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[Auarion]

Even with extremely overkill water reductions (160%) I'm ocassionally taking 30k+ hits from one of Ktullanux's water attacks. He sometimes uses it several times in sucession, and it won't do to hit a seed every time I take that hit. What exactly is this technique? Is there some way to block it?

What is this 100k+ damage attack used by Lord of the Dead? It doesn't seem to have any particular animation. How should I go about countering it?
(Nidhoggur Shadow seems to use a similar move, but only 40-50k?

What sets are normally used against FBH? I attempted it using agriope isis variant kbcx2 which gave me pretty good leeway against the HC/GC, but I lose a lot of crit. Any way to balance critical dps and survivability?

Can a boss' agi up be dispelled? I'm talking about the Rangris card of course.

How do SK and baphomet cards fare against bosses with tough minions? Does SK prevent bosses from respawning slaves?

Do shadow reductions actually make a difference against skills like dark breath and blessing? The only things they seem to obviously work on are that dark cross and the red balls skill.

How do I tank Gloom's 100k damage ghost attack? Would Pneuma accessories work?

Does Detardeus card block GC and dark GC?

Thanks for your help.

[Aizenath]

Even with extremely overkill water reductions (160%) I'm ocassionally taking 30k+ hits from one of Ktullanux's water attacks. He sometimes uses it several times in sucession, and it won't do to hit a seed every time I take that hit. What exactly is this technique? Is there some way to block it? That would be waterball and it can spam the damn thing.

What is this 100k+ damage attack used by Lord of the Dead? It doesn't seem to have any particular animation. How should I go about countering it?
(Nidhoggur Shadow seems to use a similar move, but only 40-50k? Not sure about LotD but Nid's attack is probably earthquake.

Can a boss' agi up be dispelled? I'm talking about the Rangris card of course. You can dispel their agi up, not sure how effective Rangris card is at that though.

Do shadow reductions actually make a difference against skills like dark breath and blessing? The only things they seem to obviously work on are that dark cross and the red balls skill.  Reduction from dark breath but dark blessing will always leave you with 1 hp if it hits, you can avoid it with high flee.

 

 

Other people will fill in the holes, hope that helps.

[Auarion]

Ktullanux's attack definitely isn't waterball. His waterball and freeze attacks barely do 100 damage per hit to me. I'm out-tanking some Suras on Mental Strength!

[Havenn]

I am not sure what Ktull can be doing, wiki says he has 'Random Attack lv8' and 'Water attack lv10' if you're s water reducted as you say, which looks correct with WB damage being ~100ish then I would think the reduction would be too great to die to any type of water attack. So who knows, maybe it's the 'Random attack' maybe it's forced neutral and hurtin bad.

 

I could have sworn LOTDs knock-out shot was Coma, but it seems to be Hells Judgement, DR seems to take this down by a ton for me....I am guessing the lack of alice hurts badly. You should be able to counter with pneuma I would think.

 

Detard does block GC/HGC, though, if you're wearing it on the attacker, you will usually die before procing, but you might be able to get it. Once it is up, it's so very nice. I throw this on Sura tank on FBH to block the pneumas

 

I am not too sure about gloom, maybe you could pull off some good reduct wearing a Marionette carded garment? Not too sure, but I know that hit hurts bad...I try to tank him with homun entirely while back-peddle CCing.

 

No experience on GX with any of these MVPs. Besides LOTD once, DR seemed to help there.

 

 

For tough, non-boss minions, Hatii armor is the best. Freeze them up, walk MVP up a few steps and have at it.

Edited by Havenn, 25 March 2014 - 08:09 AM.

[meditation]

Hatii armor helps a lot as Havenn already said.

 

Tao gunka armor helps a lot as well (hallu walk and 80k+ hps are extremely great).

 

I was able to solo Ifrit with the proper gear in Endless Tower (without dying, a lot of berries and seed used tho... won't do it again lol).

 

About detale card : i used it on GX for some months and is definitely not that great on a GX. Better Hatii/Tao or Ele Armors for GXs.

 

Detale is better on tankers or to solo some instances (on geneticist).

Edited by meditation, 25 March 2014 - 08:37 AM.

[Auarion]

I see... Thanks very much. I didn't know Hell's Judgement could be reduced by neutrals. I'm not sure if Nid's attack is Hell's Judgement, but I'll try using DR+Fire reductions next time.

 

Guess I'm aiming for Hatii card now then.