No. Gran Faust was just an example. I offered several other examples in my post.

More to the point, I've been fighting the Royal Jelly for over three years now --- both the old version and the current version --- and I've never followed the original poster's advice. So use it if it works for you, and use any of various other tactics if you prefer those.

Providing bopp and others with URL's: Royal Jelly wiki page and site:forums.spiralknights.com Royal Jelly?

Also, i'm ignoring all vials, polyps, and mini's. Am I "doing it wrong"?

Also, i'm ignoring all vials, polyps, and mini's. Am I "doing it wrong"?

About minis: I agree that you should ignore them. But some other posters in this thread think that you should focus on them. To each his own.

About vials: Statuses (particularly poison, curse, fire, shock) can really wreck RJ. Before he was nerfed in autumn 2011, RJ was actually pretty tough to beat, even with good equipment. Vials were more important then than now. But I still recommend them highly for new players. (Sorry, I don't remember whether you were around back then.)

When I fight RJ, this is my tactic

1. Charge-Attack Jelly Cubes w/ Nightblade line close enough that the explosions destroy the blocks in front of RJ
2. Throw Poison + Misc. Vial and charge-spam
3. Reapply Poison, continue charge-spam
3. Continue until out of poison vials
4. Poison Barrier, Misc. Vial, and Drakon Barrier; continue charge-spam
5. Heal
6. Continue until someone dies

The boss fight is far too easy to plan strategies around, when the most elegant solution is to simply spam one of the counter weapons, and there are many. A few examples of spam-to-win type weapons, and this includes all similar and lower forms of these, but preferably 3 if not 4*:

Acheron charge
Umbra Driver charge
Sentenza charge
Magma Driver charge
Storm Driver charge
Ash of Agni
Voltaic Tempest
Nitronome
Dark Retribution
Volcanic Pepperbox charge
Gorgofist charge
Mixmaster charge
...

The list goes on and on, the ways out you have. If you were to plan a strategy, which isn't even necessary for the shadow lair variant, you would want to kill off the outside turrets first with 3 people, while one person spams Ash of Agni. Why Ash of Agni? Because the minis spawned have one HP, and it instantly kills all of them ever. Then, you would want to keep the king statused while you used your counter, listed above, on it. But this is all sooooooo not necessary.

He must be talking about easy...

@ Fehzor
I reiterate, noobs will not have a lot of the stuff we posted, (mixmasters, dark retributions, and gorgofists are prime examples)

Would you use Antigua charges more if it didn't fire the 6 bullet combo and just fired the blast (bird, bullet, or tentacles)?

The 6 shots from the charge have the same power as the regular full clip. It is the last bullet that does the real damage, it can plow through enemies and deals knockback and flinch. It is particularly devastating on large enemies or immobile ones that can't escape.

If the charges only fired the last punch then I could see them becoming something like the DA charge of the gun world, nice knockback and damage but outclassed still by well placed alchemer charges.

Antiguas are best as sniping weapons in large parties where your allies are the ones closest to the action (the OC is the best since it provides something more than just damage support)

If the Charge was changed it would have to deal less damage than a full clip (but more than the current charge bullet by a bit) when shot at a single enemy, but it would be the fact that it can deal multiple hits that can save it.

I could certainly see it being a weapon to bring against RJP Roarmulus or FSC (if it lost that 6 clip on charge)

The Sentenza charge bird thingy doesn't go through mini jellies. Jelly minis are horribly broken, they even stop brandish charges. Also, their movement pattern is following you path, so if you walk in a zig zag fashion, they will trace your path. Entering their range will halt their tracing due to them attacking you and after that they will follow you path from the point they finish attack.

BOMBS use BOMBS. Lots and lots of BOMBS

Lol, yeah. I found that RJ was easiest with a party of bombers. I handled the poisoning with the 3* poison haze bomb. Some other guy would use a blast bomb to keep the mini population in check. While the final two guys would wail their blast/shard/mist bombs at RJ for damage.

Usually takes 2-3 minutes to beat RJ like this. Even on Elite. With nothing but 3* equipment, and maybe some 2* armor or shield or something.

An oft-overlooked fact is that the Royal Jelly's numbers can be used against it with the Shock status. If one person continually lays down Static Capacitors (or its upgrades), each of those little minis becomes a source of an AOE damage-dealing shock pulse. Each mini that suffers a shock pulse damages not only itself, but also all the minis around it; the more there are the more AOE pulses happen, and they'll kill each other off pretty quick (and probably do some minor damage to the RJ itself in the process).

[The same strategy works wonders in compounds too, especially undead ones. A well-placed VT can clear swarms of grave scarabs in a matter of seconds.]

The major downside: aside from vials, there are essentially no good mass-shock weapons available for the average player's first RJP run. The Rock Salt Bomb--despite my love for it--is ill-advised for new players to use, even though the materials can be acquired before the RJP. The Shockburst Brandish, while also available beforehand, needs a fair investment in PvP and at the T2 level match wait times can be pretty long at times. The Static Capacitor needs tokens from the IMF, but can make return trips to the RJP a little smoother.