Al-Khamis Dragon King Boss

[Stormnorm]

Any new strategies for this headache of a boss? I have Anti-Darkness at 100. His only AOE that's causing a halt on my win is Stony Glare (Which I know everyone hates, LoL). Although I'm doing fair dmg, any chance of a light/ holy weapon that can cause more DMG to break him quicker?

[Galaxy010]

The Stony Glare and Distortion combo is what makes this fight difficult. Stony Glare petrifies but does no damage, and it ANNIHILATES your shield if blocked. Distortion meanwhile does HUGE HP damage (guaranteed 1hit ko basically), but does almost no shield damage. So, you need to handle the petrification somehow without using your shield, and then block the distortion afterwards.

While not elegant, my preferred method is to just use Holy Water as soon as Stony Glare starts. If you have Use Speed on your Libra scales, you should be able to use it before the actual petrification hits. There's this "eyeball" that appears over the dragon to signal the actual petrification part of Stony Glare. As soon as you see that eyeball go away, pull up your shield. If you have the Aegis Karon skill (from the first Wooden Buckler in the game), you will always block the following Distortion.

Hope that helps! This was definitely the fight that gave me the most trouble too until I figured out that strategy

[Stormnorm]

It worked! Thanks!

[Galaxy010]

Glad it helped out!

[Mark Wahlberg]

Just wanted to say thanks for this. Ended up beating him well before endgame thanks to the HP / Block damage call-out on Stony Glare / Distort!

I also did it with Berserking, which added another wrinkle in that even though Stony does "no damage" it was still counting as a hit and killing me on the second cast. You can dodge it with a possession though! Just kept AP / Speed buffs up the whole fight and saved my bar the rest of the time to make sure I'd have it for the armor frames.

The real villain in this fight with Berserking is the dumbass flame breath. Oy.

[gatsu86]

I beat him on Hell difficulty by staying in the center of his body with the Berserk ability, it took me some tries but if he doesn't use his petrifying attack it's doable.

[nesoukefka]

The Stony Glare isn't that bad actually, just get 100 Petrification resistance (either through Accessories and the Libra or by getting the Ultimate Medecine ability which is on an armor available at Chapter 6), when he uses it just i-frame through the Stony Glare it with a well-timed Posession Skill (a well-timed back step can also work, but the timing is more precise than a possession) and then Block the Distortion (which does almost no Shield damage).