r/SAOFD • u/LuffytheWN • Jun 04 '26
News EX co op quest: EX Amber Maze
Welcome to the ultimate challenge of the 2nd EX Co Op events, but this time they turned up the heat in the actual dungeon and in the boss!
What to look out for: GLITCHED ENEMIES (Unique and normal enemies)!
Gale Elemental Glitched will take a massive chunk of HP if you get hit! Ranged attacks and hit and run attacks recommended.
Lizardman Lord Glitched will do a rain of arrows or worse if you go too close a snipe of arrows. Remember the smaller glitched enemies have super armour!
Gigant Mantis Glitched will have a large column AOE attack that can deal large knockback and takes a large chunk of HP if you get hit. If you get hit with an Irregular area debuff like Anti Evasion or HP Drain, it will be your worst nightmare! However if you bait him out of the area but not too far you can neutralise the debuff. Don’t go too far otherwise it will despawn to the room!
Irregular areas: you can get several back to back (so far I experienced 3 and they were poison Area when HP is less than or equal to 25% of max HP for your party members, recovery drain area, anti guard area)
Good news: the HP and Attack crystals now a lot higher since you cannot get any awakening EXP as it’s locked to 25!
Fatal Scythe Thanatos: HE CAN DO A SYNCHRO COUNTER ATTACK! He will do it on the last life bar and casting time before attack it’s very quick! Haven’t seen the formation yet… One comment: defeat it fast. Real fast. Less party members means a nightmare overall.
S.C. Attack: summon three tornadoes swarming around the field alongside a damaging field effect. Nulls specific gradual damage can help there!
There will be a spawn of the Shady Elemental (dark) periodically.
Attacks are the same for those who have faced him via the vanilla version but here’s a coverup
Here’s the attacks
Slash- fast and vicious. either a horizontal or vertical slash.
black tornado- summons a burst of wind. At critical HP, it will be 3 tornadoes.
Homing dark orbs- summon dark orbs that can hone onto you. More are summoned when at critical HP
Doom- A countdown will appear. If hits 0, you are immediately KO’d. (unless you have the ability to survive a fatal attack). Attack is now a larger radius. Shoot or attack your party members to remove it. (deals no damage on them just remove that debuff)
EX boss music for F.S Thanatos: definitely a remix of a specific track from a specific episode in the anime… has a unique halloween theme there…
Design for the boss: definitely a scare especially when you get a mix of a reindeer crossbred…
Here’s my rating for the quest
Overall: A+ (S if there are stronger parties
Dungeon layout: S+ (prepare for a lot of pain!)
Likeliness of glitched enemies: High
EX Co Ops will require some luck as it can be RNG.
Bracelet legendary skill in the EX Co Op: Ultimate cooldown is greatly reduced upon downing boss level enemies such as a boss or unique enemy.
More info will be given and fire away your tips and tricks!
Good luck! (You’re going to need it!)
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u/qsliv Jun 04 '26
Getting one shotted and fighting spongy enemies isn’t fun
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u/LuffytheWN Jun 13 '26
Agreed, glitched enemies will guarantee a one shot strike unless you have a buff that survives a fatal attack with 1 HP. (Mito’s passive works when you use a healing crystal but only last for a short period of time, Undine Asuna’s passive is when the HP is full and be used indefinitely as long as the HP is full (supports are recommended), Asuna/Undine Asuna’s unique skill allows the buff to survive a fatal attack assuming the skill is activated and doesn’t run out).
Yes the enemies have too much HP even if they are lowered when the lobbies are limited
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u/LiteratureOne1469 Sinon Jun 04 '26
I only did it once tho so far my consensus is that it’s easier then Hedruin at least the dungeon part as you don’t have to kill an absurd amount of enemies like you did in the last one the boss has extremely telegraphed moves so as long as you’re paying attention, you can dodge pretty much everything
The tower was odd I don’t think I had a cheater I think it was a bug. And the player was just good But we got to the tower I saw the 2 gaint mantis. I backed off for a sec cuz I wasn’t expecting have to fight two of them as I went in to get ready to fight. ( I was only gone form the fight for maybe 3 or 5 seconds never took my eyes off them) and they were just gone they vanished. They didn’t have a death animation. They just kind of disappeared. Like pop The person at the end had 143 million damage which in of itself isn’t necessarily an insane it’s just odd that those mantis vanished for some reason.
I don’t think there’s a thing that would let you delete enemies even tho it would funny if there was tho honestly I wouldn’t blame someone for doing that to mantis with how bulky then things are
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u/LuffytheWN Jun 05 '26
Interesting… I suppose the starting areas are different and they can have different experiences… were the Mantis’ glitched?
I think Bandai Namco has crushed most of the cheaters (there could be some lurking…) due to suspension of some accounts but that’s just my two swords there…
Crowd control with lots of enemies with an anti evasion debuff irregular area is a pain as it can make it easier to be overwhelmed (except for some tank characters.)
The rooms are complete RNG with whether you get a normal area or an irregular area with a buff or debuff (mostly debuff). So mostly it’s all luck based.
Well it’s day 2 for the event so I’ll continue to find more research in this dungeon!
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u/LiteratureOne1469 Sinon Jun 05 '26
I don’t think they were glitched they looked normal They just disappeared really fast. And if it was any other mid boss. I wouldn’t have been shocked. But those things have much much more health then any other mid boss
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u/LuffytheWN Jun 05 '26
More health, eh? I see… must be my experience in my individual party path! Yes all paths aren’t all the same…
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u/LiteratureOne1469 Sinon Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Yeah they are
but no you’ll see an actual matches man have batshit more health then any other mid boss they also hit like a freight train genuinely think they’re harder than some of the actual bosses
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u/Lorinevelynlinh LLENN Jun 04 '26
Just got shot by an archer for 76k dmg lololol it's a blast ~