Elemental City
Elemental City Introduction
The elemental city is a dungeon that last approximately 2 weeks. It has 4 themes and each theme has 2 cycles. This content is considered an end-game content as you will need specific maxed levels heroes just to clear the content.
Timeline and Frequency
Each cycle starts on the 1st of the month till the 15th. The second cycle starts from the 16th till the end of the month.
Various Themes
There are four themes in total for players to use play styles and face different challenges! The theme rotation is Fire > Rock > Desert > Ice.
After full rotation, monsters/bosses may be buffed to provide a more challenging experience for players.
ROTATION EXAMPLE |
Date | Theme |
---|---|
Feb 01 – 15 | Fire rotation 1 |
Feb 16 – 28 | Fire rotation 2 |
March 01 – 15 | Rock rotation 1 |
March 16 – 31 | Rock rotation 2 |
April 01 – 15 | Desert rotation 1 |
April 16 – 30 | Desert rotation 2 |
May 01 – 15 | Ice rotation 1 |
May 16 – 31 | Ice rotation 2 |
Levels
Elemental City has 75 stages in total. There are 60 common stages and 15 hard stages. Players can auto skip stages during the next Elemental City cycles when they clear the hard stages.
Buffs
For every theme rotation, players can make use of the dungeon buffs to buff their heroes according to the requirements. The requirements can vary. Examples of requirements are having selected mark units and certain skills buffed.
Main Rewards
The main goal of completing Elemental City is to acquire as many Elemental fragments and Elemental exclusives. Collecting 100 Elemental fragments will enable players to acquire a new hero from the Elemental City’s hero shop. Players can select their preferred heroes.
Every 50 Elemental exclusives increases the exclusive of an Elemental City’s hero. Elemental City heroes are extremely strong and they can generally be used in PVE and PVP. These heroes have additional buffs from their exclusive 4 and 5.
Elemental City Guide
Elemental City Boss Guide
Flame Theme
OCKAM
Common Stages: 5/20/35/50
Hard Stage: 5
Recommended Skills
Use heroes with healing, revival, immortality, immunity spells and shields for sustain.
General Guide
This boss prevents players from using skills when he uses his third skill. However you may be able to tank through it with consolidation, immunity and other means. Using heroes with revive is also good to revive heroes that have used their skills. Even if you only use basic attacks, the bomb detonates after the boss uses his bomb skill again. You will need shields/consolidation/immortality to tank the detonation.
Recommended Heroes
For protection/revival/immortal: Santa, Panda, Luna, Phocas, Nordak For support and DPS, use whatever you have. For DPS, preferably use an AOE dotter such as Hez/Nita.
RUMIL
Common Stages: 10/25/40/55/70
Hard Stage: 10
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can inflict control effects.
General Guide
You will need to use AOE control effect heroes to continuously freeze the monsters that the boss summons. Once every few turns, the boss will resummon all monsters that have been killed. You may want to watch for his revival skill cooldown and only kill the monsters after the boss have used his revival skill.
Recommended Heroes
For CC: Santa, Naseal, Rumble, Quinlan, Fiona, Wristler. For support and dps, use whatever you have. For DPS, preferably use an AOE dotter like hez/nita.
LEDDY
Common Stages: 15/30/45/60
Hard Stage: 15
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can apply many layers of bleed on a single target.
General Guide
This boss requires many stacks of bleed to remove his buff. Everytime you inflict a layer of bleed, it removes a layer of his buff and he will be more susceptible to damage and also deal less damage to you.
Recommended Heroes
For bleeders: Lukea, Nid Rold are the best choices. You can also use Hisaro, Alicia, Natalie, Elleena, etc. (Note that you need to apply stacks and not retain the stacks to remove his buff) You can use Ben Austin to empower your bleeders and apply more bleed stacks. You can use katherine for her support buffs and counter attacks to apply even more bleed stacks.
Wood Theme
NYASSI
Common Stages: 5/20/35/50
Hard Stage: 5
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can cleanse DoT debuffs.
General Guide
This boss inflicts poison debuffs and triggers poison debuff inflicting high damage to your heroes. You will need to use heroes that can cleanse the debuffs. You may want to use up to two cleansers.
Recommended Heroes
For cleansing: Panda, Luna, Marville, Anton, Liz, Katherine. You can also use Nordak for immunity and res buff
WOODS
Common Stages: 10/25/40/55/70
Hard Stage: 10
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can inflict poison.
General Guide
This boss required poison stacks to become vulnerable to damage. You need poison heroes with a hero like ben austin or wristler to keep inflicting poison. You can also use heroes like Mapkha to retain the poison stacks on the boss. Inflicting enough poison stages makes the boss vulnerable and deal less damage to your heroes.
Recommended Heroes
Good poison units: Veronica, Nita
Possible units to retain poison stacks: Taff, Mapkha
Good support units to empower your poison heroes: Ben Austin, Wristler.
ALBURN
Common Stages: 15/30/45/60
Hard Stage: 15
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can deal direct damage.
General Guide
This boss has two forms. The first form is only affected by direct damage. DoT damage will do no damage. Once you destroy the shield, the boss will change into the other form and take all kinds of damage. DoT damage will work on this boss.
Form 1: Direct damage only
Form 2: Direct damage and DoT damage
To kill this boss within 300 turns, you would need 1-2 heroes that deal high single target direct damage with support heroes that enable your DPS to attack again.
Recommended Heroes
Good direct damage heroes: Lucifer, Brynhild, Boole, Agatha, Lukea (Can deal very good damage for both forms), Ulcaster
Good support units to empower your direct damage heroes: Ben Austin, Wristler, Esther
Rock Theme
OSSY
Common Stages: 5/20/35/50
Hard Stage: 5
Recommended Skills
Use heroes with high basic attack damage and Katherine for counter attacks.
General Guide
This boss has two modes, Quicksand Shield and Wild Sand. Under Quicksand Shield mode, he takes 75% less damage to all attacks. Save your high DPS skills and counter attack during this mode. Cast counter attack right before the boss goes into Wild Sand mode. In Wild Sand mode, the boss will attack your heroes (AOE), whenever anyone takes a turn. Counter attack is extremely useful here to maximise DPS. In this mode, the boss take 400% basic attack damage.
Recommended Heroes
For support: Santa, Nordak, Seth (Wet debuff), Lydia. For DPS, use a hero with strong basic attack such as Lucifer, Agatha, Boole.
MISTER
Common Stages: 10/25/40/55/70
Hard Stage: 10
Recommended Skills
Use heroes of multiple DoT type (poison, bleed and HP Burn).
General Guide
You will need to use multiple types of DoT to inflict up to 15 layers (Boss level 65). Different levels have different DoT number requirements. Two things will happen with DoT inflicted. The boss will deal lesser damage to your team and you will be able to deal damage to the boss.
Recommended Heroes
For support, use Ben Austin, Katherine, Nordak. For DPS, use dotters(Many to choose from!).
ABNER
Common Stages: 15/30/45/60
Hard Stage: 15
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can deal AOE damage and heroes with AOE CC or very good sustain.
General Guide
This boss consistently summons monsters when they die. Whenever a monster dies, the boss will lose health to summon a monster. Each monster has layers of shield and each attack will reduce the shield count until the monster is able to take damage. Use CC heroes to control the infinite spawns and AOE DPS to clear them. You can use other defensive heroes such as Nordak for immunity tanking too.
Recommended Heroes
For support, use Santa, Nordak, Katherine. For DPS, use Nita, Lydia, Hez, Ahn Hee Jin, Boole, O Grads, etc.
Ice Theme
AYRTON
Common Stages: 5/20/35/50
Hard Stage: 5
Recommended Skills
Use a hero like Nordak to provide shields and immunity to damage. High DPS units such as Lil Jack is great here.
General Guide
This boss inflicts major debuffs on your heroes which reduces their max hp. Players will need to clear the boss by having high DPS units and enough sustain to tank through the boss’ damage. Do not use Ben Austin and Katherine as any form of pursue and counter attack will reduce the hero’s max HP.
Recommended Heroes
For support: Santa, Nordak, Mamuk, Lydia. For DPS, use a hero with hish DPS such as Lil Jack and any other high damage DPS heroes.
EARL
Common Stages: 10/25/40/55/70
Hard Stage: 10
Recommended Skills
Use heroes that buffs Stealth to allies.
General Guide
The boss inflicts high amount of damage to heroes without Stealth. Use stealth right before the boss casts his active skill. A good DPS hero here is Lukea as she can grant herself Stealth.
Recommended Heroes
For support, use Nordak, Paulin, Luna, Vera, Lydia. For DPS, use Lukea.
JULIAN
Common Stages: 15/30/45/60
Hard Stage: 15
Recommended Skills
Use heroes who can deal detonation damage or inflict burn.
General Guide
This boss has multiple layers of impenetrable barrier which requires players to inflict detonation damage to reduce the layers of the barrier. The boss will only take damage for two of his turns after the barrier is broken again. Save your speed up skills for this moment to optimise the damage.
Recommended Heroes
For support, use Ben Austin (Extremely good here), Santa, Nordak. For DPS, use Lil Jack, O Gradies, Andras, Moloch.
EC Special Stages
There are five special stages which increase in difficulty. Clearing more stages provide more Elemental exclusives (2/3/5/6/10 rewards).
Types of stages
- Epics only
- Supports only / Defenders only / Attackers only
- Selection mark
- Selected faction
These stages are challenging, especially special stages 4 and 5 which always require selected faction heroes only.
Battle Sequence
- Wave 1, 5 monsters
- Wave 2, 5 monsters
- Boss level, Martha
In most cases, the challenge is clearing wave 1 and 2. You may need selected heroes to tank through the mobs, CC them, revive, or survive the waves by any means possibly.
For boss Martha, ensure to destroy her two hands before her main body to prevent her from dealing high damage and requiring more turns to clear the stage.