Do you know of a video of solo'ing Vanaduke without rez, after the slag bumping exploit was fixed? The ones I found on YouTubes tend to be partied or before the fix. Would prefer one below 3 bars of connection as well, to get a closer feeling to my own experience (red dot connecting from Hong Kong).

My long term goal is to solo Vanaduke... actually, I think my long term goal is to kill Vanaduke while not being crushed by the Slag Guards. The pair of them is the real threat if you ask me - without the guards Vanaduke is nothing.

I'd like to see such a video to see if that's possible - solo, no glitch, bad connection.

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Here's a partial list of items I got, quite a few of them made for that purpose:

Armors:
- Divine Veil
- Skolver Coat
- Vog Cub Cap and Coat
- Mad + Volcanic Demo Suit

Shields:
- Barbarous Thorn Shield
- Grey Owlite
- Crest of Almire

Bombs:
- Radiant Sun Shard
- Shivermist Buster
- Spike Shower

Guns:
- Blitz Needle
- Silversix
- Polaris

Swords:
- Combuster and Glacius
- Divine Avenger and Gran Faust
- Dark Thorn Blade
- Ascended Calibur
- Fang of Vog

I've been experimenting the weapons in the boss fight in a group, and was checking if any of them can be of use when I solo.

In a group Glacius + FoV is an easy way to kill a guard... at the cost of some HP. It's fine in a party, but I don't think I can spare that much HP when I solo, considering there will be multiple waves of them.

If I am to ignore the guards (I did some shiverless runs without killing the guards, and it's super hard), I don't think I can use Blitz - the guard will surely have my hide afterwards. Which means after phase 1 I can only use Polaris or Argent Peacemaker (if I make it).

Or can Dark Briar Barrage be used instead? I checked some videos, the radius seems to be identical to Shiver and thus can reach Vanaduke (if I just keep him turning instead of charging).