I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but there are 3 special damage types and each monster deals one of these damage types and is vulnerable to one of these damage types. This is to encourage players to plan ahead when doing a dungeon and making sure they have the right armour and weapons to get the job done effectively. i.e. Have weapons which deal the damage type the monsters in the dungeon are weak to and have armour that is resistant to the damage type dealt by the monsters. This of course, extends to status effects as well, namely players should wear armor that are resistant to the status ailments most commonly afflicted by the monsters in the dungeon they are delving.

Yes, in theory you don't have to worry about any of this, but actually thinking about what you're wearing before you go in a dungeon would make your trip a heck of a lot easier. Otherwise make sure you have the skill to get the job done.

Also, if you don't have fire resist in Firestorm Citadel in tier 3, one burn basically equals to half your HP gone with no way to prevent it except remedy capsules and water balls.

You obviously do not have the skills to fight Devil-ITs without the benefit of equipment good against them. Don't blame the game for skills that you are lacking. The game wasn't meant to be easy, especially in tier 3.

Honestly I don't know what to tell you, whenever I face those devilites in tier 3 I always wear the appropriate gear and have no trouble with them at all. I already gave you my advice on wearing appropriate gear which you ignored by saying you shouldn't need to have to wear specific gear for certain levels. Well my response to that was sure, you don't have to wear appropriate gear if you have enough skill, but you obviously don't since you are having trouble with them.

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You can be very good at games and still fail at fighting devilites because they ATTACK FASTER THAN YOU CAN LINK BASIC ATTACKS. WITH A FLOURISH. A FLOURISHHH.

Even with Normal/Shadow armor, even with a Crest of Almire, you aren't invincible. When there's something you just cannot avoid, you just take the hit or have a broken shield, which is common with Shock.

Arenas. Devilites. Gun/Rocket puppies. Face that combination and you'll know what I mean by 'you can't run'. Or any Drudgery/Dark City area where you can't run away the way you came, behind a barrier or otherwise. Additionally, the times where Devilites are most grouped together are commonly in places where you have no cover, or breakable cover which most likely will be gone because of how you have to swarm around the place just to land a single hit on a single Devilite.

There are times when you won't get many capsules or remedies, if at all, sometimes not even a vitapod. It's not skill, sometimes, it's luck. Pure luck. If you don't believe that, then I've got two words... 'Lag', and 'Spike'.

I agree with Exlegend that devilites are bs at times when they gang up on you. When get shocked of course u might not have any remedy pills which is most of the time which only leaves you with the option to block but what good is it if u get shocked and ur immobilized while blocking that only leaves u open for many of the other devilites that are waiting for u to get shocked while blocking which then those devilites break ur shield in like 2 - 3 hits then what good is it if when ur shield gets broken becuz of the many devilites speed of attack which render u vulnerable in the next 2 seconds because of the shock that comes every 2 seconds which would leave u hopeless and without a shield also leaving u open for devilites to take even more damage while the shock effect is being applied to you which would then restart the cycle of being shocked for 7 seconds which is bs. Ofcourse u can avoid the hardware they throw at u but what good is it if u have to keep on running around the arena like 20 times without being able to attack becuz the moment u attack i am certain that there will be other devilites ready to be on the offensive and what skill is there if u have to run around in circles to avoid being hit which would be useless if u are trying to defeat the devilites.

Exlegend instead of complaining learn to play dont beg OOO to make things easy devilites arent as big of a threat as u seem to think

bottom line here if they are going to nerf anything it will be the devilite attack animation not shock since they already did that

but this is purely up to OOO so in the mean time u could at least to get better at dealing with them

i think you are the one thats slow cloud

I propose either slowing down the Devilite throw attacks, reduce the time for shock effects, or do something about the half-second shock immobilization. The fact that I can easily be chained into a series of shock status effects is ridiculous.

i like how u didnt try to denounce the post i made before this one

why not just make shock non reapplicable until the shock already applied wears off

Just run around in circles dropping DBBs, and they'll be dropping like flies before you know it. The trick is to stay on the move; they'll track you, but 90% of the time all their attacks will miss. Like greavers, Devil-IT (and devilites in general) require a different strategy than the slash-shield-slash-shield that works almost everywhere else.

A little more charge time would be nice though. Lumbers pull out their attack nearly as fast, but they don't dodge around unpredictably; it makes sense to lengthen Devilite attack charge time. On the other hand, they are already one of the most fragile enemies.

@Exlegend
The graphics may be cutesy, but a lot of game mechanics appeal more to older gamers rather than children, so yes, I am giving OOO some credit and don't think this is just another half-assed childrens game. Complex player driven economy, encouragement of experimentation in combat and equipment, and rewarding patience and planning all point at this game being more appealing to an older audience. If this was to be aimed at children, there would be more mini-games to interest them due to their shorter attention span, and the game wouldn't be nearly as punishing when you get hit even once.

What about the people who use armor with negative shock resist, aka Mad Bomber? That's personally what I use, because I know that I am skilled enough to offset the negative resistances (except in FSC but that's another matter :-P). However, what I think everyone is failing to realize here is that fiends are hands down the hardest monsters in groups to take down regardless of equipment, and shock just makes it even more difficult. You shouldn't have to make shock resist for the 1 random fiend/shock level that you encounter in a tier.

As for everyone that says "just run away", have you ever tried running away from multiple shock devilites while you have shock applied to you? It doesn't work. They move faster than anything besides t3 wolvers, and attack faster than anything period. Regardless how far you could possibly run before you spasm, they would be on you again, reapplying shock in the process. You can have full shock resist and still get effed. There is no skill in not being able to defend yourself. If you are an idiot and sit in front of a rocket puppy until your shield breaks and then complain about it when you get blown up, that is not skill. When you legitimately can not do anything to keep from having shock reapplied to you because of the overpowered combination of the shock mechanic and the devilites attack speed, no amount of skill can help you. Similar to when you get handed a bunch of poison bats in t3. You cannot outrun them, they WILL break your shield (unless you happen to have a lvl 10 5 star snorlax bomb you can spam), and you will be unable to heal yourself for 15+ seconds, during which you have already died.