What the title said. Also, I'm not trying to discriminate but I'd prefer answers from F2P bombers because all the P2P bombers would answer Dark Retribution.
[F2P Bombers] What would be the best bomb for killing the Royal Jelly?
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 08:55
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 09:07
#2
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AoA and Nitronome seem to work pretty well.
Voltaic Tempest is also decent.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 09:53
#3
Yes, the DR bombs are great
Yes, the DR bombs are great on JK, lumbers, and most slimes, but they cannot hit the royal minis, which can be annoying. However, it usually kills JK before you get too many minis around.
I've used fiery vaporizer mk + lightning capacitator in a group before, it works pretty well for keeping minis down as well as keeping JK taking damage. If I were to take just one I'd probably take fiery. These also help in a lot of the arena-like rooms for taking down lumbers and healers.
I'm also working on heating up a gravitron vortex for upgrading, that seems to work very well so far as I've seen. An electron vortex would work about as well since it adds shock instead of giving more damage to slimes, and would be more useful on other levels besides RJP. Since vortexes are not primarily damage bombs, that doesn't matter so much. However, the recipes for the electron vortex line cost Krogmo coins, so you have to do a lot of PvP or pay a lot more for the recipes than for gravitron.
Here are some links on bombs. The first is FSC with a vortex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X4AbDXobgo8
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:03
#4
Ash of Agni kills the
Ash of Agni kills the turret-spawned mini royals in one tick. However, the ones which spawn at the start of the match have normal hp.
I believe Ash of Agni could probably solo JK now, as long as you make sure no minis get to JK. Voltaic Tempest could also work; I'm not sure if shock would 1-hit the minis.
If you want to deal a ton of damage, try the RSS. It deals a lot, especially if JK moves on top of the bomb.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:50
#5
Shock does one hit the minis.
Shock does one hit the minis. In fact, I'm pretty sure anything can one hit them.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:12
#6
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Since there are lots of minis, shock can build up a giant chain reaction, causing lots of damage jumps.
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 23:11
#7
3* weps
If all you got is 3* equips. Fire vapo and freeze vapo make for a stunning combo when used in tandem with each other. However, this typically requires a friend who is also a bomber.
If going solo, I suggest DPS setups. Meaning Fire and Blast/Sun Shards. Granted, this means you're running like a chicken with your head cutoff but it also means you're getting DPS on JK. Make sure the fire never leaves him.
Before people go saying Sun Shards is crap against the JK, they must recognize one thing... his sheer size makes him an easy target for multishard (if not all shard) combos. Add in the fact that sun shards does not kb the JK/mini jellies but tears into them and you have a dps bomb for a variety of party situations. I've done a Sun Shards/[insert vapo bomb here] run and every time JK goes down faster than if I were to put Master blast in place of sun shards.
One major factor about kb, however, is that while JK's invincible you could still tactically move him away from the party, but that's for when your bomb timing is great. Not a newb's method of usage. And when you do get your timing right and use this, you'll likely notice the need for pills and revives is lessened a lot.
In the end the choice is up to you.
Take it from a bomber... Sun Shards line is an extremely worthy investment despite the tree only making it to 4*. I've survived vana runs with my only t3 qualified weapon being RSS and the rest being 3* bomber equips, granted a rev has had to be made, but... that's still good running.
Tue, 05/08/2012 - 07:59
#8
There is no need for venom
There is no need for venom viler because if you spread AoA or VT around the playing area they kill the mini jelly's in one hit (the ones spawned from the turrets take one hit of anything and they are dead).
If I had to choose one bomb, it would probably be Ash of Agni. Since I don't have it, I'll say Voltaic Tempest. Also, Dark Retribution is also achievable by F2P players, but they have to be on steam. I bought my DLC for CE and considering I got new levels and 2 5* weapons, it was easily worth it.
Tue, 05/08/2012 - 08:52
#9
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But overlaping various AoA wont make the fire better. Same for VT.
Thats why I'd carry at least 2 statuses to constantly switch up.
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 03:52
#10
There we goNot a terribly
Not a terribly efficent run, but I think this illustrates that RSS is still plenty effective against the 'modern' Royal Jelly. For reference I was using Tempest to restrain the minis, although the damage against RJ obviously helped a bit. Also this would be much faster if you actually use vials, assuming no mistakes and poison/curse you could probably still do RJ in the 30-40 sec range with RSS.
Thu, 05/10/2012 - 04:12
#11
hmm
Thanks guys, I'm gonna bring my RSS into RJP and give it a try.
It's hard to chose just one bomb, Ash of Agni + Venom Veiler.