KMS Empress 7 person Expedition attempt.

WARNING ALMOST 1 HOUR

[video=youtube;a9rSOq6TFHk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9rSOq6TFHk&feature=feedu[/video]

W'TF @ this boss/attempt. I'm only 8 minutes in but i noticed that her tornado TRAPS CHARACTERS INSIDE MAKES THEM SPIN AROUND LOCKING THEIR MOVEMENT AND DOES CONSTANT DoT? FFFFFFFFFFFFFF Also why are the damage numbers all the same color?

Edit: After watching the whole thing i'm a tad confused. She summons each instructor one at a time, but at the end summons them ALL AT THE SAME TIME? W'TF IS THIS BOSS.

i timed the dmg reflect on empress....it lasts around 10-12sec and recasts every 8-10sec....and lol at the end where they all come back f7, pretty good job for a 7 man team

43:05: SHE HEALS 841.282.403 HP. 841 fucking millions.
What the hell is this pomegranate.

Shes not pink bean replacement for nothing... Derp...

If 7 persons can manage to almost kill her, a 10 persons expedition should be able to. Anyway, this video gives me hope...

All they proved is that taking a single minion down is no real trouble. The queens attacks and her summoning of every single instructor at once still means she will eventually pull out an unscaleable wall for characters right now. I think ideally, a team is going to have to take her down BEFORE she summons all of them. Excluding the 800m heal factor and vortex character damage lock....

If 7 persons can manage to almost kill her, a 10 persons expedition should be able to. Anyway, this video gives me hope...

They didn't even scratch the Empress.
I'd love to see how far a 20-30 person (or whatever the max is for this boss) well organized expedition can get. It will be like Pink Bean - once a group figures out how to take out more than 20% of her HP, it will be killed very shortly after.

They didn't even scratch the Empress.
I'd love to see how far a 20-30 person (or whatever the max is for this boss) well organized expedition can get. It will be like Pink Bean - once a group figures out how to take out more than 20% of her HP, it will be killed very shortly after.

Each party would need a BaM, Shadower, and Evan and a bishop. Evans now have the +300(?) avoid buff and bam and shadower and bishop for obvious reasons. Well you could maybe scratch the bishop...

Why are party members not receiving any damage even when there's no smokescreen or shield up at certain points?

How come the instructor's damage is largely in Yellow-Orange instead of Blue?

Why is the Mage boss constantly disappearing? Glitch or skill?

How are they surviving? Super magic defense? Mixture of high def, party damage reduction skills, and boss damage reduction skills? Bosses do less damage than the extractions show?

What's up with her Tornado attack with DoT damage? What are the specs on that skill?

So many questions that I'm unsure come with the chaos update or with this battle specifically.

It seems Bishops can be largely useful with their healing during the instructors, although I'm not sure if their heal is too reliable during the empress fight. Then again, most of the instructor battles seem largely doable without too much trouble, however they were largely helpless during the Empress herself.

I thought the bar who was almost down was the hp of empress. My bad then, should've watched more attentively.

Well you could maybe scratch the bishop...

It's like no one wants me anymore! ;_;

I know for a fact the magician Instructor is using the Teleport Skill.

It's like no one wants me anymore! ;_;

Too bad nexon made your class to be a Holy Simbol bish only.

They didn't even scratch the Empress.
I'd love to see how far a 20-30 person (or whatever the max is for this boss) well organized expedition can get. It will be like Pink Bean - once a group figures out how to take out more than 20% of her HP, it will be killed very shortly after.

It's 18 maximum people.
Keep in mind she can cancel potential and has some f`ucked up abilities. I doubt it'll be killed any time soon.

If the partyshield/smokescreen strategy fails, should try to get all % dmg reduction skills available, aka threaten, evan's shield, combo barrier to survive the Empress atks.

Cannot allow such an evil force to exist...

 Spoiler

Looking at the data, it seemed that the party was getting less damage done to them than shown. However, that could be cleared up by having a good weapon and magical defense.

The party consisted of a Bandit, Night Lord, Battle Mage, Dark Knight, Dual Blade, Bishop, Paladin. Did they all solely rely on heal to survive or other factors? There's threaten but...blah.

 Spoiler

Tornado move...you are harsh indeed.

Oz...why do you run away so many times...at first I was thinking her teleport skill was glitched, but later she kept disappearing within the mobs and damage for me to tell. A quick look at the blue thing representing Oz screenshot tells me that it could be the teleport animation and somehow is stuck.

Shinsoo...where did you go D:?

Eckhart or his minions can do multi-hitting attacks.

Did they willingly exit the map or by force? It seemed they all were sent at the same time, and mobs were all in one place until they entered and started running around.
With the above, are wheels useless?

Edit1: I didn't see the dark knight use power crush on the Empress all...could have stopped reflect if I'm not mistaken.

Survival...power...strategy...must...learn it all...

Cannot allow such an evil force to exist...

 Spoiler

Looking at the data, it seemed that the party was getting less damage done to them than shown. However, that could be cleared up by having a good weapon and magical defense.

The party consisted of a Bandit, Night Lord, Battle Mage, Dark Knight, Dual Blade, Bishop, Paladin. Did they all solely rely on heal to survive or other factors? There's threaten but...blah.

 Spoiler

Tornado move...you are harsh indeed.

Oz...why do you run away so many times...at first I was thinking her teleport skill was glitched, but later she kept disappearing within the mobs and damage for me to tell. A quick look at the blue thing representing Oz screenshot tells me that it could be the teleport animation and somehow is stuck.

Shinsoo...where did you go D:?

Eckhart or his minions can do multi-hitting attacks.

Did they willingly exit the map or by force? It seemed they all were sent at the same time, and mobs were all in one place until they entered and started running around.
With the above, are wheels useless?

Edit1: I didn't see the dark knight use power crush on the Empress all...could have stopped reflect if I'm not mistaken.

Survival...power...strategy...must...learn it all...

They were pushed. Just gotta keep trying. I am surprised that they did so well with such a little party though.

I don't really get the idea of how fighting this is enjoyable...

1. You don't see the boss itself, all you see is damage numbers
2. You don't see the players themselves, all you see is damage numbers and NX wh0re items
3. You don't see the skills anyone uses, all you see is damage numbers
4. You randomly see people dieing, without any idea why or how they die, after they survived for more then a half hour...
5. Without megaloads of NX for HP washing and other cheat methods, noone can kill these bosses, purely by the lack of DPS or HP...

Really.. same crap as Pink Bean, Nexon:
We don't need these kind of bullshiet bosses... We need more bosses like Papulatus, things that can be killed by 99,99999% of the players, not 0.00001% of the maple players...

Go make stuff for normal players, this is clearly a waste of time, in designing and writing code for it...

Or just go fix important stuff, like:
- Making Maplestory scriptkiddie hacker proof, after 6 years of failed attempts to do so...
- Making Maplestory compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7, after 6 years of failed attempts to do so...
- Making Maplestory bugfree... (and there's a shietload of bugs still...)
- Making Maplestory not disconnecting people when fighting squad bosses because of memory leaks
- Making Maplestory not taking up to 1GB+ of RAM for a 2D pixel game in 1024x768 resolution... for real... hire new programmers...

Ty for cooperating Nexon...

Making Maplestory compatible with Windows XP

Say what?

Don't worry guys, we at GMS has them haxors to kill empress for us haha we'll have lvl 140 sets in fm