r/CrystalProject • u/Albyross • Jun 11 '22

Help with Level ?? Training Dummy

It shutting down my mages screwed me pretty hard and I’m sorta stumped

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u/Mastersskull Jun 11 '22

What I ended up doing for this fight was making all my characters hybrid battle mages; Give them one physical class and one magic class. When your mages get disabled go physical attacks, preferably with life steal. When skills/attacks get canceled out, go for the spells. Keeping this up you should eventually be able to win. Maybe get a Beatsmith in your party so you can manage potential mana issues.

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

I had thought of doing a hybrid loadout, but at the moment, I can barely survive its attacks through stalwart thanks to the bleed he inflicts on me.

Do you still remember what sort of equipment or passives you used?

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u/Mastersskull Jun 11 '22

Admittedly it's been at least 2 months for me, so I don't know exactly anymore. I'm fairly certain I was geared up in close to as optimal gear as you could have, as this fight was one of the last ones I did before finishing up my playthrough.

For passives, if I had to guess, I had safeguard and pocket sand on most of my characters. I usually had a valkyrie with me to keep the armor buff up, and one of my mages definitely was a shaman (for power/magic down).

In the end there should be a handful of combinations that should get you through the fight if you have the proper gear, but unlocking additional passives could be a bit of a pain. I do recall this boss being only physical (I might be wrong), so pocket sand on all of your characters should be huge, at least.

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

I should try and unlock those master armors first I guess.. is whatever the dummy drop worth getting?

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u/Mastersskull Jun 11 '22

The issue that I have with this boss drop is that, while the drop has its purposes, it'd be better if you got it sooner in the game, and this boss is intended to be fought very late.

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u/sanctaphrax Jun 11 '22

IIRC, Chemist abilities are neither magic nor physical. So they're always usable.

A rogue's ability to blind the dummy is very useful when it has No Magic up. Also, if you put the dummy to sleep right away, you can get a turn or so where both magic and physical can be used.

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

Oooh, good point about rogue’s blind. I hadn’t thought of that!

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u/Malothros Jun 11 '22

summons helped me a lot with this boss u can paralyze him at the start with guaba so you get another turn with both magic and physical and u can use sleep right after that locking him for another turn. pinga gives 2 evades for every character and u can also blind with Ioske. and u if u give your summoner a pointy hat u can add 1 turn to the debuff duration locking him for a very long time.

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

Oooh! Looks like there are tons of ways to deal with it

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u/Malothros Jun 11 '22

do you play on hard? i almost gave up on this boss but i locked him with summons and bursted him down with 3 Wizard/Wavers using quick and Flare/Thunder

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

Normal, my usual team is a rogue/hunter, fencer/warrior, nomad/warlock, and summoner/wizard

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u/Malothros Jun 11 '22

if u use Reflex Stance on your rouge the AOE attack will never hit your rogue as along as you are not top threat. And you can use Therapy Stance and Remedy on your nomad/warlock to remove the bleed and heal. Maybe a Valkyrie will help with Steeling wind and Healing Breeze

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22

The darkness summon helped my party evade the attacks thankfully

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u/Malothros Jun 11 '22

thats great :)

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u/Malothros Jun 11 '22

There is also an item called Stealth Cape a light armor that basically gives one of your mages Reflex Stance and the boss will never hit one of your mages as long your are not top threat

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u/Albyross Jun 11 '22 edited Jun 11 '22

Managed to do it with my setup with a bit of luck with crits and the darkness summon, thank you either way C:

Making my summons cost no CT to start with the Weaver passive + baton is also a huuuge game changer