In the end, the small monsters couldn't hold them back for too long. Soon, everyone arrived in front of the Boss.
This time, the team was wiped out relatively quickly because there weren't enough people to tank the monsters. Lu Li and the others weren't facing just one or two Bosses. Including the Boss, there were five monsters at once.
In addition to the Boss, High Priest Thekal, there were also two Zealots – Rockman and Zath – who were Elite tigers.
The tigers were Elite monsters. Apart from having a significant increase in HP compared to the previous tigers, there wasn't much of a difference in skills. On the other hand, Zealots Rockman and Zath were quasi-Bosses. It could even be said that they were comparable to ordinary Bosses.
Lu Li swapped out Half a Cigarette. After all, he had just obtained a mount. Even if another mount dropped, he wouldn't have a chance.
World's Best Friend swapped in.
"I'm afraid your cooldown will be delayed because of us," Lu Li said before letting World's Best Friend in.
According to Dawnlight's settings for Instance Dungeons, players would face a new Instance Dungeon after every cooldown. Although World's Best Friend was always on standby, as long as he didn't enter the Instance Dungeon, he could just leave the team and form a new group of people to enter the new Instance Dungeon.
Once he entered the Instance Dungeon where Lu Li and the others had already killed the Boss, the System would assume that his cooldown would be the same as Lu Li and the others' progress.
"It's fine. It's an honour to be able to participate in the First Clear," World's Best Friend laughed. He didn't feel like there was anything wrong with this.
Lu Li originally didn't plan on letting him in. His plan was to have Moonlight wear a set of defensive equipment. He only needed to pull one quasi-Bosse, so it wouldn't be too difficult. However, he was wrong. Perhaps the System would weaken the attack and attributes of the two Zealots in the future, but at the current stage of the game, Moonlight wouldn't be able to withstand either of the two Zealots.
After World's Best Friend entered, the team had three official Main Tanks. They were also the three strongest Main Tanks in Ruling Sword.
After joining forces with Drizzle Court and Peerless City, they didn't lack Main Tanks and Healers. It was just that Lu Li was used to using his own Main Tanks. Unless they needed four or more Main Tanks or had to arrange for a Bear Tank, they wouldn't use Deep Watersong of Drizzle Court.
Ruling Sword's Elite Group wasn't as strong as Drizzle Court and Peerless City, but their Main Tanks were much better than Drizzle Court Main Tank.
Ruling Sword had four main tanks – Azure Sea Breeze, Wandering, World's Best Friend and God of Destiny. Any one of them could be the main tank of the First Clearing team.
"I'm pulling the quasi-boss, right?" World's Best Friend asked.
Wander will be in charge of Zath. Feng Shao, you will be in charge of the Priestess. Moonlight, you will be in charge of killing the tiger. "The tiger was only an Elite monster. At the start of the battle, everyone would focus fire on them. It was easy. It didn't matter if someone tanked the monster or not.
Just like the other bosses, this battle was divided into two stages.
In the first stage, Thekal, the High Priest, was in his human form. Weilan Haifeng dragged him along while the others went to kill the two tiger cubs.
Since Lu Li could not release the walkthrough directly, they had to engage in some trial and error battles. In short, after wiping a few times, they finally came to a conclusion. The first conclusion they came to was that these three monsters could not be killed one by one. The High Priest Thekal and his two Zealots could resurrect each other.
This wasn't the first time Lu Li and the others had encountered this type of monster. The Ancient Lava Hounds of the Molten Core also had this kind of ability.
In that case, the strategy to deal with this type of monster was relatively simple. They just had to kill all of them at the same time.
After that, everyone discovered that High Priest Thekal was able to heal his two Zealots. His healing skills were extremely good, and all their previous efforts had gone to waste.
As such, Lu Li had Weilan Haifeng hold the Boss in place. World's Best Friend pulled Zealots to the left where the Boss couldn't see them. Wander lured Zath to the right. Then, everyone began to whittle down the monster's HP.
The strategy to defeat this Boss was quite complicated. There were many mechanisms that needed to be discovered slowly.
For example, it was not easy to kill these three monsters at the same time. Once the difference in HP between them exceeded 20%, they would run together. After all, the High Priest Thekal could heal them. At this point, all of their previous efforts would be in vain.
After wiping a few times, Lu Li came up with a feasible plan.
After killing the tiger, they would take turns attacking the three Bosses and dealing 10% to 20% of their HP. After dealing a certain amount of HP to one Boss, they would switch targets and deal the same amount of HP to the next Boss. This cycle repeated.
They would start with Thekal, followed by Zath and Rockman.
When they only had 15% HP left, they would pull them together and kill all three of them at the same time.
After the three Bosses were dead, everyone except the main Tank should run away. After a few seconds, Thekal would resurrect in the form of a giant tiger. After transforming, he would attack the people around him. If the Main Tank didn't use Taunt in time, it was easy to cause unnecessary casualties.
This was the second stage. High Priest Thekal would fight in the form of a tiger.
At this stage, High Priest Thekal had a very disgusting AOE magic that would interrupt the casting of all players and deal considerable damage. From the visual effect, it looked like he was the center of the attack and would send everyone flying.
If they were sent flying, their casting would naturally be interrupted.
When they landed on the ground, they would be injured. The first time they encountered this situation, they were wiped. This was because the surrounding monsters weren't completely cleared out and a few players were sent flying into the group of small monsters.
The situation was very chaotic. With the participation of several waves of small monsters, it was naturally difficult for the team to escape being wiped.
Because of this, Lu Li insisted that everyone clear out a large area of monsters. At the very least, they couldn't be wiped in the second stage because of the small monsters that were sent flying.
Trying to escape the range of this magic was futile because the area of effect was very large.
Lu Li asked everyone to prepare bandages and potions so that they could heal themselves when needed. This was because the healers themselves would also be sent flying. After stabilizing themselves, they would have to heal the Main Tank and protect themselves. The amount of attention they could pay to the damage dealers was very limited.
If the damage dealers took care of themselves, it would reduce the pressure on the healers.
In the second stage, High Priest Thekal began to summon tigers. When he saw the small monsters appear, Lu Li immediately ordered everyone to kill the two small tigers.
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