[Chapter 8] Let's discuss how to defeat those slimes...

[Rydin]

So there's this new 2d slime monster as a single fight in Ostia Coliseum, and i just died a dozen times fighting them. My best try i took around 70% of one's HP, by using Kael's "take 15% hp off" grimoire, and Aria's poison arrow. My defense was all about my highest luck character(Eris and/or Kael) guarding on front every turn with perfect rings.

Has anyone killed them yet?

[Uwil]

This is considered an optional boss, only slightly easier than toughest optional boss.

[liong777]

Currently LV 70++ and got crushed like tofu in 1 turn...The problem is they 1 hit me, should there be special trick to kill them?

[Rydin]

Originally posted by liong777:

Currently LV 70++ and got crushed like tofu in 1 turn...The problem is they 1 hit me, should there be special trick to kill them?

Well, there's that guard option that if you do a perfect ring nulls all damage...

[Uwil]

I don't think Level 70 is high enough to beat the slimes though unless yah you nail a perfect guard every turn

[Soren]

Weird. I beat them at chapter 6 (still on chapter 6 actually) at like lvl 55 with the right cheese. Granted, I had stat raised Finn's vitality to 160 and intelligence to 75 thanks to mini-games so he could take 3 of the worst shots if a perfect guard failed. I could have done it with lower stats, but the chances of 3 high damage moves being casted in one turn (the poison bite or water geyser) happened just a bit too often that I didn't want to beat the slimes solely by luck. Not like your other characters need high stats. Just a poison arrow and stalling will suffice. Eris's silence works okay for stalling too if she has a free move.

I had leveled up like 30 times straight after the fight thanks to the 200k exp. Which leveling 30 times at once made the Switch version of the game's frames tank for a few seconds xD

After I beat them once, I proceeded to farm them about 6 more times to lvl everyone to 99. Not sure what was up with the drops and if it was a Switch exclusive bug. But the slimes always dropped 0 arkwok scales. Which, you can put 1 away at a time for infinite amounts of the item and the 0 never disappears unless you press the put away all button. Too bad you never really need more than one of the item and it has a value of 0 dannars.

[Marika]

I tried this after boosting Kael evasion above 100% and the slimes still hit Kael. This battle is a complete waste of time.

[Soren]

Haven't tried using a Kael evasion build against them, but it sounds useless as Kael's HP pool is much too small for a worst case scenario. You die if you get unlucky.

Tanking is the way to go I imagine. Having Finn be the sole tank on the frontline also reflects all damage while he guards. He can reflect something like 15k damage while also avoiding all damage with a perfect guard. Even if you fail a perfect guard, Finn can even guard against power hits from all 3 slimes at once if your vitality and magic defence are high enough. Though the chance of three 5000 damage hits in one turn would be super rare. Only thing that can destroy a run is if those pesky Slimes get a paralyze early match.

Having one back liner focus on poisoning/silencing while the other heals/silences works fine. The poison dealing massive damage per turn. The silence literally making the slimes do tickle damage for a few turns in case you fail your perfect guards. Much safer for Finn to tank only 1 or 2 slimes at once.



Personally, I played the game on the Switch. And the inconsistent frame-rate made timing perfect guards a bit hard. The game on the Switch eats your inputs if it skipped the frame you tried to press the button on. I blame the horrible un-optimized Unity engine for the poor performance. Even with that in mind. I was able to do the Slime battle my first time at around lvl 55 thanks to the tank build.

[Marika]

I play with QTE off so Kael up front was easiest. He occasionally took a hit but with Life consume he immediately healed himself.

[drewb1988]

I finally beat the mofos. I bought a ton of mistletoe and smutar fossils. Silenced all 3 out the gate. I was lucky enough that they all must have chosen grimoire cause none attacked. Then inflicted fear on all 3 with the smutar fossils. Then used Kael's dark stab and used Hemlock with the rest of the team to poison. Then just silence and fear again whenever it wears off.

I also kept my two characters with highest physical defense in front. That way, once silenced but before the round of smutars (silence and fear will wear off at the same time even though you inflicted them in diff rounds) if any slimes were physically attacking they might each choose a diff character vs just one, minimizing likelihood of a death.

But, even a character dying won't totally screw you. I had Kael die once and it was fine.

Anyway, just silence and fear all the time. Poison when you can and just keep Dark Stabbing.