Skill books, rare materials, required quest materials, Gold equipment, Dark Gold equipment.
Epic equipment …
There was only one!
Under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be only one. If it was a First Clear, there should be at least two. If they were lucky, there might even be three Epic equips.
What this meant was self-evident.
Everyone's expression wasn't too happy. It was as if someone had dropped candy that was supposed to be theirs.
"There are about ten clubs that have completed the quest. We just don't know which one got ahead of us," Sky Moon said worriedly. He was very meticulous and considered the consequences of Ruling Sword not getting the First Clear. Although it wasn't fatal, the result definitely wasn't too optimistic.
In the competition for Wild Boss First Clears, Ruling Sword had always been at a disadvantage.
This was because Lu Li didn't want to directly fight with the major clubs. A Wild Boss battle would cost an astonishing amount of potions, and they also had to consider the compensation for the equipment that would be dropped during the battle.
Their advantage was in Instance Dungeon First Clears.
Although they had been intercepted by Blood Red War Flag once and given up to Drizzle Court once, Ruling Sword's advantage in Instance Dungeon First Clears had always been unmatched.
Until today, when they once again lost a First Clear to The Capital of Glory.
"It's my fault," Lu Li admitted straightforwardly. He had received help from other clubs in the battle against the Nightmare Lord, so he made such a promise. However, it was more because of the need to repair the Wall of Beetles after the battle.
Ruling Sword's First Clearing team had fought in front of the Wall of Beetles for a whole 10 hours that day.
This kind of high-intensity battle wouldn't recover without a few days of rest.
He had already expected this, so he planned to make a gentleman's agreement to stall for time. However, he didn't think that the other clubs wouldn't even pay attention to him. This made Lu Li even more deeply understand the true meaning of the business world being like a battlefield.
"According to the strength of the monsters, I think they can at most kill one or two Bosses. We're not without hope," Wander said.
He wasn't speaking without thinking. The Capital of Glory had only completed the opening quest for a day or two, and their main focus for the First Clear was on the Ahn 'Qiraj Ruins. In order not to leak information, they didn't put in many teams.
At most, they had killed three Bosses. If the second Boss was too difficult, they would probably still be entangled with it.
"Alright, everyone, keep your spirits up. Let's go kill the next Boss." Lu Li wasn't someone who accepted defeat easily. Moreover, he was someone who had experienced rebirth.
I'll allow you to run 39 meters first, then show me my 40 meter broadsword!
After killing Skeram, he would enter Ahn 'Qiraj's room. After walking down a few steps and turning right, he would see the three quest dragons.
Moving left and down, you would see a combination of 1-2 Qiraji Brainwashers and 2-3 Vekniss Guardians. The Qiraji Brainwashers were almost a shrunken version of the first Boss. They had low HP, thin skin and could control people. The strategy was to use two Tanks to pull the aggro and the Mages to pay attention to the controlled people.
Even the Boss had been killed, so this kind of low-quality monster was a piece of cake.
Guardian Vekniss was a little more troublesome. Fighting a single Guardian Vekniss wasn't difficult at all. However, when one of the Guardian Vekniss dropped to 10% HP, all the Guardian Vekniss would launch an AoE Pierce at the surrounding players. To be more specific, they would throw the players very, very, very, very high, and then drop them.
This was similar to the Crypt Lord's Pierce in other games.
Therefore, when tanking this monster, not only did they have to lean against the wall, they also had to have an obstacle above their heads. Lu Li directly used the advantage of his rebirth to "accidentally" find such a position.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be too much of an exaggeration to say that the whole team would be wiped more than 10 times by this small monster.
When this kind of monster was about to die, it would also explode, similar to self-destructing. Apart from the Main Tank, everyone should stay away from it when it was about to die. The key to dealing with a group of Qiraji Brainwashers + Guardian Vekniss monsters was to quickly kill the Brainwashers first, then kill the Guardians one by one.
After going through two groups of this combination, they would keep moving downwards, going around and around. In the middle, there would be a group of 3 Vekniss Warriors.
Actually, if one were to calculate, the small monsters in the Ahn 'Qiraj Temple had the strength to wipe the whole team, sometimes more than once.
The Vekniss Warrior also had this kind of strength. It was also a monster that looked very simple, but after it died, a large number of "Vekniss Borers" would appear. These Chongzi Borers were not only extremely small in size, but they could also deal about 500-600 damage per person.
This combination focused on killing them one by one. First, they would focus on attacking one of the Vekniss Warriors, wait for the small Chongzi Borers to drop, then after dealing with the small Chongzi Borers, they would go and provoke the next Vekniss Warrior.
At the same time, three AoE monsters would definitely result in a team wipe.
The first Boss and the second Boss were basically a combination of the above two types of monsters. They cleared all the way to the second Boss' room.
The second Boss was a bit more special. They were a combination, the famous Bug Family.
Later on, they had a nickname, called the Lucky Three Treasures by the players – the father was Lord Kerry, the mother was Princess Yauj, and of course, Vimm was the son.
"Does everyone need to take a break?" After getting a negative answer, Lu Li nodded his head, "Then let's do it the same way, let's test it out first."
This time, the test was a bit long, it took almost half a day.
Lord Kerry had two main skills, one was Poison Arrow Rain, a 40 yard AoE skill that dealt 500 direct natural damage and 125 DOT per second, which could be stacked; the other was Corpse Poison – after Lord Kerry's death, the poison cloud that remained on his corpse, dealt 2000 natural damage per second.
Princess Yauj's mother had four skills.
Group Fear: Yauj would deal a close-range AOE Fear, there was no limit to the number of people affected. At the same time, regardless of whether the Fear was resisted or not, the aggro would be reduced to zero. Therefore, the healers should pray that the Fear would not be resisted.
Healing: Under normal circumstances, it would be self-healing, but it was possible to heal her son, Vimm. Of course, Kick, Shield Bash, and Earthquake could all be interrupted.
Yauj's Bloodline: After the princess died, 7-8 small bugs would appear, with around 17,000 HP, which had to be dealt with in a timely manner.
Rage: If Vimm and Yauj died first, then Yauj would go into a rage.
The last skill supported the relationship between the three of them, it could be seen as a display of maternal love.
Her son, Vimm, only knew two skills, one was Knock Away, which was to frequently knock away a player, mainly to hit far away, not high up. The second was Charge, which was to charge a player and change aggro.
First, they ruled out the strategy of killing the three Bosses together, at least it was impossible to kill all three Bosses at the same time. With the current team's strength, it was impossible to kill all three Bosses at the same time. From this, it could be inferred that the normal killing should be done in a certain order.
Therefore, they had to figure out a feasible order.
The three Bosses did not have much HP, Lord Kerry had about 600,000 HP, Princess Yauj had about 800,000 HP, and Vimm had 1.2 million HP.
Therefore, Lord Kerry, who had low HP and high ATK, should be killed first, then Princess Yauj, and finally Vimm.
In reality, the three Bosses dropped different items, only the last one to be killed would drop items. Vimm's items were the worst, while Lord Kerry's items were the best. Therefore, the order of killing this family was also a headache for Lu Li.
Logically speaking, Lord Kerry – > Princess Yauj – > Vimm, this was the simplest way to kill, and it was also the more orthodox way to kill. Most guilds used this order.
The last item obtained in this order was relatively the worst, but relatively speaking, it was still better than the first.
If Lord Kerry was pulled to a corner, the Poison Arrow would definitely not be able to cover the whole hall. However, due to the overall aggro restriction, when the other members were Feared by the princess, the healers who were fighting against Lord Kerry would be the first to face the disaster of being killed.
Therefore, Lu Li used Weilan Haifeng to fight against Lord Kerry, two secondary tanks to fight against the princess, and two secondary tanks to fight against Vimm.
First, they roughly separated Lord Kerry from the other two, and concentrated their superior DPS to kill him in the shortest time possible. Lord Kerry's poison DOT skill could be detoxified, and the casting frequency was very high, far longer than the duration.
The Detoxification profession moved frequently, trying to detoxify everyone as evenly as possible.
The Shaman's Detoxification Totem was very useful. The defensive professions pulling the princess had to use Taunt in a staggered manner, and at least one of them had to maintain Counter Strike, or switch to Berserk in the midst of the healers, waiting for the AOE Counter Strike to pull Princess Yauj as soon as possible, trying their best not to kill the healers or interfere with the team killing Lord Kerry.
The defensive professions pulling Vimm were basically the same as the princess. There were two tanks, one main tank, and the other stood in the midst of the healers, waiting for Vimm to charge. Once Vimm charged, the warrior who was on standby would pull the warrior, similar to Zul 'gurub's Marle.
After killing Lord Kerry, everyone avoided the poison cloud, and concentrated their DPS to kill the princess. At this time, the AOE professions were preparing to use AOE bugs, and it was also important to interrupt the princess's healing.
After killing the princess, Vimm alone was really not a threat. The remaining strategy was similar to the Molten Core's Lava Surger, all of them surrounded Vimm's DPS.
There were also two other sequences, and they had basically figured out how to kill him.
Or Lord Kerry – > Vimm – > Princess Yauj. This way, they could pick up the equipment that the princess dropped, and they usually used this method. The first difficulty with this sequence was that they could not lose too many DPS professions in the process of killing Lord Kerry. This was because Vimm had the most HP, so if they lost too many DPS professions, they might be wiped when it came to Vimm.
The second difficulty was the princess' Berserk, which required the healers to scatter, and the interrupting professions had to survive.
Finally, it was the sequence of Princess Yauj – > Vimm – > Lord Kerry. This was the most difficult sequence, but it had the best drops. The difficulty of killing this sequence was beyond imagination, and the drops were also ridiculous.
If it wasn't for the fact that there were other clubs ahead of them, Lu Li would have chosen the third method.
Unfortunately, he had to choose the first killing sequence.
This sequence made the second and third bosses only slightly harder than the first boss. If it was the third killing sequence, then the difficulty of the second boss should be among the top few in this dungeon.
The design of the Ahn 'Qiraj Instance Dungeon was great.
Different sequences could be seen as three types of bosses, with different methods of fighting and drops.
With the existence of Lu Li, they could completely choose the easiest sequence to carry out. The most important thing to get the First Clear was time.
Moreover, from another perspective, the most difficult sequence might not be able to get the First Clear of the second boss.
Once the worst sequence had the bonus of the First Clear, they would at least have one more Legendary equipment. Even if the quality was a bit lower, they could make up for it with quantity, not to mention there was a certain chance of an Enhanced Skill Book.
The second boss of the Ahn 'Qiraj Temple had a high chance of dropping an Enhanced Skill Book.
The First Clear would greatly increase the probability, so the worst First Clear could very well be better than the best non-First Clear drops.
After killing the three bosses, everyone didn't bother to rest. They all waited expectantly for Canmeng to loot the equipment. In the current situation, it was impossible to find out the progress of the other clubs, so they could only rely on the equipment drops to determine whether the second boss was the First Clear or not.
There were a lot of Strengthening Stones, more than twice as many as the first boss.
However, this couldn't be used as a standard for judgment. After all, the second boss was a family. If they were to calculate based on the number of people, it might not even be as good as the first boss.
There were six Synthetic Stones, and their attributes were all decent. At least there wouldn't be a situation where no one wanted them.
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