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Aug. 22nd, 2010 03:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kjorteoBeat the bonus boss on 28F. Whew.
That actually wouldn't have been so bad (I more or less had him beat within three rounds,) except for his damned conditional drop--the finishing blow must be a Bash-type attack. My party is pretty... specialized as far as damage output goes. With a Ronin/Dark Hunter/War Magus in front and Hexer/Gunner in the back, it is almost guaranteed that I will be killing whatever stands in my way via either Slash, Pierce, or Fire. If whatever stands in my way isn't weak to any of those, so help me I will make it weak to them with the Hexer's Dampen. Masters of killing things dead, we are. Masters of killing things dead with Bash, we are not.
Pretty much the only way it was even possible was to swap out my Gunner for the Protector (the fourth time I've ever actually needed the Protector for anything, after the three "I'm going after elemental dragons, get your Anti-Element-knowing ass over here" occasions) so that she could Smite. And even then, Smite was... somewhat underwhelming. After buffing the Protector with Warmight and softening the boss up with Dampen and Frailty, Smite was good for about 390-400 damage. For comparison, the Ronin's Midreba (fairly standard attack) was good for roughly 1300-ish overall (3 hits at roughly 450 each) under the same conditions, and the Dark Hunter's Ecstasy (major damage but it only works on enemies that are completely bound, but since I opened up with Dominate to keep him from slaughtering me anyway....) was good for a little over 2000.
The hardest part was when I got him down to a sliver of health, then had to have everyone just sit there and defend while the Protector took an astounding five rounds to finish the job (compared to the fact that I got him down to said sliver in the first place in three....) Of course the binds wore off, and of course there was nothing I could do about it--the Dark Hunter didn't have enough Force to Dominate again, any of his attack+maybe have a chance of binding moves would have killed the boss, and while the Hexer had attack-free bind attempts, he was usually too busy keeping the boss Dampened (or else the Protector's damage dropped down to 90 D:) or being confused or dead. I'm amazed I actually pulled it off in the end--he definitely had more than enough chances to kill me with his devastating party-wide attacks and wasted almost all of them doing a regular standard attack against the one or two people on my entire team who could actually take it. (But only because they were defending.)
Anyway, I did it, hooray. Now, unless I happen to feel like completing the equipment registry (which would involve backtracking to unlock extremely inferior equipment I happened to miss because I only turned in 9 of that particular type of giblet from the enemies on floor 6 way back when I was actually on floor 6, instead of 10) the one and only thing left to do is take out the 30F bonus stratum endboss. I've already confirmed that there are but one missing slot each in my enemy bestiary and enemy drop compendium--once I kill the bonus endboss and take his drop, that will complete both lists. :D (As stated above, though, the unlocked equipment registry is a bit more sad.)
That actually wouldn't have been so bad (I more or less had him beat within three rounds,) except for his damned conditional drop--the finishing blow must be a Bash-type attack. My party is pretty... specialized as far as damage output goes. With a Ronin/Dark Hunter/War Magus in front and Hexer/Gunner in the back, it is almost guaranteed that I will be killing whatever stands in my way via either Slash, Pierce, or Fire. If whatever stands in my way isn't weak to any of those, so help me I will make it weak to them with the Hexer's Dampen. Masters of killing things dead, we are. Masters of killing things dead with Bash, we are not.
Pretty much the only way it was even possible was to swap out my Gunner for the Protector (the fourth time I've ever actually needed the Protector for anything, after the three "I'm going after elemental dragons, get your Anti-Element-knowing ass over here" occasions) so that she could Smite. And even then, Smite was... somewhat underwhelming. After buffing the Protector with Warmight and softening the boss up with Dampen and Frailty, Smite was good for about 390-400 damage. For comparison, the Ronin's Midreba (fairly standard attack) was good for roughly 1300-ish overall (3 hits at roughly 450 each) under the same conditions, and the Dark Hunter's Ecstasy (major damage but it only works on enemies that are completely bound, but since I opened up with Dominate to keep him from slaughtering me anyway....) was good for a little over 2000.
The hardest part was when I got him down to a sliver of health, then had to have everyone just sit there and defend while the Protector took an astounding five rounds to finish the job (compared to the fact that I got him down to said sliver in the first place in three....) Of course the binds wore off, and of course there was nothing I could do about it--the Dark Hunter didn't have enough Force to Dominate again, any of his attack+maybe have a chance of binding moves would have killed the boss, and while the Hexer had attack-free bind attempts, he was usually too busy keeping the boss Dampened (or else the Protector's damage dropped down to 90 D:) or being confused or dead. I'm amazed I actually pulled it off in the end--he definitely had more than enough chances to kill me with his devastating party-wide attacks and wasted almost all of them doing a regular standard attack against the one or two people on my entire team who could actually take it. (But only because they were defending.)
Anyway, I did it, hooray. Now, unless I happen to feel like completing the equipment registry (which would involve backtracking to unlock extremely inferior equipment I happened to miss because I only turned in 9 of that particular type of giblet from the enemies on floor 6 way back when I was actually on floor 6, instead of 10) the one and only thing left to do is take out the 30F bonus stratum endboss. I've already confirmed that there are but one missing slot each in my enemy bestiary and enemy drop compendium--once I kill the bonus endboss and take his drop, that will complete both lists. :D (As stated above, though, the unlocked equipment registry is a bit more sad.)