In this season, enemies in this stage counter Fire and Radiance heroes, and the boss will test your solutions to dealing with the Burn debuff.
In this article, we'll walk you through the more easily accessible rare/epic hero lineup, aiming at guiding you to clear the stage on difficulty #5.
Meanwhile, we'll give you a legendary hero lineup for reference, which you can use for efficient auto-combat.
I. About The Boss
II. Stage Clearing Configuration
[Recommended Level and Equipment]● Recommended Level
You can attempt Difficulty 4 when the overall level of your team is about 90, with the difference being ① the strength of the heroes on your team, ② the quality and Refinements of your equipment, and ③ the countering attributes of your lineup or individual heroes.
● Equipment Requirements
The standard equipment for any hero is an epic piece at max Refinements (+16). This way, you don't need Negative Runes to clear the stage. You can adjust the equipment based on the overall hero strength and level of this team.
If you have mythic equipment with the right attributes, such as Massif Colossus, Precise Carnage Gauntlets, or Moonlight Mantle, it's highly recommended to equip them for this stage.
Key Attribute Reference1. Ideally, the average HP of your heroes should be over 25,000.
2. Your main tank should have over 45,000 HP and over 1,800 DEF.
3. Heroes responsible for applying debuffs should have more than 140 Accuracy.
III. Recommended Lineups
Lightning and Necrosis
Lineup: Nathaniel + Enna + Thia + Iola + Nimbus
Positioning Reference:
Description: Scatter your units so they won't take too much Burn damage.
In this lineup, Nathaniel serves as the main tank, stacking not just Enlightenment and Skill Haste but also HP and DEF to ensure survival.
Nathaniel can remove debuffs for teammates within range through his battle skill and provide healing. His ultimate skill's AoE Shield also effectively protects teammates.
Since all characters of this lineup are ranged heroes, Thia can grant them Invisibility and Immunity to Debuffs with her ultimate skill while also providing AoE Healing and reducing the damage taken by allies through her battle and passive skills.
Iola is mainly responsible for inflicting Attack Penalty on the boss with her ultimate skill to further ensure other allied heroes' survival.
Enna's ultimate skill, besides providing healing, can timely remove debuffs from all allies, effectively preventing the boss from inflicting excessive damage through Burn damage ticks.
Nimbus is the most fitting Epic damage dealer for this lineup, as the lineup can provide a wealth of buffs to continuously trigger his passive skill.
Recommended Legendary Hero Substitutes
Ice and Poison
Lineup: Frurbath + Sigrid + Heksandra + Vicuc + Voresh
Positioning Reference:
Description: Scatter your units so they won't take too much Burn damage. Sigrid has relatively weaker survivability, but with this positioning, she gets to enjoy the healing effects provided by Frurbath's battle skill, as shown in the image.
In this lineup, Voresh and Sigrid are both damage dealers, so in addition to raising Accuracy, you should also stack Crit Rate, Crit Damage, and Attack for them.
Frurbath and Sigrid taking turns to use their ultimate skills can keep the enemy constantly inflicted with Attack Penalty, easing the survival pressure on our side.
Moreover, Frurbath, Vicuc, and Heksandra all have means of providing AoE healing and removing debuffs, fully ensuring the safety of our team members.
Voresh can further supplement the team's damage output and healing capabilities. Additionally, he possesses the means to remove buffs and Buff Prohibition, useful for countering the first two rounds of the enemies' Defense Up status.
Recommended Legendary Hero Substitutes
IV. Examples
*Here, we'll give an example of an Lightning/Necrosis team where all the heroes equip epic equipment at max Refinements (+16) without Negative Runes. You can substitute them with various high-quality heroes based on your own needs, and the overall strength can easily go much higher.
● Team Aura
Here, Nathaniel's HP Aura is chosen to allow more rooms for mistakes, and this way, you won't have to have well-developed heroes to clear early-game stages.
● Equipment
Description: The sample team uses high-quality Artifacts and only takes 2 minutes to clear the stage. Artifacts of a lower quality but similar types will also suffice.
● Food Improvement
The less developed teams will be under pressure in terms of both survival and damage output, so it is recommended to use [Hydrostatic Steak], which can be directly purchased from Rothe the Drunkard at the open-air tavern in Lacunae, Aethercairn. It provides a +10% HP and +5% Lightning Damage effect for 600 seconds.
● Stage Clearing Tips
1. Since the first two rounds of minions are not very difficult to deal with, you can save the team's ultimate skills for the third round when you face the boss.
2. Since Iola's ultimate skill can deal multiple instances of damage, it is easier to trigger the Witch's Remains or Crown of the Unclean Artifact effects on the Boss, applying Defense Penalty to increase our team's damage output.
3. Since the Attack Penalty status inflicted by Iola's ultimate skill lasts ten seconds, the best time to use it is right before the boss uses its second skill, which can also reduce the damage from the boss's next two skills.
4. Make sure Enna's ultimate skill is available before the boss uses its three skills, especially if any teammates are inflicted with many stacks of Burn, which will require timely removal through Enna's ultimate skill.
5. When your heroes are dying, use the Control Skill to grant shields to all allies.
● About Auto-Combat
Skill Timing:
Description: With adequate training, this sample team can be used for auto-combat. The best timing for Thia to use her ultimate skill for providing immunity to debuffs is right before the boss uses its second skill, and Iola can ensure the boss is inflicted with Attack Penalty before it uses its third skill.
The timings for using skills are for reference only, and you should adjusting them according to your heroes' skill level and Skill Haste.
V. High-end Auto-combat Lineup Rec
Recommended Lineup
Lineup: Torrin + Ghul'ende + Ozul + Aspalta + Daphne
Positioning Reference:
● Team Aura
Here, Daphne uses an Attack Aura, which can increase the ATK of all your heroes by 45% in this stage, allowing you to clear it a lot faster.
● Sample Lineup
This lineup is built around the Shadow heroes added in Season 3. They use skills frequently and deal high burst damage, making them very suitable for quick clearing via auto-combat.
Since the survival pressure in this stage is not high under normal circumstances, Aspalta alone can almost replace a tank hero with the additional Defense and HP bonuses provided by Torrin. If Aspalta is struggling to survive, consider selecting equipment with higher HP% or DEF% stats.
Because Aspalta's passive skill and Daphne's ultimate skill can provide a huge Attack bonus to Ozul, even if the entire sample team wears only fully refined (+16) Epic equipment without Negative Runes, they can easily clear the stage within 1 minute.
Ghul'ende allows more room for mistakes for this boss fight, with his ultimate skill empowering all allies and removing all debuffs from them, as well as inflicting Attack Penalty on the boss to ensure the survival of your heroes.
● Skill Timing
Ghul'ende should use his ultimate skill before the boss's every third skill to inflict Attack Penalty and remove Burn from allies, as shown in the image, and adjust according to the skill levels and Skill Haste of your heroes.
[Configurations]
● Recommended Level
The overall level of your team should be about 90.
● Key Attributes
Aspalta HP > 40,000, DEF > 1,500.
All of the deployed heroes should have over 25,000 HP.
Ghul'ende Accuracy > 140.
● Equipment
Description: Since Shadow heroes gain Shadow Energy by dealing damage, Aspalta can stack Attack Speed to frequently use her ultimate skill, providing Shadow Energy to teammates of the same faction.
To kill the boss faster, Ghul'ende's Artifact can be replaced with Witch's Remains to apply Defense Penalty to the boss, thereby further enhancing burst damage.
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