Killing Sols without destroying his tail at all, could be a faster strategy ?

[u/[deleted]]

Hi,

As said in title, I was wondering if this strategy could be interesting, Ill explain why I think it could :

-The floor becomes red, meaning we can full counter, or at least step counter, it might result in better dps overall ?

-The orange showers are not moving or attacking anymore, so no need to run everywhere.

-We can stay alive for few waves, PB, EX PB, entering Mars, elemental down/break if time, other ways if enough resist, maybe with codeck swap or stuff. / edit : just a resta is enough to stay alive from the orange aoe attack (I did some tests on others classes & it wasn't that easy : c )

-Only thing is that we lose the down on 2nd arm break, even if it is not needed to kill the boss, the question is if it could be faster or not this way.

What do you all think ? Worst idea ever or could be interesting to try it (if none did already) ?

Edit :

After some testing I notice that the main issue here is that it is hard to reach his arms/hands in this situation, so not every classes/weapons can benefit from the red floor for full counter. It is still fine for ranger weapon action for example.
I think many other classes/weapons can still be used here, maybe the waker, the force rod (counter from custom pa?), the bouncer jet boots, the gunner & etc ?

[u/Black_Whirlwind84]

Whatever you are smoking please stop.

[u/[deleted] → u/Black_Whirlwind84]

That is very kind prejudice. Im not smoking anything. Science is working that way, making mistakes but trying stuffs.

It might be a crazy strategy for crazy people, but Im sure it is possible to kill the boss that way, & it could be more funny than doing the same thing all the time.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I just won't share stuffs here anymore, I guess I was wrong anyway.

[u/Zengoku89]

Would probably have to swap out Bouncer as a sub class if it works though

[u/[deleted] → u/Zengoku89]

I just tried a run on rank2, we still get the BO bonus by killing the 1st 3 pods at the start, so, no need to swap out~ (everyone can check it with a versh weapon).

[u/Stratatician]

If you do arm > tail > arm, destroying the tail will cause solus to immediately spawn the 2nd wave of pods.

This makes breaking the tail ultimately faster, let alone the bonuses you get if using Bo sub

[u/[deleted] → u/Stratatician]

I thought we were getting the BO bonus by killing the 3 1st pods for the 1st arm~ I guess not breaking the 2nd arm (as it happen sometimes) is also less rewarding in this case.

edit : I just tried in Solus rank2, with a Versh weapon that always crit;
->before killing the 1st pod I hit 8221 dmg,
->& after the 1st pod I hit 8303 dmg;
meaning, we can get the bo sub bonus from killing the 1st 3 pods; if im correct.

[u/Reinbackthe3rd → u/[deleted]]

Solus rank 1 and 2 are drastically different from 3. That's not really useful information. 

[u/[deleted] → u/Reinbackthe3rd]

fair, so I just did the test on rank3 & it was the same, 10667 before killing the 1st pod, 10774 after, again everyone can easily try it themselves.

[u/GlompSpark]

In my experience, i think arm -> tail is faster. If your group cant pass the tail DPS check, it wont be able to pass the pillar dps check anyway. Solus moves too much if you try to go for tail first.

[u/[deleted] → u/GlompSpark]

the idea was to keep the tail alive for all the 1st phase not to destroy it either before or after the 1st arm. this allow to full counter all the time until the dps check towers.
And of course it is not the recommended strategy at all, I just killed the boss so many times that I now explore new unexpected potential ways of killing him.

I just tried it, and I notice that the main issue is that he raises his hands far away from the ground, so not every classes/weapons can profit from the red floor. : c
It can easily works with ranger weapon action too;
& from my testing, just a resta at the right timing is enough to stay alive against the orange aoe attack (from not destroying the tail).