Chapter 169: The real boss at the bottom of the level
In the final analysis, the Void Dragon can only be regarded as an "interesting" boss, and it is not difficult to talk about it. After Xia Chiyu assigned the task, everyone ran in a little and put down the boss without difficulty. Then, the army began to move towards the Juggernaut's Terrace, ready to begin the Nightmare Reclamation.
On the way, Chen Feng briefly explained to Xia Chiyu the situation they had encountered in the wasteland these days and the analysis of the boss's skills. Xia Chiyu found that this boss not only has a lot of skills, but also has high damage, just by listening to the description, you can know that it is a difficult boss.
This boss is simply divided into two phases, one stage is on the ground and one stage is in the sky, and the entire battle process is looped back and forth in these two stages. And whether it's on the ground or in the sky, this boss has quite troublesome skills and not low damage, even if you have the right strategy, a careless can still wipe out the group ≯∮, a↓nsh▲uba.
During the ground phase, the boss has the following skills.
The first is a split, which deals damage to a group of players in the direction of the dragon's head, which means that only one person can always stand in front of the boss; The second is Tail Sweep, which deals a certain amount of fire damage in the cone area of the boss's tail, with a knockdown effect, and inflicts a continuous health loss effect on the player, which is low but stackable.
So, in short, there can be no one in melee range of the boss's head and tail, and melee can only be output from standing on both sides of the boss, but the ranged French class is not affected.
The third skill is Scorching, which is released on a random target, turning the target into a lava hell within a radius of ten yards, and standing in it will continue to take high fire damage, similar to the black water of the Void Dragon, which is not very threatening.
The fourth skill, which is the most troublesome skill in the ground phase, the boss will release fear for the whole group every thirty seconds or so. Losing control of the character within four seconds, and being attacked by the boss at the same time will not remove this fear effect.
This is the most troublesome skill in the ground phase of the boss, and there must be a light mage or knight to release a fear-resisting skill on the current boss's attack target. Although it's very simple to say, but the more troublesome thing is that you must succeed and not fail, if you don't give it before the boss is afraid, then the boss will inevitably continue to pursue the current target, even if it is a big shield knight, in a state that cannot defend and move, it is attacked by the boss for four seconds, and it is either dead or disabled.
However, even so, the ground phase is still the easier phase of this boss. The really troublesome stage is in the Divine Stage. Every time the boss's health decreases by 25%, it will flutter its wings to the sky.
At this stage, the player will not be able to attack the boss, and the boss will have a whole set of skills. The first is a wave of smoke that is released on the target of the previous attack in the sky, dealing about two thousand damage per second, which is affected by armor. The Great Shield Knight only takes about 700 or so painless damage, but a French class such as cloth armor will probably take about 1,500 damage.
The second ability is Bone Rain, which deals very low physical damage to the target and other players within six yards of the target, and the damage is basically negligible. However, it will spawn five elite skeletons around the player who has been hit by Bone Rain, with higher health and lower attack damage. But attacking all five together is still quite lethal to the Crispy class.
Although the heavenly stage seems simple. Several skills seem to be good to deal with, but in actual combat they are not. First of all, the skill guide of the smoky air wave must remain dispersed to avoid being hit by players who are not the target of the current boss.
Bone Rain, on the other hand, summons skeletons near the named player, and all five of them attack together. One person and one knife can directly beat a law system into residual blood, so the solution is to immediately control and kill the skeleton after brushing it out. But that's where the hard part lies.
When the crowd had to disperse in order to avoid the skill of smoke waves. Bone rain is a random roll call, that is to say, it may point to players who are far away, so at this time, because the whole group is too scattered, most people's skills may not be able to hit the summoned skeletons, but the skeletons will run rampant in the crowd, causing a lot of damage to the cloth armor.
Since five skeletons only need one person and one knife to cripple a faction, if you don't control these skeletons in time within five seconds, in the worst case of luck, two or three factions will be led to withdraw from the battle. After all, not all professions have strong control skills, and classes like mages have strong ice and wood control skills, but the damage is relatively low.
Therefore, there are too many uncertainties, and after the personnel are dispersed, if the bone rain points to those occupations with high injuries but no control, casualties are inevitable. In addition, the boss has a rather amazing physical attack in the first stage, and a mistake will lead to casualties of the giant shield knight, and there are too many possibilities for attrition.
And due to the boss's blood loss phase mechanism, there will inevitably be three heavens in a whole battle, and the continuous reduction of the number of people will only form a vicious circle of strictness. Because the boss is an automatic transfer stage after the HP is reduced by 25%, it has nothing to do with time, so the first stage of the first stage will be extended due to fewer people, the number of fears will increase, and the possibility of attrition will also become greater.
At the same time, the second phase lasts for a certain amount of time and then ends automatically, about forty-five to sixty seconds, so if the skeletons summoned on the field are not cleared at this time, it basically symbolizes the failure of the challenge. Because the health of the skeletons is still relatively high, it takes about half a minute for all the personnel to output together.
"Actually, it doesn't sound like there's anything particularly difficult about this boss, and the skills aren't as deadly as Prince Makzar, but somehow, we're just always attritional, and there are almost one or two attritions on the ground and in the heavenly stage every time, so that there will be a bigger hole when you go to the sky for the second time......," Chen Feng explained with some distress.
"Is that so......" Xia Chiyu frowned, "Anyway, let's try a few fights, it's useless to just listen, you have to fight to know where the boss's skills are threatened." ”
Chen Feng nodded and said, "Then, let's give it a try." The little ones, all of us cheer up and fight hard to get the best results we have ever had! Although it is only in the third cycle, the longer it lasts, the more problems the commander will discover. Do you get it? ”
Everyone responded, and then put on the buff and started the battle with the boss.
"I'll ......" Reis raised his shield to block a claw blow from the boss, and was immediately shocked back by more than half a meter, and his health suddenly decreased by ten percent, he hurriedly turned sideways to avoid the follow-up bite, and couldn't help but sigh: "This guy's attack power is ......"
"It's really high...... "Xia Chiyu couldn't help but sigh, "I'll be directly empty of blood if I take a hit, right?" ”
"Hmm......" Gu Qinyan stood a little forward, and was immediately attacked by the boss's slash, although he blocked it with his double sword in time. But his health was still fifteen percent less, so he stepped back a bit, but was knocked to the ground by the boss's tail sweep, and he went straight to twenty percent of his health.
"What are you doing stupid!?" Su Xing asked angrily, "This hasn't started yet, and it's gone straight to one-fifth of the blood!" ”
"The area where you can stand is too narrow......" Gu Qinyan frowned and said, "It's probably only ......"
As he spoke, Gu Qinyan swung his sword and slashed two swords on the ground, leaving two white sword marks on the ground.
"It's only a short range of about ten yards to be able to move and attack." Xia Chiyu groaned and said that the Juggernaut's Terrace was just a balcony. Despite its size, Nightmare is a small entity with a large boss that takes up almost the entire Juggernaut Terrace when it comes down, so there are only a few places for the melee class to stand.
The battle continued. Soon the first fear came, and the twenty or so people in the group began to wander around on the narrow Juggernaut terrace, and Lacey did not fall into a state of fear because he had prayed for courage in advance.
Soon, though, the problem arose again. Because the players were swaying around in fear, several of them entered the boss's dragon head slash range and the dragon's tail sweep range, and the team's HP dropped a lot. This immediately follows. The boss's health has dropped by twenty-five percent, and he has directly entered the heavenly stage, so the scene is instantly chaotic......
"Okay, I probably know what's going on......" When everyone gathered again on the Juggernaut's terrace after a group was wiped out, Xia Chiyu sighed and said.
"First of all, the skills of this boss alone are not too deadly, and there is no threat, but there is always attrition, do you understand the reason?" Xia Chiyu glanced at everyone and asked.
Chen Feng shook his head indifferently: "This ...... To be honest, I don't understand that. Is there a problem with our style of play? ”
Not really...... It's not a problem. Xia Chiyu muttered, "It's just not very suitable, the main idea is right, but it needs to be slightly modified in the details, because, I don't know if you have noticed, the reason why this boss is easy to attrition is not because its skills are too dangerous, but because of the 'randomness' of its skills." ”
"Hmm......" Chen Feng suddenly frowned and groaned, Xia Chiyu explained: "You see, the biggest threat to this boss is fear. Because the player's position becomes uncertain after the fear, then it is very likely to enter the range of the dragon's head and tail, thus leading to unexpected attrition, which is the first place of randomness. ”
"The second randomness lies in the roll call of bone rain after the heavens, because the people named are random, so the second uncertainty of the guide zhì may lead to unexpected attrition. Because of this randomness, there may be irregular attrition, such as melee if you are feared to the position of the dragon head and dragon tail, or if the bone rain is not controlled by the occupation, then there will be attrition, which is the so-called randomness, and it all depends on luck. ”
"Meaning...... There is no way, can only rely on luck? Chen Feng asked with some embarrassment.
"How so?" Xia Chiyu grinned and said, "There is no boss like Zài in AO that requires luck to pass, we can turn randomness into certainty." ”
As he spoke, Xia Chiyu began to draw a diagram on the ground: "So, how to prevent the uncertainty caused by this randomness." In fact, it is just a simple change of play. ”
"First of all, the only threat in Phase 1 is fear, and the threat of fear is that it 'may' dread melee to the dragon's head and tail, which means we don't need to finish Phase 1 as much as possible. Then, you can choose to keep melee away from the boss when you're about to use Crowd Fear, and I'll remind you of this time. ”
"But the second phase is different, in the second phase we have to ensure a certain output, and at the same time, we need to make sure that there are as many players as possible around the players named by the bone rain when the bone rain comes out, so ...... What we need to do is: During the first roll call, tell the knight to get away from the ash, and then everyone else gathers! ”
As soon as these words were spoken, a low voice of doubt suddenly sounded.
"However, that skill has AOE damage, the skill of bone rain." Chen Feng frowned and said.
"It's okay," Xia Chiyu grinned, "This damage will be reduced by defense, I deliberately looked at it when I was named just now, basically less than one percent of the damage at a time." If you eat the whole thing, you will deduct three or four percent of the blood. The whole boss has three cycles, and if we eat all three bone rains, then we will only lose less than 15% of our health, but in this way, the whole group of skeletons after the bone rain can be hit, and there will be no mistakes. ”
"That's what I'm talking about, turning the uncertainty of randomness into a certainty." Xia Chiyu made a summary.
"Hmm......" Chen Feng nodded, his eyes shining, and turned to the members of the group and shouted, "Then." Let's try it out according to what the commander said! Come! Cheer me up! Have a good fight! ”
Everyone responded and started a new round of attempts, and the effect of the tactics was immediate, and there were no more unexpected attritions. Everyone beat the boss all the way to 10% health. Then began the final stage of the rush. At this time, everyone is there, and the boss's health is gradually decreasing, and everyone thinks that this time will definitely pass.
"Eight percent! Eight percent! Chen Feng said excitedly, "Fight! Skills are all open! ”
That's when it happened. The boss's body suddenly turned red and enlarged, and then swept towards Lacey in front of him with a slap.
Lacey was stunned for a moment, but fortunately he reacted quickly. Immediately stand up for defense, "Ping!" A clear sound was heard, and the blow was blocked by perfect defense, but there was no doubt that the boss had gone berserk.
"No, it's berserk...... Give up, give up! Xia Chiyu frowned and said, at this time, the boss still has the last seven percent of his health left, and he can definitely fight it if he wants to fight, but there is no doubt that most of the members of the group will be killed or injured. And now that everyone's burst skills have all been used, there is not much mana and fighting spirit left, and it can't burst out.
Chen Feng is obviously not very willing, Xia Chiyu is not incomprehensible, this boss is quite difficult, so far there is still no guild in the national service to defeat this boss. But due to Xia Chiyu's concentrated play, everyone's health is running out now, and if you fight like this, the attack power after the boss's rage is definitely one by one.
"Don't give up! Keep fighting, leave it to me! Lacey said firmly, "This is the last outbreak, and it won't go to the sky again, so let's fight quickly!" ”
"Tsk...... All right! Xia Chiyu said unhappily, "Come on, all the staff will output with all their strength, how much damage can be hit, how much damage can be hit!" ”
"Even if you say that, you don't have any skills now......" Su Xing said with a frown, and threw the Soul Eater Spear at the boss. Nightmare continued to attack Lacey, and although its attack power increased, its attack speed did not increase, so Lacey's perfect defense could barely hold up.
However, Reis's perfect defense only relies on judgment, experience, and reaction time, and it is not that he really has extraordinary reflexes, so it is just that the defense probability is relatively high, and it is impossible to achieve a 100% chance.
"Hmm......" Lacey snorted, this time the perfect defense failed, and he was suddenly beaten by the boss and fell to the ground on one knee, and his health dropped from more than 70% to 5% in an instant, and he would definitely die if he was touched again!
"Holy!" Su Xing cursed, and quickly began to condense the dark aura to attract the boss's attention, and then forcibly ate the boss's blow. He was knocked backwards and slid to the ground against the wall of the Juggernaut's Terrace. The Dark Knight armor on his body disappeared in an instant, and his health slowly recovered after dropping to zero.
"This stupid ......" Xia Chiyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, this skill of awakening is different from the death-free charm, the so-called death-free charm is only suitable for pvp battles, and the effect of the death-free charm in pvE battles will be canceled by damage. For example, if 10% of the health is restored, but the boss's damage is 11% overloaded, then the character will still die.
Therefore, the health of the awakening is now stuck at three percent before it finally stops.
However, there are no more people who can withstand the boss's attacks now. Lacey and Awakening have the most health in the group due to their skill setting issues. Lacey is a large shield knight with thick armor and a perfect defense route, and the awakening attack can regenerate health, so only the two of them can take the boss's blow.
Although Xia Chiyu also has more than 60% of his health, the current attack power of this boss is enough for him to die twice with one slap, so he has no intention of going up and carrying it hard. At this time, Chen Feng shouted: "No matter! Just keep fighting! Even if you take your life, you have to fight it for me! The person who is targeted by the boss just runs, and I will be responsible for the consequences! ”
But at this time, Nightmare suddenly turned to the rain that was condensing wood elementals to help everyone resist the damage.
"Tsk. Because the two highest hated targets were hit, now jump to the top of the hate list? Gu Qinyan frowned and said, using the last trace of Dou Qi to demonize, and the dark red Dou Qi erupted from his body.
"Ping!" With a crisp sound, Gu Qinyan's crossed dual swords blocked the boss's blow, but his health dropped rapidly from more than sixty percent, even if he used the demonization skill to speed up his health recovery, it didn't help, and his health was still decreasing to zero.
"Tsk...... Blessed by the Light! Xia Chiyu released a blood recovery skill for Gu Qinyan, but the blood addition was only a slow recovery rather than a one-time recovery. Gu Qinyan's health was reduced only slightly.
"Please, be sure to catch up!" Reis muttered to himself, raising his sword at Gu Qinyan and slashing down: "Righteous judgment, sacrifice!" ”
The figure of the paladin emerged from behind Gu Qinyan. Immediately, Gu Qinyan's HP dropped again, and Lacey's HP also decreased a little, and the HP of both of them stayed at about five percent!
However, due to the loss of the hate target of the stable dìng, this is when the boss begins to attack indiscriminately. The dragon head and tail kept swinging, and the health of the whole group dropped rapidly, and seeing this, Xia Chiyu immediately came to the position where Reis was standing before. Raising the staff and starting to condense a large number of elements, the five grids of the five spirit wheels under his feet lit up, and the boss immediately shifted the target to him.
Nightmare immediately shifted her attention to him, turning her head to take her position and slapping it with a wave of her claws.
"Please, hold on!" Xia Chiyu thought secretly, and raised his staff to open up the spiritual force field strengthened by the Seraph, with his current remaining mana, he could only open a spiritual force field, but he could not summon the Seraph.
However, even before Nightmare went berserk, his mental force field could not prevent the boss attack of this number, and at this time, although it was a strengthened mental force field, Nightmare's claws had just touched the spirit force field, and the crack began to spread from the place where it was attacked, and the dazzling light continued to crack.
"No......" Xia Chiyu scolded secretly, and in less than two seconds, his spiritual force field was shattered by the Nightmare, and his claws slapped down. But this blow only penetrated Xia Chiyu's body, and Xia Chiyu himself appeared not far away, continuing to raise his staff to condense the elements. Seeing this, Nightmare continued to attack Xia Chiyu.
Visual effects such as illusion and stealth are useless against the boss and can only be effective against the player, so Xia Chiyu's stand-in skill can only be used in PVE to neutralize the boss attack and then distance itself when it is about to be attacked.
Nightmare took a small step towards Xia Chiyu, and halfway through, he suddenly raised his head and roared, releasing the fear of the group, and the whole group began to run around, Xia Chiyu looked at the scenery in front of him and shook for a while, and suddenly secretly screamed that it was over.
However, Xia Chiyu remembered that he had a three-life stone on his body, so he sighed secretly: "It's okay, use it here, use it here, anyway, sooner or later." ”
When Nightmare rushed in front of Xia Chiyu with a fierce momentum, he just recovered from fear, but Nightmare had just raised his claws when he suddenly let out a wail, and his huge body fell to the ground with a bang.
"Hehe, scared to pee, right?" Su Xing stopped in front of Xia Chiyu and said with a smile, while Reis and Gu Qinyan also appeared in front of him, and withdrew the weapons in their hands into the scabbard.
"I'm scared, I've accepted my fate calmly." Xia Chiyu replied angrily. (To be continued......)