Primordial Challenge Tips

THINGS TO KNOW

Simulacrum of Uthuluc
- 300 Shrink, -100 Health, 100 All resistance.
- Every turn you land 1+ crits, Uthuluc's armor cracks. Its armor can only crack once per turn. The 4th turn you do this, its armor breaks, and for the rest of your turn + another 3 extra turns, its resistance changes to -100 All. Its armor will regenerate after the 3 extra turns.
- If its armor regenerates a total of 4 times in the fight, it stops cracking.
- First attack will always be a lifeleech.

Sciuridaehotep
- The Witness is NOT meant to be fought. At the end of the fight, it will self-destruct.
- Sciuridaehotep has 200 Shrink, 25 All resistance.
- Every turn, The Witness will buff Sciuridaehotep's Melee, Pierce, or Magic defense by 200 points for 1-2 turns.
- Sciuridaehotep can randomly remove your buffs or apply global CDs when attacking. If it applies global CDs, all of your skills that are ready to use gain 1 turn of CD, and all other skills gain 2 turns of CD. This does not affect trinket skills.
- Stunning Sciuridaehotep will make attacks reflect damage back onto the attacker for the duration of the stun (no effect on pets).
- After Sciuridaehotep dies, The Witness will revive it, bringing it back to full HP. This happens twice.
- During Sciuridaehotep's third and final life, it will charge up a nuke that does ~2.5k damage at level 85. The nuke happens every 5 turns.

GENERAL TIPS

- 5 potions from Cloak Scrap and the HeroDiet (Seaweed and Rotten Hardtack from the quest The Drowned Fortress) help a lot for defenses. Same goes for a pet dragon with 200 points invested in Protection.
- Guests can be helpful, but the bosses will start doing a ridiculous amount of damage per turn. Doesn't matter if you don't get hit, but with Sciuridaehotep taking off your shield all the time, it gets dicey.
- When Uthuluc's armor is active, use the Fragmented Blade (http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tm.asp?m=19855305) to have a better chance of landing crits.
- 200 END/200 LUK/20 miscellaneous is recommended. END in order to take more damage and heal more, LUK for the crit chance buff and overall damage buff. The 20 other points don't matter that much. Alternatively, you could take points out of END and into a main damage stat.

STRATEGIES FOR THE DUO

- Go for Uthuluc first. It's a lot bigger of a threat than Sciuridaehotep, which just removes your buffs so you get smacked around by Uthuluc.
- Ranger: Start off with Quick Reflexes, and use Viper's Arrow to build up crits, ranger focus, and stacks of the DoT on Uthuluc. Before breaking Uthu's armor the first time, use Armorslash for the debuff. Try to break its armor with Dual Wield, since if you break it with the first hit, the second hit will do full damage. From then on, use Flashbang -> Spotter's Shot -> Dual Wield -> Purge -> Spotter's Shot -> Chi Bomb, which hopefully takes down Uthuluc. If it doesn't, fall back on healing items and try again.
- BSW: idk ask Rat or someone who's good with this :V