Ok I'm stepping in on this.

Have a team with:

1 fire dealing sword / pistol / bomb;
1 poison dealing sword / pistol / bomb;
1 shadow dealing sword / pistol / (shadow bomb actually is not tha great).

Apart from that, if he's spinning and you haven't thrown a curse vial at him:
1- Try to compensate the next time he spins.
or
2- Die and give up.

I highly advise fire bombs, but only the high star ones (4* or 5*), because the others just won't have enough range to reach JK while keeping you away from minions...

What is it exactly that curse and poison do? From what I gather on the wiki, when poisoned the JK will take damage rather than heal when he sacrifices his minions. For the curse it seems he only heals less. Is that accurate, or is it something else?

It's not impossible to kill JK with 2* gear to 3* gear.the plan is to keep damaging him and keep him poisoned.I did many JK runs when I was 2* and won.when I got my 3* it made no difference,if I don't follow the plan I lose the fight.right now i got four star.it's either your tactics against JK sucks way too much or your just a sissy who don't want to lose a few hearts and just run around not damaging JK.btw I thought this topic was dead...

Also, the Biohazard line can be effective. Simply get 3 or 4 rotating things on the jk, and then blow them up when his minions are nearby. Colossl shadow damage to all and poisoning :D

Yeah don't gun him just tried with blackhawk was bad and remember, JK takes piercing just slightly resisted. shadow damage on the jelly king himself = normal, just like elemental. because of that, of course i haven't tested it, AP = Sentenza on him and Shadowtech line = any other alchemer line as far as damage on JK. Only going by what I have read but my blackhawk did much more damage to him compared to the adds (this is not considering that using guns is a terrible option to kill JK)

Also for my question, While he is "berserking" (the spinning invulnerable thing) does he take curse damage?

Then, I have been using faust to solo him but recently been failing and also failing to find out what i did differently to not even push a single berserk. I do have a 4* calibur though, would this be a better option to just use the charge attack the whole time while keeping statuses on him?

I use Skolver set, and Use Leviathan for the run. Without dying. Then i use Fang of Vog For the jelly king, charge attack is massive. Then i use Shivermist buster for the minions. Thats basicly how i do it. So i think the best equip would be... Tempered calibur, Freezing vaporizer MKII, and Fireburst brandish. That would be the 3* equip i use. Dusker armour, dusker cap, and then any shield you would like. I use wise owlite.

Took young guilldies on their first run at the Royal Jelly. Of course, they lay there dead after a short while, so I finished him off with Divine Avenger and Magma Driver. I kept him on fire with the Magma, and laid on hits with the DA charge attack, while avoiding everything else.

Don't like the Royal Jelly back you into that bottom corner. It can be a nice place to hide, but if he comes in after you you will get squashed. Try to keep mobile, and don't be afraid to gun him - guns actually work ok now with the latest tweaks to this fun level.

The Calibur line of swords is all you've ever needed for the prenerf and current version of JK. The charge attack hits 3 times for double damage when compared to a normal sword swing. Curse vials do 153 per time JK attacks. Poison Vials temporarily stop JK from getting health from absorbing jellies.

Did Pre-Nerf JK no-death solo with Calibur (2*), Wolver Cap, Wolver Coat, Bristling Buckler (2*), and a Proto Gun. No trinkets.
Did the current JK no-death solo several times with the same set.
Finesse-wise I've solo killed prenerf and current JK without taking any damage.
Killed Ice Queen (Shadow Lair), only getting hit once. Used Leviathan Blade (5* version of calibur)

And I did this fight using Proto Gear. Proto Sword (0*), Proto Gun (0*), Proto Shield (0*), and the Starter Armor Pieces (0*). No trinkets.

And I have videos up of all this, so don't take my word for it...just watch the calibur line destroy this boss. =)

Never, EVER quote "DevilXTreme"
He said use an antigua here. WTF.

For farming the Jelly King, this works really well.
Fang of Vog. Nuff said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXoQ8odFb8&feature=related
Note, this is an old video, you will no longer be able to place the first bomb, but still...

I just did it with two people: I had a Boltbrand and he had a divine avenger. Neither of us had curse vials, and the only thing we used was poison to stop him from healing. Just keep up the damage and shield bump the mini jellies away from him, and it's pretty easy to do it even without a throwing a curse to the face.

The REAL question you need to be asking your team s in the 2nd level. Ask them if their going to do 3keys or 4 keys.

3 keys: i usually recommend this for new players. commonly because its saves (MOST of the time) from getting more deaths. do this when youve spent like 20+ on revives. bad thing is (ehehehehe) no shinies from the extra floor.
I recommend: North West, South West and South East keys since i think their better but thats IMO.

4Keys: DO THIS when you have the proooooo on your side. you get to go to shinies room yay! Mostly OP guilds do this runs all the time so just ask them.

after this just follow what other people said on this thread because they know what they are doing (or just watch some youtube videos since they post it there anywhays).

List of Guilds that do it with their eyes close

My strategy that has yet to fail me:

Swing sword until stuff stops moving

He really is not complicated, unlike say Snarby or the Roarmulus Twins. Get some poison vials, ideally some curse, and maybe fire, and then... well... Swing sword until stuff stops moving.

Although it is worth mentioning Mecha-Knights. If you start at moorcraft and go all the way to JK, you tend to amass at least 1, if not 2 or 3 Mecha-knights. I don't use them until I actually fight the JK, and use all of them at once. They last about 40 seconds, but, more importantly, they attack the MINIONS. They also have Calibur-like weapons, so while you are wacking at the JK, they are doing the Calibur spin the background, keeping the minions off you.

u guys realize that JK is simply a tier 2 boss, i would recommend new players to focus on getting their gear for whats suitable for vana, not JK. What i would recomend which is good for both, u would get dread venom striker (poison cutter line), polaris (optional), also any elemntal dmg sword like voltedge and Divine Avenger, also for vana only, get a blitz or plauge needle. Also u should try get a freeze bomb if u feel ur not good in fighting bosses, that will help in vana allot.

All the best,

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Blackhawk works now cause its full shadow now.

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Did a RJP run recently with a swordie friend. Admittedly we had a few pieces of 4* items, but I don't think that made a huge difference. We're both Asian players and despite the severe lag we cleared RJ pretty quick. All in all a rather mish-mash set of equipment, but I felt that we were well prepared nonetheless.

On him (sounds like a fashion magazine):
Ash tail cap
Dusker coat
Dark thorn shield
Kamarin (knockback was far safer since we were lagging like mad)
Dark thorn blade (for silkwings)

On me
Gunslinger hat
Gunslinger sash
Swiftstrike buckler
Virulent catalyzer (for the poison status and shadow damage)
Fiery vapourizer

We collected some poison, fire and curse vials, but we didn't use them that much against RJ. As it turned out, the only 2* item we had, the fiery vapourizer, turned out to be surprisingly effective. It took care of the royal minis and the constant burn damage helped a hell lot. We only used a single revive in the boss battle.

Have you checked the post dates on that first page there? You do know JK has gone through some changes.