New Endless Tower Topic
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:28 pm
Now in English!
Our progress in ET is very impressive. Last week we were only 10 floors away from first MvP with Earthquake – Orc Lord. I'm not sure if we'll reach him this week, but fighting him needs some serious preparations.
He starts casting earthquake at 80% HP, 2 sec cast time, 30 sec delay. At 30% he activates power up which greatly increase EQ damage.
Here is nice Earthquake calculator:
http://rode.doddlercon.com/db/quake/eqcalc.php
It's very important to gear up properly for this and you can do this without spending a lot of zeny.
Horn card in stone buckler – 35% + 5% reduction. Guild members should have some spare stone bucklers or you can just buy them for 1,9m. Horn is like 300k and gives 35% reduction.
Alligators. They are 200k now and you can put them in belt, nile rose, or rosary (they are decent WoE gear).
Beret – 400k, probably everyone got one already, just don't forget to take it and wear it.
KvM/BG gear with demi-human reductions - it's not included in calculator, but it should work. It also gives you nice HP bonus and it's free and you need it for WoE.
Raydric card – it went down from 120m to 58m and it's really awesome card for PvE and WoE. It should also be great after renewal so it's worth investing some zeny now.
Long mace – 10% reduction for priest for like 8m. Every priest should get one sooner or later.
Ghostring – 75% reduction. I hope we'll find one sooner or later. It will allow us to easily kill much stronger MvP. Around 5b now.
There are two areas of damage – 0-4 cells and ranged 5-13. Most of cheap stuff works only for ranged. However, if I'm alone at close range I will get hit for around 70k.
Keep in mind that EQ deals 3 hits and dmg is recalculated on every hit, so if 3 people die from first hit, others will get more damage on second and third hit! That means even alts have to be equipped for it.
I thought of two ways to deal with it:
1)Just let the tank die and keep another tank in ranged group. Party would have no problem with surviving EQ but OL would change target probably to one of damage dealers and other tank might have problems with catching it. Whole party would have to move away to ranged position.
With OL it should be easy to just tank with SW because his mob are orc archers.
2) Whole party stays at close range. With 11 people, if you have only assu, kaupe, thara and beret, avg damage would be 6,5k. If we use apple and pupa/peco armours even wizards should survive.
Another problem is time – we used whole 4h last week. It went really fast and we were doing good so I was surprised it's already over. Two biggest obstacles – Amon Ra and Arc Angeling should go much faster if OWA comes with us with ME.
On floors where mobs can be frozen we should move together under SGs, instead of waiting for me to mob and go back to entrance. This will allow me to make bigger mobs and should be much faster and safer.
Don't wait so long before every floor, especially lower ones. Often only Crow and me are already dealing mobs on next floor while rest of the party is staying behind.
Our progress in ET is very impressive. Last week we were only 10 floors away from first MvP with Earthquake – Orc Lord. I'm not sure if we'll reach him this week, but fighting him needs some serious preparations.
He starts casting earthquake at 80% HP, 2 sec cast time, 30 sec delay. At 30% he activates power up which greatly increase EQ damage.
Here is nice Earthquake calculator:
http://rode.doddlercon.com/db/quake/eqcalc.php
It's very important to gear up properly for this and you can do this without spending a lot of zeny.
Horn card in stone buckler – 35% + 5% reduction. Guild members should have some spare stone bucklers or you can just buy them for 1,9m. Horn is like 300k and gives 35% reduction.
Alligators. They are 200k now and you can put them in belt, nile rose, or rosary (they are decent WoE gear).
Beret – 400k, probably everyone got one already, just don't forget to take it and wear it.
KvM/BG gear with demi-human reductions - it's not included in calculator, but it should work. It also gives you nice HP bonus and it's free and you need it for WoE.
Raydric card – it went down from 120m to 58m and it's really awesome card for PvE and WoE. It should also be great after renewal so it's worth investing some zeny now.
Long mace – 10% reduction for priest for like 8m. Every priest should get one sooner or later.
Ghostring – 75% reduction. I hope we'll find one sooner or later. It will allow us to easily kill much stronger MvP. Around 5b now.
There are two areas of damage – 0-4 cells and ranged 5-13. Most of cheap stuff works only for ranged. However, if I'm alone at close range I will get hit for around 70k.
Keep in mind that EQ deals 3 hits and dmg is recalculated on every hit, so if 3 people die from first hit, others will get more damage on second and third hit! That means even alts have to be equipped for it.
I thought of two ways to deal with it:
1)Just let the tank die and keep another tank in ranged group. Party would have no problem with surviving EQ but OL would change target probably to one of damage dealers and other tank might have problems with catching it. Whole party would have to move away to ranged position.
With OL it should be easy to just tank with SW because his mob are orc archers.
2) Whole party stays at close range. With 11 people, if you have only assu, kaupe, thara and beret, avg damage would be 6,5k. If we use apple and pupa/peco armours even wizards should survive.
Another problem is time – we used whole 4h last week. It went really fast and we were doing good so I was surprised it's already over. Two biggest obstacles – Amon Ra and Arc Angeling should go much faster if OWA comes with us with ME.
On floors where mobs can be frozen we should move together under SGs, instead of waiting for me to mob and go back to entrance. This will allow me to make bigger mobs and should be much faster and safer.
Don't wait so long before every floor, especially lower ones. Often only Crow and me are already dealing mobs on next floor while rest of the party is staying behind.