this cant be fair. the pic may be hard to understand, and i concealed some info i like to keep to myself, but there were 12 fire gun puppies at the same time. 8 appeared after we defeated some enemies, and 4 more appeared after we took down a construct. there is no way that this is intended, or is fair.
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It's actually pretty easy as long as you're not being a big silly and activating several at once. Red Rovers also have a huge delay after each shot, have the longest charge time, and turn the slowest. I'd rather be against 12 red rovers than 12 regular gun puppies in T3.
The gunpuppy portions of the 3rd arena are pathetic on every difficulty, unless you handle it wrong.
Rev up that fire resist.
But yeah, if nobody is near the center of the stage when they spawn, it's a lot easier.
It's more fun when they are rocket puppies.
You're lucky you didn't experience the healer wrath back in beta.
Kill the last mobs of a wave near the walls of an arena. All gun puppy types are blind from behind and to the side. If you have a slower sword (like a calibur series), a direct hit from a charged attack will likely kill the puppy before it has a chance to react. You can easily take out that entire arena running around the perimeter and whacking each gun puppy with a charged attack even if they are awake.
The real challenge are Gun Puppies in the optional area of Lower Isle (Jigsaw or Aurora). Takes more time to systematically kill 3 rows of Gun Puppies which are being healed by Wings. No running around blind spots.
Been there, done that, unharmed.. As Iceni said.. keep hugging the wall and the puppies wont se you. and if they would happen to se you, you can just keep moving around the arena, and hit every puppie ones every time you pass it, and every puppy will miss every shot..
Those are by far the esiest puppies in the game :D
Nobody specifically stated this yet, but EVERY 3rd round of an Arena level has this wave. Though not always fire theme obviously, and Gun Puppy fire types change per tier.
Also, this isn't the last wave. After the puppies is a VERY large swarm of monsters.
One important note is that 4 more appeared after taking down a construct. The next wave will only spawn once one of the previous waves is defeated. So when you see 8 gun puppies appear, stop attacking the last construct until those new gun puppies are dead (or leave one alive, just to be safe). Then kill the construct to see what you spawn next. Much safer for the party.
That's intended and it's awesome. I've seen it and beaten it (running duo, like you were). It's frickin' hard, but it's also in an optional part of the level that is meant to be deadly.