In this season, enemies in this stage have elemental resistance against Lightning and Necrosis heroes. This stage tests your team’s Control strategies and countermeasures against Buffs.
This article will walk you through the more easily accessible rare/epic hero lineups and provide strategies to clear this stage at Difficulty 5.
We will also provide an example of a legendary hero lineup, which you can use for efficient auto-combat.
I. About The Boss
II. Team Configurations for Clearing this Stage
[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 whole team is recommended to be equipped with fully-refined Epic quality gear (+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 Tunnel King's Cloak, Precise Carnage Gauntlets, or Moonlight Battle Robes, it's highly recommended to equip them for this stage.
[Key Attribute Recommendations]
1. 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 or control effects should have more than 140 Accuracy;
III. Recommended Lineups
Fire and Radiance
Lineup: Horrus + Dane + Gumm + Catherine + Adolphus
Positioning Example:
Note: This lineup has sufficient Control methods, enough to counter the baby dragon summoning mechanic of this boss;
As shown in the positioning diagram, make sure that all team members are always inside the Healing range of Catherine's ultimate skill;
Horrus, as the main tank, has strong survival capabilities and can protect teammates and help kill the baby dragons with his ultimate skill, Taunt, during the boss phase;
Dane can inflict Attack Penalty, Dispel Buffs, inflict Healing Prohibition and Fear on enemies. All four of these abilities are highly effective in this stage. Dane is also one of the main damage dealers in this lineup;
Gumm's ultimate skill can apply Stun effects multiple times over a wide area, quickly eliminating all baby dragons during the boss phase;
Adolphus provides AOE shields to further enhance the team’s survivability. If the team is highly developed and survival pressure is low, Adolphus can be replaced with any Fire or Radiance DPS heroes to clear this stage more efficiently.
Recommended Substitutes for Legendary Heroes:
Ice and Poison
Lineup: Frurbath+Gardrus+Sigrid+Galyan+Voresh
Positioning Example:
Note: As shown in the positioning diagram, make sure that all team members are always inside Frurbath and Galyan's healing range. Also, position Gardrus so that his ultimate skill can hit four baby dragons;
In this lineup, Voresh and Sigrid, besides applying debuffs, are also the main damage dealers of the team. Therefore, after meeting the Accuracy requirement, stacking ATK, Crit Rate, and Crit Damage is recommended;
Gardrus' ultimate skill can inflict Knock Up, Knock Back, and Stun Control effects on the enemies in front of him, allowing the team to quickly kill off baby dragons during the boss phase;
Frurbath, as the tank, absorbs the bulk of the damage and can work with Sigrid together to apply Attack Penalty to the enemies, allowing for higher survivability;
In addition, Frurbath and Galyan can provide continuous AOE Healing to ensure the survivability of their team members;
Voresh can further supplement the team's damage output and healing capabilities. Additionally, he is able to remove Buffs and Buff Prohibition, which are useful for countering the Recovery Over Time ability of the boss.
Recommended Substitutes for Legendary Heroes:
IV. Stage Clearing Examples
*Here, we'll give an example of an Ice and Radiance team lineup, where all the heroes equip epic equipment at max Refinements (+16) without Negative Runes. You can substitute the listed heroes with other higher-quality heroes according to your needs and increase the overall strength of your team.
●Team Aura
Here, we will use Frurbath's DEF Aura to allow room for more mistakes and lower the development requirement for low-investment teams.
●Equipment Example:
Note: This sample team uses high-quality Artifacts and can clear the stage within 2 minutes. Artifacts of a lower quality but of similar types will also work.
●Food Buffs
For low-investment teams, your heroes will have trouble surviving, so the use of [Aquitaine Meat Pie] is recommended. This item is made from Elf Wheat ×2 and Wild Boar Meat ×1. It will give a +10% HP and +5% ATK buff for 600 seconds.
● Stage Clearing Tips
1. Since the minions in the first two rounds are not very difficult to deal with, you can save the team's ultimate skills for the beginning of the next round.
2. Since Voresh's ultimate skill deals multiple instances of damage, it can easily trigger the artifact effects of Witch's Remains or Crown of the Unclean, which applies Defense Penalty on the boss and increases your team's damage output.
3. Since the Buff Prohibition status inflicted by Voresh's ultimate skill lasts ten seconds, the best time to use it is right before the boss uses its first skill, which will prevent the boss from gaining Recovery Over Time status during its first two skills.
4. After the boss summons baby dragons, immediately use Frurbath or Voresh to apply debuffs to all baby dragons. Next, use Gardrus's ultimate skill to control and remove their Damage Reduction status. Finally, use Sigrid to kill the baby dragons with her ultimate skill to decrease the extra damage from the boss’s third skill;
5. Before the boss releases its first skill, use Frurbath or Sigrid apply an Attack Penalty to reduce the damage from the boss's first two skills;
6. When your heroes are dying, use a Control Skill to grant shields to all allies.
V. High-investment Auto-combat Lineup Recommendations
[Recommended Lineup]
Lineup: Acilia + Victor + Huldork + Aemonleyda + Rose/Diantha
Positioning Example:
●Team Aura
Here, we will use Victor's Accuracy Aura to boost the entire team's Accuracy by 50, thereby helping Huldork, Victor, and Rose increase their success rate of applying debuffs or control.
●Lineup Analysis
Victor is a new Fire Element support hero introduced in Season 3. He can not only apply Buff Prohibition to enemies but also convert existing buffs on enemies into debuffs;
Aemonleyda has a powerful ability that ensures every attack triggers Crit Damage and is able to deal high AOE DMG even with slightly worse equipment, making her a very good main DPS at low levels;
Huldork has multiple Control methods and can help the team deal with baby dragons summoned by the boss;
Since Rose's ultimate skill deals multiple instances of damage, it can easily trigger the artifact effects of Witch's Remains or Crown of the Unclean, which applies Defense Penalty on the boss. In addition, she can also provide healing and apply an Attack Penalty to enemies for the survival of her team members;
If your team is already highly-developed and you would like to clear the stage even faster, Rose can be replaced with Diantha from the Aura Shool. Diantha can help Aemonleyda deal even higher damage.
[Team Lineup Recommendations]
● Recommended Level
The overall level of your team should be about 90.
●Key Attribute Requirements
HP >45000 and DEF >1800 for Acilia;
HP >25000 for all deployed heroes;
Accuracy >140 for Rose, Huldork, and Victor;
●Equipment Example:
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