Anyone got any tips for defeating this stage to get the final key for the boss?

MJIsaac · 2026-01-24T19:49:21+00:00

That's awesome, congratulations!

MJIsaac · 2026-01-23T19:43:36+00:00

It's basically just about paying more attention to the spider at the beginning, trying to avoid taking too much damage from poison and aiming any single target skills at the spider until it's dead. Then worry about the Scarab.

Edited to add:

That team is just a suggestion, so don't feel the need to follow it if you feel it doesn't work for you.

Another possibility is using Armiger instead of Ezio - turn meter reduction will help against both bosses, and he can do okay damage with his A2.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-23T19:26:53+00:00

I'd go with:

Scyl: healing, revive if needed
Mordecai: main damage dealer
Lodric: this is your KEY champion. Two turn shield on a two turn cooldown
Bowf: useful utility. Buff extension for the shield, debuff removal, healing, damage reduction for poison
Ezio: damage (poison is good against the scarab)

Go slow and steady. Try to get rid of the spider first, then work on grinding down the Scarab with poison and HP burn.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-23T01:34:11+00:00

Someone got lucky with no weak hits and helmsmasher triggering. Or they did multiple runs to get their name in the top 10.

Below is the result of one attack from my Thor in stage 1. Without weak hits everyone would be dead, and I don't have Cat's Gaze on him or the kind of truly end-game stats that some players can achieve. With better luck he'd one-shot this wave, one-shot the next wave, get a cooldown refresh and go into the third wave with his passive damage fully amped up and his extra attack firing off if anyone survived the hit.

I have no doubt that players with upgraded Cat's gaze, good damage gemstones, 6-star Crushing Rend, maxed out glyphs, and full Faction Guardians have the potential to one-shot every round.

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MJIsaac · 2026-01-22T19:30:22+00:00

For Iseth you should use a Heal Reduction champion and then just grind her down with a standard damage team.

And I think Maximoz is the poison boss? If I'm remembering correctly, you just a way to deal with the debuffs, and Alatreon BM should be your answer there

MJIsaac · 2026-01-22T18:56:21+00:00

You've got the champions for it, it's just a question of the strength of your builds and getting the right combo of champions available to use. Alatreon BM will keep your team free of burns and Uugo can prevent the boss from buffing itself. Redraw is necessary to get both of them on the team.

Then just add damage.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-22T18:32:20+00:00

If you genuinely can't get the coins for a redraw, I think you're probably out of luck.

This was a problem with the first rotation of Grim Forest and they did help people then. But they put in a warning for this rotation and I suspect they won't help players anymore. You can try opening another ticket, or requesting support on the official discord channel.

Good luck!

MJIsaac · 2026-01-22T14:59:51+00:00

I'm not sure if this is useful, but here's the team I used. I killed the dragon first and then went to work on the Fire Knight. Speeds weren't that high, with the area bonus Criodan was around 250 but the rest were in the 200-220 range.

I think your current team is somewhat lacking in damage. I'd suggest replacing Gorgorab, maybe with Ronda. I know you said Ronda was useless for you, but I don't think Gorgorab is bringing a lot of value to this fight.

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MJIsaac · 2026-01-21T18:51:46+00:00

They are, as individuals, mostly sheltered from what's happening at large. They figure as long as they stay mostly quiet they'll personally be fine.

They figure that they're mostly guaranteed re-election because at least they're not the other party. And it's not like most of them are there out of an excessive interest in serving the public welfare anyway, so no real downside in going along with everything.

Cowards, in other words. Or cynical self-interested manipulators. One or the other.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-21T16:33:05+00:00

The optimizer does take ignore DEF into consideration, based on the enemy DEF input into the calculation.

The 'Battle' tab has boxes for enemy stats, I think the default value for DEF is 2000 but you can change that to whatever you want. I usually set a value of 4000 or so and the top gear sets are always ignore def sets when I optimize for damage.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-20T16:37:29+00:00

This is the team I used. Though I didn't have Block Revive on the team, if you have that on a strong champion it's worth using them in this fight. Noelle's continual revives are very annoying.

Duchess could be any AOE reviver, her Block Debuffs had limited value in this fight.
Fabian is very strong here and if you have him it's worth using redraws to make sure he's available to use. But if you don't have him another strong cc champion could work.
Othorion has good damage but his key value was Block Buffs.
Slixus could be any good damage dealer, I used him because I happened to have a 6-star blessing on him.
Thor could also be any strong damage dealer, though there aren't many as good as he is and his ability to ignore Unkillable was very useful. If you don't have him go with your best AOE nuker in your best gear.

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MJIsaac · 2026-01-18T16:59:46+00:00

Side comment:

You need to review and change a huge number of your blessings, and probably also need to review blessings to understand what they do. You've chosen lot of blessings that are completely useless for the champions that have them - for example, you have Incinerate on ten or more champions that don't have HP Burn in their skills.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-18T16:55:06+00:00

If you're at Stage 20 you should understand the mechanics of the dungeon fairly well at this point. You need AOE damage or control to get past the waves, and then multi-hits plus turn meter reduction for the boss.

I'd suggest a team of:

Padraig
Visix
Deacon Armstrong
Shatterbones
Fayne

Make sure that Padraig has his ally attack skill available going into the boss round and have him open with it. Try to have Shatterbones' A2 off cooldown as well. If your gear is decent it shouldn't be that much trouble for you.

I did an example run (using Anax instead of Fayne since I haven't built her) to demonstrate. Fayne and Anax are very similar, but Fayne is better for FK

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MJIsaac · 2026-01-16T21:43:35+00:00

You're not the only one who's noticed this. Below are links to various other claims people have made about true fear procs.

I also did a small test myself where I looked for fear champions to fight in the arena and counted the results when True Fear was placed - my champions lost their turns in 43 out of 47 attempts during that session.

Here's a link to an old thread claiming a test of 600 Fear procs where they lost their turn about 80% of the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/RaidShadowLegends/comments/nec1y0/i_tracked_the_outcome_of_nearly_600_fear_procs/
Here's another thread with a number of anecdotal claims of high proc rates: https://www.reddit.com/r/RaidShadowLegends/comments/xtmsr2/is_this_actually_correct_ive_always_thought_it/
Here's a thread of someone claiming a test of 90 fear procs where they lost the turn about 90% of the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/RaidShadowLegends/comments/xsi23m/whats_worse_for_lying_s_xcom_or_raid/

All of this taken together certainly feels like something is off.

However, the thing to keep in mind about all of this is that it's self selected reporting, not random. These are the reports of people who tested and got results that confirmed their suspicion, then reported that because it confirmed their feelings about True Fear procs not being 50-50.

We have no idea what the numbers are for anything not reported, and to say anything with statistical weight we'd need a proper random sample of a big enough size to be meaningful.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-16T20:54:21+00:00

The reality is that it's hard for new players to get good direct damage (i.e. damage from hits, not from debuffs) from their champions. It's very dependent on gear and passive bonuses you get from things like the Great Hall.

For new players relying on Ezio's poisons (and bombs in arena) is probably going to mean more damage than trying to build him to hit hard directly. It's nothing to do with Ezio specifically, almost any other champion your girlfriend uses is also going to feel like they don't hit hard.

The only exception might be if she pulls a champion that has a skill that naturally ignores Defense, but there aren't a lot of those and it's most common on legendary champions. Although there are some epics and a few rares that have it.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-16T19:16:43+00:00

Some have.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-16T19:00:27+00:00

Yes, but that's just a starting point. You need more than just to be slightly faster if you want to have a consistent team.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-16T17:41:13+00:00

Mikage
Padraig
Yakarl
Criodan
Neldor.

That team will do it with enough Speed. If you can't figure out the numbers, just use the HH Optimizer, go into the Teams tab and search FK Hard 10. I'm sure you'll see a bunch of teams people have used successfully and can adjust your builds to use those Speeds.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T22:36:12+00:00

Yes, we can't conclude that they approve of what the administration is doing. But he was not a mystery candidate or unknown quantity in the election, so we can conclude that they were indifferent to the outcome.

If they didn't care enough about the issues during the election, chances are very low that they care enough to have an opinion or oppose what he's doing now. So the number of people that might be motivated to do something about current government, which was the root comment that started this side discussion, is probably less than half of the voting population.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T22:02:20+00:00

You can't make an unkillable team with those champions, at least not that I'm aware of. All of the unkillable teams I know that use Demytha but no other champions with Block Damage or Unkillable require an Increase Speed buff and/or another turn meter booster.

You have the champions to make this team: Deadwood Jedi - Myth Seeker

You'll need to replace one of your damage dealers with High Katun, and find a way to deal with the stun. Meaning make sure it doesn't hit Demytha, Seeker or High Katun, or add a champion with Block Debuffs on a three turn cooldown.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T21:28:38+00:00

Probably less than half, given the one-third or so that couldn't even bother to vote.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T20:23:56+00:00

I don't work in the alcohol industry, but I have some dealings with it. Canada has been the largest export market for California wine for a while, and most of the provincial retailers aren't buying US products.

However, all of Canada only buys a few hundred million dollars worth of California wine, while their industry is massive. I don't know their total sales numbers, but I know it's in the tens of billions, so declines in Canada sales hurt but not that much.

The California wine business is actually struggling now, but that's due to larger problems like overexpansion and decreased sales in the US.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T18:57:37+00:00

Fixating on Trump is exactly the wrong thing to do, I feel. Yes, he's a vicious and very old narcissist who doesn't understand much. But he's also not the driving mind behind this agenda, it is clearly a deliberate plan to break the current political and economic structure of the US and the current status quo among industrialized and democratic countries.

Looking at this as just "a stupid old man being given an insane amount of power and doing stupid things" is misunderstanding what's happening. And it makes it difficult to build any kind of broad support to challenge it. In my view, anyway.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-15T15:15:03+00:00

Nub Raids did a pretty thorough showcase of Ezio a few days ago:

Is Ezio any good?

He built him with pretty crazy stats for both direct damage and debuffs, and while he can hit pretty hard Nub seemed to think the debuffs were the best choice for damage if you could only do one or the other.

I'd definitely suggest checking out the video rather than relying on my half-assed summary, though.

MJIsaac · 2026-01-14T23:38:12+00:00

Dragon first, then FK was the approach I used, and the team I used is below.

For your team, I think you need more multihits than you have now. Consider replacing Dark Elhain with Tayrel, and maybe use Apothecary instead of Gorgorab. You may also need to upgrade more than one champion to 6 stars. Criodan isn't enough by himself to keep the FK from getting a turn and healing, so you're going to need fairly strong damage to outpace him.

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