatable without elixir). It took me over an hour to convince random 71's to run with me because they think the boss is impossible to beat without thrasher, and so after many deaths, and adjustments on our timing and which mega combo to pull off...we finally got our rhythm together...we beat him...they were all like...let's do it again...and so we did again...and again...it was fun...now we're all buddies...that's pretty awesome experience :P I'll be honest though, there was one guy in elixir in that run (it was me LOL, I bought the 7plat one because they wouldn't run unless at least one guy is in elixir)...I'm pretty sure we could have pulled it off even If I wasn't on that elixir...just the 2k gold elixirs.
Anyway, the only reason I use elixir is because I don't have time to grind all day. In this case, the boss is readily accessible, it's just a matter of knowing the right strategy, I don't see myself wasting thousands of platinum just farming this boss. I can farm monster bash and make more money plus I don't have to wait for an entire party, so I save on time. I look at this boss as finding the most "talented" and well "coordinated" players in the game, not as a farming dungeon (we have monster bash for that). So, I'm still on the search...message me in-game if you're not afraid of dying over and over in search for that "right" team to beat this beast without spending real money...dying was never this fun for me LoL :P IGN: Lakandula
PS: Bigbearsnow is one of the few good combo bears I've ran with in this dungeon :P This bear is tuned to beat this kind of boss...he has an eagle eye for timing the crushing blow :P I recommend partying up with him.
Let's have a contest to see who can kill boss fastest.
GOGO let's do it under 20 seconds.