Chapter 1476: 1476
Azure Sea Breeze managed to control Razorgore as he continued to destroy the eggs one by one . The newly-spawned monsters watched as Razorgore did this and were all filled with rage . Their target was Razorgore, but they were not spawned to help them fight the Boss . Instead, if the Boss died before all the eggs were destroyed, he would self-destruct . The explosion would then lay waste to the whole room and destroy everything, including the players, which meant a squad wipe .
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Therefore, their mission was to protect the Boss .
Working together with the Boss to destroy the eggs was the first stage of the battle .
There were three types of monsters that spawned – Orc Warriors, Orc Mages and Dragonspawn . These three types of monsters were among the more difficult to fight . Orc Mages could cast Arcane Explosions and Fireballs, and were extremely threatening . The first squad wipe was in no small part because of them .
Before Razorgore self-destructed, he let out a final stoic cry .
“If I descend into hell, then you mere mortals must come with me!”
“We can’t . The monsters don’t seem to end,” Wandering shook his head and sighed .
“It doesn’t seem possible that we can clear all the monsters, but the Mages pose the biggest threat . We need to make sure to eliminate them as soon as they come out,” Lu Li said, expressing his agreement . From what he knew about the different strategies, he understood that there was a method to deal with these three types of monsters .
When the DPS of the players was not that high, a focused offence was the best way to tackle the problem .
The squad had three players that could hold command – Lu Li, Wandering and Sky Moon . Lu Li was the calm type, and furthermore, he had the ring that could revive . Wandering was the observing type . He could find methods and strategies out of what seemed to be nothing . The newly-joined Sky Moon was someone with unbridled imagination . This group’s results were not the most simple .
“Kill the Mages first . I don’t think the Warriors pose much of a threat . Let’s find a person to pull the Warriors away and around the area,” Lu Li instructed, then continued to say, “As for the Dragonspawn, I saw Hachi Chan make one go to sleep . We’ll let the Druids use Sleep on them . If the Druids can’t handle them, get the Warlocks to use Fear . Then, the Hunters can kite . ”
After the three of them discussed the possible strategies, this was the result .
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A perfect theory could not account for all the unexpected . For example, when the new monsters spawned, they would also attack the people on top of the control platform . Lu Li deployed a group to defend the control platform and also arranged for a support to use the gem .
This was because when Azure Sea Breeze lost control of the Boss, there would be a cooldown until they could use the gem again .
Lu Li brought along three Druids, a few Hunters and three Warlocks . Because of this composition, the Dragonspawn didn’t pose much threat to them . As for the Mages, the chemistry between the players at the start wasn’t great, so they wiped a few times . However, they gradually improved .
The worst thing was driving the trains .
Lu Li gave three Warriors the responsibility of driving the trains . This was because a Warrior’s movement speed was usually above average, and they also had skills to gain aggro as well . Furthermore, Warriors wore plate mail, so their defense and health were higher than the average player .
Fortunately, they had two strong players within the three Warriors . These were Moonlight and Deadly Gold Underpants!
Deadly Gold Underpants also joined the team this time . He and Moonlight were quite capable at driving the trains, and they also had health potions and movement speed potions with them, so it wasn’t a problem .
They couldn’t use AoE attacks in this phase of the battle, or else it would wake up the Dragonspawn that had been inflicted with Sleep . Another problem was the players pulling the small monsters’ aggro from the drivers to themselves . After reducing their Guild Points due to their mistakes, no one dared to use AoE skills anymore .
After a few failures, they eventually found that this phase was quite simple .
Lu Li then gathered two Priests . These two Priests were both Dark Elves, meaning that they had the special Dark Elf skill Shadowmeld . They would enter the room after the beginning of the battle, but their responsibility would not be to fight . Instead, they were to stand guard at the door . If there were casualties, then they would be at the furthest possible point to revive their teammates .
This didn’t mean that they could employ this strategy for every Boss fight . The main point was that the Boss’ attacks didn’t reach that area due to the shape of the room .
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They could revive the players on the edges of the room, but not the ones in the middle .
With these cleaners around, mistakes were much more forgivable, and the overall safety of the drivers was also much higher . Wandering suggested for Lu Li to deploy a healer on the sides of the room so that they could immediately heal when the drivers’ HP bars were getting low . As a result, the likelihood of accidentally drawing aggro away would be lower .
These healers would often die, but because they stood on the sides, when the monsters were pulled away, the Priests could just revive them again .
Even if Moonlight and Deadly Gold Underpants were skilled, they were still pulling huge numbers of monsters, so they would still be in danger . Any of these monsters would be strong enough to kill both of them .
With the three brains of the team, along with the Dragon Slayer’s Roar effect on everyone, the progress on the Instance Dungeon was naturally quite fast . After a short while, Azure Sea Breeze and his partner managed to control Razorgore to destroy all the eggs, which allowed them to pass the first phase .
Sky Moon also had a suggestion for Lu Li . This was a possibility of using the monsters to lower Razorgore’s HP, but not to the point where Razorgore would be killed .
This suggestion wasn’t improper or outrageous . It was quite difficult for players to fight a Boss with a million HP . However, these monsters could just hack away at him and make progress that much quicker . If this plan worked out, the Boss wouldn’t have that much HP left . At the end, they would just have to whittle down the rest of the HP .
Lu Li didn’t object to this, but he proved that this almost ‘bug-like’ plan was simply wishful thinking .
After destroying all the eggs, Razorgore was released from their control . As soon as this happened, two-thirds of his lost HP was instantly recovered, which surprised Sky Moon . Lu Li didn’t say anything, since his suggestion did seem to make sense . Lu Li admired his type of thinking and imagination .
He wasn’t as mature as Wandering though . Wandering knew that the designing team was simply too smart to leave behind an exploitable loophole like this .
Now, they were in the second phase . After destroying the eggs, all the monsters disappeared . They just needed to focus on Razorgore .
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Razorgore was enraged . Although he didn’t like this job and often thought about destroying these eggs, he shouldn’t have destroyed them under the control of these worms .
After returning back to normal, he used Ignite, but it was casted on multiple people .
This Ignite was extremely powerful . Not only did it deal damage over time, but it also caused a Fear-like effect, causing players to run around randomly . Furthermore, this Ignite was also contagious, meaning that it would spread to nearby players .
However, the Boss’ signature skill didn’t really have a major effect .
This was because March Rain had an AoE dispel to counter this . The AoE dispel would be cast after Ignite, thus healing all of the affected players .
Razorgore was even more enraged . This was his personality .
He began to unleash multiple Fireballs .
Some documents noted that Razorgore was an extremely precious Deviate Dragonspawn . Even the Firelord was interested in him . This was because he had an innately strong fire energy . If he was any smarter, this monster could have been a prodigious Fire magic caster .
Unfortunately, he was too stupid .
He had a bad temper and also a bad brain . Therefore, his multiple Fireballs didn’t really have an effect .
After all, everyone could just tackle one Fireball each and share the damage between them, so they weren’t that powerful .
Azure Sea breeze finally gained enough aggro, so everyone began to unleash everything on Razorgore . This phase was much easier compared to the first phase . The team didn’t suffer any casualties in this phase, let alone squad wipes .
However, when they entered phase three, they wiped .
The Boss had Stomp . The melee classes were instantly stunned, so the team naturally wiped as a result .
However, this skill wasn’t unfamiliar to them, so after they knew about it, it was quite easy to deal with .
Lu Li arranged for a Main Tank to distance himself from the Boss . After the Boss used Stomp, this Main Tank would immediately rush forward, Taunt, and take aggro . The other Main Tank would be stunned, but they would recover and then distance themselves . It was essentially a rotation for the Main Tanks .
Lu Li had used this strategy many times before, so it was easy for him to implement this .
They didn’t wipe too many times during the whole process before successfully taking down the first Boss of Blackwing’s Lair, Razorgore .
The most important aspect in defeating the Boss was the first phase . They just needed to successfully control him to destroy all the eggs while the other players dealt with the monsters . As for the second and third phase, the DPS output of the team would be the decider . However, with the Dragon Slayer’s Roar, this wasn’t a problem .
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