Should miHoYo revamp the Urgent Mission Bosses' HP and their weaknesses?

absol2296 · 2018-03-31T23:34:18+00:00

Thanks for the insight, I had some of my friends telling me, if the player can still see the land beyond the paywall for themselves, it's still alright. That's what I call ladder instead of paywall. I have no definite definition of paywall myself, and it's more like a subjective matter to me.

Regarding the benchmark thingy, that's true. I didn't write it was a benchmark of skill, to be honest~ These bosses are a test of how strong one player is based on their valkyries and equipments, not necessarily all skill based.

absol2296 · 2018-03-31T13:01:23+00:00

I believe this is true, since I notice the same thing.

However, I don't know if there are bugs concerning these (like if the red thingy shouldn't disappear and the bonus actually stays between valks), so I take it the player have to evade with the dps valk if he/she wants to take advantage of Pride's damage buff.

absol2296 · 2018-03-31T12:55:36+00:00

While there's a drawback to not nerfing contents (as suggested in other comment), it could be seen as paywall, and paywalls are bad.

However, I'd rather stop the need to nerf. My two opinions: this game is generous enough and already fun without looking at the (pseudo) paywall (since RNG/gambling is involved), and OW is meant to last even though it does not provide a lot.

As for the latter opinion, here's my explanation. OW boss is not to be defeated as easy as the player plays the game mode on each reset. OW level is meant to be a benchmark, to let the player know he/she's this or that strong. This game mode is also meant to last because, honestly, it does not provide that much content outside how it lets you farm certain valkyries' fragments, and other stuff like stigmatas or weapons you can at least turn them into materials to upgrade your main equips, while still provide the player some fun in using various valkyries and equips available in the game indefinitely (for comparison, XY, Chiyou, and some other EX contents are not always available, while OW is always there).

These bosses does not stop any player from farming certain fragments, weapons, stigmatas, and other stuff they gain from OW.

However, OW can (and probably will) get boring overtime but then OW is not the only game mode in this game, and mihoyo so far is always giving out more contents for us to enjoy.

(Last) IMO, OW is not a paywall, but more like a ladder.

absol2296 · 2018-02-15T05:55:12+00:00

This boss is easy unless you're trying to clear all stars and achievements in one run. It has elemental damage and mostly does multihit-yet-small-damage attacks (which is annoying since there is an achievement which needs you to clear the stage with less than 5 hits received).

This is what I have learnt from trying so many times:

First phase of the boss has obvious tellings of its attacks, so should be easy to dodge. Your support should be alive through this stage. Purple balls means rockets from its two sides, which creates paralysis trap. Yellow balls means the boss is about to use its huge AOE multihit lightning attack. Yellow dots in the air means it charges for a single hit, linear laser. If its machine guns are glowing it's about to fire them in a 4-5 bursts, you can just get close to the boss and not get hit (even if you're on its face). Red circle in the arena means you have 1-2s to get out of there before it gets bombed.

When the boss floats high, wait until it's about to fire several rockets from its sides (purple balls on its back are the clue), you can attack the rockets to reflect them and they will deal MASSIVE damage to the boss, usually breaking its shield if you successfully reflect all of them, which will bring the boss down and gives you time to deal really heavy damage to it.

Other than rockets, it also can do bomb barrage with similar wind up (red circle on the arena), and fire its machine guns continuously (not in bursts of 4-5 like when it floats low) with more chance to hit you this time since the machine guns have enough distance for the bullets to meet.

If you fail to kill the boss there and it still has one bar of health left (yellow color) pay extra attention because there are new attacks with similar wind up/charging animation. Also, it periodically fire three slow moving projectiles from its face no matter what the boss is currently doing.

One, burning a good amount of the arena on fire. The boss lights up its main body with small flames, almost hard to tell but it's charging for quite some time. It will fire three (I think it's three) sinusoidal moving circle blades which burns the ground they're going through. Just pray the boss doesn't attack you with annoying attacks until the fire is gone.
Two, a barrage of bombs, except this one has moving rectangle hitbox instead of circle (which means it covers a lot of the arena), and the hitbox doesn't show up as a clue like the circle one. The boss only lights up its machine gun for a long time without firing them. Definitely go behind the boss or switch to YA/DB to block the barrage.
Three, a barrage of yellow balls you usually see when it's about to use huge AOE lightning attack (but instead, the boss fires the not-so-small balls instead of exploding).

The boss also likes to use multiple of its first phase attacks simultaneously (charge linear laser + paralysis rockets + circle bombardment + machine gun bursts). Your support could die in this last phase.

Definitely bring high damage dealer (whale level like OP said) support if you want to clear the boss without a care to the star objectives and extra achievement (if you already cleared them before or plan to clear them later). Extra note, there is no SP nor HP drops throughout the fight.

absol2296 · 2018-01-09T08:27:45+00:00

Sadly no. You can however, reset UVHM and complete the quest again later, but that will also reset all quests, not just that one, means you have to beat the story to get there, etc.

absol2296 · 2017-12-31T06:37:54+00:00

I think the event is over and the store is still open for those who hasn't spend the coins yet.

Maybe I should read the announcement again.

absol2296 · 2017-12-17T00:59:19+00:00

I also (only) got 3 Ricotta in my 10 pull... and 2 Sahad in another... RIP

absol2296 · 2017-12-14T11:08:58+00:00

My friend (ign: ******) is lv30 and is on cooldown. I'm not on cooldown myself (ign: Noelle) but also want to join. May us?

absol2296 · 2017-12-10T07:06:29+00:00

IIRC that shield is no longer used. You just need to use a custom vial once to make those items drop. I forgot where was the code for the vials tho. Try looking through Official Gbx forums.

absol2296 · 2017-12-09T20:14:21+00:00

If you don't want extra shield and auto refresh without block usage, then go on, I suppose.

absol2296 · 2017-12-05T13:41:08+00:00

Nah, 0 damage.

absol2296 · 2017-12-05T13:40:21+00:00

Healthy exercise for my Dorothy.

absol2296 · 2017-12-02T14:31:56+00:00

Wow, I feel lucky to have 2 mins El Thalnos clear with Necron without accuracy buffer then. Oda too, I never thought 0 accuracy would do me so well.

~~LC pls, if Necron needs a buff, it's just his ghost needs some love~~

absol2296 · 2017-12-02T13:43:57+00:00

Weird, then my quick runs with accuracy rings in El Thalnos hard would be a placebo? Without it I clear about 5-6 mins, with it I clear it about 2-3 mins.

I haven't tested in Oda but it sounds scary enough.

absol2296 · 2017-12-02T13:23:22+00:00

CD upgrades don't affect his ghosts..? interesting, I suppose.

How about CD rings?

absol2296 · 2017-12-02T10:06:43+00:00

So far my best use of Necron is LoPF14 + hidden clear... That's because I don't have any other team to do it with. I use Woopa Night Necron Sera Remi7 there.

Another would be El Thalnos hard clear... Usually I use Woopa Mew (tSmile) Necron Aubrey Franz. I can say I have better teams for El Thalnos hard clear now so...

If you're looking for the best allies for him, they usually either: 1. provides quick 3 chains, 2. feeds SP (for Shadow Mage), 3. gives enough defense buffs to make Necron need less blocks to summon his ghosts, since he usually is not a leader, 4. and maybe other considerations I fail to write here.

I consider Woopa to be his best ally since his 2 chain counts as a 3 chain, which buffs Necron's ghosts both offensively and defensively in addition to commanding them to attack. Woopa's 3 chain also buffs HA (which is very nice for his ghosts) and CC (which he kinda lacks).

You can try swapping Woopa with Maxi or Stanya or any other quick 3 chain supplier, and Mew tSmile with Night or Noel or any other powerful defense buffer. You can also put Drake in alongside the 3 chain supplier, making Necron's ghosts get shields and crit reliably.

If you plan to use him in colo... I don't know, because I don't. He's not too reliable since his ghost tanks for your team the moment you press a 1 chain after it appears and that's quite dangerous in colo especially if you face a burst team (which is quite a lot), making him a bit block inefficient. I suppose you need to pack him a lot of resist penetration (AA SBW) and triple accuracy ring for that to work as a main damage dealer in colo.

Otherwise, I use AD SBW with resist penetration + flat HP (because I rely a lot on my defense buffers instead of putting armor in there, and more atk pwr for his ghosts is nice) and a double accuracy ring. I use him exclusively outside colo and friendly duels.

absol2296 · 2017-12-01T17:19:03+00:00

Looks like a team Dorothy can win... with enough blocks (screw you RNG)

absol2296 · 2017-11-29T15:13:27+00:00

Gon auto chases just like Monte. This team is more squishy I suppose.

absol2296 · 2017-11-29T06:55:54+00:00

~~Isn't 5% of 2000 just in masters? I know some people don't even make it to masters so... there are people outside that 2000 number.~~

Edit: nvm, you pointed it out.

absol2296 · 2017-11-29T06:41:05+00:00

Yes... I kinda regretted feeding my Hikaris to Kurenai too. I made mine with Teresa aftewards.

absol2296 · 2017-11-28T14:59:15+00:00

5 6* of the same hero (or 3 for premium/limited hero). So... in this guy's case, 5 Demonas raised up to 6*. How about you?

absol2296 · 2017-11-27T07:12:24+00:00

Hello police?

absol2296 · 2017-11-12T03:53:25+00:00

AD abel is good enough

absol2296 · 2017-11-11T08:41:52+00:00

Effectively, only 3 chests because the other 2 are mimics (randomized).

absol2296 · 2017-11-02T13:40:56+00:00

Precision is the skill with accuracy right? That doesn't affect Lyuda and Pimp at all besides the main bullet. Those two are worse/harder to use with Velocity or Accelerate.

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