Kanican's AV strategy

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

I seriously hope that they don't nerf AV and PW. Just restrict the amount of time you have to kill them.

Yeah, I don't see the merit in going on several hours just for one mob. Change the time required, don't change the fight itself.

There's reasonable, intelligent difficulty and then there's unreasonable, artificial difficulty.

The former considers a specific strategy within a reasonable amount of time and challenge to complete. The latter just increases the size of HP bars, the number of enemies you face or the time it takes to kill something.

Good way of looking at it is Ninja Gaiden II. They botched the difficulty curve on this one. In the first NG on Xbox, you had a difficulty curve that was very challenging but not "we're throwing ten ninjas hurling exploding shurikens at you and you can't possibly deflect them all" challenging. Yet, that's Ninja Gaiden II right there. That was Team Ninja's great idea at increasing the difficulty and it was not the way they did it with NG.

I realize there's some reasons for NGII ending up the way it was, but the point still stands.

AV is NGII. We don't need to change the fact he's hard, we just need to trim down the inhuman length of the fight. He might not be tossing ten ninjas with exploding shurikens at us, but he's killing us slowly.

That is, if he doesn't Meteor, then he kills us quickly. I prefer that more, actually.

[Kitalrez]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

Good lord Aka! FIVE HOURS FOR JOL!? I really wish you were on my server.

Somehow I suspect the /point and /laugh emotes come into play in her answer...

[Kafeen]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

Even with a few unlucky Astral Flows how did it take that long?

We do it in about 45 mins.

[Akashimo]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

Good lord Aka! FIVE HOURS FOR JOL!? I really wish you were on my server.

Why?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

Good lord Aka! FIVE HOURS FOR JOL!? I really wish you were on my server.

[Akashimo]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

Unless, of course, the battle is supposed to take some absurdly long time to do...in which case Bad SE. No fight in a video game should be slated for more than 4 hours.

Try a five hour Jailer of Love cause the blms got unlucky 3 times with Astral Flow pulls >_>

[Sabaron]

Re: Kanican's AV strategy

The thing about complex strategies is that they're usually not what was "intended" by the people who created the mob.

Most of the time, necessary strategies for boss mobs are simple in some way or seem obvious once you know what they are.

I, like a lot of people, am not expecting a nerf, but some sort of "timer" that either automatically despawns or causes AV to cast something like Meteorga IV that targets and kills everyone on the hate list followed by rapid despawn.

No, I think, once it is determined what SE was trying to show us in that video, that the strategy will seem mundane.

I seriously hope that they don't nerf AV and PW. Just restrict the amount of time you have to kill them.

Unless, of course, the battle is supposed to take some absurdly long time to do...in which case Bad SE. No fight in a video game should be slated for more than 4 hours.

[Malacite]

Kanican - AV Strategy

Great post, but it only makes me happier that SE is adjusting AV. Holy crap what an obscenely complex strategy all for one NM @_@;


I'm all for epic fights but god damn...