A Deep Dive into the Autumn Off-Season Leaderboard
Dear readers, the new off-season boss rush game mode has officially begun and will last until November 19th. We talked about this a little…
Dear readers, the new off-season boss rush game mode has officially begun and will last until November 19th. We talked about this a little bit last week in our September Dev Report but we wanted to give you guys a bit of a deep dive to bring you up to speed on how to clobber and clout your way through the bosses. It works a little bit differently than it did in the past, so read on, and start on your road to off-season glory! ~
Couple of quick announcements: It’s a big SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY — starting at 2pm UTC on October 15th, our very own LoreKeeper will be hosting the September Off-Season Leaderboard Raffle for all those who passed room 100, then an AMA, then a Dungeon SNEAK PEEK, before signing off with a bit more AMA. Get in your questions and your best jokes in the #AMA channel on Discord, and you’ll have a chance to win some delicious Souls!
Setting Up
In order to participate in the boss rush, you first need to link your Discord to your Apeiron account. And make sure you’re using the most updated version of the game before you begin this process:
Log into your account on Marketplace, then go to account settings
Link your Apeiron account to your Discord account, that will give you the role @doodnected in Discord.
Click #boss-rush-go channel in our Discord server
You must TYPE (not paste) the following in the #boss-rush-go channel to trigger the command: /s2-boss-rush True or /s2-boss-rush False to toggle on/off of the boss rush mode
Please note that toggling the boss rush mode on or off will require you to reset any in-progress save.
Begin your new run.
Rewards
Autumn Off-season Leaderboard Rewards:
Top 1 = 8x FE + 8x mBH + 100 USDC + 1x Golden Apostle Ticket + @Prodigious Slayer special title role on Discord
Top 2–3 = 8x FE + 8x mBH + 1x Golden Apostle Ticket + @Scorp Slayer special title role on Discord
Top 4–5 = 8x FE + 8x mBH + @Scorp Slayer special title role on Discord
Top 51–75 = 2x FE
Asset Holder Bonus Rewards (Rounded Up):
@Godling: + 25% Bonus Rewards
@Primeval (Elemental/Mythic): + 50% Bonus Rewards
@Primeval (Arcane) OR @StarLord: + 75% Bonus Rewards
@OMEGA: + 100% Bonus Rewards
💎SPECIAL TOP 75 MARBLES RAFFLE💎
The top 75 players will be auto-entered into a special Marbles race, of which winners will receive $20 USDC! It’s basically free money! For some of you. The winners, anyway.
Leaderboard Rules
The rules are simple — reach Cycle 6 (which is room #97) as fast as you can! Please note that leaderboard records will only be submitted after you’re dead or if you reset the run. If you’ve reached a depth that can bring you onto the leaderboard, remember to complete the run or reset it, otherwise we won’t be able to record your score! For records that reached the same depth and room, the one with the faster time will rank higher. To view the leaderboard, head on down to our official Marketplace.
Also, please be aware that if we discover any CHEATERS, we’ll IMMEDIATELY disqualify them from the leaderboard. Please uphold the doody spirit. DON’T BE A BOOD.
Cheaters will be BONKED.
Tips to navigate the dungeon
This boss rush game mode differs a bit from its previous iterations. This time, you can choose from a pool of 8 artifacts which will better prepare you for your battles. Apostles are all random (no longer all at IV 99 or have the same skills). Additionally, these Apostles collected from the boss rush may also be reserved, just like normal dungeon runs!
As your foonie insider, I’ve gone around the office, playtested the game myself, hovered over Big Sword’s screen, and WELP, I tell ya this boss rush game mode has not been easy (for me at least). So here are some basic tips that I have gathered and hopefully they will better prepare less experienced players for the challenges of the boss rush. Because it is pretty hardcore.
Each run will start with choosing from 3 Artifacts:
Syn’s wing boots: If you’re not confident enough in your Avatar movement control, this Artifact gives further dashing distance.
Invocation of infinity: This is better for those who are in it for the long run, best for late game, it provides a 20 mana limit, which means players will have a maximum of 30 mana in total.
Torchsoul Charm: Earn an early advantage in battles, this Artifact reduces costs of your first 15 cards by 1 mana, further increasing to 30 cards after evil alignment.
The first event room of every depth determines your Artifact’s alignment
Potty break event: If you let your doods go to potty, one of your Artifacts will turn into good alignment. If you don’t, your Artifact will turn into evil alignment. (What kind of DEMON forbids doods to go to potty!👿)
The evil alignment is usually a trade-off of the good alignment. Evil artifacts are typically more powerful than Good artifacts, but they also usually have a negative effect.. so choose wisely! Play around with them and figure out what floats your boat.
After beating the first boss, you’ll get to choose another Artifact at the end of each depth after the boss fight. The options will be different from the 3 initial Artifacts, players will choose from 3 other Artifacts that are randomly drawn from a pool of 8 over the course of the dungeon run. That pool includes: the Axis Blade, Scales of Mundi, Cosmic Flame Ring, Bloodkiss Charm, Creation Halo, Spirit Coral Tree, Timetwist Piece, and Abyssal Claw.
Important rooms
An event room in the 3rd depth named “Behind the mask” will give you 3 choices:
Take off Mask: Get an Apostle
Attack: You go into a fight
Put on the mask yourself: Level up TWICE (I’d recommend you to try on the mask, it looked nice on me)
Save money for the Shop in depth 2 row 2, it’s the only shop that will be selling the caged fairy that gives you a life if you die. (BUY IT, you will need it🧚♀️)
Apostles
Unlike last time, where all Apostles had an IV of 100, obtainable Apostles from this boss rush will be completely random. Check out your skill sets and try to use your higher IV Apostles if you can.
Prioritize choosing Warriors, Hunters, Rogues and Mages, as you want to deal more DAMAGE to the bosses. (Guardians and Priests won’t really help if you’re trying to go fast)
Tips for boss fights
Bosses. You wanna rush ’em, and then they smack you down. And jump on you. Or shoot off a laser beam. OR SUMMON TWO PRIESTS ASSFDSK:LJFLJKDSAFJKLKDASF. Anyway. It’s fine. It’s fine! We’re here to help.
First of all, as a general tip, you’ll want to distribute some skill points to max out your Avatar’s 4th perk, Piercing Tempest, as the % damage is effective towards the thick HP bar of the bosses. Then, distribute the remaining skill points to big damage skills. For example, we’d recommend Blink or Slash for the Fate. If you can successfully dodge the boss’ attacks, then you’ll have a small window of time to deal great damage.
Secondly, there are three types of bosses and they’ll appear in the sequence of Scorp the Juggernugget, Claw of Doom, and Dark Mystic — after which the sequence repeats, but with MORE POWER. Each of the bosses have 2 phases, different skills, and their own attack patterns, so it’s important to keep track of those in order to survive. Here are some tips for fighting each of them:
Scorp the Juggernugget
⭐First phase
Moments before their jumping attack, there will be a red circle forming around you. Move away from your Apostles, wait patiently for the circle to fill up, then quickly dash away once it’s fixed.
Make sure your Avatar pivots to the side instead of going straight when the boss is invoking its dash attack, otherwise you’ll crash into the boss and still take the damage.
⭐Second phase
Stay as close as you can to the boss during this phase, so that you can dodge the large-V cone attack easier.
When the boss jumps back you’ll see a large cone begin to form, run with all your might towards the boss, wait until it fills then quickly dash FORWARD through the boss and to the side. Once you dodged it, swing for the fences with all your cards and go for a big counterplay.
If the boss summons a pair of bood Priests, KILL THEM IMMEDIATELY. The heals they provide can really set you back so you NEED to deal with them ASAP.
2. Claw of Doom
⭐First phase
Same as Scorp, dodge the jumping attack with a well-timed dash.
When the boss leaps back, it means it’s going to make a jump attack in a random direction and hit everything in the way, so react fast and time your dashes!
A lot of his attacks have a burn effect that does damage over time, so remember to keep an eye on your HP.
⭐Second phase
The boss will randomly kidnap one of your units — including you! Make sure you save enough mana and high damage skill cards, if you don’t damage the boss enough, it will instantly kill the stolen unit.
3. Dark Mystic
⭐First phase
During the 6-pillar attack, don’t stand inside the hexagon. Kill the gold pillar and all the other pillars will disappear, or instead kill 3 normal pillars if you’re too far from the gold pillar. Do note that breaking the hexagon will spawn a bood Apostle.
Almost every time after it attacks, it will immediately teleport away, EXCEPT during the lightning ball attack with a tornado — then you’ll have a good chance to deal some damage to the boss.
⭐Second phase
Make sure you save enough mana and high damage skill cards to break its shield, or else you’ll instantly die from its meteor attack.
The pillars in this phase grant the boss 90% damage reduction, so better focus on finding and killing the gold pillar first.
IN OTHER NEWS:
Some wonderful changes are going to be made to the current soul vessel exchange channel. It’s still a work in progress but we are streamlining the claim-perks channel, using Wonderverse to replace the current mee6 souls token. Look out for this! Soon! Very soon.
With this new integration, we’ll be getting rid of all forms that are required to be filled to claim stuff. One click and POOF, a dood plushie will be on your doorstep in no time. It’s gonna be GREAT.
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And that’s a deep dive into the off-season leaderboard. I fear that I might have revealed too much, but I sincerely hope this will give you guys some ideas as to how you might overcome these dastardly bosses and climb to the tippy-top of the leaderboard. But for now, I need to retreat to my safe house where the Lorekeeper can’t find me, for I’ve already given out so much! Just kidding, I’m about to go on holiday~ Wakakakaka until then I’ll be sipping my doodtini laying on deck chairs 🧳🚤 . My comrades will be taking over the scripts of the godiverse for now! DOODALOO~
Thanks for reading, see ya next time, godlings!
About Apeiron
Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn god game. Apeiron will feature a unique card-based action-adventure combat system combined with god game simulation gameplay inspired by classic god games like Populous and Black & White. Players will be able to build up planets from above before descending to the ground as a powerful Avatar to solve the mysteries of the universe. Players will grow their planet to the point of developmental stagnation, then reset the planetary cycle via an Armageddon event to allow for even more advancement and thrilling late-game alliance level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will use a tri-token architecture, which means that there will be three separate tokens to navigate their ecosystem: a governance token, a play-to-earn token, and a premium alliance token.
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