The Corrupted Empress

Lol what and an 18 player Limit....

And am I reading that 35K magic right....they really do want us to wash to 100k.

bad game design. everything about every skill she has is designed to fuck the player. just forget it. come back when they learn torturing yourself isnt fun and decide to create something other than a sack of hp with godmode abilities.

Nexon: Hey maplers guess what we made a new level 140 set.
Mapler: Yay.
Nexon: But you'll need a lot of your secondary stat.
Mapler: NOOoo.
Nexon: Don't worry its worth it, just look at these bonuses.
Mapler: Holy mother of god, do want.
Nexon: Just one thing, only empress cygnus drop them.
Mapler: So the best equips drop from a boss where you need to be almost level 200 with godly equips?
Nexon: Yes isn't it fun.
Mapler: Why would I need those equips if I already have godly equips and almost reach the level cap?
Nexon: Buy some nx today.

Lol what and an 18 player Limit....

And am I reading that 35K magic right....they really do want us to wash to 100k.

wtp 100k? Nexon is going a little overboard with this boss...

I just can't wait to see the OMGWTFBBQ reaction when someone's unique weapon turns unpotentialed and stays that way. God damn that'll be funny if it glitches.

Nexon: Hey maplers guess what we made a new level 140 set.
Mapler: Yay.
Nexon: But you'll need a lot of your secondary stat.
Mapler: NOOoo.
Nexon: Don't worry its worth it, just look at these bonuses.
Mapler: Holy mother of god, do want.
Nexon: Just one thing, only empress cygnus drop them.
Mapler: So the best equips drop from a boss where you need to be almost level 200 with godly equips?
Nexon: Yes isn't it fun.
Mapler: Why would I need those equips if I already have godly equips and almost reach the level cap?
Nexon: Buy some nx today.

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Okay other than that, a simple way to make this boss beatable would be.....a new party system that allows all 18 people together/joke
Anyways I'm really wondering if they expect anyone (other than hackers) to be able to beat that boss anytime soon....maybe its a distraction while they come up with a better storyline...

Spadow doesn't mention her having a 1/1 skill, unless she does have such a skill and Spadow hasn't been able to identify which animation uses it.

If she truly doesn't have a 1/1 skill... Hello Battlemages.

Lachrymus has the right idea. (Jellyflower is the Lachrymus I've been hearing about, right?)

Right now, I'm wondering several things that could be useful or be quite meaningless depending on the answer:

- Does everything Cygnus and her Dark Knights summon have the boss flag? If not, WHs could Jaguar-oshi the ones without a boss flag to instantly kill them off and hope for a defensive buff (preferably something like 50-60% dodge rate or 50-60% damage taken reduction - yes, Jaguar-oshi can give you that much dodge/reduction) in the process.

- Not only does it look like Mechanics can dish out some serious DPS, but I recall them having some extremely useful support skills. I think one of their skills involves summoning a robot that heals people standing close enough to it. Exactly how does it work? Is it subject to Zombify? Does it affect everyone, or just party members?

- I recall Mechanics also being able to summon teleport portals of their own. Can they set them up in the Cygnus map? Could be really handy for allowing ranged/those who need to heal to get the hell out of the way when things get dicey.

- Blind works on bosses now, doesn't it? (I've heard conflicting reports on this...)

- IIRC, Evan's Soul Stone was changed to affect 5 party members, wasn't it?

Pretty sure they do have a boss tag. Otherwise it would be ALOT easier.

Figures, so this boss is literally PB 2.0 until we get some broken effects / mechanics to best her, similar to how PB was "unkillable" until Potential.

ITT: Nexon trolls everyone.
Nice one.

A system that did allow more than 6 people, and even the entire squad to share party skills would make this more manageable. Especially with all those auras BaM's have (Granted if they fixed that stupid 1/1 glitch.)

Figures, so this boss is literally PB 2.0 until we get some broken effects / mechanics to best her, similar to how PB was "unkillable" until Potential.

COMING IN SUMMER '11: Potential system 2.0! Potential your potential'd equips to get DOUBLE potential!

COMING IN SUMMER '11: Potential system 2.0! Potential your potential'd equips to get DOUBLE potential!

Yo dawg I herd u liek potenshul so I used a tired meme. :|

Lol what and an 18 player Limit....

And am I reading that 35K magic right....they really do want us to wash to 100k.

Yup. 25k physical and 35k magic.

Thats basically impossible unless you are uber uber funded and have washed since day 1.

And yeah Vaati, I was thinking the same thing. This boss is basically impossible until some other broken, NX-requiring, mechanic comes along that makes us ungodly powerful (similiar to what potential did).

Spadow said something about the "Personality system..."

Bonuses from those (Namely Will stat) might be enough to tip things toward our side o3o

/wishful thinking

Spadow said something about the "Personality system..."

Bonuses from those (Namely Will stat) might be enough to tip things toward our side o3o

/wishful thinking

Quite possible. I notice that the stats that each personality trait increases are all defensive stats (MP [Sense]; avoid and accuracy [Insight]; HP, magic defense, and physical defense [Will]). The question is how much do those stats increase by per trait level.

Is this a new boss ability?

Van Leon also has that ability.

I have no idea why they buffed her so much, it did seem possible to beat her with the dmg she did before though. I dont have any post-BB/potentials boss experience, but with threaten it seems possible for warriors to take 3 hits from the Empress with her old physical dmg if they have 25-30k hp (possible, and way easier than before with all these 10% chaos stuffs). The map is big, kinda like PB's, if Mechanical's door work there, then the melee atkers can escape with it, unless Dark Genesis hits all the map even if she is rushed all the way to the right. They will need to focus, watch if they have pot seal/cd, whichever skill cannot be dispelled. With the new atk, they can only take 2 hits, unless they have over 35k hp, so yeah way harder to escape if you die in 2 hits. Anyways, this is just with threaten and mechanical door, I'm sure there are other skills I dont know about that can help. I'm also not sure if pot seal/cd can target everyone in the map or just targets some or one person, one person would be better for us. The range can't do much if they don't have good hp though...blue aura evasion is the only thing that can help them, and apparently blind, bowmans have dodge now, and NLs have bunch of %luk eqps to increase their avoid. All these skills/potential equips gives a bunch of dodge %, but yes I agree, it's not fun if you have to wheel so many times to kill a boss, and I don't have any experience with post-BB avoid, luk potential equips, so I have no idea at the moment how often an attack from a high level bosses misses on me.
But all these is for the last phase (I hope), The Empress goes away when they are summoned, so no 27k/35k dmg early in the fight. I would like to know what's the new damage of the cygnus bosses she summoned. In the video, I saw a max of 12619 dmg. With HB I have a 10.4k hp NL post-BB without chaos HTPs/zhelms/potential equips or anything that could help with HP, 12k something when I get them, and I didn't hp wash since day one, nor did I use over 80 ap resets or something (I think). If we consider Evan's shield skill and/or blue aura surviving is possible for the first phases till the Empress (reminds me of Pink Been last phase, statues have just bunch of HP, but they couldn't do a thing, PB was the one that killed everyone).

Is it possible to "air dodge" (for lack of a better word/phrase) attacks by Abusing Mechanic portals? Say you see the animation for a non-AoE attack going -->> and use the teleport to go farther -->>> or <<- Though i Dunno how helpful that would be...

If she doesn't have a 1/1, that's not too bad. But potion cooldown WITH 12k+ damage in one hit = insta-death range classes. my bowmaster has 50 points in HP (i washed out 20 with the free resets, so 30 left) and he has 7.5k with self HB. If i had real HB, i would have a bit more. And if i ever get my hands on a chaos zak/HT, that would boost HP farther. and it shouldn't be TOO bad. Still ridiculously stupid and "G37 sum NX 2day" -like.

Is the Chaos Accuracy/avoid formula different than Big Bang formula?

Pretty sure they do have a boss tag. Otherwise it would be ALOT easier.

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