your gear is completely wrong for JK.

You need piercing protection, like Dusker/Ash Tail and a Calibur, with a briar shield. The Faust is all right, but you'd be better off with a calibur or nightblade.

if you want to make relatively quick work of the JK levels, get a fire bomb and kite like a madman. The only part in 2 levels that this fails in is the top-right room of the second floor.

a poison bomb is useful for JK himself.

Let's call it Dusker/3* calibur/fiery vapemk2/toxic vape/briar shield. Keep the heart pendant and sword focus pendant. If you have an extra space, bring your faust.

immediately drop a bomb in the middle of JK's throne room then start charge attacking. Clear some jellies, then just go for him. ALternate firebomb-charge attack-poison bomb-charge attack. When he tantrums, put a poison bomb where he took off from, then charge-poison-charge-poison until he's dead.

make sure you have three pills and at least an 8 pod. Curse vials are good too.

done.

if you;'re not gonna change anything about your gear, learn to shield cancel your faust attacks. Don't bother with the barb, there's nothing in JK to kill with it effectively.

For the cost of 1 UV roll (20kcr), you can purchase everything at 2* from the AH without any UVs, run Snarbolax until you get a shield, build everything to 3* on failed JK run money until you kill him. Then wonder why you're soloing him after you get you other sealed sword and 2 antiguas. heh

it's easy to practice with the big swords.

When you click the attack button, there's a smalltwist in the character, then the arc of the sword, then the finishing of the swong where your character sort of stands there with his arm out extended to the side. If if you hit your shield button right at the apex of your swing, you can actually hit a monster, but your character will reset position to the standard walking position. With big swords you can speed your attacks up by 2x at least.

hard to describe, easy to figure out. You won't get your 2nd, more powerful swing, but the ability to do damage while being extremely defensive will change your entire gameplay style. You can shield cancel with any sword, including the little pokey ones. you will find your overall DPS and survivability will increase. Also with the big swords, the pushback after the shield cancel near-guarantees you won't be hit by the mob you attacked. I equate it to sweeping mobs with a broom; in FSC you can shield cancel your way across a field of slags with relative safety.

Seraphic is a great set, but not for RJP.

Sword focus is going to be useless with your faust, as spamming the charge attack is inadvisable at best.

Leave the snarby blade at home, nothing in RJP save for the odd silkwing is even neutral to pierce.

Quick answer: Buy a Dusker cap and coat, and a fiery vap mk ii or lightning cap off the AH, and pair that with your faust and plate shield and you'll be fine. Learn to dodge, kite, and shield cancel and you shouldn't be taking any damage at all.

Easy shield cancel: click your attack button to start your sword swing, and immediately start shielding. Release your shield just as it pops up at the end of the swing, and you'll be able to move to dodge much quicker than if you'd waited for the animation to complete.

I honestly believe you're purposely trying to make TC fail in his attempts of soloing by telling him to bring a Calibur instead of his Faust. Telling him to maybe use his Nightblade instead is fine, since some people can't get the hang of 2-hit swords (which seems like TC's case), but telling him to bring a Calibur instead of Faust confuses me. If anything, you should tell him to bring a Iceburst/Shockburst Brandish to help with crowd control along with the Faust/Nightblade.

I don't know. But your post really doesn't make much sense, least to me. But I do agree with bringing some piercing defense, and the Snarby shield is nice especially with the sword damage bonus.

It's a great sword…against fiends and beasts. Like what Nicoya said, everything in RJP resists piercing besides the silkwings, so you'll be carrying a Faust and a piece of dead weight.

Like Tengu said, this is indeed my opinion. Opinions vary between people.

Kickthebucket, I've also solo'd JK with a 4* Calibur before the nerf. The Calibur is a great sword, the charge can help with crowd control when needed just fine. But ever since I went "serious" into SK as a full swordsman, I noticed that my Blizzbrand helps with crowd control much better.

During JK's rage phase I'll always clear/freeze minions while waiting for the JK to settle down. Of course, I can do this with a Levi as well. But sometimes I won't kill all minions in the area, regardless of what weapon I'm using. At least with my Blizzbrand, I can ensure most, if not all, little slimes are frozen. Leaving me with JK alone, not worrying about little slimes hurting me or healing the king as I whack away with my Faust.

And I said it didn't make sense to me because of these reasons, Kickthebucket.

I may have been a bit harsh in my first post here, so I apologize.

Don't you need to beat Royal Jelly several times in first place to get Faust?

Anyway I'm able to solo His Royal Jelliness with Shadow Driver, 3 Curse Vials, 3 Fire Vials and 3 Poison Vials. No trinkets, no piercing armour, helm or shield (I'm usually doing T2 with Nameless set and Scarlet Shield). Yea, what I like about this game is that your gear really doesn't matter much in PvE :-D

yeah but you're right faust does the best job for RJ (boss fight) i can clear a mob of mini's with 1 swing haha (so he doesn't have to much to heal left haha)

RJ isn't that hard. I solo'd al the way to the Royal Jelly when I still had tier 2 stuff (dusker cap/coat and bristling buckler). The reason why I killed the Royal Jelly was that I had a good gun. Kilowatt pulsar with a great knockback. Just spam the Royal Jelly to dead.
Now I've 5* armor, virulent catalyzer and a faust I can beat him within a few minutes. I've love the way how the virulent catalyzer poison him.

Lots of good advice here. Only one thing I'll comment on, and that is the armor. Several people have said that your seraphic armor isn't good for the JK, but I mostly disagree. As others have said, the important thing is to not get hit, so if you do that, your armor doesn't really matter that much. Indeed, if you are good enough about not getting hit, it is reasonable for you to be able to go all the way to killing the JK with 2* armor.

Your Seraphic armor is 4*, that is more than enough normal protection to deal with occasional hits. Most of the monsters in the JK do split damage of Normal and Piercing. However, since this is T2, half the Piercing damage gets converted into Normal damage anyway. Your 4* armor will actually stand up better than 3* armor that has Piercing defense since so little damage actually is Piercing.

If you want to get new armor, go with the chroma suit line. Sure, it has Piercing defense, but much more importantly, it has damage bonuses vs slimes/jellies. You can often pick them up at the AH for about 15-17kcr each, which is about what you will earn in 2.5 JK runs. Oh, and if you shop carefully, it is usually cheaper to buy the 3* wolver line over buying the recipe and crafting your own, even if you already have the 2* version. It *may* be cheaper to craft if you can get the recipes cheaply *AND* you are going to waste mist by not using it after you reach 100ME. If you use all your mist, you will get more crowns by running the JK with it than you will save by using it to craft.