Chapter 153: The Last Shopping
The difficulty with Prince Makzar is that the curse "BLE" changes the player's maximum health to 10% of the player's maximum health for seven seconds, and cannot be healed in any way. When the curse disappears, the player's health reverts to normal. This skill alone is not very threatening, but it must take into account the other two skills of Prince Makzar.
One of them is Hellfire, Prince Makzar will summon an Hellfire every forty-five seconds in one of the seven fixed locations on the map, and the Hellfire will continue to deal fire damage to nearby players after three seconds, and will continue to disappear for three minutes, unable to be attacked and killed by players.
The second is that Prince Makzar will unleash a Shadow Nova centered on him three to five seconds after releasing the curse of "BLE" on the player, inflicting a shadow effect of 3,000 and knocking the player back. The third is Whisper: Pain, a continuous damage skill that casts damage on random targets, including players who have been cursed by "BLE".
Therefore, when these skills are combined, it is extremely terrifying, and players who are hit by BLE, as long as they are hit by one of these three skills, will immediately enter the stage of residual blood and serious injury, so that the whole battle has to be abandoned.
And since these skills are fixed with the boss as the center and released within three to five seconds after BLE, the other two skills are random, which leads to the fact that players who hit BLE are likely to be hit by the other two skills again, thus entering a state of severely injured residual blood. In short, this boss tests the overall strength of the team, once there is a player who lacks individual ability. will inevitably be hit by other skills after hitting BLE.
"I'm sorry......" Li Feifei said with some frustration, because she had to give up several times when she led the team. But in fact, it's not just her, almost every one has a similar situation, but everyone's situation is different.
"Well, no, I'll go out and substitute." Li Feifei asked scaredly.
"There's no need for that...... Chen Feng said with a wry smile. If that's the case, we're going to go out and make substitutions, and then half of us have to go out...... After all, apart from the four commanders, there are very few people who don't make mistakes. I don't think it's possible to make a mistake because you're lucky enough to have it yet. ”
Xia Chiyu also comforted on the side: "Indeed, this boss is more of a test of luck. If you get too many skills at the same time, even a few of us will inevitably find it a little difficult. ”
"To put it bluntly. This boss is the storage zài who refrains from melee combat. "Generally speaking, the long-range threat is not large, and it is almost impossible to take into account the threat of Hellfire and Shadow Nova. ”
"Yes, Shadow Word: Pain can be dispelled with skills like guò stand-ins, mental force fields, and instantaneous flashes. This skill is also not very threatening. So to put it bluntly, this boss, judging from the current situation, should be as little melee as possible. Xia Chiyu nodded and said, "But it's just now, we have just entered the second stage." ”
"Indeed, it is very rare to be able to enter the second stage." Lin Qianxue sighed and said.
Awakening pointed to the field and said, "From the current situation, it seems that the second phase will not summon Hellfire anymore, but after the boss is replaced with an axe in this stage. That attack is terrifying......
"Yes, so in the second phase, we must rely on the current few large shield knights to attract the attention of the boss back and forth to avoid attrition. Then the position can't be fixed like before......" Xia Chiyu looked at the situation at the top of the tower and said.
Previously, they had pulled the boss to a fixed position away from Hellfire to fight. But it has to be said that the combat area in that way is very narrow. Due to the limited range of the top of the tower, the Hellfire itself has an area of about ten yards in diameter, and with the flames of the Hellfire, its total area of influence is about twenty yards in diameter.
In this area at the top of the tower, there are seven areas that spawn Golem regularly. After excluding these seven areas, there are not many areas on the field where you can stand. Xia Chiyu frowned. Wielding his staff, he summoned seven thorn bushes on the field, then turned his head and reminded, "Everyone, watch out." These seven are the locations that will currently refresh Hellfire. “
"It's a lot more intuitive." Zhang Zinuo said with some admiration, "Then, we just need to avoid these range battles, right?" ”
"It's not that simple," Xia Chiyu shook his head, "First of all, although the curse BLE will not be used on the current target, it will still be used randomly, that is to say, the big shield knight closest to the boss will also be hit by this skill, and we must ensure that at least four people can react in time......"
Xia Chiyu's speed of speech became slower and slower, and Su Xing suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Actually, it doesn't have to be a big shield knight, right?" As long as you can survive the boss's attack, it's fine. After all, this game is a somatosensory game, not the old-fashioned MM of the past, and it's not the kind where the boss will definitely hit the player when he attacks. ”
"Indeed." Xia Chiyu nodded and said, "Then, I think the four of us will be responsible for the second stage of the boss's hatred." But even the four of us have to be careful. After all, this skill is indeed dangerous. ”
"I'm fine." Gu Qinyan hugged his arm and said lightly, and Lacey also nodded beside him: "Me too." ”
"So, revise the tactics, I'll reassign it." Xia Chiyu said, waving his staff, "See the areas where the hellfire fell on the field now, right?" The current way of playing, in the first stage, we still pull the boss to the area where there is no hellfire, and then ...... Listen, all melee stations are ranged, and only output with ranged skills. ”
"What!?" These words surprised everyone, and Chen Feng asked puzzledly, "Is this really good?" Although the melee class also has ranged output, the damage is relatively low after all, and most of them have no skill bonuses......"
Xia Chiyu raised his hand to interrupt him and explained, "For now. What we need is not a higher output, but a more secure way to play that will allow us to beat the boss's health to at least ...... In short, the next stage. ”
"Uh...... Also. Chen Feng rubbed the back of his head with some distress and said, "Then, let's decide like this first." Let's try again, according to the Commander's method. Everyone stands in the doorway, regardless of ranged or melee, and attacks the boss with ranged skills. Do you understand everything? ”
Everyone responded, and Xia Chiyu added: "I have fallen into the secret word technique: I will remind you of the painful person, remember to use the guò skill to lift it, no matter whether you have the curse of being hit or not, you must lift it yourself." ”
said. The crowd began another attempt with Prince Makzar with a new style of play.
"Zinuo, the pain of your secret speech technique can be relieved with an instant!" Xia Chiyu said, dodging Prince Makzar's one-handed axe, and another hellfire smashed behind them. Begin a comprehensive AOE of the surroundings.
"The second swordsman, it's about to be a new star of shadows, get out of the way! You've got BLE! Xia Chiyu shouted, Gu Qinyan responded, at this time the boss had already begun to emit dark purple light on his hands, but Gu Qinyan flashed back with an instant, dodged the circle of shadow novas that emanated from the boss's body, and then flashed back to the boss again.
"Enough to be sassy? But don't forget that you only have 10% life now. Tailang beware of death! Xia Chiyu reprimanded sternly, Gu Qinyan didn't pay attention to him, just put on a posture. Taking advantage of this safe time, he frantically slashed out the long sword and launched a slash dance towards Prince Makzar, the sword qi accumulated in front of Prince Makzar, and then flew out in one breath.
The excessively high damage guide Prince Makzar turned his head to focus on Gu Qinyan, he turned his head and slashed the two one-handed axes in his hand, and Gu Qinyan retreated in two flashes in a row. Dodged both attacks.
"What did I just say!?" Xia Chiyu didn't have a good airway, and raised his staff to aim at Prince Makzar. The red grid of the Five Spirit Wheel lit up, "Red Lotus Sword Dance." Slash Attack! ”
The red flames turned into dozens of sharp blades, staggered towards the boss, and stabbed at its body. Prince Makzar let out an angry roar, turned around and pounced on Xia Chiyu. Xia Chiyu raised his staff to open the mental force field, and the boss's axe slashed on the mental force field, emitting a burst of dazzling light, but soon Xia Chiyu's spiritual force field began to shatter.
"Lacey!" Xia Chiyu shouted, and Reis responded and launched an attack on the boss, attracting the boss's attention back. Prince Makzar wielded an axe and slashed, and Lacey raised his shield to defend. "Ping!" Although the boss was not affected by Lacey's perfect defense, Lacey could continue to deal with the boss's attacks.
AO is a 3D somatosensory game, and although everyone can be used as a tank class to attract the attention of bosses, it is relatively better suited to the Giant Shield Knight. Because of one, no player can ensure that they can 100% avoid the boss skill, if the big shield knight is accidentally hit, at most it will only deduct more than ten or twenty percent of the health, but if it is a profession with less blood and low defense like mage, half blood will be deducted directly.
Second, once life-saving skills such as mental force field and stand-in are used up, the mage class has no skills to continue to deal with the boss, but the Great Shield Knight can always use blocking to defend against the boss's attacks even if he doesn't need skills.
"Not good...... It's a bit slow. Xia Chiyu looked at the field, and suddenly frowned and muttered to himself.
When Prince Makzar's health drops to sixty percent, they enter the second phase. At the beginning of this phase, there will be no more Hellfires, but the bad thing is that since the melee classes are back in ranged positions, their damage in the first phase is slightly lower, and by the time they enter the second phase, there are already five Hellfires on the field.
What Xia Chiyu was worried about was that since there were seven places on the field to place hellfire, he was almost sure that this boss would definitely summon hellfire at some stage after that. Judging from the amount of space they have left now, at most they can allow the boss to summon four Hellfires, and if there are more than nine Hellfires on the field, then they can just give up.
Because after more than nine Golems, there will be no place on the field for them to engage in boss fights.
However, Xia Chiyu did not express his concern, but instructed the team: "Everyone continue to fight, we may not have asked for it." The key is to take the boss to the next stage and figure out all its skills before arranging tactics. But don't take it lightly, be sure to hold on for a while longer, and play as much as you can! ”
Everyone responded, and the pressure in their hearts was a little less. The boss enters the second phase.
Prince Makzar pulled out a huge two-handed axe and smashed it head-on at Lacey. Lacey stood up for shield defense, but unexpectedly, this blow of the boss was attached to the special effect of wind rage, which was two consecutive attacks.
Lacey dodged the first blow with perfect defense, but the second axe slammed into his shield with a muffled "thud". Lacey snorted. Glide backwards for some distance, plummeting your health by fifteen percent.
"Beware! Don't use Perfect Defense anymore! Xia Chiyu replied, "From now on, the four of us will take turns to attract the attention of the boss, and everyone else will attack the boss with all their skills, and the dispel that should be dispersed!" Fifi. Remembered! ”
"Got it......" Li Feifei replied aggrievedly, standing in the distance and throwing the flying knife.
But I have to say that although the remote side is quite relaxed, except for the need to remove the secret word technique on the body: pain, you can always output it with peace of mind, but the pressure of Xia Chiyu's four people is extremely terrifying. Prince Makzar's attack power at this stage is terrifying, and a single axe can knock out nearly 15% of Lacey's HP with a buff. Coupled with the fact that Prince Makzar himself has a certain chance of triggering the Wind Fury weapon effect of attacking twice in an instant, Xia Chiyu is afraid that if he is stabbed twice, he will be directly full of blood.
But the skills of the four of them are also limited, so the four of them have to take turns to attract the attention of the boss so that the skill cooldown can be reversed. But. Even Xia Chiyu is a little nervous now.
"Eat fish, be careful!" Zhang Zinuo instructed. At this time, the boss shifted his attention to Gu Qinyan.
"Qinyan, beware!" Yuxi exclaimed in the back, Gu Qin let out an unhappy "tsk", and set up a posture to draw his knife. Seeing this, Xia Chiyu asked sharply: "You idiot, what do you want to do!?" If it fails, ...... directly"
"Either you die or I die, life just needs some gambling." Gu Qinyan grinned. The white fighting qi on his body gradually turned dark red, and Gu Qinyan also entered a demonic state. The vindictive spirit danced wildly, "If I succeed in this skill." You don't have to worry about the hellfire problem in the future, right? ”
"Tsk, idiot...... "Xia Chiyu said unhappily, and began to prepare his skills.
"Extreme? Draw the sword and slash, and it will be ...... in an instant" Gu Qinyan said in a low voice, and the colorful sword light bloomed in front of him like flower petals. The next moment, he flashed past Prince Makzar. Seeing this, Xia Chiyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
If Gu Qinyan is still standing in place at the end of the draw, it means that the invincible judgment is invalid this time, and the attack power will drop a lot, but on the contrary, if Gu Qinyan stabs forward for a distance, it means that the invincible judgment of drawing the knife is successful.
Not only can you completely dodge the boss's skill through guò "Instant Fanghua", but it can also double the attack of this skill. In addition, Gu Qinyan himself increased his attack power through guò demonization, and there were various attack power bonuses, this blow flashed, and Prince Makzar was directly beaten out of a hard stun, and his health plummeted by nearly eight percent, and he was beaten to thirty-seven percent!
"Good guys!" Su Xing couldn't help but praise, "In this way, it should not be far from the third stage!" ”
As he spoke, he also began to prepare his skills, he himself had entered the state of a dark knight, and the long whip entanglement dragon in his hand reprogrammed the dark aura, and condensed into a long sword in his hand.
"Okay, the second swordsman, you step down and leave it to me!" Wake up and go back to the boss.
The aggro mechanic in AO is different from other games, first each person has a certain base aggro based on the damage dealt, and then another part of the aggro is brought according to the current action, which makes the boss's actions more flexible and elusive.
For example, Lacey's damage and hatred value is 5,000, but his current action is only to defend with a shield, and Xia Chiyu's damage and hatred value is only 3,000, but he is currently chanting a spell or condensing elements, bringing an additional 2,000 action hatred points, then the boss will give up attacking Lacey and attack Xia Chiyu instead.
However, the action aggro value will gradually decrease, for example, after the boss turns to attack Xia Chiyu, Xia Chiyu gives up chanting, then you can avoid the action aggro value from continuing to increase. And the boss has not been able to attack Xia Chiyu. The hatred value will continue to decrease, and the boss will give up on Xia Chiyu and turn back to attack other people at the top of the hatred list.
The specific attack mechanism and AI will vary depending on the boss's attack mechanics and AI, and the more complex the attack mechanism and AI, the more it will look like the boss is being operated by someone behind it. Judging from Makzar's AI, there is some of this taste.
Gu Qinyan stepped back, but the boss continued to pursue him. Seeing this, Xia Chiyu shouted: "Don't go to the crowd!" Shadow Nova is going to blow a lot of people up! Take him with him to kite between the hellfires! Funny Warlock, you hurry up and attack! ”
"Damn. The damage of his blow is too high, and the boss won't come to hit me if I'm standing here to cast spells! Su Xing couldn't help but complain, stabbed his sword on the ground and shouted: "Wildfire, Sword Forest!" ”
Huge black blades rose from Prince Makzar's side, but Prince Makzar continued to pursue Gu Qinyan. Seeing this, he immediately replaced the wildfire in his hand with a spear devouring spirit, and attacked again.
"Absolute in all directions!" Xia Chiyu waved his staff and shouted. The green, red, and yellow squares of the Five Spirit Wheels lit up.
Whether it was awakening and constantly condensing the elements to switch weapons, or Xia Chiyu releasing multi-system magic, it was all to increase the hatred value and make the boss turn his head to pay attention to them, but Prince Makzar finally chased in front of Gu Qinyan and cut off the axe in his hand.
"Just Judgment. Sacrifice! Righteous trial, justice! Lacey shouted from behind, and a knightly figure composed of light stood up on Gu Qinyan's body, raising a shield to protect him, and the golden light on the shield flashed. Ping! With a bang, the sound of perfect defense was heard, and it was defended by Lacey, but the effect of the Wind Fury weapon was triggered. Gu Qinyan still flew out.
"Hmm......" Gu Qinyan snorted, and his health plummeted by more than forty percent! But fortunately, he had more than seventy percent health before him, so this time he didn't trigger any critical damage effects.
"It's too dangerous...... Come on. Middle 2 Swordsman, get out of the way! Xia Chiyu said impatiently.
But the good news is that Lacey's Justice Judgment and Justice can bounce off the damage of the perfect defense, and the boss's health drops to thirty percent because of this, thus entering the third phase. And at this stage, the vanished Hellfire has returned. But the biggest threat, BLE, which reduces the player's maximum health by 90%, is finally no longer used!
"Alright. Now all of them will fight me in front of the boss! BLE won't put it anymore! Xia Chiyu shouted, "Pay attention to the hellfire and the Shadow Nova!" Hurry. We must kill this boss in three minutes! ”
On average, a Hellfire is summoned in forty-five seconds, and if the boss is not dead after three minutes, then the tenth Hellfire is out, and they don't have to fight, and they will be hit by Hellfire's AOE anywhere on the field.
"Do you hear that!? Kombat Kombat! Use your strength to breastfeed! Chen Feng's voice trembled a little, Xia Chiyu could understand it, and his own heartbeat also accelerated, after all, this was the first time they had entered the third stage, and the situation was very good now.
However, the boss has several more skills at this stage, the first of which is a damage-boosting skill that increases the player's damage by 30%, and he throws a one-handed axe at several players. The One-Handed Axe will continuously attack the targeted player, dealing AOE damage. Coupled with the Secret Word Technique: Pain and damage increase efficiency, and suddenly several people's blood volume plummeted!
"Xiaoyu, your secret word: pain! Flying, you've been named by the axe! Get out of the crowd! Xia Chiyu shouted, having to withdraw from the attack echelon, wielding a staff to assist, and using vines to pull those players who didn't pay attention out of the attack range of Hellfire or Throwing Axe, and the boss's health continued to drop.
However, due to some unavoidable circumstances, the health of the whole group was a little low, and the aoe players who had to move frequently to avoid the axe and Hellfire had to reduce their damage, and the tenth Hellfire finally appeared on the field.
"Damn, there's no way......" Chen Feng said helplessly, now the blood volume of the whole group is quite low, and everyone is being attacked by hellfire, if this continues, players will die in another ten seconds. He looked at Prince Makzar, who only had the last nine percent of his health left, a little unwillingly, and sighed heavily: "That's it! We ......"
"Keep fighting! Believe me! I'm not going to let a single person die! Xia Chiyu shouted at this time, his expression was resolute, and the staff slashed down heavily, "The Seraphic Angel of the End!" (To be continued)