Swiftstrike, Volcanic Salamander, Acheron + Deadly Vile Striker+Ash of Agni+Gran Faust would be the "best" overall setup, but it wouldn't likely live long enough for you to get much use of the GF, and Ash would only be beneficial for the initial spawn.

Still, we're talking optimal here.

Why am I lolling.

Sorry, it's uh, Dread Venom Striker.

Hazel, seriously, stop with all the hate on guns. I've noticed it's a theme with you.

I soloed the Royal Jelly just last night with nothing but my Umbra driver, didn't go below half health.

I certainly didn't kill it with laughter.

Shadow damage, because they're silly and don't realize that the royal jelly (and the small purples for that matter) doesn't have the same resists as other slimes. He has a slight weakness to shadow, yes, but you're better off with the dread venom for the constant poison in my opinion, particularly since if you don't complete the combo you can shield repulse stuff away from you as often as you need.

NO, Do not use anything related to the Chromalisk line
It has low damage to slimes, while the wolver line has medium attack on everything
The wolver line has better overall attack ups than chromalisk
Swiftstrike is the right shield, better attack speed
Weapons dont matter as long as its not a peircing weapon
A guildie and I two manned it in less than 30 seconds with my Avenger and his Venom Striker
The venom striker is a must, and faust is nice because of curse, but we need to deal as much damage in as little time as possible

Why are you so concerned about getting the best gear for Jelly King? I don't mean to dismiss your question, I'm just trying to make sure you don't invest a lot in gear that you will soon outgrow. The JK and preceding levels are pretty easy once you get to 4 and 5* gear. I remember when I was just getting into T2 I was also really worried about what to get for JK, and I didn't understand why people kept telling me to worry about T3 instead of JK. Now I get it, so I just want to make sure others understand what I didn't. :) (If you're already doing T3 and just want to optimize your JK runs, just ignore this paragraph).

I use a Dread Venom Striker and a Faust (don't have Gran yet) as weapons for those levels. In my opinion it's good to have both a Faust and Venom Striker in the party so you have a chance to both poison and curse JK. If nobody else has a poison weapon, I'd go with Dread Venom Striker over Faust just because the poison seems to have a higher chance of being inflicted than the curse (maybe because the striker hits more frequently than the Faust). Faust is very useful for the levels up to jelly king, as it does bonus damage on the jellies and can hit and push back several at a time when they come at you in a group, which happens a lot.

Take an elemental alchemer, not shadowtech. You need to shoot lumbers and healer faeries too, not just slimes. Nothing resists elemental in the palace, but the annoying things resist shadow.

>Acheron with slimes v high uv.
total to slime now: VH
>Deadly Virulisk helm
now: MAX
>Skolver armor
Now: Still MAX

At least that's what the display in P would suggest. (when hovering over the weapon on the bottom, it adds general bonusses to race specific bonuses and lists the general bonuses extra; it will say damage to slime: max, even without the virulisk part in this example)

So the general dmg bonuses are just dmg bonuses against every race?
That's some good info, I should probably document it in the wiki.

Yeah that's true. Its why I get Bonus to Undead: Ultra while using a Cold Iron Carver and an Ash Tail Set.

Why did no one say Fang of Fog yet?

That thing is awesome... >_>

Get Volc Sal + Fang of Fog charged as initial hit...

Switch over to cutter/archeon and boom 3 hits its dead