Spiral Knights - Jelly King Starvation method?

Jelly King Starvation method?

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Mon, 11/14/2011 - 15:21

#6251

Bluescreenofdeath

Don't waste your time. The

Don't waste your time. The latest version of the JK is much easier to take down then previous incarnations. Just concentrate on damaging the King and keeping him under a status effect (curse, poison, fire, shock) and it will go really quick.

I do like to do Calibur charges to clear out the little stuff while hitting the JK or if you are in a group a freeze bomb is handy to lock the small stuff (or any other bomb to kill off the small stuff).

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 21:04

#6252

Kreuz-Drache

Don't waste your time. The

This.

Really, Jelly King is just going to keep making Polyps and, from my experience, they take quite a bit to kill. You and your party(assuming you go with parties.) can out damage his healing rates fairly easy. If the healing is a problem, then look into vials as death mentioned and/or get yourself a status inflicting weapon like the status bombs or the status brandishes.

You could try out the starving method, but I feel you(and your group) can just out damage him more easily than taking out his healers.

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 21:05

#6253

Kreuz-Drache

whoops

Whoops, double post. and it's not letting me delete it...=/

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 21:20

#6254

Vtmoon

hack and slash it is.

Ya, I was trying to solo him using that method, I've been soloing him using the hack and slash but like I said I just find it very simple and figured trying a new tactic might be interesting.

So no one really knows if he ever stops creating turrets (Royal Polyps) or not?

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 22:48

#6255

Daiq

The most I've done in this

The most I've done in this method is to plant an Agni between him and his mini jellies -- if you can stop them from getting to him, you'll stop healing. Though this is probably easier achieved by a VV, and Ash doesn't block all the mini-jellies, each kill denies him 57 (or something) HP, and those minis are killed in one tick. I've only really felt this helps if there are other people DPSing JK, as I fry the minis.

But yeah, straight damage on him is much faster.

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 19:38

#6256

Antistone

Polyp Spawns

I'm responsible for posting the starvation strategy on the wiki. I seem to have gotten some of my data wrong. Sorry.

As far as I can tell, Royal Polyps do *not* respawn during the early phases of the fight--I waited for quite a while. More only started spawning after I damaged the Royal Jelly substantially, and then it wasn't the same number of polyps as originally. So I concluded that the respawns were scripted events triggered by the different phases of the fight and not a recurring timed thing.

However, on a subsequent playthrough, I noticed polyps respawning in partial-waves during the final phase of the fight, when the Royal Jelly was rage-spinning. I'm not sure why I didn't see that the first time; maybe my friend and I were too efficient and we killed all the polyps and then the king before he had time to spawn more, or maybe there's some magical thing we did differently.

If you solo the JK a lot, maybe you could do some experiments of your own and add anything you learn to the wiki.

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