Published at 19th of November 2020 06:43:01 PM
Chapter 1904: Chapter 1904 - Death by Deduction
Chapter 1904: Death by Deduction
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Although Lu Li wanted Fat Monkey to fight the Boss, exacting such a revenge plan would be too obvious . For the moment he just had to hold back and record Fat Monkey’s name on a little notepad .
Lu Li just hoped that Fat Monkey would betray the club so that he could justify killing him .
The monsters had almost been cleared out . There were only two patrol monsters to the left of the Boss and it was impossible to pull them out . Lu Li stopped Remnant Dream from wandering too close to the Boss . He planned to kill them while fighting the Boss; it wasn’t as though they could kill the Boss that quickly anyway .
The process was pretty much the same as usual; they first needed to the test the Boss’ abilities .
Gruul’s most unique skill was Grow, which increased his attack strength by 15% every 30 second and his character size by 10% . This effect could be stacked up to 30 times .
Compounding 15% attack strength thirty times would make this Boss impossible to defeat .
No team could support buff-stacking like that, so this Boss was one they needed to defeat as quickly as possible .
Grand Strike – this skill was cast on the closest player with the second-most aggro . An off-tank was required to withstand the attack as it dealt about 12,000 physical damage, but could be reduced by Armor and Defensive stats . This was cast every 20 seconds .
The damage output players within range had to control their damage to make sure their aggro was less than the two tanks .
The Boss also had a skill called Reverberation . This randomly silenced a target for three seconds at a time, so they had to split up to avoid being hit .
They also split up because of some other skills .
Subsidence was a random area of effect skill that dealt damage to an 8-yard diameter area every 3 seconds for 15 seconds . This skill had a range of 3000 yards .
In the later stages, the boss would often cast this skill . This skill dealt physical damage, which meant it could be reduced by Armor . However, the damage of this skill would increase over time because of Grow . If the players stood more than 8 yards apart, then the skill would only affect one player at a time .
Ground Slam was a random knock-back skill that would be immediately followed up with Lord Guru’s Grip .
Lord Guru’s Grip was one of the more terrifying skills . After being hit by Ground Slam, the player would be affected by this debuff . The affected player would lose 20% movement speed every second . After 5 seconds, the player would be Stunned and Gruul would attack all the players at once with Shatter .
Shatter’s damage depended on the distance between players . If the distance between two teammates was less than 2 yards, then the damage dealt would be about 9000 . The longer the distance, the lower the damage . Players greater than 10 yards apart did not take any damage .
Unlike Grand Strike, Shatter could result in a critical hit, but it didn’t increase in damage because of Grow .
Therefore, before the targeted player was Stunned, all members should spread out from their teammates to avoid Shatter’s damage . Moving more than 10 yards apart was a little difficult, as there were 20 players and the space was limited .
However, they could definitely separate by 8 yards – even the melee players were able to achieve this .
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If you stood too closely together, then it was likely that everyone would just be one shot .
The team had about 10 minutes to defeat Gruul or lose their opportunity . Otherwise, the stacked Grow skills would make the Boss too powerful for the Main Tank to withstand . A high damage output team would be best for this battle, and Gruul didn’t use any magic attacks . Any buffs that they could make use of would also be helpful .
Damage output was key here, and this was reflected in the team’s composition, their choice of equipment and their preparation of potions .
The equipment they had was the best among the current population of players and their potions were no worse than the other clubs . With Ruling Sword’s financial resources and material resources, none of these seemed to be a problem anymore . Compared to his difficult experiences from two years ago, Lu Li felt like he was in a dream .
Gruul required two tanks, which meant that having Azure Sea Breeze and Wandering was just perfect .
The two players were always bickering, but they had grown up together, so they had an innate understanding of each other . As long as they were there, Lu Li only needed to tell them what they needed to do, and they would work together to accomplish it . There was no need to remind them .
The damage that every other player would take was quite sporadic, so they didn’t need as many healers .
However, they couldn’t have too few healers either . Everyone was standing 8 yards apart, so if they had too few healers, they simply wouldn’t be able to reach everyone in time .
Six or seven healers was a suitable number, especially given that the players could adapt to Gruul’s multiple skills and survive on their own . Lu Li began with nine healers at first, but later reduced it to the final number of six .
Having too many melee players also increased the difficulty of fighting this Boss, so Lu Li benched most of them except for the two tanks . In the end, there were only five melee players .
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The five melee players were Moonlight, Mu Qiu, Lu Li, Sakura Memories and Water Fairy .
As for why the two Thieves were not benched, this was obviously because it was Lu Li and his girlfriend . If Lu Li and Water Fairy were Warriors, then this line up would suddenly include two Berserkers instead .
No one else would think that anything was wrong . Who would dare oppose the directions of
After two attempts, Lu Li had found his opportunity to take Fat Monkey’s DKP . After everyone had come in and started the battle, he found that Fat Monkey had been locked out of the Gruul entrance .
If you didn’t enter in time, you had no choice but to watch from the outside until the people inside were dead .
“Monkey, what were you doing?”
Lu Li was angry and laughing at the same time .
Of course, he wasn’t just deducting Fat Monkey’s points for the sake of it . Being locked out like this in a First Clear attempt was just too low-level of a mistake to make .
“I…I was trying to find somewhere to take a look at my equipment . I thought there was something wrong with it…”
Fat Monkey was sweating profusely and hoped that the Boss would open the door . He would rather be dead on the inside .
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“Ah, keep changing your equipment then… or maybe you were talking to a girl and forgot to come in,” Azure Sea Breeze accused, quickly seeing through Fat Monkey’s lies .
“Dammit, Breezy you’re a traitor,” Fat Monkey said bitterly .
“You have been pretending all this time to be a proud single and have insulted him in all sorts of ways . It would be weird if he didn’t take revenge now,” Wandering said coolly .
“This is a top-level violation . I will deduct 40 points,” Lu Li announced, suddenly feeling refreshed .
“No!” Fat Monkey knelt onto the ground as his heart was breaking .
“This isn’t revenge, I am just doing a public service . I don’t care that I’m single or whether
you’re single,” Azure Sea Breeze said, feeling wronged . “Wandering, you idiot, you cast the aura incorrectly!”
Wandering’s Fortified Concentration Aura was meant to assist the healers . The Aura’s resistance to being silenced protected the team from Reverberation when the Grow stacks were becoming too high .
Unfortunately, Wandering had no chance to swap Auras again as Gruul just one-shot him .
“Deduct DKP from Wandering! Kill him with the deductions!” Fat Monkey and Azure Sea Breeze cried out in unison .
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