The Guildmasters

Ok I know when you first hit a new guild rank all you want to do is try out the new quests, we all did it but the first thing you should do really is to read up on the quests your about to take on.

This post is to give you some advice on Desperate Defense 2 which happens to be a GR 11 quest. You should be familiar with the quest by now because you should have run the first one at least a few times

For those that don’t know it the quest involves keeping a certain Captain Roberts alive (NPC) throughout the quest, as soon as this character dies the quest is over and it’s a big ‘fail’. No items, no rewards, no exp, no guilder.

I know some of you are wondering why i’m posting this now and it’s because i’ve just tried to run this quest twice now and both times failed, with four players, this shouldn’t happen.

When you start this quest someone should say at the very least if they are babysitting the captain or not, if the other 3 players had at least said they don’t want to babysit I could have done this. I took it for granted that being the highest GR in the quest my responsibility would be to do the most damage and get through the quest quickly with some decent items.

Having said that I also should have kept checking on roberts myself, especially the second time around.

For those new to this quest first of all you should really wait for four players. Yes I have done this with two but if your going into this quest at GR 11 you really want four. No extra rewards for completing it with two so it may as well be four and make everyone’s job that much easier.

Before the quest starts someone should say if they are going to be healer or not, if no one wants to babysit then the job can be shared, it’s pretty easy and it was a shame that we failed this quest, I mean we didn’t just fail we was humiliated because we failed on the very first Giga.

That’s why I wasn’t paying attention, usually even when there is a good healer I still check on roberts but only when the two giga’s come out, my mistake.

Also as i’ve said before even if there is a healer you should each keep an eye on roberts because he can be taken out in one go, and always assume the healer is down if roberts is low. This is one quest I really miss having Fates Favor, I regret not putting that in my skill tree just for that quest.

Another point worth mentioning I think is the very first battle, the one before the giga, there is about 5 or 6 magi, don’t , and I stress please don’t rush down there and kill everyone, this is the easiest part of the quest, use it to build your AC, one of the quests I failed everyone was longsword users, they all just steamed on down and wiped out all the magi, I managed to build up a whopping 2 AC, this first part is easy for a reason, build your AC your going to need it.

This sounds more like a rant than advice and in a way it is, I came here to give this advice because I was pissed at the way we failed and I see more and more of this quest failing miserably simply because some players won’t think before they enter the quest.

This is in no way pointing fingers, just wanted a few to know the best way to beat this quest, I am totally responsible for failing this quest twice because I should have kept a check on roberts and I didn’t, I assumed other knew what they were doing.

Just a few simple steps will guarantee your success in this quest, keep Captain Roberts alive, it’s about the only thing that matters, use the first battle to build AC, then help each other through the rest, that’s it.

Tony:)

Yes i’m still grinding away for Guild Rank 11 but i’m not running Big Red anymore at the moment. I’ve decided to take on the harder quests and it makes a refreshing change, it also enables me to get some rare item drops.

I’m basically running the great headache and desperate defense. I met up with a good team last night on DD and a guy named “Red” was an awesome healer which allowed us to complete this quest with hardly any problem most of the time. I say that because generally you fail quite a lot on this quest because you have to spend the entire quest keeping the little kamakazee captain alive, if he dies that’s an automatic fail.

The other quest i’ve been running a lot is Station Attendant, we don’t get a problem on this one unless you end up with two lower Guild Rank members come in as these monsters can kill you fairly easy if your HP isn’t above 500.

I took some time out to help a few lower guild rank members on all in the cards quests when I couldn’t find anyone running the above mentioned ones.

Most of the time we’ve been getting S ranks which means more GR points and i’ve actually worked it out I would need to run station attendant 100 times to achieve my GR11 as that gives around 32,000 each time and I need about 3 million more points.

It’s easy to assume you would get bored of this but I still enjoy it a lot, I try out different weapons and tactics and because you get different item drops almost every time it’s not totally the same every time you do a quest, it also makes a big difference depending on who your playing with.

You can run the same quest 30 times and S rank it every time but if you get two people come in who haven’t got a clue you can fail really easily, you have to have a system to run these harder quests and you really need to work with each other, it’s no good doing your own thing.

If your new to a quest, an maybe even lower in rank than you should be for taking a quest the higher rank players don’t mind helping out, what you need to do is pay attention to what the higher rank players are doing, a good team always has a system, usually one good healer with a back up healer who can raise fallen players when needed and help the healer if he gets into trouble, i’ve seen some monsters specifically go after the healer, that’s when you have to be ready to help out, if everyone is healed up you can get back to attacking, to be honest you need 4 players running most of the harder quests and when one falls it really makes a difference.

Another thing worth mentioning for newer players is most bosses can be taken down, either to its knees or to a laying down position, this is when it’s at it’s most vulnerable and your attacks do more damage, four legged beasts are taken down by attacking two legs, either the left or right so pay attention to where everyone is attacking, if two are attacking a left leg it’s not going to help much if you attack a right leg, take both left legs out and he goes down to laying position, that’s usually when players open up with a stronger attack or combo, it’s also at this point usually when items can drop.

Dragon quests drop items if you hit the tail which is another good tip because you need these kind of items if you want to upgrade everything if your going for trophies.

Well i’m off again to run some more quests, I did see a GR 15 player last night and the gear looked awesome, I am looking forward to getting there myself and don’t think it will be a waste as i’m sure WKC2 will continue and allow you to keep your players avatar, my guess is WKC2 will go from GR15 up to GR30 or something like that, let’s hope so.

Tony 😉