Completing the ladder tournament

[Biroulik]

First off that ladder tournament goes on for way longer than I expected, especially since I was convinced I had done it all multiple times (especially considering I had done everything at least once) before seeing "ladder complete". I really liked having such a fun challenge to finish off the endgame.

Second of all I am pretty sure I "cheesed" that last fight, and I don't know if it was intended or not. I was really getting out of ideas of how to deal with this extremely difficult fight that I just couldn't survive the blows and could only rely on Immortalis, until I noticed something really dumb, and that is that you can have Ray cast that on herself and if she has higher agility than all the enemies she can recast it on herself 1 turn before it runs out, effectively turning her immortal. Isn't this broken when you combine that with dispel on enemies, poison items if needed, and just waiting for DOTs to end the fight?

Anyways, I wanted to know how others managed to defeat the hardest challenge (imo) of the game!

[Grev]

I relied on a combination of equipment to make the protagonist nearly unkillable, with high target %, high counter rate, life drain on hit, and excess healing going to a barrier.

[Twisted]

Congrats on beating the tournament! I'm open to people trying any strategy, even cheesy ones. I personally liked using a strategy where I stacked lots of DoT debuffs onto the enemy, then used "Sex Mastery" to skip everyone's turns.

[rparham685]

Complete, as in unlocking the achievement? Or complete, as in fully complete?
Also, what kinda build would you have that could possibly make Ray fast enough to even do that? I'm curious, since I have yet to find a build for her at all. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, maybe? :)

[Swag]

For Luna I essentially solo'd with Bessie, Gauntlets that make you survive with 200 hp if you had over 25% hp before the hit, water immunity weapon, fire absorption from blessing, ice absorption from blessing, and Francesca's blessing for lifesteal. This with the auto-life from Ray's tier 7 armor.

[callumbutton96]

Originally posted by Twisted:

Congrats on beating the tournament! I'm open to people trying any strategy, even cheesy ones. I personally liked using a strategy where I stacked lots of DoT debuffs onto the enemy, then used "Sex Mastery" to skip everyone's turns.

Hi, don't suppose you could tell me how to unlock the puzzle master achievement?

[Ash19256]

So, is it just me or is Molly a pure DPS check in the ladder? Because she seems to be completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ immune to Zombie, and without that she just heals herself every turn, which means unless I can consistently keep everyone alive and contributing DPS, she just heals back to full every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ turn - which turns into a not-quite soft-lock, because the dodge-tank build I have the MC running is quite happily invulnerable to anything Molly can throw at it, but can't output enough DPS even with counter attacks to actually outpace her healing.

EDIT: Yeah, is Molly supposed to be immune to Zombie? Because it seems like it's impossible to hit her with it and have it do anything. Which, because there doesn't seem to be any other way to stop her from healing, and she heals **5 to 10 MILLION HP** every single turn, is kind of a problem.

[Baryonyx257]

Originally posted by Ash19256:

So, is it just me or is Molly a pure DPS check in the ladder? Because she seems to be completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ immune to Zombie, and without that she just heals herself every turn, which means unless I can consistently keep everyone alive and contributing DPS, she just heals back to full every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ turn - which turns into a not-quite soft-lock, because the dodge-tank build I have the MC running is quite happily invulnerable to anything Molly can throw at it, but can't output enough DPS even with counter attacks to actually outpace her healing.

EDIT: Yeah, is Molly supposed to be immune to Zombie? Because it seems like it's impossible to hit her with it and have it do anything. Which, because there doesn't seem to be any other way to stop her from healing, and she heals **5 to 10 MILLION HP** every single turn, is kind of a problem.

Try using a heartbreaker bolt from Bessie, think that's how I beat her, and have MC use Doppel and Time Warp to get in extra attacks.

[Ash19256]

Originally posted by Baryonyx257:

Try using a heartbreaker bolt from Bessie, think that's how I beat her, and have MC use Doppel and Time Warp to get in extra attacks.

I'd been trying to get Zombie to proc with Heartbreaker bolts and with Queen of Hearts from the Card Deck - neither worked, as far as I could tell (Molly never had the Zombie status effect in her list of status effects, but she sure as heck picked up the Regen from Queen of Hearts just fine...)