After recovering, Zhang Yang began to distribute the spoils.
The boss dropped two earthly artifacts and three phantom artifacts, all of which were level 170. Of course, it is impossible for a dungeon item to have the special effect of reducing the level requirement by 20, nor will it have both offensive and defensive capabilities. The defense equipment and output equipment are clearly distinguished.
But the advantage of dungeon gear is that if you can defeat it, you can wear the gear that comes out right away, unlike wild bosses where you may have to wait for a while, or even a long time!
The three phantom weapons were first auctioned off using guild points. Although they were only at the phantom level, before the undead secret cave in the death mode was conquered by most guilds, the number of earthly holy weapons was definitely limited, and the phantom weapons were still very powerful equipment.
Then, it was the highlight, the auction of the two sacred artifacts.
[Unbreakable Majesty Gauntlets] (Earthly Sacred Artifact, Armor)
Armor: 640
Stamina: 7935
Strength: 1957
Agility: 826
Level 6 Socket
Equip: Increases your maximum health by 15870.
Equipment: Absorbs 1697 damage when attacked.
Required Level: 170
Although this is used by shield warriors, the scarlet refined gauntlets on Zhang Yang's body are level 180 earth sacred artifacts. Moreover, they have both defensive properties and offensive power. He looked down on this pair of gauntlets and did not participate in the competition.
Although Xingguangxian's gloves were of the phantom level, since he was a member of the team, he naturally wanted to maximize the advantages of his equipment, so he still pursued intelligent defensive equipment. Therefore, this piece of equipment was fought over by Shi Luoye and the other three shield warriors.
Although everyone is divided into main and sub-alliances, the points are universal. Although Shi Luoye has not been in the guild for a long time, he has performed well in guild activities with excellent operation and awareness, and has won quite a lot of points. He even beat the other two tanks to grab the gloves.
Because they still had to fight the second boss, Zhang Yang used the appraisal scroll to identify the equipment on the spot, so that the person who got the equipment could wear it immediately. Although it had not been gemmed yet, it was relatively unimportant.
The second piece of equipment was cloth shoes, which were taken by a mage from the alliance. Han Yingxue, Narcissus Blossoms, and Dreamy Sweetheart all had more advanced earth-sacred shoes, so naturally there was no competition.
After distributing the equipment, everyone continued to move forward, left the tomb, went down the stone steps, and arrived at the second floor of the tomb.
The tomb chamber on this level was like a huge square. Because there were only torches on the walls around it, the light was limited and the middle area was completely dark. But under the light of the torches, you could still see countless stone statues standing in it, densely packed.
These stone statues all had hideous faces, with two wings growing on their backs that covered their bodies below the neck, leaving only a head and two bird-claw-like feet exposed—gargoyles!
[Sleeping Gargoyle] (Elite, Undead)
Level: 175
HP: 100 million
Armor value: 11030
Melee attack power: 75903-115903
Skill:
[Gargoyle Scream]: Weakens the target's defense, increasing the damage it takes by 10% when attacked. Lasts for 12 seconds and can be stacked.
[Gargoyle Strike]: Causes physical damage equivalent to 100% of melee attack to all targets within 10 meters, and has a 20% chance to stun the target.
[Petrified State]: Damage taken when attacked is reduced by 80%, but no actions can be taken.
Looking at the densely packed numbers, everyone felt a bit overwhelmed. If they accidentally provoked too many of them, the group would be wiped out instantly unless they activated the inheritance transformation!
Zhang Yang waved his hand, and the Spear of Brokenness blasted out and hit a gargoyle. The damage number was weakened many times, and the gargoyle opened his eyes immediately, with two balls of green light flashing.
"Squeak—" The stone statue cried out, and the stone chips on its body fell off. It flapped its wings and flew towards Zhang Yang like a bat. At the same time, the other four stone statues also began to tremble, and as the stone chips fell off, four more gargoyles appeared and attacked the team.
The other four tanks immediately rushed forward, each taking away one. The screams of these monsters' gargoyles could be stacked up continuously, and if five of them came together, they would stack up very quickly, so they had to be separated.
—Although this was the first time for the team to reach this part of the Death Mode, they had already completed both the Hard Mode and the Normal Mode. The skills of the monsters were the same, the only difference was their strength. Therefore, everyone immediately made the correct response.
The Gargoyle Screams once every 10 seconds, which is quite threatening, but it can be solved by either Warrior's Rage or Divine Shield, and the team's firepower is very strong, basically one can be killed in 30 seconds, and the Gargoyle will not have the opportunity to stack too many layers of Scream.
The boss is in the very center of the square, so you need to clear out all the monsters in the square first. Otherwise, once the boss is activated, no matter how many monsters are left, they will all wake up and launch a fierce attack on the player!
It took nearly two hours to clear all the monsters in the circle, and the boss stood in the middle of the square.
This is a giant gargoyle, more than 30 meters tall. Unlike other gargoyles, it is not gray in appearance, but dark black!
[Gargoyle Arono] (Earth Saint-level leader, undead)
Level: 175
HP: 1.75 billion
Armor value: 17660
Melee attack power: 140153-200153[
Skill:
[Gargoyle Scream]: Weakens the target's defense, increasing the damage it takes by 20% when attacked, lasts for 10 minutes, can be stacked. Cooldown: 10 seconds. Undispellable.
[Gargoyle Strike]: Deals physical damage equivalent to 150% of melee attack to all targets within 10 meters. Cooldown time: 10 seconds.
[Gargoyle Bomb]: Randomly place 50 bombs on the ground. The bombs will explode after 3 seconds, causing 500,000 fire damage to all targets within 5 meters. Cooldown time: 30 seconds.
[Gargoyle Space]: When a player is more than 50 meters away from Arono, they will suffer a devastating blow and die immediately depending on the remaining health value.
[Wrath of the Undead]: If the battle lasts for more than 10 minutes, Arono will evolve into a frenzy state, causing 10 million chaos damage to hostile targets in the entire instance every second.
It is still a boss with a battle time limit!
But because there is no tricky skill to summon small monsters, the team only needs to focus on the boss. It's just that the gargoyle explosion is a bit troublesome. Because of the existence of the gargoyle space, everyone can't hide too far away. They can only move within 50 meters of the boss, which is very crowded. However, because everyone's equipment is still high-end, plus Zhang Yang's 40% physical strength increase, everyone's health limit reaches 500,000. Even if you can't avoid being bombed once, it won't be fatal, but if it's twice...
However, since the boss's gargoyle scream cannot be dispelled, theoretically the damage increase can be stacked to 1200% in 10 minutes.
That is a basic attack power of 1.96 million to 2.8 million per hit. Against a non-inherited transformed player, it can kill a tank in one blow!
Players have tested it in normal and difficult modes. If a skill says it cannot be dispelled, then it really cannot be dispelled. It is useless even if you open it! The way to deal with it is to use tank relay. If one tank has too many stacks, stop creating hatred immediately and let another tank take the first hatred. You retreat to the second line and act as a DPS (or be killed by the boss directly).
Because there is no "Wrath of the Undead" in normal and difficult mode boss battles, the battle time can be dragged out to 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Output professions can try to keep the damage as low as possible and let several tanks rotate to eventually kill the boss.
However, the death mode adds a timeline to the boss battle. If this time is exceeded, the boss will go crazy, and the team will be wiped out!
Therefore, this places very high demands on tanks. Even the second, third or even fourth tanks need to maintain high aggro, and be able to take over immediately after the main tank dies or clears the aggro, instead of having the main aggro snatched away by crazy output professions.
Looking at the powerful output players like Sun Xinyu, Wei Yan'er, and Narcissus Huakai, the four tanks including Xingguangxian and Shi Luoye all said that the difficulty was too high.
"It's okay, they all have the skills to clear hatred!" Zhang Yang comforted and encouraged.
"The skill can last for 5 minutes!" Xingguangxian said weakly.
Zhang Yang laughed and said, "Then I will activate my inheritance transformation and fight to the end!"
"Oh yeah, long live the boss!" Xingguangxian cheered immediately.
Because of the similar output of Sun Xinyu and other non-humans, Xingguangxian, Shi Luoye and others had no confidence in holding the hatred. Naturally, this could only be done by Zhang Yang, who was both a tank and an output - non-humans could only be fought against by non-humans who were also non-humans.
"Let's all activate our inheritance transformation. We'll take a break after we finish this!" Zhang Yang said.
They wasted too much time on No. 1, and although playing "Miracle" would not make the body tired, repeating the same thing all the time would be mentally exhausting. Besides, Zhang Yang did not want to focus on the dungeon, he came here just to boost morale, his goal was to reach level 180 as soon as possible and start harvesting the Heavenly Saint level boss!
You have to know that the drops from the outdoor Heavenly Saint level boss are Heavenly Saint weapons of level 200-210, which can be worn by level 180-190, at least twice as good as the Earthly Saint weapons from the dungeon! For him, the dungeon equipment is for the backbone of the guild, while the core and main force should always focus on the outdoor boss.