Chapter 261 Is This Really the Difficulty of a Novice Copy?

Originally, Lecturer Ding thought that according to the speed of ordinary MMORPGs, he would definitely be able to reach level 15 by now, but because the team would share the experience, he only reached level 12.

However, the good news is that the level of the novice dungeon in "Shadow World" is not high, and you can enter it at level 12, instead of setting the level of the first dungeon to level 18 or 20 like other games.

After receiving the task of the first novice dungeon, everyone immediately began to get ready to challenge it.

After all, they had been running together for a long time before, and they were quite blindly confident in the strength of their team.

It's just a novice dungeon, there shouldn't be much difference from the monsters in the wild, right?

Lecturer Ding opened the map and found the dungeon he was going to challenge this time according to the task guide: Fel Energy Rift.

It has to be said that "Shadow World" also has some considerate places. For this dungeon, you can not only see the dungeon map and a simple background introduction, but also see the specific boss and drops in it.

There is nothing much to say about the background story. It's just that a group of crazy demons and beasts are entrenched here for players to fight.

There are four bosses in the dungeon, and the process is not very long. And these bosses will drop low-level blue equipment, which is very good in both attributes and appearance, making people quite envious.

Although old MMORPG players know that there is actually no need to pursue low-level blue equipment too much, and the attributes of green equipment are higher than it after the level is high, after all, the leveling of this game is relatively slow, and a piece of blue equipment plays a very obvious role in the upgrade process.

What's more, the dungeon mission must be done, and the equipment is just a side thing.

The five people hit it off and headed towards the Fel Rift!

From the appearance, the Fel Rift is a huge crack on the mountain, and the depression on the ground is the entrance to the dungeon.

After entering the dungeon, everyone was surprised to find that the attributes of the monsters inside were still improved compared to the wild monsters outside, but the improvement was not much.

Although the process of advancing in the dungeon is a little torturous, it can still be advanced, and it will not get stuck.

In this way, although everyone is still nervous, they still come to the first boss with laughter.

"What do you mean? Do you want to arrange some tactics?"

"What the hell, this is just a novice dungeon! The tank holds on, the healer is good, and the DPS outputs as much as possible!"

"There are no plug-ins in this game, and you can't see the boss's skills. What's the point of arranging? Just rush in!"

The first boss of the Fel Rift is a fel orc, which is quite conspicuous among the demon monsters. It is wearing a warlock's robe and is performing some kind of mysterious summoning ceremony.

The moment everyone started the monster, his summoning ceremony was automatically interrupted, which also caused the fury of the fel orc warlock, and he began to fight with everyone!

The tank attracted hatred in front, the healer added blood, and the others output. Everything seemed so normal and so reasonable.

Although the boss would occasionally rub a group shadow arrow, or give the tank a continuous damage skill such as fel burning, the overall blood loss of everyone was still within an acceptable range.

If nothing unexpected happened, it would be killed soon.

However, at this moment, an accident happened.

With a whoosh, Lecturer Ding saw a ball of green fire appear on his character, which seemed to be a state of some kind of evil flame.

"Huh? What is this? Dispel it."

In similar games, the negative states that the enemy gives to the player can basically be divided into magic, curse, disease, poisoning, etc. Players need to use specific skills to remove them, otherwise they will continue to be affected by this negative state, resulting in a significant reduction in combat effectiveness.

And this ball of fire is most likely a magic state, which needs to be solved by dispelling magic.

In theory, dispelling magic should be a skill of the priest, and some games will set it as a skill of the mage.

But in "Shadow World", the warlock also has a similar dispelling skill, which can directly devour a negative magic state on the body at the cost of losing blood.

Lecturer Ding said nothing and used "Devouring Magic" directly.

However, the next second, a striking green flame ring suddenly burst out around his character, swallowing up the other two long-range outputs and the nurse who was adding blood!

In an instant, only Lecturer Ding and the tank were left looking at each other.

Soon, all five people turned into souls and came to the soul healer at the entrance of the dungeon.

"Damn, what's going on!"

"Wait, let me check the battle record... What is 'Fel Flame Burst'! How come it hit me 500 HP in one go! I only have 400 HP now!"

Instructor Ding scratched his head: "It seems to be the negative state on me... It will explode after dispelling? This is too abnormal!"

Fortunately, these five people are basically veteran players of MMORPG games, so they were not discouraged by a team wipe, but started to challenge again.

In the subsequent team wipes, everyone gradually figured out the way to beat this boss.

In short, this boss has three key skills that may cause team wipes!

The first skill is 'Fel Flame', which will randomly throw a ball of Fel Flame at a player in the crowd, causing the player to lose blood continuously, and the blood loss is getting faster and faster.

When the duration of the Fel Flame ends or is dispelled, an explosion effect will occur, directly causing more than 500 points of damage to all surrounding players (the specific value is related to the player's resistance), but the player himself will not be harmed.

And with the current health of the player, this damage is basically fatal.

As for the solution, it is also very simple. After being affected by this negative effect, you must run away from the crowd as soon as possible, and then dispel it.

If you are burned to death in the process of running away from the crowd, or run too slowly, or dispel it too early, it may cause casualties or even direct team annihilation.

The second skill is "Fel Energy Rain". The boss will release rain of fire on random targets. If the player stands in it, he will die in about three seconds.

The solution is of course to run away as soon as possible.

The third skill is "Shadow Curse". After being affected by this curse, the movement speed will slow down and the treatment effect will be reduced.

The solution is to dispel the curse through specific skills.

After roughly understanding the mechanism of this boss, everyone was speechless, and there were only two words left in their minds: against the sky!

Are these three skills difficult? Is it impossible to pass it? Not really.

Each skill has a corresponding solution. As long as everyone is familiar with the mechanism and cooperates properly, then this boss is not difficult.

But the problem is that this is the first boss of the novice copy!

If it is in other MMORPG games, such a boss can basically be regarded as the gatekeeper boss of the first large-scale team copy.

Because these three skills seem to be able to deal with it, but they will have a linkage effect with each other.

For example, after the player is hit by the shadow curse and just starts to run out, he is hit by the rain of fire. If the treatment fails to catch up, the player dies, and the fire will immediately explode.

If the shadow curse is stacked, the movement speed will slow down, the treatment effect will be reduced, and the fault tolerance will be further reduced.

Moreover, other MMORPG games basically have a lot of useful plug-ins. When these skills are hit, there will be a striking prompt in the center of the screen, and there will be voice prompts, such as "Hide the rain of fire quickly", "Run away from the crowd", etc.

If there are no such plug-ins, many hardcore old players will also be hit.

After all, the fight is tense and exciting, and it is a high-pressure environment. If there is no eye-catching reminder, who would pay attention to their negative effect column all the time?

This boss does not only have these two negative effects, but also some not very dangerous negative effects as interference items.

In short, the difficulty of this boss is too outrageous for the gatekeeper boss of the novice five-person copy!

From the mechanism, it is enough to meet the boss threshold of the 10-person or 20-person team copy!

For more experienced players like Lecturer Ding, if they are willing to put their hearts into it and run in, it is only a matter of time to pass this boss, and they will not be stuck all night.

But for some novice players who do not have much relevant game experience, or some players with poor patience, it is hard to say.

It is also normal to be wiped out and disbanded in front of this boss!