Wednesday, February 5, 2014

[TIPS] Killing the Year of the Beast (New Bloom Festival)

Not sure how to "kill" it yet (if it's possible at all) but here are some tips:
  • There's a new item, Force Boots, which is automatically created from Boots of Travel + Force Staff.  Get it.  It gives you a 5 second cooldown force push on yourself only.
  • The damage done for the purpose of rewards is based on your TEAM damage, not your personal damage.  Thus you can play a support (e.g. Omniknight) that does no damage to the monster and still get credit.
  • Synchronize the killing of the horn and the tail to disable it longer.  Once you kill one limb or the other, it will thrash around and give you a small window to kill the other.
  • You can buy firecrackers for 100 gold that will save your teammates from being devoured.
  • Reserve two item slots.  One for the healing/clarity salves the beast drops, and the other for firecrackers to save teammtaes.
  • Any unspent gold after the battle will be turned back into ingots.
  • There are three distinct body parts- a body, a horn, and a tail.  You should be aiming at either the tail or the horn all the time.  Taking out both will stun him for quite some time.
  • You get one free (1 gold) buy back, and then after that it's too long of a cooldown for you to use again (20+ minutes).
  • Templar Assassin is an excellent pick due to her refraction preventing four kinds of any damage from the Beast, excluding his grab.
  • If his horn is damaged, he cannot grab.
  • If his tail is damaged, he cannot stun.

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