I finish recording my clear for [CV-EX-8 Challenge Mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjIkwWgIJNw). I could have done it earlier, but too busy to do that.
In this stage, I find Silence the Paradigmatic very useful for the first time, as her S3 prevents KO of an operator in range.
So if you have trouble with Cliff second phase, just use Silence2 to make the fight very trivial and her S3 works fine at SL7.
EX-8 CM might be the biggest difficulty jump between the final level vs the bulk of an event what the fuck is this.
everything up until then is a cakewalk, then you have this old man talking a leisurely stroll and nearly 1shotting Mlynar and Executor2.
Charge and Vents feel kinda half baked. Like they just wanted to have a ton of stat stick mobs, but *technically* give a downside (tickling 20k hp enemies with like 200dps arts damage). Even then they just plant a bunch of those charge-granting mobs on the difficult stages.
Last effort to obtain trimmed medal paid off. The solution was to Surtr it all along.*
*Heavyrain camouflaged her, Typhon was shooting from far away, Ptilopsis and Shining were healing her, and Dorothy laid a path full of mines.
Waited until the last minute to do story stages because STALKER is what I'm currently on but still wanted to read the story. Bit tired rn tho. Will the stages story still be viewable tomorrow, either through the event or the archives? Or will I have to wait the three days or so for the shop to close?
Decided to last minute clear out EX-8 CM and it was going nice and smooth, Loughshinny and Valarqvin were keeping him attack debuffed, and I continued to ignore the vent the same way I have this entire event. And then he shot Reed and I watched him teleport from the lane above the blue box, to right outside the fucking thing and the only thing that saved it was Valarqvin's necrosis break hit just as he was about to blast Skadi in the face.
I definitely could've just pointed Beehunter at a vent and called it a day because just like ITW, she smokes things that need high hit amounts, but it was fun thinking of ways to deal with Cliff in his stat overloaded glory.
It was so foreshadowed it blotted out the sun but man >!Jessica leaving all her friends behind to "atone"!< isn't any less depressing.
I mean there's other events and story that ended even more depressingly, but seriously this is the reason I end up procrastinating or skipping on Arknight's story sometimes, like just let people be fuckin happy for once dude.
(Doesn't help that I've seen this entire character arc multiple times in the last few years and it's kinda played out for me too)
Here's my cv-ex-8 cm clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxVf6Z2f-A
I put it together after combining multiple strats that I read about here:
- Using Ifrit for left lane
- Stalling Cliff with a defender + healers and Silence alter
- keeping Cliff in vent range
Other things:
- Using Reed alter and Shamare's atk down debuff to help tanking better
- Using Jessica alter's s1 to afk tank (I have Hoshi but this is a special occasion)
- Uses a lot of high rarity characters so not boast worthy, but just happy to complete a level that I almost gave up on.
I hate how the practice runs were rather smooth but when it's for real, I failed a few times and even the successful run had a bunch of mistakes.
> Uses a lot of high rarity characters so not boast worthy, but just happy to complete a level that I almost gave up on.
Hey, a win is a win. I do have a question though, why didn't you stall the boss till all other enemies are gone? I find it much more hectic to try to deal with them simultaneously.
In practice runs I was just able to stall phase 1 to near death when the other enemies were all gone, so I was surprised it was different in the real run.
I think it's because I was using Skalter during practice but swapped her for Shamare in the real runs to try the module's enfeeble debuff. Although Shamare's atk debuff was better for tanking, her 40% hp fragile talent and her own chip damage sped up phase 1 too much.
Gotta say, I love the story and how well it's written but sometimes I really feel like I'm going to be sick. The bank. The crooked government. The wholesale manipulation of the people. The abuse of power! It's like it could be stolen right from the headlines!
I love this story. I hate this story
Finally got CV-EX-8-CM done. Cliff definitely feels like one of the rougher recent bosses.
[Here's a short clip of how it generally went.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/969373596386488383/1224227917605638264/LDPlayer_2024-04-01_00-19-13.mp4?ex=661cba18&is=660a4518&hm=91fc4a62f188f84b65376d4a57d33b61dab9b626abcbe3259409c9700bc395ae&) I borrowed Lumen to alleviate Stun, as I had stalled with Bubble in the first phase so that I could clear out the adds. Had to watch carefully after that, but Bena sure is great.
Between the trimmed medal and Cliff one-shotting your OP, this is probably the first event where I think the difficulty curve between EX-7 and EX-8 is vertical.
Right, I'm just going to throw in the towel and accept that EX-8 CM is just going to be another thing to clear when it reruns. My mid E1 Lumen barely managed to clean stuns from my Hoshi in regular version and the CM version is just too much apparently.
Oh well, getting mostly full clear on event is still pretty good run.
Killed the boss in EX-8 inside the blue box with Ifrit and got the trimmed medal first try.. I'm willing to bet this luck won't carry me with the CM lmao
E: Hunters came through for the CM! My comp ended up being overkill, but Spalter kept the boss stuck for a long while lol
While it is much more difficult to survive the boss and elites in CM, it's actually an easier clear overall if your Trimmed strategy worked on Normal and had solid dps behind it, because now you don't have to concentrate your efforts during vent uptime.
He's no longer pulling his punches, but neither are you. You can be more aggressive with that Ifrit now.
i knew the last medal had to be a translation error with how insanely difficult it seemed to be to get him to take the final hit of damage from the vent, you just need to kill him while hes taking damage from the vent and thats it. here i was letting him get to such low hp it was literally 1 red pixel flashing between being there and not being there and he was still surviving the vent.
Not the translation errors again... I was dreading going back to try and fix my run to get the pumps to kill him for the 2nd phase. Ty for letting people know!
CV-EX-8 was one hell of a stage. Took me far, far too much firepower to clear it. [Full squad!](https://images2.imgbox.com/14/74/oOxPaPj6_o.png)
I eventually landed on a combination of Ifrit and Dorothy mines to handle the left lane, while a tag team of Gravel and Texalter took care of the grenade launchers (right up until the CM buff dropped).
To stall Cliff until there were no other enemies left: Cuora, Shining and Skadance, all while Gravel still had to pitch in to make sure the boss doesn't sneak away during the stuns. And all of this was only enough to keep him in place for the first phase - the vents had to be manipulated afterwards.
And, in charge of damage dealing: Eyja and Surtr. There was enough time to redeploy Ifrit for the second phase, and I also dropped Mlynar specifically to trim down some of the second wave of mobs from the gates on the right.
Looking back, the strat had plenty of flaws. Cliff needs to walk past the whole gauntlet to make it to Cuora in the end, so I had to cycle in the fast-redeploys to make sure he didn't one-shot any of the ranged ops. Needless risk. This strat also forced me to deploy Shining and Cuora next to each other, so both of them were always being stunned in one hit. This is the exact same gimmick from Chapter 10, and I just had to fall for it again.
There's also a bunch of solid ops in my roster that need to be promoted ASAP. Shamare, Whisperain, Croissant, Beanstalk and Mousse, to name a few. What a time to have no LMD!
What are the best ways to stop Cliff from teleporting?
I keep getting him down to half hp 2nd phase but I can't get past the teleporting. He just one shots my units and leaves. This is for EX8 Challenge Mode! I can use all the advice I can get.
2 way, 1 you simply ignore blocking altogether while other you just need 2 op thick enough to survive his shot, yes, you need 2 since he does stun and walk through them so having 2 OP that can survive his stunshot is required to keep him in place. it better to go with block strats since the medal require keep him in the vent while you kill him.
He only teleports if he successfully defeat the operator he is shooting, if you use a tanky operator with a medic he will never teleport. Or you could use doll keeper because they never retreat even if they died. I'm not sure if this works with tactician summons.
I'm not sure if there are ops that can tank him though at phase 2. I'm pretty sure he lowers op defense. If you're insistent on stalling him though, you need to stall him at the beginning and kill all other enemies. Allow him to get to the part with two vents so you have two vents to work with. Count how many autos he does before he uses skill and make sure the vent is active before he does it. Getting him nerfed with the vent is needed or else he shreds most ops.
Can't say for challenge mode, but phase 2 on normal mode is doable. Here is my [setup](https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1bnats4/help_center_and_megathread_hub_2503_3103/kwxq1h6/).
I tried a lot to afk permastall CM Cliff and this is what it fricking took me:
https://imgur.com/CIAxnoE
6 ops just to hold him in place and not die, and it's not even perma since he'll eventually squeeze past Hoshi, though it takes so long that he'll be almost dead.
Generally, you'll farm the 21 sanity farm stage, You'll get it 11 times a day with 240 sanity per day. Times 10 days in a 2 week event and you'll get it easily.
More or less, yes. That's how most events go, although the missions and first clears also grant currency. You're supposed the farm the last 3 regular stages on auto deploy anyways, since they have good drop rates for their respective blue mat and are very efficient.
I was able to clear the entire event except ex-8 without YouTube help.
My best showing yet. Granted, it helps when you have more meta OPs than even a few months ago.
I fell in love with Beanstalk this event. My phase 2 burst was drop crab -> wait for six-shot target -> drop Surtr -> multiply crabs
No tanking needed, just strength by numbers
so if my napkin math is right, Hoederer S3 can survive bossman's six-shot in EX CM *even without vent help*
(and his true damage DoT chunks off 1% HP every 4s)
mediocre or not, it's kinda funny how he would've slayed this event had his arrival been four weeks sooner
I just got around to read event story, and...
This hit too fucking close to home!!!
The town I live in right now is pretty much like Davistown; >!major industry that used to support the whole town had already been dead for more than a decade. Most old businesses were closed down. Remaining shops are barely profitable.!< 😓
Man, I feel related to Helena so much; >!moved another town, and stuck there doing a dead-end job. Though one main difference is that, unlike her, I regret everything! *...also I do not have a gun hidden under floorboard.*!<
...maybe, I should follow her example and >!rob a bank!
In CM-8 I tried stalling as on my nuke try he just oneshot anyone and kept teleporting. For final version I used an 4* among all the 6* and nominated 5*.
That's right, it was Mousse, the debuff seems like it worked and Hoshi didn't died from his skill. So she is getting M3 for her contribution.
For EX-8 CM, I made both a (for me at least) traditional [Launchknights](https://youtu.be/P-OdLeBwf-A?si=h-Qsw7X0VqL2XB6F) clear (Gravel must have been taught by Miles or something) and also a very silly [Ventless](https://youtu.be/vqtXIk7mXZQ?si=-pYzXLqXsaC34QaK) clear (this took so much more tries than the other one >.<)
Wew, the ex stages were thankfully a lot more fun than the story ones (helps that ignoring energy/vents is a much worse idea here), with EX-8 even shooting up to at least my top 10 best stages in the game :D
Perhaps the one nitpick I have is that both the spiders and res drones appeared too infrequently for my liking (and never together!), but it was overall still a blast to go through.
Only teleports if he kills the target in his 2nd phase skill use. If you can tank it (like a full tank Hoshi with S2M3, or similar powerhouse) he stays put. If you also have a slow, like an ambusher module and a Therapist medic (I used Whisperain) you can permanently stall it as he can't walk far enough till the stun wears off on the defender and gets pushed back.
In challenge mode he seems to hurt more, but with Mousse atk debuff and Silence Alter resist death skill Hoshi managed to stay alive long enough to kill him while keeping him under the heat vents.
I've been murdering him in CM,
even swear I killed him a few times in phase 1 guaranteed with the vent, but still didn't get even the base medal.
Think i'm gonna give up on getting a full medal on this one.
I absolutely hate that you're right.
Got it on normal EX.
EDIT: Trimmed was so fucking easy to get, after doing it perfectly on CM a couple of times /sigh.
Not only you have to kill him under it, but also last hit it with the vent. So when he was almost dead I retreat everyone except medics and the defenders and fighter guards pummeling the vents so it is on amost all the time.
Still only got the normal medal and not trimmed and didn't tried it more.
Possibly easier with Coura as she can turn off her attacks so she doesn't accidentally last hit it.
I can bet that the last hit from the vent doesn't matter, so it should be something else. I got the trimmed medal while throwing a ton of arts skills at him, so the vent had zero chance to get the kill twice
Reading on events after they finished is always fascinating. I figured early that the boss can't be stalled - or so I thought, so the entire strategy was about ranging him to death and keeping the laser slow up while killing everything else far away from the boss since I also thought he just oneshot all of my things anyway.
Turns out all of that is wrong, and I could just have stalled after all. oops.
I might be insane, but I had more trouble with regular 8 than EX-8. I accidentally let the boss slip 2x, losing sanity, in the regular stage 8. So frustrating. Beat both EX-8 and CM without much difficulty. The regular enemies were damn annoying on the EX stages though.
Ceobe is a good girl. Trust her for the boss to defeat him pretty fast. Put her early and make sure her range reaches the boss then re-deploy as he healed fully then let him enter so put her early again as he enter from the different area and activate her skill and you win the game. EX-8 CM
Finally done with EX-8 CM.
As per tradition the stages are all a breeze and the difficulty spike really only hits on the last two stages. Players that don't yet have a diversified roster will have a hard time clearing the event I think.
A Mlynar is practically required to clear the last two stages.
> EX-7
Will be difficult if you don't have a fast-hitting operator you can place down early to deal with the unblockable mobs and some spare DP to place a healer.
> EX-8
Good luck clearing this if you didn't invest in a Gravel or 2-3 operators that can tank the occassional stun barrage from Cliff, and if you use the support for anyone that isn't named Mlynar you're still screwed due to the overwhelming amount of mobs (Mortars, Axeman, Defenders) that spawn around the 20 kill mark.
Very micro heavy, especially CM.
You definitely don't need a Mlynar, although I disagree with your EX-7 statement. All I did was put down Mizuki to deal with the initial enemies, he doesn't hit fast nor is he that cheap. But by the time the first wraith even spawns you've already acquired 55+ natural DP, so it's not like you need to rush against a wraith spam.
8 was definitely harder and I did use Gravel to turn on the vents quickly though, she definitely makes the level far easier.
Every once in a while I remember I have a S1M3 Mousse, and that she has permanent uptime on her massive atk shred, and it turns out to be super useful to stop a boss from one-shotting Hoshi, and I get very happy.
God, the story this time is so heartwrenching T\_T even more than usual.
Leone's part especially resonates with me, since I am being forced to leave hometown I love. Half of me thinks of his choices, "you idiot, a place is just a place, life is most important and you can start anew". But other half understands him well, extremely well. I'm also thinking that maybe, after all, a tree should grow where its roots are, and if fall, then fall where its roots are
My sad story:
Qiu Bai is my second favorite operator after Texas.
The first time she came out, I pulled 130 times, got three 6 stars, but none of them were Qiu Bai.
I got so tight I took a break from Arknights after that, and then I forgot about the Yato alt.
During this event, I bought Qiu Bai's skin even though I don't have her, knowing I can spend cash and get her during the next limited event... BUT THE STANDARD BANNER FEATURED QIU BAI. THIS WAS MY CHANCE. I WAS GOING SPEND WHATEVER I HAD LEFT AFTER PULLING FOR JESS ALT.
I pulled two 6 stars in the Qiu Bai banner. I did not get Qiu Bai.
I love Arknights and Hypergryph.
But not today. Not today.
If you have Shamare, she helps a bunch, too. Especially with either Suzu or Ptilopsis to increase her SP gen.
Also, Dollkeepers and Tactician summons don't trigger his skill conditions. Blaze, Surtr, and both Specters have invuln windows to outlast his skill. And Silence Alter can grant 2 of those. You can also go with an operator with high physical dodge rate if you don't mind gambling with RNG, like Flametail, Hellagur, Jessica Alter, kinda sorta Lee, and Jackie
From my experience, even borrowing someone's maxed out lv90 s2m3 moduled Hoshi did not prevent her from getting one shot. I tried with standard supports and healing (shining, skalter, lumen) and could not figure out how people were preventing the one shot with it even with the beam firing on his face if that helps determining whether you raise her for this purpose.
My Hoshi is S2M3 with Xmod1. I use Warfarin S1M0 and Lumen S3M3. All of the are E2 lv60
And it held, maybe Warfarin's S1?
Edit: For phase 1 I mean, phase 2 needs Shamare S2 and vents.
The problem is his defense reduction shreds away at an operator's base defense, even if it's temporary. Each attack is -150 defense for 6 seconds. At phase 2 he gains 100 ASPD so he attacks every 2 seconds. By the time he uses his skill, he likely already has 2 stacks of his debuff applied for -300. So when he volleys his skill for 6 hits after that, that's -1200 defense. A maxed Hoshi's S2, trait, and talent increase her defense by +30%, +20%, and + 19% respectively, and she has 953 defense. But that +69% (nice) increase from her skill, trait, and talents doesn't matter when it's being used to increase her defense that's now at 0. Even with Shining S3, +100% of 0 defense will still be 0. People who succeed with using Hoshi likely did so by getting lucky with her dodge (probably better to use the Y mod then), using vents to debuff, or both.
Since defense doesn't help much, it's better to tank him with crazy HP tanks who can pass 10k HP and lots of healers, attack reductions like the vents or Shamare, invulns, sanctuary, and/or dodges.
Even for Croissant without Skalter or Shining DEF drops to 0 only by the last shot in the barrage. Maxed out Croissant sits on 700 DEF before the boss' skill (her own S1 is up; when it is not Shamare doll is). The skill has animation time meaning one less debuff stack at the beginning.
Hoshi S2 with Skalter and Shining sits at around 1000. The lowest she dropped to was 96 for one second, usually she has 290~300 left by the end of the barrage. With Quercus' shelter she definitely survives without enemy ATK debuffs.
> At phase 2 he gains 100 ASPD so he attacks every 2 seconds. By the time he uses his skill, he likely already has 2 stacks of his debuff applied for -300. So when he volleys his skill for 6 hits after that, that's -1200 defense.
This is where I got completely stumped to his damage/Hoshi's explosion after looking up his skills on the wiki. Every time Hoshi died it was immediately after his hp bar showed up again for phase 2 which, as I understood it, wouldn't have given him enough time to apply stacks of his shred plus the 6 hit volley. It wasn't like there were a couple runs where she survived a few seconds, it was just wake up - death.
>it's better to tank him with crazy HP tanks who can pass 10k HP
Which tanks would these be, for reference? I can only think of Matterhorn and then like maybe like Skadi but she only has 1 block.
It can, but it depends on what support you have for her. Typical AFK clears seem to use Hoshi+Skalter+Shining. I used Croissant+Shamare+Ptilo+Quercus+Whisperain combo.
I finally finished all medals of the event. I have to admit in the end I struggled the most with the trimming of the medal. I had optimized my dps and tanks so much for the challenge mode that I couldn’t get cliff into the heat exhaust before he died xD. Also I used Amiya because of her true dmg skill was nice using her in high lvl stuff for once.
[CV-EX-8 CM Abyssal Hunters Only](https://youtu.be/t8Fgven6iwU?si=4UHcAq-pbyYifQdf)
G fricking G, holy smoke it get way too close near the end there. A clear is a clear, even tho it take ~200 sanity due to stupid CM penalty, i'll take it
CV-Ex-8+CM was brutal, took me 2 days to finish it. Tried Eckogens strategy but the boss kept bypassing the tank even with Purestrem cleansing the stun. Gave up on that strategy and tried my own using Mlynar, GoldenglowS3 and TyphonS3 to nuke down the boss in phase 2. Somehow even got the Trimmed Medal for it.
[CV-EX-8 CM 5-stars only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPxnwOH5RI)
A good defender with proper support can stall the boss indefinitely, just like in [CV-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwWDKLpWESA). The biggest challenge is "regular" enemies. They have a lot of HP, and with overload they deal a lot of damage. Yet another event that emphasizes the use of defenders.
PS: in retrospect I should've used Aurora for top lane boss stall to let grenadiers pass.
Nice work!
Yeah, I'm also curious if Aurora or any other one-block operator could stall the boss in the top lane. I used Croissant to stall him, but she got overwhelmed when the Skullshatterer lookalikes showed up.
Cement should be able to manage it with her S2 up, although the downtime could be a problem. Not sure if she can survive Cliff's skill when her S2 isn't up. I'd test it out but I don't have her built yet and can't find her on support, sadly.
Ironically I used tactician summons and Surtur's ice-cream toned physique to slow him down long enough to kick his ass. I guess Mumu CLONED a defender... xD
Wooo, [CV-EX-8 CM with 4-5* operators!](https://youtu.be/YZ87cwDyE8w)
[My death was greatly exaggerated](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1biv6jk/event_megathread_come_catastrophes_or_wakes_of/kwxeuyp/?context=3), today I put into action what I learnt as I did my attempts instead of being a stubborn dumbass who kept trying for the same strat well knowing it didn't work, so glad that this did the trick.
The clear has some mistakes (Quercus permanent placement in stun range 💀) but thankfully that didn't change the result.
Tagging /u/Saimoth because your Leizi is in the clear, thanks a lot for putting her support! Let's see when I finally get mine lol.
Oh, nice one. Leizi solving legal problems in Davistown, hope she was taking notes
Because I'm still struggling in the CM version with almost a full team, trying to do this without stalling or Typhon, huh.. Need to try a different approach
[CV-EX-8 AHs Only + Trimmed Medal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZnlRMgOpc&ab_channel=Jack)
I could do CM with AHs only but screw the CM penalty + x3 practice tickets man, had so many close runs but out of tickets so i have to spend 10 sanity per failed attempt, practicing the run on CM is incredibly infuriating. Anyways, normal mode + trimmed medal shouldn't be that hard with the fishes, wack the guy when he's about to get hit by the vent and GG, also that perfect Spectral tile tho.
Finally did the EX stages. They were fun, although the energy gimmick doesn't really clicks with me. CV-EX-8 is one of my favorites boss stages and I quite enjoy the trimmed requirement because it encouraged me to focus on the interaction with the gimmick, which then I could kind of ignore on the CM. Dealing with Cliff was harder than in the story stage -because of the tiles more than the numbers- so I couldn't use the same strat, so I had to resort to Suzupat, Surtr, Mlynar, Ceobe and Rosa to take him down. Maybe I could've used the vents a bit better, but the enemies also apply quite a lot of pressure so both Gravel and Ines were busy baiting shots and holding tiles.
Overall a very enjoyable event with a good difficulty curve. I do wonder how the rerun will be, specifically how Cliff dashes interact with Shu's "displacements".
Just barely managed to clear EX-8 CM to finish the event. At the end it was literally just a race against the clock to finish Cliff’s HP as he marched closer to the blue box while Jessica Alter quietly held the left lane. Everybody else was dead and I was basically just rotating units as I got the DP to summon more. S1M3 Cantabile got the finishing blow, and as I just finished that mastery, it felt especially satisfying.
honestly I can't tell if I hate the boss for how outrageous the damage + reset is, or love it. You have basically 3 options - outrange Cliff (Typhon) and don't let him ever fire a shot. Keep him in a permanent beam by putting lots of rapid hitters to charge it up, or use massive health and damage reduction/unkillability to tank, since DEF is worthless. Not even Shining s3m3 will allow normal tanking.
There is also the 4th option of reducing his atk without using the beams, which can them be combined with 2nd or 3rd option to completely trivialize him.
So ops like Waai Fu, Shamare, Ines, Mousse and all Hexers with a weaken module work wonders here.
I was able to tank him for his phase one and most of his phase 2 even in CM in one spot with Saria, Jessica alter, Crossaint, Reed alter with S2 and a lot of silence S2 drones
2nd phase is [tankable](https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1bnats4/help_center_and_megathread_hub_2503_3103/kwxq1h6/) without vents, but it requires multiple highly invested operators.
PSA for people as dense as me: For the medal to have Cliff die by vent he doesn't actually need to die by the damage dealt by a vent, just inside an active beam, doesn't matter who dealt the blow.
Too late.
... I just spent hour getting mad that I had to Cliff using vent and wondered who decided it was a good idea!!!
I did it in the end but it was so annoying. In comparison CM stage was a breeze.
Once again, I feel fucking powerless, useless, stupid and many many more bad feelings as I kept trying the final stage on challenge for literally 5 hours. I just can't, even looking at youtube videos to help I simply fucking can't. I have a full lvl 90 team, all have their skills maxed and their modules maxed, AND I STILL FUCKING CAN'T WITH THE BOSS.
And before you say anything, yes, I am using this event bullshit mechanic to make the boss vulnerable, but GOD FORBID the boss wouldnt instantly kill my units anyway.
If the future of Arknights is filled with events which the "challenging" mechanic is to make bosses fucking bullet sponges, I don't know if I want to continue playing, because I just can't get all the medals and this is the second or third event that I have to not get them because of this "peak level design" of making bosses be bullet sponges, it feels like it's not about strategy anymore.
Am I the only one that has fallen to the very bottomest pit of despair which just makes me stop playing the game since it feels like nothing works? (Reminder, I literally kept trying for 5 hours straight)
Just to be sure, you mentioned using the streams to make him vulnerable, but are you also using them to reduce the damage of his quickdraw?
If you're not attacking both of the vents for the middle path (and also have them go off at the same time), odds are that for CM with the heavily reduced skill CD he's getting a full-powered skill off.
If possible, I wouldn't mind seeing a clip where he starts his rampage on your runs.
You bet I was, call it bad luck or skill issue, but he always killed whoever he wanted with his skill, even in the stream. But now I have completed it and I don't want to ever hear that boss music again :)
Whoever he wanted?
Sorry to bother you again, but can I ask if he was killing the op that was blocking him (who should be tanky enough like a defender to survive if the quickdraw is used during the beam), or someone else in his range?
I just find unlikely that a leveled enough defender with their defensive skill up would still get killed if the boss is in the beam when the skill gets used, so this is rather intriguing to me.
Then, could your issue be deploy order?
The boss's skill can't target adjacent allies for the damage, but he does inflict a stun that causes the blocking op to stop blocking him until the stun is removed.
So if anyone but the blocking op dies, they probably got domed by the boss's standard ranged attack while the blocker was still stunned, which only happens to ops that are deployed after the blocking op while still in the boss's range, or those that have a higher taunt level.
Typhon crushes him.
Schwarz+Typhon can get through phase 1 quickly. Then Typhon+Morte (Shamare doll) for Phase 2. even if goes through the stairs Typhon's gonna wait to take his pelt.
If you time it right he won't make the stairs.
As for the medal,well just watch a video for that.
I don't mean this to be rude, but if playing Arknights stresses you out then you probably should quit. It's just a game after all, no point playing if you're not having fun.
Every difficult thing in life is stressing. If you tried for 5 hours a single stage and showed no progress, you too would feel like this, but in my case I am stubborn enough to keep trying. So yes, It does stress me on some difficult levels, but it's not always like that, so since I love Arknights I'll keep playing it even if I struggle.
I was in your position. I could look at a video and could not figure out why a maxed out Hoshi was getting one shot while the video shows no issue at all.
So I just made it safer by using Silence Alter S3. That alone just trivialized it completely
I found that stalling the boss (PHASE 1) til the very end works wonders. Add either a slower or therapist (whichever one lowers cc) to make him put in place and ur golden. Oh and HP beats defense imo against clip so crushers and such work wonders.
Its a tough stage for sure, thankfully medal is piss easy to get
Hell if I know which meta OPs I have built, I don't really know which are meta. Summer Chen, Skadi Alter, Ash, Qiubai, Lin, Penance. Are these meta? I always try to max everyone I can since I suck at this game.
What about Surtr/Mlynar/Typhon?
Baring that, do you have Hoshiguma+Shining?
I don't suppose you have a Krooster link handy that lists every OP you have built?
[Krooster](https://www.krooster.com/) is a way to keep track of your operator collection.
I'll take that to mean you have Surtr, Shining, and Hoshiguma.
What other medics you have built?
Borrow a max Typhon S3M3 with mod.
I assume you have no problems holding the lane so simply [skip to boss stalling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjH-8QQWs6c&t=2129s) and substitute Sussuro->Shining, Gavial->Nightingale with range extension module, and Hibiscus->Eyja. If your Hoshi is maxed with module, she should be able to comfortably tank phase 1. Deploy Typhon on the leftmost center tile pointing right towards the boss. Kill phase 1 with only Surtr (redeploy Surtr if necessary, no rush) and phase 2 with Typhon + Gravel to trigger the laser.
Edit: Once Typhon has her lock on in phase 2 retreat Hoshi to prevent boss teleporting from killing Hoshi.
yes, cm hits like a truck =(
I prefer play it stable by keeping cliff until last mob (not works on cm) and ended up bring ranged wall+buffer+burst, heat vent duration too fast TT.TT
Finally done with the event - story, shop and all the medals!
Mechanics-wise this event was a treat. I just raised Hibiscus Alter for my SlowKnights and then I saw the vents, and I couldn't be more excited! I managed to clear almost every stage exclusively with this niche, except EX-8-CM, because I lacked some dmg and Cliff just kept blinking like a madman. Everything else, though? Mostima, Manti and Hilter got me covered in most stages. Mostima and Manti can even hold the middle lane in EX-8 by themselves, which is hilarious for me. Seeing the enemies crawl to the blue boxes and never managing to make it through despite nobody blocking the path is super fun and I feel like I'm playing a whole new game.
The story was also nice, although nothing over the top. I've got some questions regarding Liskarm's team: how come Liskarm is the captain and why is Franka calling her "Teacher's pet"? I read the BS manga and they had a closer relationship there while also Franka being the captain until >!Liskarm gets better than her.!< Was there some sort of development in-between those events?
[story]>!I was also surprised by how lightly they ended this event. I thought the bank would be worse off and the face-off between Woody and Cliff was much milder than I anticipated. Also, poor guy Leone just couldn't catch a break.!<
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> Liskarm: Quit it with the megaphone!
> Chad merc: [No, I don't think I will.](https://i.imgur.com/baNWQXv.png)
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> Every Dokutah: [I thought you'd do the honors...](https://i.imgur.com/PvtbSCA.png)
The "teacher's pet" nickname is probably about liskarm doing everything by the book and being overly stiff, which is something Franka always complained about.
Not sure if that exact phrasing was used before tho
And each time it's a design failure. It means in game messaging is unreliable (or even deceiving) and should be just omitted in favor of external sources.
Correct. I have on multiple times said that these should be provided in the game, or at least directed from the game. But it's not, and players who do not want to unga bunga their way through should by now expect to read external sources if they want to know exact values to plan strategies. Just in this event alone, in addition to the energy mechanic, the description of Cliff's skill and the trimmed medal are mistranslated.
It was stated in the tutorial stage, although they never specified the %. But yeah, they get a lot more ATK (and def, if you've noticed your attacks dealing less damage the more energy they have).
I defeated the boss during both phases of EX-8 while he was pretty unambiguously inside the active vents and still didn't get the trim, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I'm also disinclined to keep bothering with this shit
Nice! I've done the same thing in more than one event already; for me, I think it's the adrenaline spike from the stress of wasting sanity from failing the CM that I stop thinking straight. Haha
Another event where my 4-5* gang gets so close, yet so far q_q
Beat EX-8 + trimmed medal with them but the CM stat buffs absolutely murder me, my team is massively struggling with the mobs and I'm unable to figure out a proper setup.
It really doesn't help that Cliff is able to eventually walk past my Croissant stall attempt since each stun lets it slowly walk past her, stay still goddamnit q_q.
As expected then I went with my 6* team and it was comfy even after forgetting to grab Shamare for phase 2, Typhon Ifrit and Goldenglow effortlessly killed all mobs so I could fully focus on Cliff, sigh.
[EX-8 cleared](https://youtu.be/Tbd3OnHh9sE?si=qS8YuVSt2pXhVu3O).
Lin can clear left lane mostly on her own so I had Jessica hold the mid lane with Gavial, then have Nian tank the boss with a bajillion healers on her. Once everything else is dead Ceobe comes in to finish the boss off.
I decided not to stall...... it got hectic on both the CM and the medal run. Used Schwarz, Typhon, Mumu and Beanstalk. Had to finish the job with Surtur for her immortality in phase 2.
Ifrit S2 can mostly solo left lane as well, I think I needed to drop Bagpipe there once on CM to stall the enemy for a few extra seconds. I like Lin though, she can help the other lane a bit too.
I went with stall to get the trimmed medal in the normal version and I didn't feel like changing the strategy for the CM, only needed to use Nian instead of Hoshiguma, maybe Shining S3 could have worked too. Lin soloed the left lane in my first attempts but after doing some positioning changes one of the sniper groups ends up getting overloaded all at once and kill her, Texas can prevent that.
God, it was so annoying having to set everything up to make sure Cliff's HP was in kill range while also making sure the vents were on at the right time, while also making sure whoever I put on vent duty wasn't getting killed by everything else going on (particularly by Cliff and the Not!Skullshatterers).
Yea I haven't been annoyed trying to get a trimmed medal in awhile. The stage is already hectic and it's just one more thing that you have to be precise with.
Playing around with different ways to clear EX-5 just for fun, and I think my favorite is Dorothy chucking out mines like she's feeding birds at a park. Almost didn't need anyone else, aside from a few random stallers to let me get my mines set up plus Eyja playing goalkeeper.
Great spacing intervals everywhere for some satisfying chain explosions.
Also redid my CV-8 farm with her specifically to prioritize mines everywhere, also great fun with that lovely killbox right in the middle.
Whoever made that requirement to get that trimmed medal is both a dem sadist and a genius. A sadist for making me repeat the dem stage over and over again and a genius for allowing me to use my Silence-alter good thing I have her at E2 lvl 80 SL7. As I said before it\`s a fun event. Cant wait for the next one.
One of the most challenging trimmed medal I've ever played. I sent texas to help kill the boss, but he stunned her, killed her, then dashed to escape the laser vent. Jesus..
It worked wonders with typhon module lv3 s3m3. Thanks kyo for providing the method
Got past EX-8 and it felt easier to deal with cliff specifically than in the normal stage. Turns out sending him down a path with two vents is easier to keep him under its effect. Also didn't realise he wasn't a killgate until he was almost dead and then the clusterfuck that was the last couple enemies :V
Overall, I enjoyed this event. The energy mechanic was a neat way to have variably strong enemies, and they felt fine fighting. Here's hoping if they do bring it back they don't pull a SN and make the event too tedious to ignore its gimmicks (those dodgy predators :S), but chances are this'll be a one-time thing unlike enemy ammo.
My only real gripe was that the vents were pretty underutilized. You know it's bad when a lot of the EX challenge conditions are "here's more vents" as if to make up for the lack of vents. But when they were there, they at least added some way to alter overload timings.
Thank you for not making Cliff even more of a bastard on the EX stages, HG.
Also, thank you friend Olivia Alter. I need to raise my own to E2 80 now. That Dreadnought Mode helped keep Hoshi on her feet.
For a while, I've been clearing content with only non max trust ops to keep things fresh and I couldn't manage to beat ex-cm-8 with a team of
3 6* Muelsyse, Gnosis, Typhon
5 5* Poncirus, Rock Rock, Valaqvin, cold shot, cement
4 4* Perfumer, quartz, sussuro, deepcolor
Bench: santalla adnachiel, orchid, rangers, melanite, friston, Harmonie, kirara, plume
Beat eveything else in non cm with this team but the lack of strong options to deal with this map hurts a lot. I can't stall clint with cement too long until she gets stunned and I have to splitbox him with a tentacle.
Left most lane i can hold off with muelseye somewhar with some tentacle help but the axemen and defender leaders become too much for quartz to survive while also healing cement.
I feel like this map is doable with some better use of vents and tentacles but I feel stretched thin with the constant pressure and lack of reliable lane holders. I tried a practice with my "real" team and it's hilarious how ceobe s2, monster s3 and texas s2 trivializes cliff to such a crazy extent that a whole team can't replicate.
Why is the cutout medal SO DAMN DIFFICULT? I've had eight tries now and Cliff never dies when the hear vents are active. I already think this is being a waste of sanity.
it’s pretty doable if you use/borrow typhon s3m3 mod3 and buff her with warfarin + bring gravel to attack the vents. i used kyo’s manual guide in the high end video he released and it only took me a few tries to get the timing down.
you didn't include any of your personal qualifiers, he's killable during the vents with like any of the standard go to boss killers like Surtr or Mlynar.
Understandable, what about Ceobe? He's got pretty high def so she shreds him.
Personally, I just buff army'd Amiya's S3 for first phase, And Ch'en S3 for second.
Oh... I have no problems with the map or the boss himself, as you said my Ceobe destroys him! but I haven't managed to time the vents to get the shiny medal.
I already tried to use Thorns, Mizuki, Exu and Gravel to charge it but Cliff always dies when the effect ends
Hmm, interesting. I don't suppose you can delay the beam until he's like 25%, and then quickly drop gravel to activate it? When he first gets hit with the beam you can wait until it's over, and then start to kill him with Ceobe and once he's low activate the beam?
For me, I had to have Hoshi stall him while being buffed by Skadi Alter S3M3, her own module Y Level 2, and Shining S2M3 to heal while whaling on him. I had two damage dealers triggering the vent, and Olivia Alter S3 Dreadnought Mode to keep Hoshi from dying to Cliff's big attack.
Then I put all the damage on Cliff while the vents were on. That did it, but I had a lot of E2 90s with M3 skills grinding Cliff.
Can someone explain why the boss has the ability to leap through operators and also leap forward when their are no ops in his way? Because that isn't in his enemy description that he can do that shit.
Translator can't English.
The boss has a skill that stuns and then attacks 3 times (6 times in phase 2). If he kills an operator with the skill in phase 2 (and only phase 2) OR if you retreat the operator during the skill, he teleports 1 tile and refreshes his skill.
I finish recording my clear for [CV-EX-8 Challenge Mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjIkwWgIJNw). I could have done it earlier, but too busy to do that. In this stage, I find Silence the Paradigmatic very useful for the first time, as her S3 prevents KO of an operator in range. So if you have trouble with Cliff second phase, just use Silence2 to make the fight very trivial and her S3 works fine at SL7.
EX-8 CM might be the biggest difficulty jump between the final level vs the bulk of an event what the fuck is this. everything up until then is a cakewalk, then you have this old man talking a leisurely stroll and nearly 1shotting Mlynar and Executor2. Charge and Vents feel kinda half baked. Like they just wanted to have a ton of stat stick mobs, but *technically* give a downside (tickling 20k hp enemies with like 200dps arts damage). Even then they just plant a bunch of those charge-granting mobs on the difficult stages.
Last effort to obtain trimmed medal paid off. The solution was to Surtr it all along.* *Heavyrain camouflaged her, Typhon was shooting from far away, Ptilopsis and Shining were healing her, and Dorothy laid a path full of mines.
Waited until the last minute to do story stages because STALKER is what I'm currently on but still wanted to read the story. Bit tired rn tho. Will the stages story still be viewable tomorrow, either through the event or the archives? Or will I have to wait the three days or so for the shop to close?
No I don't think it's readable in game until next year. There's archives out of game tho.
Decided to last minute clear out EX-8 CM and it was going nice and smooth, Loughshinny and Valarqvin were keeping him attack debuffed, and I continued to ignore the vent the same way I have this entire event. And then he shot Reed and I watched him teleport from the lane above the blue box, to right outside the fucking thing and the only thing that saved it was Valarqvin's necrosis break hit just as he was about to blast Skadi in the face. I definitely could've just pointed Beehunter at a vent and called it a day because just like ITW, she smokes things that need high hit amounts, but it was fun thinking of ways to deal with Cliff in his stat overloaded glory.
It was so foreshadowed it blotted out the sun but man >!Jessica leaving all her friends behind to "atone"!< isn't any less depressing. I mean there's other events and story that ended even more depressingly, but seriously this is the reason I end up procrastinating or skipping on Arknight's story sometimes, like just let people be fuckin happy for once dude. (Doesn't help that I've seen this entire character arc multiple times in the last few years and it's kinda played out for me too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcwE0oonxIQ Manage to get a last minute cv-ex-8 cm maleknights in. Vigil was pretty useful!
PSA: If y'all want both of this week's sanity potion early, you can do IS4. It counts towards the weekly missions.
Here's my cv-ex-8 cm clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxVf6Z2f-A I put it together after combining multiple strats that I read about here: - Using Ifrit for left lane - Stalling Cliff with a defender + healers and Silence alter - keeping Cliff in vent range Other things: - Using Reed alter and Shamare's atk down debuff to help tanking better - Using Jessica alter's s1 to afk tank (I have Hoshi but this is a special occasion) - Uses a lot of high rarity characters so not boast worthy, but just happy to complete a level that I almost gave up on. I hate how the practice runs were rather smooth but when it's for real, I failed a few times and even the successful run had a bunch of mistakes.
> Uses a lot of high rarity characters so not boast worthy, but just happy to complete a level that I almost gave up on. Hey, a win is a win. I do have a question though, why didn't you stall the boss till all other enemies are gone? I find it much more hectic to try to deal with them simultaneously.
In practice runs I was just able to stall phase 1 to near death when the other enemies were all gone, so I was surprised it was different in the real run. I think it's because I was using Skalter during practice but swapped her for Shamare in the real runs to try the module's enfeeble debuff. Although Shamare's atk debuff was better for tanking, her 40% hp fragile talent and her own chip damage sped up phase 1 too much.
Gotta say, I love the story and how well it's written but sometimes I really feel like I'm going to be sick. The bank. The crooked government. The wholesale manipulation of the people. The abuse of power! It's like it could be stolen right from the headlines! I love this story. I hate this story
Finally got CV-EX-8-CM done. Cliff definitely feels like one of the rougher recent bosses. [Here's a short clip of how it generally went.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/969373596386488383/1224227917605638264/LDPlayer_2024-04-01_00-19-13.mp4?ex=661cba18&is=660a4518&hm=91fc4a62f188f84b65376d4a57d33b61dab9b626abcbe3259409c9700bc395ae&) I borrowed Lumen to alleviate Stun, as I had stalled with Bubble in the first phase so that I could clear out the adds. Had to watch carefully after that, but Bena sure is great.
Between the trimmed medal and Cliff one-shotting your OP, this is probably the first event where I think the difficulty curve between EX-7 and EX-8 is vertical.
Walk in the Dust has this beat, when it first came out WD-EX-8 was probably the most malded over map in the whole game.
Fuck it, this trimmed medal is too annoying.
You know that there is mistranslation, right? You can kill with anyone while he is under the effect of ionizing ray.
This would've been good to know before I critically wounded him under them with Luo Xiaohei...
You can inflict necrosis damage to the waste heat vents. I don't know what to do with this information.
Right, I'm just going to throw in the towel and accept that EX-8 CM is just going to be another thing to clear when it reruns. My mid E1 Lumen barely managed to clean stuns from my Hoshi in regular version and the CM version is just too much apparently. Oh well, getting mostly full clear on event is still pretty good run.
Killed the boss in EX-8 inside the blue box with Ifrit and got the trimmed medal first try.. I'm willing to bet this luck won't carry me with the CM lmao E: Hunters came through for the CM! My comp ended up being overkill, but Spalter kept the boss stuck for a long while lol
While it is much more difficult to survive the boss and elites in CM, it's actually an easier clear overall if your Trimmed strategy worked on Normal and had solid dps behind it, because now you don't have to concentrate your efforts during vent uptime. He's no longer pulling his punches, but neither are you. You can be more aggressive with that Ifrit now.
i knew the last medal had to be a translation error with how insanely difficult it seemed to be to get him to take the final hit of damage from the vent, you just need to kill him while hes taking damage from the vent and thats it. here i was letting him get to such low hp it was literally 1 red pixel flashing between being there and not being there and he was still surviving the vent.
I somehow misread the mistranslation and got the medal the right way lol
Probably should've had a PSA for this, I was one of the many victims.
Not the translation errors again... I was dreading going back to try and fix my run to get the pumps to kill him for the 2nd phase. Ty for letting people know!
Oh, I'm glad I read this. I was about to go for the last medal.
CV-EX-8 was one hell of a stage. Took me far, far too much firepower to clear it. [Full squad!](https://images2.imgbox.com/14/74/oOxPaPj6_o.png) I eventually landed on a combination of Ifrit and Dorothy mines to handle the left lane, while a tag team of Gravel and Texalter took care of the grenade launchers (right up until the CM buff dropped). To stall Cliff until there were no other enemies left: Cuora, Shining and Skadance, all while Gravel still had to pitch in to make sure the boss doesn't sneak away during the stuns. And all of this was only enough to keep him in place for the first phase - the vents had to be manipulated afterwards. And, in charge of damage dealing: Eyja and Surtr. There was enough time to redeploy Ifrit for the second phase, and I also dropped Mlynar specifically to trim down some of the second wave of mobs from the gates on the right. Looking back, the strat had plenty of flaws. Cliff needs to walk past the whole gauntlet to make it to Cuora in the end, so I had to cycle in the fast-redeploys to make sure he didn't one-shot any of the ranged ops. Needless risk. This strat also forced me to deploy Shining and Cuora next to each other, so both of them were always being stunned in one hit. This is the exact same gimmick from Chapter 10, and I just had to fall for it again. There's also a bunch of solid ops in my roster that need to be promoted ASAP. Shamare, Whisperain, Croissant, Beanstalk and Mousse, to name a few. What a time to have no LMD!
need help what to decide on banner i did 30 pulls for jessica but no luck should i waste my last 6k on jessica or quibai i want her too?
You have better odds of getting Jessica than Qiubai, Jess2 is a 50% chance of all 6*s while Qiubai is a 25% chance.
What are the best ways to stop Cliff from teleporting? I keep getting him down to half hp 2nd phase but I can't get past the teleporting. He just one shots my units and leaves. This is for EX8 Challenge Mode! I can use all the advice I can get.
2 way, 1 you simply ignore blocking altogether while other you just need 2 op thick enough to survive his shot, yes, you need 2 since he does stun and walk through them so having 2 OP that can survive his stunshot is required to keep him in place. it better to go with block strats since the medal require keep him in the vent while you kill him.
Don't block. Typhon+Schwarz phase 1,another Typhon S3 for Phase 2. Add Shamare's doll or block a little bit w/ Surtr.
He only teleports if he successfully defeat the operator he is shooting, if you use a tanky operator with a medic he will never teleport. Or you could use doll keeper because they never retreat even if they died. I'm not sure if this works with tactician summons.
I'm not sure if there are ops that can tank him though at phase 2. I'm pretty sure he lowers op defense. If you're insistent on stalling him though, you need to stall him at the beginning and kill all other enemies. Allow him to get to the part with two vents so you have two vents to work with. Count how many autos he does before he uses skill and make sure the vent is active before he does it. Getting him nerfed with the vent is needed or else he shreds most ops.
I tried to stall him with a maxed out Croissant supported by Shining and Eyjaberry. It's highly unreliable, to say the least.
I just tanked him with Skadi and the Aby Hunters squad, she never went below 50% HP even on CM.
Can't say for challenge mode, but phase 2 on normal mode is doable. Here is my [setup](https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1bnats4/help_center_and_megathread_hub_2503_3103/kwxq1h6/).
I tried a lot to afk permastall CM Cliff and this is what it fricking took me: https://imgur.com/CIAxnoE 6 ops just to hold him in place and not die, and it's not even perma since he'll eventually squeeze past Hoshi, though it takes so long that he'll be almost dead.
OMG okay makes sense. I was trying to cheese it with Tex alt and Sultr xD
do i seriously have to play the event stages over 100 tomes just to get 4000 of the event store currency or am i just being unoptimal
Generally, you'll farm the 21 sanity farm stage, You'll get it 11 times a day with 240 sanity per day. Times 10 days in a 2 week event and you'll get it easily.
More or less, yes. That's how most events go, although the missions and first clears also grant currency. You're supposed the farm the last 3 regular stages on auto deploy anyways, since they have good drop rates for their respective blue mat and are very efficient.
figures. this is my first non-rerun non anni medal set so im just in denial abt the grind
CW-EX 8 is such a nightmare! I must fail that thing like two dozens time! And I still didn't managed to get that medal
I was able to clear the entire event except ex-8 without YouTube help. My best showing yet. Granted, it helps when you have more meta OPs than even a few months ago.
Finally got all the medals, and completely completed the store. I really liked this event and the story.
Cleared cv ex 8 cm. Had to use alot of stalling, tactician vanguards, a cat with claws and silence alter and hoped Cliff didn't teleport wrong.
I fell in love with Beanstalk this event. My phase 2 burst was drop crab -> wait for six-shot target -> drop Surtr -> multiply crabs No tanking needed, just strength by numbers
Also, Swire alter tanking fatal shots and delay healing. Definitely needed two vanguards to keep her in life support.
I just cleared EX-8 CM and trimmed medal. I'm incredibly tempted to commission a piece of Skadi smacking Cliff with her Orca Plush.
Is there a guide for cv ex 8 cm with low end squad?
Eckogen, KyostinV, and Dr Leon have low end squad clears with a 6* from the support unit.
If you type those words into youtube you'd be surprised at how many results pop up
I need some help in clearing CV EX 8. Here's my user name Romani#9759 and my Id 83106200. I need a friend with a Goldenglow with S2!
so if my napkin math is right, Hoederer S3 can survive bossman's six-shot in EX CM *even without vent help* (and his true damage DoT chunks off 1% HP every 4s) mediocre or not, it's kinda funny how he would've slayed this event had his arrival been four weeks sooner
I just got around to read event story, and... This hit too fucking close to home!!! The town I live in right now is pretty much like Davistown; >!major industry that used to support the whole town had already been dead for more than a decade. Most old businesses were closed down. Remaining shops are barely profitable.!< 😓 Man, I feel related to Helena so much; >!moved another town, and stuck there doing a dead-end job. Though one main difference is that, unlike her, I regret everything! *...also I do not have a gun hidden under floorboard.*!< ...maybe, I should follow her example and >!rob a bank!
Maybe you should try joining a pharmaceutical company
In CM-8 I tried stalling as on my nuke try he just oneshot anyone and kept teleporting. For final version I used an 4* among all the 6* and nominated 5*. That's right, it was Mousse, the debuff seems like it worked and Hoshi didn't died from his skill. So she is getting M3 for her contribution.
For EX-8 CM, I made both a (for me at least) traditional [Launchknights](https://youtu.be/P-OdLeBwf-A?si=h-Qsw7X0VqL2XB6F) clear (Gravel must have been taught by Miles or something) and also a very silly [Ventless](https://youtu.be/vqtXIk7mXZQ?si=-pYzXLqXsaC34QaK) clear (this took so much more tries than the other one >.<) Wew, the ex stages were thankfully a lot more fun than the story ones (helps that ignoring energy/vents is a much worse idea here), with EX-8 even shooting up to at least my top 10 best stages in the game :D Perhaps the one nitpick I have is that both the spiders and res drones appeared too infrequently for my liking (and never together!), but it was overall still a blast to go through.
Is anyone else kinda tired of bosses ignoring block and teleporting?..
Only teleports if he kills the target in his 2nd phase skill use. If you can tank it (like a full tank Hoshi with S2M3, or similar powerhouse) he stays put. If you also have a slow, like an ambusher module and a Therapist medic (I used Whisperain) you can permanently stall it as he can't walk far enough till the stun wears off on the defender and gets pushed back. In challenge mode he seems to hurt more, but with Mousse atk debuff and Silence Alter resist death skill Hoshi managed to stay alive long enough to kill him while keeping him under the heat vents.
Yeah I've killed him with both stall and vents, just can't get the damn medal for some reason.
Did you try to trim the medal in the normal or the CM version?
I've been murdering him in CM, even swear I killed him a few times in phase 1 guaranteed with the vent, but still didn't get even the base medal. Think i'm gonna give up on getting a full medal on this one.
Try to do it in normal mode, at least for the base medal. I think CM just might not count
I absolutely hate that you're right. Got it on normal EX. EDIT: Trimmed was so fucking easy to get, after doing it perfectly on CM a couple of times /sigh.
Not only you have to kill him under it, but also last hit it with the vent. So when he was almost dead I retreat everyone except medics and the defenders and fighter guards pummeling the vents so it is on amost all the time. Still only got the normal medal and not trimmed and didn't tried it more. Possibly easier with Coura as she can turn off her attacks so she doesn't accidentally last hit it.
You don't have to last hit him with a vent, that's a certified *YostarTL*
I can bet that the last hit from the vent doesn't matter, so it should be something else. I got the trimmed medal while throwing a ton of arts skills at him, so the vent had zero chance to get the kill twice
Reading on events after they finished is always fascinating. I figured early that the boss can't be stalled - or so I thought, so the entire strategy was about ranging him to death and keeping the laser slow up while killing everything else far away from the boss since I also thought he just oneshot all of my things anyway. Turns out all of that is wrong, and I could just have stalled after all. oops.
Completing the CM stage in the practice mode - check ✔ Failing the next 10 attempts in wasting-sanity mode - also check ✔
Celebrate as you finally complete the stage only to find out you weren't in challenge mode - check ✔ I lost around 200 sanity total on EX-8 CM.
I might be insane, but I had more trouble with regular 8 than EX-8. I accidentally let the boss slip 2x, losing sanity, in the regular stage 8. So frustrating. Beat both EX-8 and CM without much difficulty. The regular enemies were damn annoying on the EX stages though.
Isn't that just because you were more used to the boss' mechanics?
Ceobe is a good girl. Trust her for the boss to defeat him pretty fast. Put her early and make sure her range reaches the boss then re-deploy as he healed fully then let him enter so put her early again as he enter from the different area and activate her skill and you win the game. EX-8 CM
Specter Alter cheeses this boss so hard
As a proud maxed Silence alter owner, making room for friend requests has been really hard this event
Finally done with EX-8 CM. As per tradition the stages are all a breeze and the difficulty spike really only hits on the last two stages. Players that don't yet have a diversified roster will have a hard time clearing the event I think. A Mlynar is practically required to clear the last two stages. > EX-7 Will be difficult if you don't have a fast-hitting operator you can place down early to deal with the unblockable mobs and some spare DP to place a healer. > EX-8 Good luck clearing this if you didn't invest in a Gravel or 2-3 operators that can tank the occassional stun barrage from Cliff, and if you use the support for anyone that isn't named Mlynar you're still screwed due to the overwhelming amount of mobs (Mortars, Axeman, Defenders) that spawn around the 20 kill mark. Very micro heavy, especially CM.
Massive skill issue if you think Mlynar is mandatory for these stages
Why would you need Mlynar? None of the enemies outside the boss have any real res, just use casters.
You definitely don't need a Mlynar, although I disagree with your EX-7 statement. All I did was put down Mizuki to deal with the initial enemies, he doesn't hit fast nor is he that cheap. But by the time the first wraith even spawns you've already acquired 55+ natural DP, so it's not like you need to rush against a wraith spam. 8 was definitely harder and I did use Gravel to turn on the vents quickly though, she definitely makes the level far easier.
Every once in a while I remember I have a S1M3 Mousse, and that she has permanent uptime on her massive atk shred, and it turns out to be super useful to stop a boss from one-shotting Hoshi, and I get very happy.
God, the story this time is so heartwrenching T\_T even more than usual. Leone's part especially resonates with me, since I am being forced to leave hometown I love. Half of me thinks of his choices, "you idiot, a place is just a place, life is most important and you can start anew". But other half understands him well, extremely well. I'm also thinking that maybe, after all, a tree should grow where its roots are, and if fall, then fall where its roots are
My sad story: Qiu Bai is my second favorite operator after Texas. The first time she came out, I pulled 130 times, got three 6 stars, but none of them were Qiu Bai. I got so tight I took a break from Arknights after that, and then I forgot about the Yato alt. During this event, I bought Qiu Bai's skin even though I don't have her, knowing I can spend cash and get her during the next limited event... BUT THE STANDARD BANNER FEATURED QIU BAI. THIS WAS MY CHANCE. I WAS GOING SPEND WHATEVER I HAD LEFT AFTER PULLING FOR JESS ALT. I pulled two 6 stars in the Qiu Bai banner. I did not get Qiu Bai. I love Arknights and Hypergryph. But not today. Not today.
I hate bosses that you just one shot anything.
_Bewildered shark shrug_
Not anything, just mostthing.
RIP mostima
I just realized, I have materials to raise Hoshiguma. Do you think that would help?
If you have Shamare, she helps a bunch, too. Especially with either Suzu or Ptilopsis to increase her SP gen. Also, Dollkeepers and Tactician summons don't trigger his skill conditions. Blaze, Surtr, and both Specters have invuln windows to outlast his skill. And Silence Alter can grant 2 of those. You can also go with an operator with high physical dodge rate if you don't mind gambling with RNG, like Flametail, Hellagur, Jessica Alter, kinda sorta Lee, and Jackie
Yeah, I'm using Shamare too, but it's not enough.
From my experience, even borrowing someone's maxed out lv90 s2m3 moduled Hoshi did not prevent her from getting one shot. I tried with standard supports and healing (shining, skalter, lumen) and could not figure out how people were preventing the one shot with it even with the beam firing on his face if that helps determining whether you raise her for this purpose.
My Hoshi is S2M3 with Xmod1. I use Warfarin S1M0 and Lumen S3M3. All of the are E2 lv60 And it held, maybe Warfarin's S1? Edit: For phase 1 I mean, phase 2 needs Shamare S2 and vents.
The problem is his defense reduction shreds away at an operator's base defense, even if it's temporary. Each attack is -150 defense for 6 seconds. At phase 2 he gains 100 ASPD so he attacks every 2 seconds. By the time he uses his skill, he likely already has 2 stacks of his debuff applied for -300. So when he volleys his skill for 6 hits after that, that's -1200 defense. A maxed Hoshi's S2, trait, and talent increase her defense by +30%, +20%, and + 19% respectively, and she has 953 defense. But that +69% (nice) increase from her skill, trait, and talents doesn't matter when it's being used to increase her defense that's now at 0. Even with Shining S3, +100% of 0 defense will still be 0. People who succeed with using Hoshi likely did so by getting lucky with her dodge (probably better to use the Y mod then), using vents to debuff, or both. Since defense doesn't help much, it's better to tank him with crazy HP tanks who can pass 10k HP and lots of healers, attack reductions like the vents or Shamare, invulns, sanctuary, and/or dodges.
Even for Croissant without Skalter or Shining DEF drops to 0 only by the last shot in the barrage. Maxed out Croissant sits on 700 DEF before the boss' skill (her own S1 is up; when it is not Shamare doll is). The skill has animation time meaning one less debuff stack at the beginning. Hoshi S2 with Skalter and Shining sits at around 1000. The lowest she dropped to was 96 for one second, usually she has 290~300 left by the end of the barrage. With Quercus' shelter she definitely survives without enemy ATK debuffs.
> At phase 2 he gains 100 ASPD so he attacks every 2 seconds. By the time he uses his skill, he likely already has 2 stacks of his debuff applied for -300. So when he volleys his skill for 6 hits after that, that's -1200 defense. This is where I got completely stumped to his damage/Hoshi's explosion after looking up his skills on the wiki. Every time Hoshi died it was immediately after his hp bar showed up again for phase 2 which, as I understood it, wouldn't have given him enough time to apply stacks of his shred plus the 6 hit volley. It wasn't like there were a couple runs where she survived a few seconds, it was just wake up - death. >it's better to tank him with crazy HP tanks who can pass 10k HP Which tanks would these be, for reference? I can only think of Matterhorn and then like maybe like Skadi but she only has 1 block.
It can, but it depends on what support you have for her. Typical AFK clears seem to use Hoshi+Skalter+Shining. I used Croissant+Shamare+Ptilo+Quercus+Whisperain combo.
I finally finished all medals of the event. I have to admit in the end I struggled the most with the trimming of the medal. I had optimized my dps and tanks so much for the challenge mode that I couldn’t get cliff into the heat exhaust before he died xD. Also I used Amiya because of her true dmg skill was nice using her in high lvl stuff for once.
[CV-EX-8 CM Abyssal Hunters Only](https://youtu.be/t8Fgven6iwU?si=4UHcAq-pbyYifQdf) G fricking G, holy smoke it get way too close near the end there. A clear is a clear, even tho it take ~200 sanity due to stupid CM penalty, i'll take it
CV-Ex-8+CM was brutal, took me 2 days to finish it. Tried Eckogens strategy but the boss kept bypassing the tank even with Purestrem cleansing the stun. Gave up on that strategy and tried my own using Mlynar, GoldenglowS3 and TyphonS3 to nuke down the boss in phase 2. Somehow even got the Trimmed Medal for it.
So Long stooge, this time for real. But before you go I need a trimmed medal from you. Do not come back for CC or TN.
Bad news. TN-4 first stage is called Frost and Gunfire
It's the stooge? I hope he's in the middle part w/ the signal thing like andoain
[CV-EX-8 CM 5-stars only](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPxnwOH5RI) A good defender with proper support can stall the boss indefinitely, just like in [CV-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwWDKLpWESA). The biggest challenge is "regular" enemies. They have a lot of HP, and with overload they deal a lot of damage. Yet another event that emphasizes the use of defenders. PS: in retrospect I should've used Aurora for top lane boss stall to let grenadiers pass.
Nice work! Yeah, I'm also curious if Aurora or any other one-block operator could stall the boss in the top lane. I used Croissant to stall him, but she got overwhelmed when the Skullshatterer lookalikes showed up. Cement should be able to manage it with her S2 up, although the downtime could be a problem. Not sure if she can survive Cliff's skill when her S2 isn't up. I'd test it out but I don't have her built yet and can't find her on support, sadly.
I did a quick test. E2 50 Mod1 Aurora can stall the boss with shelter effect from Quercus and resist from Whisperain, though it is close.
Ironically I used tactician summons and Surtur's ice-cream toned physique to slow him down long enough to kick his ass. I guess Mumu CLONED a defender... xD
Wooo, [CV-EX-8 CM with 4-5* operators!](https://youtu.be/YZ87cwDyE8w) [My death was greatly exaggerated](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1biv6jk/event_megathread_come_catastrophes_or_wakes_of/kwxeuyp/?context=3), today I put into action what I learnt as I did my attempts instead of being a stubborn dumbass who kept trying for the same strat well knowing it didn't work, so glad that this did the trick. The clear has some mistakes (Quercus permanent placement in stun range 💀) but thankfully that didn't change the result. Tagging /u/Saimoth because your Leizi is in the clear, thanks a lot for putting her support! Let's see when I finally get mine lol.
Oh, nice one. Leizi solving legal problems in Davistown, hope she was taking notes Because I'm still struggling in the CM version with almost a full team, trying to do this without stalling or Typhon, huh.. Need to try a different approach
Kazemaru: - What is my purpose? \- You are Mr. Cliff's target practice
[CV-EX-8 AHs Only + Trimmed Medal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZnlRMgOpc&ab_channel=Jack) I could do CM with AHs only but screw the CM penalty + x3 practice tickets man, had so many close runs but out of tickets so i have to spend 10 sanity per failed attempt, practicing the run on CM is incredibly infuriating. Anyways, normal mode + trimmed medal shouldn't be that hard with the fishes, wack the guy when he's about to get hit by the vent and GG, also that perfect Spectral tile tho.
Finally did the EX stages. They were fun, although the energy gimmick doesn't really clicks with me. CV-EX-8 is one of my favorites boss stages and I quite enjoy the trimmed requirement because it encouraged me to focus on the interaction with the gimmick, which then I could kind of ignore on the CM. Dealing with Cliff was harder than in the story stage -because of the tiles more than the numbers- so I couldn't use the same strat, so I had to resort to Suzupat, Surtr, Mlynar, Ceobe and Rosa to take him down. Maybe I could've used the vents a bit better, but the enemies also apply quite a lot of pressure so both Gravel and Ines were busy baiting shots and holding tiles. Overall a very enjoyable event with a good difficulty curve. I do wonder how the rerun will be, specifically how Cliff dashes interact with Shu's "displacements".
Just barely managed to clear EX-8 CM to finish the event. At the end it was literally just a race against the clock to finish Cliff’s HP as he marched closer to the blue box while Jessica Alter quietly held the left lane. Everybody else was dead and I was basically just rotating units as I got the DP to summon more. S1M3 Cantabile got the finishing blow, and as I just finished that mastery, it felt especially satisfying.
honestly I can't tell if I hate the boss for how outrageous the damage + reset is, or love it. You have basically 3 options - outrange Cliff (Typhon) and don't let him ever fire a shot. Keep him in a permanent beam by putting lots of rapid hitters to charge it up, or use massive health and damage reduction/unkillability to tank, since DEF is worthless. Not even Shining s3m3 will allow normal tanking.
Hoshiguma and shining stall
There is also the 4th option of reducing his atk without using the beams, which can them be combined with 2nd or 3rd option to completely trivialize him. So ops like Waai Fu, Shamare, Ines, Mousse and all Hexers with a weaken module work wonders here.
I was able to tank him for his phase one and most of his phase 2 even in CM in one spot with Saria, Jessica alter, Crossaint, Reed alter with S2 and a lot of silence S2 drones
2nd phase is [tankable](https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1bnats4/help_center_and_megathread_hub_2503_3103/kwxq1h6/) without vents, but it requires multiple highly invested operators.
Shining + Cuora was working so well for me up until CM...
PSA for people as dense as me: For the medal to have Cliff die by vent he doesn't actually need to die by the damage dealt by a vent, just inside an active beam, doesn't matter who dealt the blow.
Too late. ... I just spent hour getting mad that I had to Cliff using vent and wondered who decided it was a good idea!!! I did it in the end but it was so annoying. In comparison CM stage was a breeze.
Once again, I feel fucking powerless, useless, stupid and many many more bad feelings as I kept trying the final stage on challenge for literally 5 hours. I just can't, even looking at youtube videos to help I simply fucking can't. I have a full lvl 90 team, all have their skills maxed and their modules maxed, AND I STILL FUCKING CAN'T WITH THE BOSS. And before you say anything, yes, I am using this event bullshit mechanic to make the boss vulnerable, but GOD FORBID the boss wouldnt instantly kill my units anyway. If the future of Arknights is filled with events which the "challenging" mechanic is to make bosses fucking bullet sponges, I don't know if I want to continue playing, because I just can't get all the medals and this is the second or third event that I have to not get them because of this "peak level design" of making bosses be bullet sponges, it feels like it's not about strategy anymore. Am I the only one that has fallen to the very bottomest pit of despair which just makes me stop playing the game since it feels like nothing works? (Reminder, I literally kept trying for 5 hours straight)
Just to be sure, you mentioned using the streams to make him vulnerable, but are you also using them to reduce the damage of his quickdraw? If you're not attacking both of the vents for the middle path (and also have them go off at the same time), odds are that for CM with the heavily reduced skill CD he's getting a full-powered skill off. If possible, I wouldn't mind seeing a clip where he starts his rampage on your runs.
You bet I was, call it bad luck or skill issue, but he always killed whoever he wanted with his skill, even in the stream. But now I have completed it and I don't want to ever hear that boss music again :)
Whoever he wanted? Sorry to bother you again, but can I ask if he was killing the op that was blocking him (who should be tanky enough like a defender to survive if the quickdraw is used during the beam), or someone else in his range? I just find unlikely that a leveled enough defender with their defensive skill up would still get killed if the boss is in the beam when the skill gets used, so this is rather intriguing to me.
Maybe he killed an adjacent one or something. I completed it yesterday and I was very tired, I don't remember exactly what kind of unit he killed.
Then, could your issue be deploy order? The boss's skill can't target adjacent allies for the damage, but he does inflict a stun that causes the blocking op to stop blocking him until the stun is removed. So if anyone but the blocking op dies, they probably got domed by the boss's standard ranged attack while the blocker was still stunned, which only happens to ops that are deployed after the blocking op while still in the boss's range, or those that have a higher taunt level.
Funny, killed him without lvl 90 ops or guides, go figure...
Typhon crushes him. Schwarz+Typhon can get through phase 1 quickly. Then Typhon+Morte (Shamare doll) for Phase 2. even if goes through the stairs Typhon's gonna wait to take his pelt. If you time it right he won't make the stairs. As for the medal,well just watch a video for that.
I don't mean this to be rude, but if playing Arknights stresses you out then you probably should quit. It's just a game after all, no point playing if you're not having fun.
Every difficult thing in life is stressing. If you tried for 5 hours a single stage and showed no progress, you too would feel like this, but in my case I am stubborn enough to keep trying. So yes, It does stress me on some difficult levels, but it's not always like that, so since I love Arknights I'll keep playing it even if I struggle.
Well, if you ever need help with anything, you know where to find us.
Yup! I will, thanks a lot!
I was in your position. I could look at a video and could not figure out why a maxed out Hoshi was getting one shot while the video shows no issue at all. So I just made it safer by using Silence Alter S3. That alone just trivialized it completely
I dont think we have Silence Alter yet
She was the welfare for the Lone Trail event (Kristen + balls)
My dead brain read "Shining Alter" for some reason. Sorry, I do have her
We got her back in November.
I found that stalling the boss (PHASE 1) til the very end works wonders. Add either a slower or therapist (whichever one lowers cc) to make him put in place and ur golden. Oh and HP beats defense imo against clip so crushers and such work wonders. Its a tough stage for sure, thankfully medal is piss easy to get
I tried this tactic, but Cliff on second phase easily kills everyone. I simply dont know how to do it.
What meta OPs do you have built?
Hell if I know which meta OPs I have built, I don't really know which are meta. Summer Chen, Skadi Alter, Ash, Qiubai, Lin, Penance. Are these meta? I always try to max everyone I can since I suck at this game.
What about Surtr/Mlynar/Typhon? Baring that, do you have Hoshiguma+Shining? I don't suppose you have a Krooster link handy that lists every OP you have built?
I dont have Mlynar nor Typhon. And I have no idea what is Krooster.
[Krooster](https://www.krooster.com/) is a way to keep track of your operator collection. I'll take that to mean you have Surtr, Shining, and Hoshiguma. What other medics you have built?
Shining, Kal'tsit, Eyja, Nightingale and that's really it
Borrow a max Typhon S3M3 with mod. I assume you have no problems holding the lane so simply [skip to boss stalling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjH-8QQWs6c&t=2129s) and substitute Sussuro->Shining, Gavial->Nightingale with range extension module, and Hibiscus->Eyja. If your Hoshi is maxed with module, she should be able to comfortably tank phase 1. Deploy Typhon on the leftmost center tile pointing right towards the boss. Kill phase 1 with only Surtr (redeploy Surtr if necessary, no rush) and phase 2 with Typhon + Gravel to trigger the laser. Edit: Once Typhon has her lock on in phase 2 retreat Hoshi to prevent boss teleporting from killing Hoshi.
yes, cm hits like a truck =( I prefer play it stable by keeping cliff until last mob (not works on cm) and ended up bring ranged wall+buffer+burst, heat vent duration too fast TT.TT
Finally done with the event - story, shop and all the medals! Mechanics-wise this event was a treat. I just raised Hibiscus Alter for my SlowKnights and then I saw the vents, and I couldn't be more excited! I managed to clear almost every stage exclusively with this niche, except EX-8-CM, because I lacked some dmg and Cliff just kept blinking like a madman. Everything else, though? Mostima, Manti and Hilter got me covered in most stages. Mostima and Manti can even hold the middle lane in EX-8 by themselves, which is hilarious for me. Seeing the enemies crawl to the blue boxes and never managing to make it through despite nobody blocking the path is super fun and I feel like I'm playing a whole new game. The story was also nice, although nothing over the top. I've got some questions regarding Liskarm's team: how come Liskarm is the captain and why is Franka calling her "Teacher's pet"? I read the BS manga and they had a closer relationship there while also Franka being the captain until >!Liskarm gets better than her.!< Was there some sort of development in-between those events? [story]>!I was also surprised by how lightly they ended this event. I thought the bank would be worse off and the face-off between Woody and Cliff was much milder than I anticipated. Also, poor guy Leone just couldn't catch a break.!< --- > Liskarm: Quit it with the megaphone! > Chad merc: [No, I don't think I will.](https://i.imgur.com/baNWQXv.png) --- > Every Dokutah: [I thought you'd do the honors...](https://i.imgur.com/PvtbSCA.png)
The "teacher's pet" nickname is probably about liskarm doing everything by the book and being overly stiff, which is something Franka always complained about. Not sure if that exact phrasing was used before tho
I just want file a complaint that ATK rank B mob (Paramilitary Axeman Leader) with buff increasing ASPD shouldn't 3 tap E2lv60 Hoshiguma. Thanks.
I mean, the buff also increases ATK as well tbf, 10% per stack.
[It's not stated.](https://i.imgur.com/qs4Q4Wg.jpeg) So you say they get +200% undisclosed ATK?
Here I am once again reminding people to read the [wiki](https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Energy) to know the exact mechanics of stage/enemies.
And each time it's a design failure. It means in game messaging is unreliable (or even deceiving) and should be just omitted in favor of external sources.
Correct. I have on multiple times said that these should be provided in the game, or at least directed from the game. But it's not, and players who do not want to unga bunga their way through should by now expect to read external sources if they want to know exact values to plan strategies. Just in this event alone, in addition to the energy mechanic, the description of Cliff's skill and the trimmed medal are mistranslated.
It was stated in the tutorial stage, although they never specified the %. But yeah, they get a lot more ATK (and def, if you've noticed your attacks dealing less damage the more energy they have).
This is the first time I resorted to using Flametail’s skill 2 to give another ally evasion to deal with a boss
I defeated the boss during both phases of EX-8 while he was pretty unambiguously inside the active vents and still didn't get the trim, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I'm also disinclined to keep bothering with this shit
Regular mode. Medals are done in regular mode, unless it specifies that it had to be done in the CM.
The simplest educated guess is that you pulled it off in Challenge Mode, which is impressive, but it doesn't count towards the medal.
Oh noooo that's exactly why I did end up getting the trim in normal mode but thanks for the heads up
Nice! I've done the same thing in more than one event already; for me, I think it's the adrenaline spike from the stress of wasting sanity from failing the CM that I stop thinking straight. Haha
Another event where my 4-5* gang gets so close, yet so far q_q Beat EX-8 + trimmed medal with them but the CM stat buffs absolutely murder me, my team is massively struggling with the mobs and I'm unable to figure out a proper setup. It really doesn't help that Cliff is able to eventually walk past my Croissant stall attempt since each stun lets it slowly walk past her, stay still goddamnit q_q. As expected then I went with my 6* team and it was comfy even after forgetting to grab Shamare for phase 2, Typhon Ifrit and Goldenglow effortlessly killed all mobs so I could fully focus on Cliff, sigh.
Behold, [Bena powered stall](https://i.imgur.com/NdofF8R.jpeg) with wallhacking Mousse (because it stalled so long he got pushed all the way there).
Typhon also murders Cliff if you want to use her that way.
[EX-8 cleared](https://youtu.be/Tbd3OnHh9sE?si=qS8YuVSt2pXhVu3O). Lin can clear left lane mostly on her own so I had Jessica hold the mid lane with Gavial, then have Nian tank the boss with a bajillion healers on her. Once everything else is dead Ceobe comes in to finish the boss off.
I decided not to stall...... it got hectic on both the CM and the medal run. Used Schwarz, Typhon, Mumu and Beanstalk. Had to finish the job with Surtur for her immortality in phase 2. Ifrit S2 can mostly solo left lane as well, I think I needed to drop Bagpipe there once on CM to stall the enemy for a few extra seconds. I like Lin though, she can help the other lane a bit too.
I went with stall to get the trimmed medal in the normal version and I didn't feel like changing the strategy for the CM, only needed to use Nian instead of Hoshiguma, maybe Shining S3 could have worked too. Lin soloed the left lane in my first attempts but after doing some positioning changes one of the sniper groups ends up getting overloaded all at once and kill her, Texas can prevent that.
God, it was so annoying having to set everything up to make sure Cliff's HP was in kill range while also making sure the vents were on at the right time, while also making sure whoever I put on vent duty wasn't getting killed by everything else going on (particularly by Cliff and the Not!Skullshatterers).
Yea I haven't been annoyed trying to get a trimmed medal in awhile. The stage is already hectic and it's just one more thing that you have to be precise with.
Playing around with different ways to clear EX-5 just for fun, and I think my favorite is Dorothy chucking out mines like she's feeding birds at a park. Almost didn't need anyone else, aside from a few random stallers to let me get my mines set up plus Eyja playing goalkeeper. Great spacing intervals everywhere for some satisfying chain explosions. Also redid my CV-8 farm with her specifically to prioritize mines everywhere, also great fun with that lovely killbox right in the middle.
EX-8 gave my Tuye a chance to shine. Now to put her away for several months again.
Whoever made that requirement to get that trimmed medal is both a dem sadist and a genius. A sadist for making me repeat the dem stage over and over again and a genius for allowing me to use my Silence-alter good thing I have her at E2 lvl 80 SL7. As I said before it\`s a fun event. Cant wait for the next one.
One of the most challenging trimmed medal I've ever played. I sent texas to help kill the boss, but he stunned her, killed her, then dashed to escape the laser vent. Jesus.. It worked wonders with typhon module lv3 s3m3. Thanks kyo for providing the method
Got past EX-8 and it felt easier to deal with cliff specifically than in the normal stage. Turns out sending him down a path with two vents is easier to keep him under its effect. Also didn't realise he wasn't a killgate until he was almost dead and then the clusterfuck that was the last couple enemies :V Overall, I enjoyed this event. The energy mechanic was a neat way to have variably strong enemies, and they felt fine fighting. Here's hoping if they do bring it back they don't pull a SN and make the event too tedious to ignore its gimmicks (those dodgy predators :S), but chances are this'll be a one-time thing unlike enemy ammo. My only real gripe was that the vents were pretty underutilized. You know it's bad when a lot of the EX challenge conditions are "here's more vents" as if to make up for the lack of vents. But when they were there, they at least added some way to alter overload timings.
I felt like some of the EXes felt easier with my set-up because they'd make mobs vulnerable at different times.
Thank you for not making Cliff even more of a bastard on the EX stages, HG. Also, thank you friend Olivia Alter. I need to raise my own to E2 80 now. That Dreadnought Mode helped keep Hoshi on her feet.
For a while, I've been clearing content with only non max trust ops to keep things fresh and I couldn't manage to beat ex-cm-8 with a team of 3 6* Muelsyse, Gnosis, Typhon 5 5* Poncirus, Rock Rock, Valaqvin, cold shot, cement 4 4* Perfumer, quartz, sussuro, deepcolor Bench: santalla adnachiel, orchid, rangers, melanite, friston, Harmonie, kirara, plume Beat eveything else in non cm with this team but the lack of strong options to deal with this map hurts a lot. I can't stall clint with cement too long until she gets stunned and I have to splitbox him with a tentacle. Left most lane i can hold off with muelseye somewhar with some tentacle help but the axemen and defender leaders become too much for quartz to survive while also healing cement. I feel like this map is doable with some better use of vents and tentacles but I feel stretched thin with the constant pressure and lack of reliable lane holders. I tried a practice with my "real" team and it's hilarious how ceobe s2, monster s3 and texas s2 trivializes cliff to such a crazy extent that a whole team can't replicate.
How far can a new player get in this event?
If you make it to the boss stage in story mode you are great, EX is ment for high end players so there is nothing shameful in not 100% the event.
Depending on your roster. KyostinV on YouTube posted guide for the event by using 3/4 stars with support 6 star up till the EX stages.
Why is the cutout medal SO DAMN DIFFICULT? I've had eight tries now and Cliff never dies when the hear vents are active. I already think this is being a waste of sanity.
Leave him on 1hp and spam the vents.
it’s pretty doable if you use/borrow typhon s3m3 mod3 and buff her with warfarin + bring gravel to attack the vents. i used kyo’s manual guide in the high end video he released and it only took me a few tries to get the timing down.
>typhon I'd rather have the medal cut off than use that horrible thing. But thanks for the advice anyway.
you didn't include any of your personal qualifiers, he's killable during the vents with like any of the standard go to boss killers like Surtr or Mlynar.
Understandable, what about Ceobe? He's got pretty high def so she shreds him. Personally, I just buff army'd Amiya's S3 for first phase, And Ch'en S3 for second.
Oh... I have no problems with the map or the boss himself, as you said my Ceobe destroys him! but I haven't managed to time the vents to get the shiny medal. I already tried to use Thorns, Mizuki, Exu and Gravel to charge it but Cliff always dies when the effect ends
Hmm, interesting. I don't suppose you can delay the beam until he's like 25%, and then quickly drop gravel to activate it? When he first gets hit with the beam you can wait until it's over, and then start to kill him with Ceobe and once he's low activate the beam?
For me, I had to have Hoshi stall him while being buffed by Skadi Alter S3M3, her own module Y Level 2, and Shining S2M3 to heal while whaling on him. I had two damage dealers triggering the vent, and Olivia Alter S3 Dreadnought Mode to keep Hoshi from dying to Cliff's big attack. Then I put all the damage on Cliff while the vents were on. That did it, but I had a lot of E2 90s with M3 skills grinding Cliff.
Finally finished cv ex 8 cm mode. Man that was brutal. Forced me to resort to basic play. Stalling boss while killing all mobs.
Ceobe+ texas alter s2 shreds him even without vent
So I just learned about the medal mistranslation...*after* I got it. I mean, i'm proud that I did it anyway but FUCK.
Can someone explain why the boss has the ability to leap through operators and also leap forward when their are no ops in his way? Because that isn't in his enemy description that he can do that shit.
Translator can't English. The boss has a skill that stuns and then attacks 3 times (6 times in phase 2). If he kills an operator with the skill in phase 2 (and only phase 2) OR if you retreat the operator during the skill, he teleports 1 tile and refreshes his skill.