Thread: [Event 48] Advent Battle vs Illuyanka

I've only been playing this game fo about a week, so sorry if this is s noob question.

I was beating the illu expert quest, though sometimes I had to res near the end. Then yesterday I tried it, and died on the first mission, then had to res 5 times versus illu. She kept spaming 4k dmg attacks, like she never did before. I didn't make many changes to my team. I put illu as my main eido, replacing prison of ice, disaster, and used asmund as my soul, replacing van helsing.

What happened? Did they make the quest harder, is there a penalty for using illu as an eido against herself in a quest, or was the change to my team more drastic than i realized?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I've only been playing this game fo about a week, so sorry if this is s noob question.

I was beating the illu expert quest, though sometimes I had to res near the end. Then yesterday I tried it, and died on the first mission, then had to res 5 times versus illu. She kept spaming 4k dmg attacks, like she never did before. I didn't make many changes to my team. I put illu as my main eido, replacing prison of ice, disaster, and used asmund as my soul, replacing van helsing.

What happened? Did they make the quest harder, is there a penalty for using illu as an eido against herself in a quest, or was the change to my team more drastic than i realized?

by the sound of things, one of two things have happened...

-either your stats (HP mainly) took too much of a nosedive
-you lost some debuffing or didn't maintain it. (even i don't take 4k in one hit on ragnarok unless the raging nuke went off)

try setting up your team to have as many atk and def debuffs as you can get. asmund might actually be better than van helsing in this case but it sounds like you need either a healer or a tank instead. as for what to set as weapons and eidolons, the usual applies (assault first, defender second).

and if you really need the HP, that disaster is gonna be better, especially if your assault values from your weapons is really low (cause then illuyanka won't give nearly as much output as she should). but if you are gonna use Illuyanka as your main eidolon, you have to have as many water eidolons equipped as you possibly can to get the most out of her, since a chunk of her power comes from that. she only gives 20% elemental atk without any other water eidolons in your setup, which is very low and can be outclassed by quite a lot of eidolons in the game

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Here's an advice you probably won't like: NEVER res in any raid or advent event, let alone res 5 times. Save your gems.

forgot to add this in my reply....


at most, once is all you can really afford to do, but the trick to clearing content is trying not to use ANY revives....

If you have to revive, you probably shouldn't be doing that fight. go grind some more cause it shouldn't be too hard to get to the point of clearing Expert. last i checked, you need about 15k-25k atk rating with some good debuffing and that's easily done by getting high level kamihime and a decent grid, and they don't even have to be SSR and maybe even SR kamihime, but they need to be at least lv50 at that point

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I've only been playing this game fo about a week, so sorry if this is s noob question.

I was beating the illu expert quest, though sometimes I had to res near the end. Then yesterday I tried it, and died on the first mission, then had to res 5 times versus illu. She kept spaming 4k dmg attacks, like she never did before. I didn't make many changes to my team. I put illu as my main eido, replacing prison of ice, disaster, and used asmund as my soul, replacing van helsing.

What happened? Did they make the quest harder, is there a penalty for using illu as an eido against herself in a quest, or was the change to my team more drastic than i realized?

Here's an advice you probably won't like: NEVER res in any raid or advent event, let alone res 5 times. Save your gems.

Here's my Ult run with wind.... and an R team... cause I wanted to clear both at once with the SR quest too....





and yeah, while the KP soundtrack is good, some of it gets old rather fast (i'm already over the music for this event). muting the music then adding my own kinda makes the feel of the game a little different too

Wanted to see how far I could get on Ability damage alone.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Here's an advice you probably won't like: NEVER res in any raid or advent event, let alone res 5 times. Save your gems.

Although for future reference, there are times when it's arguable to res during advent ragnarok. But only when that res guarantees victory, as then you're effectively making a trade of 100 jewels for 1 core (or 2 cores if you haven't gotten the first clear reward yet). For that to be a worthwhile trade, you need to understand exactly what you're getting out of it and why you'd do it. And it'd be for very situation specific reasons, so the general rule is still don't res in raid/advent events.

For the unregistered asking the original question; ignore what I just said above. Just completely forget about the resurrection option for the time being.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Although for future reference, there are times when it's arguable to res during advent ragnarok. But only when that res guarantees victory, as then you're effectively making a trade of 100 jewels for 1 core (or 2 cores if you haven't gotten the first clear reward yet). For that to be a worthwhile trade, you need to understand exactly what you're getting out of it and why you'd do it. And it'd be for very situation specific reasons, so the general rule is still don't res in raid/advent events.

For the unregistered asking the original question; ignore what I just said above. Just completely forget about the resurrection option for the time being.

it's not like they'd be able to handle ultimate, let alone ragnarok given the fact that they're having trouble with expert....

they honestly should be more focused on leveling kamihime until they can clear expert. once you can clear expert regularly, it's not too hard to at least get the eidolon and the cheaper SSR weapon

can someone explain the mechanics of boss to me? whats the best way to deal with the AI in this one?

thanks!

Originally Posted by QXZ

can someone explain the mechanics of boss to me? whats the best way to deal with the AI in this one?

thanks!

from what i found out, she does the buffing on turn 1 and after losing 50% HP. this does affect orb count so if they're at full orbs, you can avoid getting nuked as long as you lower her HP to 50% or less that turn.


you can dispel the buffs with cleanse abilities (like Sol's or Cassiopeia's). one of these seems to lower regular damage, one seems to lower ability damage, and the third lowers ALL damage. you pretty much lose at least 75% of your damage output when all 3 buffs are up, but removing one can make a round of attacks suddenly do much more damage, but not the regular amount. she pretty much buff stacks to make the fight longer

best way to bypass this crap though is to just nuke the ever loving crap out of her BEFORE the buffs are on her and while they're off her. save your bursts and damaging abilities for those points... if you're strong enough, you might outright slaughter her on ultimate and even ragnarok since her HP is low

lastly, her raging nuke can debuff your combo rate in some form, but the normal nuke is more dangerous as it can outright kill two or maybe more of your team easy (if you're lucky, no one will take more than two hits, which averages out to about the damage of her raging nuke). personally, i think it's easier if you keep her out of normal, but even a tank might not save you so only sure-fire (non-paralyze) bypass is to get Awakened Gaia and have her focus skill take all the damage. she shouldn't take any damage from that as it counts as 1 attack and it defends for up to 3 attacks

other than that, do the usual, debuff atk and def on her, blind her if you can, dizzy if you can (might interrupt turns, but it does work more than usual), paralyze if you can (Thor's key skill really).

ah... i guess auto battle might not work unless i got an overbuffed team. >.<