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Firepoisonarchmage

Struggling with hard gollux as f/p any advice?

Hi, I'm a lv 200 f/p trying to kill hard mode gollux, but having trouble with it. I feel as if I'm doing everything right, but keep getting screwed over by RNG, especially in phase 2.

I kill the abs as part of the 1 body part requirement for hard mode.
Before entering, I buff up, use elemental decrease, use extreme blue and green pots + wisdom elixer, and decent CO, along with ifrit, infinity and epic adventurer
I'm doing just fine in phase 1, bobbing and weaving the arms and breath attacks, as well as keeping the baby stone summons away from the mouth.

However, all hell breaks loose in phase 2.
Sometimes, i die instantly without anything hitting me or the 5 summons hitting the middle portion.
Then, I get cursed where my movements are reversed, which makes it harder to position and dodge the hand attacks. I use hero's will to protect me from that, but it only saves me once. Idk why my elemental adapting isn't protecting me there

I've been attempting hard mode gollux for the past 3 days, dedicating 2 keys a day for a total of 6 runs. 5 of the runs have ended in failure in phase 2, and 1 in phase 3, but its the very beginning of phase 3, so it doesn't really count.

Any advice?

Around 255k range after buffs and AA, 109% boss, 92% crit, 89% pdr

February 2, 2014

4 Comments • Newest first

bowcreaters

You know, sometimes you just got to admit that it's not possible or just too inefficient. You can just stick to killing normal gollux, because gollux is not really the best boss for F/P to solo. Efficient hard gollux would be to kill it without any MPE or deaths (because you lose exp), not to mention if you are looking for pendants/belt it is probably not worth it since it drops like once every 8 runs. If you are farming for coins, normal gollux gives almost the same amount as hard. Bleve brings a lumi friend for his hell runs, you could consider the same, if you want to kill hard gollux effiently.

Reply February 2, 2014
CherryTigers

[quote=riceypinoy]I kill the abs as part of the 1 body part requirement for hard mode.[/quote]

This is a big problem already. Kill a shoulder instead. He will no longer attack with with his hands on the second stage.
Looking at what you're asking, you need to go on YouTube and watch other people do it before you attempt and die anymore times. You'll just lose exp. Watch other people fight gollux and understand what you're doing wrong. I suggest watching Grimoral's hell gollux solo video. It's absolutely astonishing that he can solo it. I don't say that lightly either. I know plenty of people who hit 50m per line but cannot do it. It requires raw skill and Grimoral has that skill that allows him to do it.

Reply February 2, 2014 - edited
Cazzyboy

Tips for hard mode gollux:
Slime virus the bottom row as soon as ur moving to 2nd phase(hope that it kills the summons fast so it can mass multiply give you around 40ish seconds for phase 2 n 3)
For the status lv up willpower/cygnus link skill+get cleansing potions
When your slime virus is on cool down its all about summon control on the bottom go down attack summon and jump up for 1-2 hits before falling down and summon control
remember to stay decently far away from the middle for those 1 hit ko moves(also save infinity for just before 2nd phase) or you can stay down till slime virus is back up
this stratigy works if ur slime virus is strong enough to kill the summons fast

for the 2nd and 3rd stage if your virus is weak is a combination of 2nd row and falling down
sugest casing a posion haze wen you hit 2nd row so u get mist on 1st row and extra dot
Also stay at the very edge of the 2nd platform to avoid most of the 1 hit kos form the middle and tele towards the middle to avoid the hands

Another strategy is to kill 1 of the hands as it prevents(less chance) of hitting(by hand) 1 platform and you can hide at the edge spaming para and hope you dont die/hand or summons

Last strategy is the stacks(takes a long time but its safer in some regards)
basically stack all your damage over time on the boss and stay on the 1st row killing mobs and resetting the damage over times every so often(might wanna save hyper for this part
keep a good distance from the middle and swoop in to kill the other side mobs or just tele back and forth when you can

Extra tips:
do not have familiars active they mess up your potion usage
Decent SI/attack boosters for faster attacks(from inner potential aswan potential lines or from a glove's potential or mpe potion)
When you go in have extra buffs that pump up ur range(like go after killing HT or PB?) Get a bish to cast that holy door(hyper) to avoid 1 fatal attack before going in(if u can)
Bring a 2nd member to deal with the 1st row/help attack 2nd and 3rd phase(make sure how drops split or not split before going)
Im not sure if people still do this but invincibility nebs (add invincible time after getting hit) might help
Lastly would be to practice and get better at predicting some of the attack patterns/boosting range or bossing % would help as well
GL i can do hard mode a few times(3-4 deaths and failure some times) so make sure your exp is low when you go in(if your going to practice like me lost of exp lost.....)

Reply February 2, 2014 - edited
Green4EVER

Stand on the very outside of the platform and you'll avoid all of his attacks. The only thing you'll need to be wary of is the mobs at the bottom, but if you time his attacks right you can jump down, kill them, and get back into position before he gets another attack off.

Reply February 2, 2014 - edited