Party Crashers Lvl 50 Boss

[ColoSon]

Hello Community,

I don't get it and I think you can help me.
How can I crush the armor of Zarie, the boss at stage 50 of the party crashers (founders day) campaign. I don't even make the slightest damage.

Thank you.

[eastpaw]

You'll have to do damage above his armour reduction value to hurt him.

Is this your first run of Party Crashers? If your gold multiplier is low, it may be worth it to quit (fail) the mission after you've accumulated some favour, then try again.

Actually, I usually (on purpose) fail the basic quest in an event 2-3 times before allowing myself to complete it. This (among other things) lets me get enough of a gold multiplier quickly enough that I can easily complete all variants by day 2 or 3.

When you have a large enough gold multiplier, you will find it easy to level your heroes quickly enough that you won't even notice the level 50 boss. As in you can go AFK and come back to find yourself already at level 99 or 149. Or higher if you have good equipment on your heroes.

[ColoSon]

Damn, I did know that I can cancel runs but not that (as reward so to say) you get more gold on your next run. Thank you very much. Sorry, I'm quite new to this game.

[eastpaw]

Nothing to be sorry about! Glad that gave you a new idea to play with. :-)

It's usually worth it to farm at the wall (the level you can't seem to pass no matter how much you level your heroes) for some time before resetting, but exactly how long to do this for depends on your current favour gain rate, time pressure, etc. As you play more, you should quickly develop a sense of when to complete/fail/reset a quest.

One more thought: against enemies with armour-based health and hit-based health, fast heroes are often more valuable than hard-hitting heroes. E.g., during one of my runs in this event, I couldn't kill the boss on level 200. I then switched my main damage dealer from the slow-but-powerful Strix to the fast-but-weak(er) Hitch and easily cleared the level in one go. My Hitch did far less damage than Strix but was still able to chip away at the boss. And since he attacked 1.5x as often as Strix, he essentially sliced down the boss 1.5x as quickly.

[Dragaan]

I just hit my first real 'wall' in this game with the lv200 Zariel... It's only like my 3rd run (intro, then i did a 10day mad wizard or w/e it's called run where I had everyone up to like lv 1000+ doing e72 dmg with delina (used all free to play codes and jacked everyone up). Finally decided to complete that run when I was around 400 I think, and started party crashers. All of a sudden I see this boss with the shield on the health bar. I breezed through to 200 but cannot damage her at all (even when aligning everything perfectly).

So it's due to my main damage dealer not having the right stats/attack?

[kab_reg]

What is your current formation? And what is your roster?

https://ic.byteglow.com/champions

https://ic.byteglow.com/formation/1_000000000000000000_000000000

Register on the site if you can, and use its tools to provide requested info.

In general, if you use Delina as your main DPS, it is usually a BAD idea. She has meme status as one of the worst DPS in the game even after FOUR consecutive buffing attempts.

[Dragaan]

I didn't expect her to be the best. She just happened to work best early on (literally my first run after the initial beginning of ggame trial run - i just let it run for a long time because i always have a hard time with resets in idles at first, lol). Jarlaxle was best at very beginning (he had a temp buff at the time i guess), then, despite the dps counter window telling me otherwise, I realized delina was starting to do a lot more. After just swapping out Jarlaxle and setting the formation up for Delina, she went nuts, comparatively. This was with no favor used (I think I used like 500 or 1000 favor by the end of that 10-hour run, as i didn't know how it affected gold pickup and the warning scared me, heh). I used some after I finally ended that initial "the mad wizard" run, as it gave me like 25mil+, lol

My party is basically the same this time around, although WAY less powerful since I just started it. Again, Jarlaxle was dps at very start, then delina after an hour or so. I only have up to....forgot his name...arkhan? Dragon tank guy - unlocked. Like 12 (?) heroes. I'll try and get an official link off the site. Again, I'm still VERY new and was just wondering about the shield and why I can't seem to hurt Zariel (200). Only tried a couple times before I made the post (since it seemed something different was going on... and this thread confirmed it)

[kab_reg]

https://incendar.com/idlechampions_codes.php

Don't forget to redeem the gift codes. You will get several new champions and some gear from chests.

[Nestraya]

Arkhan is the final core champion, you won't unlock any more after getting to him. There are only 12 bench slots total; when you gain new champions they'll be assigned to one of those 12 slots to give you options to choose which character from that slot to use.

Area 200 is pretty good for your first event, I think! Especially if it's your first encounter with armored health. I didn't even get to area 100 in my first event.

Enemies with armored health can be tricky because the damage you do doesn't carry over between attacks. You need to hurt them enough with each hit to take out a health segment, or else that damage basically doesn't count. If you're not seeing any impact on the health bar, you need to find a way to increase your damage to overcome the armor. Or maybe concede that this is as far as you can get, and reset for your next run. Events have favor, too, so you'll come back stronger and get further. = )

[Dragaan]

I had used ALL the free giftcodes listed in the thread during my first run after the initial 5-10min trial run (my 10hour mad wizard run, lol). Otherwise I would have been stopped waaaaaaay earlier then 360 or 390 or wherever I was. I got Evalyn from chests and Strix as well. And I bought about $15 worth of stuff at the very end of that run. To get some purples and 2 familliars. Trying not to spend a penny more (although the familiars seem quite necessary....)

[Dragaan]

I'm working with that site now.. It asked for a support url and I just put in the url of the (bug tracking?) page that opened when I clicked support in-game.

In meantime, here is the initial setup and final "stat sheet" from that initial, long mad wizard run.

https://imgur.com/a/YQjSki6

I also noticed my 300% dmg buff is gone. I was logged out for the last 2 or so hours because I had 1 hour left on that buff. Should have realized it was using it while idling offline... not sure how i'll stand a chance to beat 200 now :x


EDIT: Can't seem to find the formation for "Party crashers".....

[Dragaan]

https://ic.byteglow.com/formation/52_1a17040a020308010509_2311111212

Strix hasn't gotten to her specialization yet (smelly lunch is what I used in my other run). I'm sooooooo much weaker on this run. Used like all the consumables, etc., during my first one. Evalyn had like 11.5k hp and was getting her party-wide buff up to 1.5mil% +

Also, Jarlaxle is basically just there for gold atm. Minsc is humanoid spec, so I could swap him in in a pinch. I also don't have any favor with this diety/god yet. I used like 10mil on buffs from Torm favor but I'm not sure they work in this new (Asmo) run.

[Nestraya]

Just at a glance, not number crunching here, there's some ways to improve this. Tyril buffs better when he has fewer adjacent champions, and if you can place Celeste in the second column you can keep her specced for damage boosting and also have her healing your tank. Also, if you're using Jarlaxle for gold find rather than DPS, pick his right spec instead.

Given the same champions I'd have arranged them more like:
https://ic.byteglow.com/f/52_1a0a0203080105170409_2111121322

I don't know if that'd make enough of a different to get you further, so just take this as general advice. You did a pretty good job putting people where they'd be effective but there's always room to learn ^^

Edit responding to your edit:

Jarlaxle's great for gold, but he only boosts his own damage, not anyone else's. So if you get stuck again, definitely try swapping him out, preferably for someone with the "Support" role.

When you look at your blessings screen, do you see how there's 2 columns? The ones on the left only apply within that campaign, but the blessings on the right apply to the whole game.

[Dragaan]

Yea, I wasn't sure how it was going to play out so I started Jarlaxle on dmg as I did the first time. Wasn't planning to make this a super long run or anything. I got that out of my system with the other one. I'd have completed this one already if it wasn't for the questions that lv200 boss posed.

And, yea, I see what you did. I had strix towards the front because she was vital to my gold farming in that first run (her rez was going off every minute or so). Guess I overvalued delina's buff for being in in/near the back.

So, as for the lv200 zariel boss with the shield on her hp bar. Is there anything I could do with just these basic heroes? Or would I need a bigger roster to pick from

[kab_reg]

Do you have Hitch from the newsletter?

[Dragaan]

Originally posted by Nestraya:

When you look at your blessings screen, do you see how there's 2 columns? The ones on the left only apply within that campaign, but the blessings on the right apply to the whole game.

Ahhhhh. That's why they're so expensive. I hadn't gone over everything yet so I missed that. Nice to know.