[Non-Renewal] Tanking amon-ra/baphomet/kiel with high priest

Started by jblazer, Mar 28, 2012, 12:49 AM

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jblazer

Hey everyone.

This is a 99/70 9/9/4 server, no customs. I'll be DPSing with a very capable sniper. Which I'm not worried about, but mainly my high priest tanking ability I'm a little clueless in.

I have a +4 Alice valk shield and +7 green ferus tidals already also elemental armors.. so the hard part is out the way. How can I stack my defense into +60

+7/8 Magni cap
Opera masque
2x eye of dullahan (seems must have for baphomet) else 2 safety rings otherwise.
Long mace for weapon
Raydric wool (20% neutral reduction) does this work with the MVP's regular attacks? else +5 kapha wool for 12 m.def

Also more importantly, what should I look out from these bosses that can own me? my biggest problem I notice is the minions shredding my safetywall... or do my gears suck to much that I can't survive between casting walls? ;/ please help

XicoR4

For starters, yes, neutral reductions affect everything that is neutral (including MVP's regular attacks).
Regarding gears, I recommend Proxy Mant/Variant Shoes or Diabolus stuff if you can get it (even the rings are usefull, when you're not wearing the eyes of dullahan), if not, the full magni set (With Peco? and Alice cards) is a solid choice for tanking stuff.

On to the mvps!

As for Amon Ra, I suggest not trying to tank it at all, his meteor spam at close range is just insane, plus he has a nasty habit of doing a delayed drain attack followed by darkness blessing (meaning instant death). Your sniper can hit it from outside its range, while you keep up sanctuary/Safety Wall/Heals on him for an easy kill. You can also Lex without getting in target range at 10 cells away from him if I'm not mistaken.

As for Baphomet, you should be tanking it against a wall, so brandish doesn't push you back, wind reduces help, but aren't mandatory. Earthquake will probably kill your sniper friend, but you might live through it, (getting mercenaries to help mitigate some damage might be a good idea), also keep pneuma on the sniper at all times because of Hell's Judgement. You can tank Baphomet with just heals and occasional pots until he gets to 30% HP, then Powerup makes it really hard.
Safety Wall works fine if you got Magnus Exorcismus to clear the minions first, or get your sniper to sharpshoot the minions, so your safety wall absorbs all of Bapho's hits. That last 30% makes it quite a bit hard, you're likely to die often while 2 manning it, but often times after respawning you can bait a EQ and escape to the portal, which gives you about 30 secs to the next one. Oh, and beware that Baphomet breaks armors =/

As for Kiel, get your sniper to kill every one of his mobs except for one, then make sure to tank it with a safety wall on yourself (preferably against a wall, so a brandish or a magnum break that hits doesn't push you) whilst Kiel is only 1 cell away from you, so he can't pneuma himself (and thus rendering your sniper useless). I suggest using Kyrie Eleison instead of Assumptio because the hits that kill you, would kill you regardless of assumptio, but you might survive an occasional hit after a dark blessing or when your safety wall wears off. Kiel can use gantabein, so you need to keep your eyes on the safety wall at all times. He also silences you, so green pots are your best friend ^_^.

jblazer

Ah okay really helpful. I probably will skip baphomet for an easier MVP to camp then, seems like to much trouble.

Had no idea the amon ra can be flanked, I just assume all MVP's teleport when this happens. Kiel seems pretty straight forward fortunately since he has the best drops.

I feel really stupid spending my alice in a valk shield, thought it was a no brainer. But clearly magni/stonebuck/odin is the tanking set to get :( I guess I could make it work regardless, I'm missing a few nice bonuses by putting it in valk :(

thx for help

edit: also I forgot you mentioned the proxy mant/diab set. I don't think I'll have those any time soon, there's only 1 or 2 groups doing the runs for those drops and I'm not included in either of them. I hope I can tank well enough under these conditions.

Triper

XicoR4 suggestions are cool and helpful but here are some alternative ways.


First of all, I will just give the best advice possible - Most of mvps don't need to be tanked to kill, learn to abuse of the flaws of the game, it's impossible to do something perfect.

Amon Ra: Bathory+fire reduces+Hodremlin valk works fine with 90+ vit. You need bathory to block the dark bless or you get 1 hp from it[the "mini coma" that amon ra gives]. Meteor Spam is hardcore but is easy tankable and you can use it to win vs competition. Just remember to safety wall your sniper.
Amon Ra only teleports if you attack offscreen like casting SG and walk back to a position that he can't see you.

Baphomet: Your HP isn't supposed to tank anything, just stick with massive reduces to survive 1 Hell's Judgment at least. Competition needs to die to Hell's Judgment or EQ, tanking is bad for that.
Regroup at the warp before to bapho square and when going in, you can just aspd "lock" bapho from a bit far away, sw with your priest and when bapho gets near go back with both to the regroup point. If your ds dmg is high enough you probably just need the hp to buff lol

Kiel: You shouldn't tank it by any way. When he endures he kills everything in his sight. Use traps to get mobs "locked", use sw on Kiel with priest and DS SPAM FTW.

60 def is easy with a high refine Magni set, high refine variants, some random +4 garment and 2 safety rings. Use a calc to find some easier/alternative ways that better suits you.

Raydric do works vs normal attacks of monsters/mvps/minis. You can use PD gears in some cases to help a bit to tank even if it sucks a bit on a HP since you can't use fortune sword but you still have valk manteau to help in that.