Long-Bowed ChariotFollow

The pointless NMs on the way down (i.e. Mad Bomber) probably weaken the final boss somewhat.

"(nevermore) I could just be spewing out my ***, but I think i have an idea"

Win >.>

@ OMEGAG and AZNA

This is not a topic about Roundhouse. Look at the title.

Thank you.



I've heard this theory and atm I can't dissprove it, but we did kill two NMs. Archaic Chariot and

This stupid mob

We did not come across the mad bomber on 1st floor. The Archaic Chariot is mean, spams AoE a lot, very powerful. I thought killing it might make the LongBow weaker but it didn't seem too weak.

I've also heard that gears warping will strengthen the megaboss. I don't think this is accurate, 1) it doesn't entirely make sense. 2) they seem to warp at will, aggro or not. Todays' run saw a gear warp w/o anyone in aggro range.

But I digress, theories aren't too helpful atm, we've tried a lot. Even tried fighting it on the idle teleporters in its room to see if they lit up or some sh*t, tried to push it off the edge lol. . .

I don't think there is any 'secret' to beating it. Strategy is needed for this, I just want to hear what strats people have tried and how they worked out.

Edited, Dec 22nd 2006 1:38am by ImperialNinja

You're right. The topic doen't say anything about Roundhouse. But the screenshot says it all. Please forgive me for not being sympathetic to you. I know you must want the salvage gear just like we all do. My shell has had similar experiences with various mega bosses.

But the fact remains that if we help you you will bring the information to your shell leader. And in doing so we will be helping a prick get even more stuff. I'm sorry if I set my standards higher than most. But I wouldn't want to associate with the trash from the bottom of my server's dumpster. And believe me we have our fair share of characters too. That goes for all servers.

Besides we never did that one yet anyway. It's scheduled for saturday at 5 PM. So I have yet to fight that particular boss. But my point is that I don't wish to help people who scam entire linkshells of their hard earned work. We had a guy on our server empty the linkshell bank and sell it to IGE before he quit for good. He made about $1,000 real life dollars at the hands of the entire shell. The pain and suffering was felt by the server because of one person's greed. He screwed over 60 people waiting for their stuff. The shell broke up shortly thereafter. You honestly don't see anything wrong with people who do things like that?

Well to be technical, the drama is staying where it belongs, because well this isn't BG. I was never a BG poster, so don't give me this elitist crap when I say. Please, keep that **** out of here. I am very interested in learning about strategies for Long Bowed Chariot as well, and no one is going to post anything intelligent in here if they have to shift through 10 pages of people complaining about a ninja looter. We're running a salvage tommorow, I'll be posting any findings here if we make it to the boss. Thanks for the info Imperial Ninja.

JP killed it.

Killing NMs and Triple Gears does infact hinder the Long Bow in someway. The only problem is even in it's 'weakened' state it's still no push over.

Might be attempting this again tonight, will post more if we do.

Btw if you haven't already check out the Killing Ifrit Sticky, great source of info so far seeing as BG is down.

Two 2nd tier equipment (Lv25).

No idea what drops 3rd tier equipment now . . .

Um...can anyone translate that JPN page? Thanks.

Fred.

Ew Kisats, you're partying with Roundhouse. Watch out, he might ninja everything.

Thank you! I'll add that later, I can't now as I'm in a rush. I've added more of the translation to my original reply...scroll up to see it. There are a few odd characters and spacing issues, but I really can't fix that right now.
Please don't beat me!

Edited, Dec 23rd 2006 11:14am by ljacket

From what that says, if you are detected in any way by the archaic gears, any negative effects that you may have put on the end boss before that point are lost? That's a good reason to lynch somebody that messes up and gets aggro hehe.

Not quite. All of the boss weakening mobs have pop requirements, and proc requirements (PROC-REQ). The tele-gears all weaken the megabosse's AoE damage or rate or something (They think), and their PROC-REQ is to not be detected by them.

So in other words, you see a tele-gear, just by it being there the end boss has lower damage AoEs (for example) but if you get detected by it, it ports away, canceling that particular mobs PROC-REQ. From what it says there, it shouldn't have any effect on any other PROC-REQs that are met.

You should still lynch whoever goes AFK on autorun to get a sandwich though, sounds like the AoE TP moves are what really gets you.