Published at 19th of November 2020 06:42:48 PM
Lu Li received a T5 Shoulderpad from this Void Reaver Boss . Everyone was currently trying to get the best equipment, and professional players took priority as usual . After all, the
professional league had reached a critical time .
Ruling Sword was currently among those in the lead . They had acquired winning scores in their two games of the top 32 .
Lu Li was not satisfied with his current equipment .
Thieves were not even good enough to be put on teams after the most recent patches . In the next patch, they would be nerfed even further . In contrast, the Paladins had been treated like they were sons of the System .
As such, this meant that Lu Li had to get some exquisite equipment and some powerful Skill Books .
Instructor Garona likely had many good items, but he just didn’t know how to get them . There was also the Gnome that previously fought his mentor . Perhaps there was an angle there he could leverage .
Once a person stood at the top, they wouldn’t want to come back down .
Lu Li didn’t want to be defeated by players he had beaten in the past during the individual rounds .
After the mobs nearby had been cleared out, they travelled to the location of the third Boss .
The third Boss was High Astromancer Solarian . She was a Blood Elf High Astromancer under Kael’thas and studied Demon Magic at The Eye . At this point, Prince Kael’thas had been driven almost completely mad with his desire for power, so he didn’t mind who he worked with to achieve that goal .
This Boss’ strength was far beyond Lu Li’s imagination .
After they were wiped here for five days straight, he no longer thought the problem was with Sky Moon . He later learned that there were other clubs who had been stuck here for almost two weeks .
If this was the Game Company’s way to recovering gold coins by forcing the players to continually repair their equipment, then it was working almost too well .
There was no doubt that Lu Li had faced an inferior Boss in his previous life . This meant that this version of the Boss was a new experience for everyone and they just had to work it out slowly .
Lu Li, Sky Moon and Wandering decided to analyse this Boss .
The main reason that the Boss was really difficult was because their overall damage output wasn’t high enough . They also didn’t have enough HP, nor did they have enough Mana regeneration . These defects didn’t matter much individually, but their combined effect was the reason why they couldn’t defeat the Boss .
“We need to adjust the ratio of melee and damage output players . There needs to be a balance between the melee damage output players and the area of effect magic casting players . There should be at least seven to eight magic damage output players to make sure we get to the second stage . High Astromancer Solarian has a lower Armor value when in humanoid form, which is good for melee damage output players . We can’t have too few of them either . ”
Lu Li had no option but to give some of his own advice .
This was not a strategy he had read from his previous life . This was simply the result of his analysis .
He couldn’t just let Sky Moon bang his head against the problem and continually be wiped .
One the one hand, it was because of the second professional league currently going on . Since many of the First Clearing team were also professional players, being wiped like this was bound to take a physical and mental toll on them that would affect their performance on stage .
On the other hand, Lu Li also had to consider Sky Moon’s mental capacity .
He hadn’t been able to defeat a Boss after getting wiped for five days and likely didn’t see much hope left . No matter how talented he was, he was still a newcomer and not someone who had been reborn like Lu Li . Too much pressure like this could be unproductive .
“We lack a bit of healing . I think we need at least seven healers and three of them should be Paladin Healers . When a group gets wiped, you need to determine the root cause of why the group got wiped and not just point fingers at whose fault it was,” Lu Li continued .
“Yes, I understand . Not all mistakes can be avoided,” Sky Moon nodded as he listened .
“Not all mistakes can be avoided? Who told you that?” Lu Li frowned .
“You told me that!” Sky Moon was surprised that Lu Li had forgotten as Wandering nodded beside him .
“Then I take it back . Deduct points from anyone who makes a mistake,” Lu Li unashamedly declared, then continued boldly, “Make the damage output players compete and bench the one that deals the least damage . If anyone runs out of Mana or dies a lot, bench them too . We have a three-guild alliance doing this Instance Dungeon; we have the players for it . ”
They didn’t really care about weapon durability anymore . They had been wiped so many times that it was now pointless to care .
“Uh… okay, I’ll get them to wear equipment that has more Arcane Resistance,” Sky Moon said . Now that he had the boss’ authority, he could kick whoever he wanted .
But why did they only get the ranged magic damage output players to compete? Couldn’t the same be done for the melee players?
Sky Moon didn’t want to ask .
“As for your resistance equipment, you can render the Boss’ Arcane Missiles harmless by stacking resistance, but that would negatively affect damage output and healing . You need to find a balance where you resist some of the damage without affecting other factors too greatly . This balance can only be found with some calculation and experimentation,” Lu Li said .
Lu Li had basically said everything he possibly could have before finally asking Sky Moon to take over commanding once again .
The first 20% and the last 20% of the Boss’ HP was not that difficult . The hardest part was the middle where you needed high damage output and high healing . They also couldn’t afford to splurge on mana consumption and they had to remember to be in the correct positions .
Wrath of the Astromancer was the most troublesome skill . When Lu Li fought this Boss in his previous life, they had removed the Contagious effect from this skill .
While they were doing this First Clear, this Contagious effect was the most painful effect to deal with .
The worst part about it was that it increased Arcane damage taken by 50% . If you had that effect active and you were hit by Arcane Missiles that dealt 3000 damage per round…
It was hard to even consider not dying .
They had two Main Tanks with Arcane Resistance for the very purpose of tanking this debuff . However, since this effect was stackable, they had to fight quickly as their equipment wouldn’t hold up forever .
Every 2 minutes or so, the Boss would disappear . Three pillars of light would appear and there would be mobs spawned within each pillar . These mobs weren’t powerful, so they would just pull them together and fight them all at once .
After about 30 seconds, they would clear the mobs . However, the Boss would then bring in two Priest mobs from the pillars to help him .
The Priest mobs would then single-mindedly heal the Boss . Fortunately, these mobs were susceptible to crowd-control, otherwise, there was no point in fighting this Boss anymore .
After Lu Li’s fine-tuning, Sky Moon found that everyone’s capacity to resist the Boss had actually increased .
It took some time to work out the critical point of Arcane Resistance where everyone could still dish out the high damage and healing required to complete this Instance Dungeon .
This was the combined strength of the three guilds . Lu Li had basically replaced half of their equipment with equipment that had been collected from other players .
Those that were more suitable for PVP were removed .
Having said that, the real professional players basically had two sets on hand – one for PVE and one for PVP that provided more mobility options .
Lu Li also intended to organise his equipment in this way . His innate advantage was becoming less obvious, and the circumstances he faced on stage were becoming more of a struggle .
However, losing was still not an option .
Even if you had no more resources stemming from being reborn, you still couldn’t lose in a one on one fight .
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