Warden Stanwick is the small boss that Xia Chiyu and others encountered in the old town of Izyes in the underground rock city when they completed the alliance mission of the dwarf kingdom before. It's not a real boss, and the style of play doesn't belong to the particularly troublesome category, but it's ...... is unique, which also makes Xia Chiyu deeply impressed by it.

Because, Stanwick is probably the only boss that has added a puzzle mode during the boss fight.

Before being strengthened by Cira last time, Stanwick would release the skill of "Death Torture Device" to the player during the strategy, tying the player to a torture device, and other players needed to rescue the player to release the player from the torture device, and if they were not rescued within the specified time, the player who was bound to the torture device would be judged to be "instant death".

At the time, the puzzle was not very difficult to solve, so they were able to defeat Stanwick without incident, but before Stanwick was about to die, Cira came to rescue him, claiming that she "liked his abilities", so she dragged him back to Castlevania to heal and then strengthen it.

is also foreshadowing, as well as the "original sin condensation" that appeared in the underground abyss of Ezes before, and I believe that they should be waiting for them in a certain boss hall in the future.

In short, Xia Chiyu plans to try this boss with the team first, and then figure out the skills before thinking of a way.

Xia Chiyu is still very interested in the boss of Warden Stanwick, this boss's style of play has been very interesting before, and it must be even more interesting after being strengthened, I hope the White Crane Company will not disappoint him.

After three or four attempts, Xia Chiyu basically figured out the skills of this BOSS, and the warden Stanwick did not disappoint Xia Chiyu, this is a very ...... "characteristic" BOSS.

"Okay, let's talk about the way this boss plays." Xia Chiyu smiled and motioned for the group members to concentrate, "Overall, the warden Stanwick is a completely opposite boss to the human-faced demon Margut. ”

The human-faced demon Magut is a boss with an extremely lengthy and troublesome strategy process, while Warden Stanwick is just the opposite, this boss has a total strategy time of less than five minutes, and it is completely a boss that tests the player's explosive power.

First of all, Stanwick will unleash a "Crazy Slaughter" skill, which stacks a debuff on all players in the group, dealing a small amount of damage per second, which is so low that it can be ignored completely, however, this skill will be repeated every fifteen seconds, and can be stacked indefinitely.

When stacked to five layers, it will cause about two percent damage per second to the player, and if it is stacked to ten layers, it will cause four percent damage per second, and when stacked to twenty layers, it can cause eight percent damage per second, at which point the team basically declares game-over. That is, three hundred seconds.

The time to attack this boss is only 300 seconds, and if they don't kill the boss after 300 seconds, it's their failure.

Three hundred and fifteen seconds to be exact, because to exclude the skill time before the first slaughter, and this death countdown starts from the moment the boss starts the battle.

However, this boss is not limited to the skill of Crazy Slaughter, there are three other skills.

This second skill is the "Demon Torture Instrument", compared to the last torture tool, this time the torture tool is more vicious, not only will bind one player, but will bind five players, and the other players must be dispatched to "solve the puzzle" to rescue these five players from the torture tool one by one. Only this time, the difficulty of solving the puzzle is not as easy as last time.

Due to this "countdown to death", the time to solve the puzzle must not be too long, otherwise it will seriously affect the output of the boss, but this is not good news, because the short time will lead to a short time to solve the puzzle, which means that the player needs to react faster, but not everyone in the team reacts quickly.

Moreover, this time the puzzle mode is different, it belongs to the QTE type, that is to say, at the specified time, let the player follow the prompts that appear on the screen to do it, and draw the correct pattern even if the decryption is successful, but the wrong drawing will fail.

Of course, it's not that strict, players are allowed to fail twice, but after more than two QTE failures, it will be judged as a failure to disarm the mechanism. A player will be rescued every time a certain number of QTEs are released, but as long as the QTE button fails, all the remaining players who have not been rescued will be judged dead, and a player can be rescued by drawing three QTEs correctly.

However, on the other hand, if you press the wrong QTE in a row at the beginning, then all five players who are imprisoned by the torture device this time will be judged as "instant death". Considering the explosive nature of this boss and the countdown to death, there can be no attrition in any of the battles. The death of a player basically declares the failure of this strategy.

This is the second ability, and the third ability is the Weakening Roar, which emits a burst of roar that weakens players within twenty yards, does not damage, but reduces the damage dealt by the player by twenty percent.

The third skill is "Devouring Pain", which deals moderate damage to a player, about 20 percent, and will not be repeated on players who have already released it. The damage is usually not a threat, but it will give the player ten times the amount of damage to be restored. However, this skill is not directive, and will appear in advance a warning circle at the player's feet, which can be dodged.

The last skill is "Felony Sentencing", aiming at the player, and two seconds later projecting an iron cage, if the player does not dodge being hit by the iron cage, it will not deduct HP, but will cause the player to be imprisoned for up to half a minute, and the player will not be able to move for half a minute, unless another player goes to "rescue" him.

The rescue method is the same as the demon torture tool, you need to draw a hint for the QTE, but this time the QTE will be more troublesome, Xia Chiyu does not recommend the player to rescue, because it will only waste more output.

Even if the reaction is fast and all the QTEs are drawn correctly, it will take about ten seconds to rescue the imprisoned player, counting the time on the road, and not only the output of the imprisoned player is wasted, but even the output of the player who went to rescue is wasted.

Therefore, unless it is an important role such as Xia Chiyu and the four people who are imprisoned, rescue is generally not considered. In addition, since this skill is also a non-directional skill that can be dodged, you just need to pay attention to it.

It can be seen that the four skills of this BOSS, in addition to the two skills of crazy slaughter as a countdown and the demon torture tool as a feature of this BOSS, the other skills will basically not threaten the player's life, but will seriously weaken the player's output ability or restore blood to the boss.

"So, as you can see, this BOSS doesn't have too many technical requirements, it's purely a 'hardware BOSS'." Xia Chiyu said seriously, "The so-called hardware boss is the boss that tests the player's specific ability in a certain aspect. For example, Warden Stanwick simply tests the player's output ability. ”

Stanvik's strategy mode,It's nothing more than crazy output.,See who dies first.,There's not much technical content.,It's not like the human-faced demon Magut has many stages and skills.,Except for the players named by the skill,,You can basically stand in place and output from beginning to end.,But on the other hand,As long as the output is not enough,Then this boss can't be beaten.。

The reason is very simple, this BOSS doesn't have any tricks other than testing the player's output, as for the position dodge skills, according to QTE to rescue the player, that's the basic requirement for playing team. This boss can be dodged except for demon torture tools and crazy slaughter.

"That is, how to maximize the damage of the team, right?" Chen Feng held his chin and nodded.

"But that doesn't seem like a good thing, does it?" Lin Qianxue frowned, "Didn't we only hit thirty percent of our blood just now?" Does this mean that our output is not enough? ”

Xia Chiyu shook his head: "No, it's also related to proficiency." After practicing a few more times and mastering the rhythm of this boss, you will naturally know when it is most appropriate to release your burst skills. As a simple example, Devouring Pain is a skill that only names you once, and if you are named, then Devouring Pain is your best output point. ”

"That's right, because I've been hit once, and I won't name myself every time I devour the pain after that, so it's absolutely safe when the boss releases this skill!" Zhang Zhiwei said suddenly.

"That's it, for the other skills, you also have to learn how to dodge with the lowest output loss." Xia Chiyu continued, "Regarding this, you can observe more about how the four of us dodge. ”

"Is it to use the displacement skill to dodge before the skill comes?" Liu Yiyu frowned and said, "But the difficulty is too high, we can't play it." Slow down a little and you're going to hit, and if you get hit by a skill, you won't scold us to death. ”

"Isn't there reaction time?" Xia Chiyu frowned and asked puzzledly, "It's easy to grasp?" ”

But everyone looked embarrassed, and Xiao You sighed helplessly: "Don't take it for granted, it may be simple for you, but for us...... While staring at the warning ring under your feet, you also have to turn on the reaction time, and then you have to prepare a displacement skill, which is too difficult. We can't be as skilled as you. ”

"She has a point, don't embarrass them too much." Gu Qinyan snorted coldly with his nose and said.

Indeed, for Xia Chiyu and others, releasing skills is like breathing, and it doesn't need to take brain power at all, it can be released naturally, but for other players, it requires concentration. On the one hand, this is a matter of proficiency, and on the other hand, it is also because of the "PVP ability".

It is precisely because of long-term PVP that they can release these skills so proficiently. Because in the battle with the player, you can't be allowed to slowly think about how to release the next skill, and then choose a suitable angle to release, but you need to focus on the battle, and the release of skills must be practiced as "instinct".

Therefore, many players say that the PVE of AO has nothing to do with PVE, but in fact it is closely related.

"In short, let's practice again, and when we are proficient, we will naturally be able to deal damage." Xia Chiyu said with a smile, "When you can't hit a single skill, and you can completely and smoothly remove every demon torture device, we will know if we don't have enough damage in the face of this boss." ”

But Xia Chiyu is actually very confident, because there are four demon kings and four kings in this team, and the output of the five of them can basically top eight to ten players, if the output is not enough, how can other guilds fight?

And the best thing about Warden Stanwick is that its strategy process is very short, and it will be wiped out quickly, unlike the human-faced demon Magut, who may fight for more than ten minutes before being wiped out. Therefore, although everyone has fought this boss four or five times, they do not feel tired.

What's more, the mechanism of this BOSS, Xia Chiyu thinks it is still very interesting.

"Alright, let's keep practicing." Xia Chiyu nodded with satisfaction and said, "I hope that before you practice a skill and can't hit it, don't talk to me about whether our damage is enough." ”

Everyone responded with full morale, and then started a new round of attempts.

Warden Stanwick, strengthened by Sila, the horrific creature's lower body resembles a spider, with six slender arthropods supporting his fat upper body, and now these six legs have become mechanized.

And the upper half of his body, which used to be swollen with cracks in his abdomen, as if it was about to burst, has now been transformed by the mechanical body. The warden's blindfold covering his left eye and the mask resembling an ice hockey mask were also replaced with "more advanced" ones, but only the exposed right eye was bloodshot, and the yellow whites and red pupils were still hideous.

"Again, you're standing before me...... Warden Stanwick roared in a low, hoarse, distant voice, "this time, are you ready for the warden's welcome party?" I've been preparing for a long time before I can plan a party that's even more interesting than the last time. So...... Welcome party, start now! ”

As she spoke, the warden Stanwick lunged on them.

Lacey and another tank, the Pit Viper, immediately went up to attract the boss's attention, while the other players quickly took their positions and began to fire fire, and after the first slaughter, the warden raised his hand and shouted, "I will use your blood and bones to build a new cell!" (To be continued.) )