Alexander: Damage Types (possible spoilers)

[spelley]

This is mostly with regards to A4 (is that the nomenclature we are using?), but what does the damage-type spread (physical vs magical) actually look like? Main skills probably are:

- A3 Tank Buster
- A4 Exploding Balls
- A4 Tank Buster (name?)
- A4 Tether Laser
- A4 Add Explosion

[Captain_Flavor]

Pretty sure I tried to use Raw Intuition on that A4 tank buster and did nothing... Makes me really want to finish leveling my DRK <_<;

[spelley]

Pretty sure I tried to use Raw Intuition on that A4 tank buster and did nothing... Makes me really want to finish leveling my DRK <_<;

I'm imagining that if that laser isn't physical, none of them probably are. DRK was obviously in mind for that one. Shame that I've only ever seen them be relegated to off-tank thus far (~10 runs so far of it)

[SpookyGhost]

Didn't go in F4 yesterday, but if the tank buster in it is multi-hitting magical then IB + Vengeance/Thrill+Conv should be fine. Glad to see there's a new fight where DRK can use it's mitigation kit, though.

F3 tank buster (assuming you mean the hands one) is physical, no idea about the human form swipes but I imagine it's the same. Tether in tornado phase is magical but doesn't really need to be mitigated anyway.

[Ipkonfig]

I think a lot of Floor 2 is also magical.. the bombs put a fire vulnerability debuff on you, which I assume means the big hits are fire damage. In Floor 4 by the end Discoid starts hitting REALLY hard so Dark Mind is just phenomenal for it.

[SirTaint]

Lots of magical. Which is really nice for PLD since I could do floor 1,3,4 almost entirely in sword oath and just rotate CDs. Floor 2 PLD blows so Bring dual WARs or WAR and DRK.

[SpookyGhost]

I think a lot of Floor 2 is also magical.. the bombs put a fire vulnerability debuff on you, which I assume means the big hits are fire damage.

I assumed this was simply so that you couldn't take multiple bomb AOEs to the face. Might be wrong, though.

[Captain_Flavor]

Didn't go in F4 yesterday, but if the tank buster in it is multi-hitting magical then IB + Vengeance/Thrill+Conv should be fine. Glad to see there's a new fight where DRK can use it's mitigation kit, though.

That could work. The only problem I have is the 2nd time they use the tank buster. I'm usually out of cools and already have very low HP because of how hard the thing hits during all the chaos in that last phase.

[Kydi]

I'd be very interested to see the outcome of this. Leveling DRK (not even 60 yet) I've had this annoying doubt that I should be leveling PLD instead, but it sounds like a couple of these abilities will benefit from magic resist.

[SirTaint]

That could work. The only problem I have is the 2nd time they use the tank buster. I'm usually out of cools and already have very low HP because of how hard the thing hits during all the chaos in that last phase.

Let a PLD handle the tank busters. Floor 4 is just a big DPS check. Once we had our kills under 6min it was zzzz.

PLD can sent one and HG one.