[1.2.399] Akyrum (2)

If you factor in stuff like the +hp potions and your defence and arans new and improved duration on combo barrier i think that surviving is possible even for not-washed ranged.

Don't evans have a skill to reduce magic damage as well?

Edit: They do and that's another 30% reduction when it's on and it lasts for 1 minute and the cooldown is 1½ minute, seems that surviving him will be a question of HP washing or using the defensive party skills that we have available in the game.

I love how there are so many skills that help survive the ranged classes but the stupidly low party limit almost make it that a party would be 5 classes that help survive a ranged class and the ranged class and the other five are hard to find in that number, if they're actually making future bosses all as hard as this one or more, they should make it so that at least some of those skills work for the entire expedition (e.g. smoke screen), other wise is just a tool for easy party planning (the expedition thing), which guilds that boss are already good at without it.

ETA: BTW don't most bosses have screen sized attacks, how are ranged classes supposed to avoid those (that always makes me angry, since what the point of being ranged when the boss can just use one of those skills)?