[Testing] Raid Boss System

• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-06 08:52
  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGS6x/8d7289ed5a.png]

  
  Chapter 6 brings to us a new Raid system, this is on the test server which means details in this thread are subject to be changed.
  
  You can access the Raid Board in Emain Macha on the side of Bean Rua Pub
  [spoiler="Raid Board"]
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGrJG/3d415297a2.png]

  
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  When you click on the symbol there, you will open up the Raid Board Interface. From here you select the Raid Mission and the difficulty (3 Difficulties currently). Higher difficulties make the Raid Boss do more damage, have more defense/prot/magic prot/magic def/hp, etc. There is only one raid mission there atm (format is in typical Shadow Mission format).
  [spoiler="Raid Board Interface"]
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGT6j/b9ccd22bf9.png]

  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGS8h/fd82f2daf3.png]

  
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  In the first image you see 4 options.
  

  
  
  • Pick Mission and form Raid Party (See below)
    
  • Start Raid
    
  • Information (gives you information about Raids)
    
  • End Conversation
    

  
  Second image is pretty simple, you pick the only mission there is, pick the difficulty from the drop down, and hit the first option. Second option closes the Raid Board Interface.
  
  Here are the rewards for each of the difficulties
  

  
  
  • Easy - 20k EXP, 4k Gold
    
  • Medium -100k Exp, 10k Gold
    
  • Hard - 250k Exp, 30k Gold
    

  
  
  Once you select a mission you then start a 16 member party. That's right, you can bring a max of 16 people with you into this thing! As a party leader you can organize who is in what party and can even name each individual party. There are a total of 4 parties in a raid party with 8 members available in each of those. You can also create a raid party from the party interface!
  [spoiler="Raid Party Interface"]
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGyT5/a6b5bbca63.png]

  
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  Here are the dropdowns and their options (Top)
  

  
  
  • Finish Rules (Standard Party stuff)
    
  • Exp-Sharing Rules (Standard Party stuff)
    

  
  
  Here are the list of options in the order they appear (Bottom)
  

  
  
  • Start/Stop Party Recruitment
    
  • Set a password for the party
    
  • Change Party Settings (Difficulty, Mission, Raid party name, max number of people, etc)
    
  • Quit the Party
    
  • Access the Party Board (Raid Parties were added to the Party Board)
    
  • Teleport to Raid Board area (Teleports you just North East of the Raid Board)
    

  
  
  Once you have the party together, you can then use the raid board to enter the mission. Currently the only mission is a new Boss - Gargash. Gargash uses the following skills:
  

  
  
  • Staff Bash - Boss swings staff around in front of it, avoid by moving behind
    
  • Sacred Infection - Circle comes up underneath you and poisons you while it's active. It can also infect other players, infected players should move away when they get hit by this to avoid poisoning their team members
    
  • Crystal Meteor Shower - Boss jumps up in the air and rains down powerful Crystals that cannot be avoided. Use Shield of Trust to protect yourself and your team mates or experience death on Hard difficulty. Timing is of the essence. Have a couple team members on stand by and close by, ready to use it to protect everyone.
    
  • Fanaticism - Boss picks you up, and then tosses you for some moderate-high damage. Will tend to use repeatedly. Break his grip by hitting him (those who didn't get grabbed) a certain number of times. Green Bar shows up to show how many hits left to break the grip. Easy requires 3, Hard requires 8.
    
  • Attracting souls - Boss stabs himself and starts to heal with souls. He will create shadows of all party members and if they reach him, you instantly die. Unsure how to counter measure...
    
  • Sacred Imprison - Boss slams down a Crystals with his staff that freezes you in place and damages you after time, incurs heavy wounds. If a player hits the crystal enough you can break free early preventing a lot of heavy wounding.
    
  • Teleport
    

  
  Easy Modo:
  [video=youtube;CwEJdcJBKFM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEJdcJBKFM[/video]
  
  Hard Mode
  [video=youtube;bTTTIrVF1PE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bTTTIrVF1PE[/video]
  
  Other noteworthy characterstics of Gargash:
  

  
  
  • Can't be Tamed
    
  • Can't be Frozen
    
  • Can't be Petrified
    
  • Lullaby has no effect
    
  • Can't have a Mimic Swallow it
    
  • Can't have a Crab Bubble it
    
  • It won't drop aggro
    
  • You can't see it's skills
    
  • Won't be knocked down
    
  • Shock doesn't appear to work
    
  • Raincast doesn't work
    
  • Has no Healthbar above his head
    
  • Can't be auto finished by pets
    
  • Has no hitmotion
    
  • Elemental weapons are useless against him
    
  • Higher difficulties have higher skill ranks than lower difficulties which leads to more powerful and deadly attacks
    
  • He uses more powerful and dangerous attacks when his health gets lower. I've noticed that at specific spots in his health % he'll start using certain skills
    

  
  When you defeat Gargash all members in the raid will get some exp, gold based on the difficulty they completed it on. Divine EXP is used to gain Divinity levels which you need to enhance the Knight Skills which will be covered in a separate thread.
  
  In addition there is new quests for the raids. Completing the quests rewards you with Divinity Experience, as does completing each objective. There's a weekly and daily quest. Objectives vary from player to player and is not fixed.
  [spoiler="Raid Quest"]
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGRO1/be331f17e3.png]

  
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aGRQD/716c9e83c3.png]

  
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  [spoiler="Daily and Weekly"]
  

  [Image: http://puu.sh/aJHu9/da52fca24a.png]

  
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  First Quest scroll in the screen shot is daily and the other is weekly.
  
  

  
  
  • Completing Daily Objectives rewards 100 Divinity Exp
    
  • Completing the Daily rewards 300 Divinity Exp
    
  • Completing Weekly Objectives rewards 300 Divinity Exp
    
  • Completing the Weekly rewards 1000 Dvinity Exp
    

  
  
  Some of the Weekly and Daily objectives include:
  

  
  
  • Defeat him quickly - Kill Gargash in 20 minutes
    
  • Overcome your thirst - Do not use any means of recovery items
    
  • Heal your wounds - Use bandage to heal yourself
    
  • The more, the stronger - Kill Gargash with a 10+ party
    
  • Let's live and meet again - Don't die when doing the Raid
    
  • All in attack - Kill Gargash with a full 16 member Raid Party
    
  • Victory charge - Kill Gargash 5 times
    
  • Lightning quick - Kill Gargash in 10 minutes
    
  • Recon for now - Participate in a raid to successful completion without attacking Gargash
    
  • Age is just a number - Kill Gargash while you're 10 years old.
    
  • Nobody die - No other people in the raid party should die while doing the raid
    
  • Final attack - Get the last hit on Gargash
    
  • Stick to your task - Finish the daily task 3 times.
    
  • Don't be off guard - Fail to kill Gargash while it's lower than 10% HP
    
  • Right in front of death's door - Get to deadly from single hit by Gargash
    

  
  
  [SIZE="4"]Credits[/SIZE]
  

  
  
  • Kingofrunes - Video footage and image compilation
    
  • Tetosan - Boss Skill names and other related pack research
    
  • Herro - For helping to test the Raid Boss
    
  • Kenero - For helping to test the Raid Boss
    
  • ironwoman - For helping with translations
    
• ironwoman wrote on 2014-08-06 08:59
  Oh, so that was what "Gargash" was from the things Teto sent me!
  
  I get it now, you have to attack this thing and fulfill the requirements while doing so to get those "divine exp".
  
  I thought it'd be a new generation boss, but guess not.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-06 09:49

  Quote from ironwoman;1237663:

  Oh, so that was what "Gargash" was from the things Teto sent me!
  
  I get it now, you have to attack this thing and fulfill the requirements while doing so to get those "divine exp".
  
  I thought it'd be a new generation boss, but guess not.

  
  
  Well Gargash, I believe will also be featured in the new generation.
• Syliara wrote on 2014-08-06 09:57
  I like how they are adding new concepts into the game... But this seems pretty close to Vindictus atm in terms of how the actual system works. I'm also curious to know how difficult the bosses are in comparison to bosses we have in game already, or are they just pushovers like 99% of the content in this game tends to be....
  
  In any case, I'm pretty excited to learn more about this and how they intend to expand on it, I just hope that it has some form of challenge behind it...
• Iyasenu wrote on 2014-08-06 09:58
  Oh my that raid board has lots of empty space.
  
  
  I guess that means there should be more to come, as far as future raids are concerned.
  
  That "Attracting Souls" attack...
  
  
  It creates a shadow of your character that runs towards the boss.
  If your shadow reaches the boss, you die instantly?
  And for every shadow that reaches him he also heals a bit?
  
  Sounds pretty hardcore, geez.
  
  Was it just because it's Test and no one probably has any pets worth summoning, or can you not summon pets at all during this, like an Iria Raid?
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-06 10:11

  Quote from Iyasenu;1237671:

  Oh my that raid board has lots of empty space.
  
  
  I guess that means there should be more to come, as far as future raids are concerned.
  
  That "Attracting Souls" attack...
  
  
  It creates a shadow of your character that runs towards the boss.
  If your shadow reaches the boss, you die instantly?
  And for every shadow that reaches him he also heals a bit?
  
  Sounds pretty hardcore, geez.
  
  Was it just because it's Test and no one probably has any pets worth summoning, or can you not summon pets at all during this, like an Iria Raid?

  
  
  Hmm...I didn't try testing summoning a pet, I'll get back to you on that. As for the Attracting Souls, it's more like he stabs himself with his staff while dark energies pour into him from somewhere. He doesn't move for the duration of the attack and sits there with a staff through his chest. Which in itself is pretty hardcore.
  
  UPDATE: Ya you can summon pets. Nobody summoned them as it's the test server and only pets we have is shires and brooms. Not exactly very helpful :P
  
  

  Quote from Nui;1237670:

  I'm also curious to know how difficult the bosses are in comparison to bosses we have in game already, or are they just pushovers like 99% of the content in this game tends to be....

  
  
  Hard to really gauge it. But if you have the pots and resources, and a full party. I'd say that it's much easier and quicker than the Dragon Raids. So ya, not that big of a challenge unfortunately.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2014-08-06 10:20
  Neat, so pets aren't disabled.
  There's some spent-NX that won't go to waste for this bit of content, hopefully.
  
  Also that throwing attack is so silly.
  
  I saw that it affected Kenero, even though she had Wings of Eclipse on.
  Then, when Gargash tried to throw her, she just plopped to the ground and pinged.
  
  So it doesn't stop the attack, but prevents you from getting tossed away from the boss.
  
  Assuming it wouldn't work the same for Wind Guard, since that's an active skill, not a toggle-passive.
  
  
  
  I'm also surprised how there's a Raid miniquest for bandaging yourself, despite how awfully ineffective that is!
  And that "Don't Be Off Guard" one makes it seem like you can get Divine Experience even if you fail to kill him?
  Or is that just worded weird and it's actually "Die when Gargash has 10% or less HP remaining."?
  
  
  
  And one moooore thing.
  
  Sometimes, a weird second bar would appear above the boss' normal health bar.
  A green one.
  Any idea what that's all about?
  
  Seemed to show up when he does his throwing attack.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2014-08-06 10:20
  Also that throwing attack is so silly.
  
  I saw that it affected Kenero, even though she had Wings of Eclipse on.
  Then, when Gargash tried to throw her, she just plopped to the ground and pinged.
  
  So it doesn't stop the attack, but prevents you from getting tossed away from the boss.
  
  Assuming it wouldn't work the same for Wind Guard, since that's an active skill, not a toggle-passive.
  
  
  
  I'm also surprised how there's a Raid miniquest for bandaging yourself, despite how awfully ineffective that is!
  And that "Don't Be Off Guard" one makes it seem like you can get Divine Experience even if you fail to kill him?
  Or is that just worded weird and it's actually "Die when Gargash has 10% or less HP remaining."?
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-06 10:29

  Quote from Iyasenu;1237674:

  
  And that "Don't Be Off Guard" one makes it seem like you can get Divine Experience even if you fail to kill him?
  Or is that just worded weird and it's actually "Die when Gargash has 10% or less HP remaining."?
  

  
  
  Well the quest objective doesn't necessarily mean you get Divine Experience for that objective. It's just one of the objectives for the quest to get the rewards for that particular quest. Each Raid rewards you with Divine Experience on successful completion, so the two are loosely connected.
  
  

  Quote from Iyasenu;1237674:

  
  Sometimes, a weird second bar would appear above the boss' normal health bar.
  A green one.
  Any idea what that's all about?
  

  
  
  You know I was curious about that myself, I frankly have no idea what it is :(
• Kaeporo wrote on 2014-08-06 11:39
  This is good news. Finally some actual content that's not tied to an event.
  
  Also, moving the board to Emain Macha was a good idea. That's how you populate the other towns. Add varied dailies and content "worth" completing to them.
• SUNFLARE wrote on 2014-08-06 12:12
  Hopping they add the other raid bosses to this itll maybe make BD Nerfed version worth running without a shit ton HP etc Also now people can host clan runs more easily
• ironwoman wrote on 2014-08-06 13:03
  Hey people,
  
  So I found the data that people gathered, thought it might help here.
  These skills have some sort of variations of themselves, so I will call them sub skills as well.
  
  [SPOILER="Skills, AP costs (sadly it spends AP), training exp"]
  [SPOILER="Shield of Trust"]
  
  Description: Summons a divine shield using a divine power.
  Can protect upto two partymates within range. Extremely effective against certain skills of evil power.
  This skill is almost the only skill that will be able to outstand a normally lethal evil attack.
  
  Novice Rank [CD 40 sec, 3 sub skills share cooldown]
  
  2.9m range, Defense+5, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+25, 4 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  
  
  Rank F (ap : 2)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +6, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+20, 5 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+10, 6 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  
  
  Rank E (ap : 3)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +7, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+12, 8 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+8, 6 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  
  
  Rank D (ap : 4)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +8, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+8, 12 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+6, 8 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  
  
  Rank C (ap : 5)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +9, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+6, 15 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+4, 10 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  
  
  Rank B (ap : 6)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +10, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+4, 20 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+2, 20 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  
  
  Rank A (ap : 8)
  
  2.9m, Defense +11, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+3.5, 23 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+1.5, 30 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+2, 20 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 9 (ap : 12)
  
  2.9m, Defense +12, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+3, 25 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+1, 45 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+2, 20 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 8 (ap : 14)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +13, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+2.5, 30 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.8, 50 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+1.5, 25 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 7 (ap : 16)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +14, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+2, 35 times, Use the skill sucesfully)
  (+0.6, 60 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+1, 35 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 6 (ap : 19)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +15, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+1.8, 38 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.4, 80 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.5, 50 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 5 (ap : 21)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +16, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+1.5, 45 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.3, 100 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.4, 60 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  (+0.5, 60 times, Succesfully protect 2 or more partymates from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 4 (ap : 23)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +17, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+1, 60 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.3, 120 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.3, 75 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  (+0.4, 80 times, Succesfully protect 2 or more partymates from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 3 (ap : 25)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +18, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+0.5, 100 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.2, 150 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.2, 90 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  (+0.3, 90 times, Succesfully protect 2 or more partymates from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 2 (ap : 27)
  
  2.9m range, Defense +19, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+0.2, 200 times, use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.1, 200 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.1, 150 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  (+0.2, 150 times, Succesfully protect 2 or more partymates from lethal boss attack)
  
  
  Rank 1 (ap : 30)
  2.9m, Defense +20, Duration 16 sec
  
  (+0.1, 350 times, Use the skill succesfully)
  (+0.1, 300 times, Succesfully block evil boulders)
  (+0.1, 200 times, Succesfully protect partymate from lethal boss attack)
  (+0.1, 200 times, Succesfully protect 2 or more partymates from lethal boss attack)
  
  [/SPOILER]
  [SPOILER="Celestial Spark"][/SPOILER]
  [SPOILER="Judgement Blade"][/SPOILER]
  [/SPOILER]
  
  Excuse my potential awkward translation but it should be understandable. Will upload more, like the sub skills, divine level exp, Gargash skills in more depth, etc. Sort of busy right now. Keep your eyes on this post for more info!
  
  If you want to at least look at the images (or Korean text if you can understand them), these links should help you:
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28667
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28669
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28670
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28671
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28674
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28676
  
  https://www.mabinogi.pe.kr/bbs/zboard.php?id=report&page=1&sn1=&divpage=4&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=28677
• KINGZZ wrote on 2014-08-06 13:05

  Quote from Kaeporo;1237682:

  This is good news. Finally some actual content that's not tied to an event.
  
  Also, moving the board to Emain Macha was a good idea. That's how you populate the other towns. Add varied dailies and content "worth" completing to them.

  
  Yes and this raid boss system means potentially more stronger raid bosses! That could be a pain to defeat. I love this new system and i agree with you Kae more towns need things to make it more populated to many events go on at dun and what not
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-08-06 13:46

  Quote from ironwoman;1237692:

  skill stuff

  
  
  Tetosan is already hard at work compiling this information. He's apparently waiting on translations from Tongy. The "evil boulders" seem to for Crystal Meteor Strike from Gargash
• Daakun wrote on 2014-08-06 14:50
  So wait, they want me to spend 215 AP on a 16 second 20 def boost with a cooldown and no bonus stats?
  Please tell me there's more to this and/or I'm reading it wrong.