Chapter 874: Only Two First Clears
Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi
As Ye Xiu expected, the small boss with the oil lamp wasnt hard to deal with. Since he shouldered the responsibility of both MT and healer, the most complicated tasks were done by him. The others could more or less just mindlessly DPS.
The battle was swift, but Wei Chens team was faster with their head start, Ye Xiu and co hadnt even finished their boss off when they vaguely heard those guys sighing over something.
These sounds came from out of the game, and since the sounds of battle were rather intense, Ye Xiu didnt hear them clearly. Yet, soon enough, Wei Chen yelled at him from where he was sitting next to Ye Xiu, "The bosses of these small dungeons dont seem to have a First Kill reward!"
Ye Xiu paused for a moment before he realized what had happened.
Wei Chens team had already killed off the first boss in their dungeon, but there had been no system announcement. No wonder they seemed so disappointed. The rewards for these records were their true goal. If the individual bosses didnt have First Kill rewards, then that meant this whole dungeon would only give one First Clear reward each.
However, they were already here, so they wouldnt just give up halfway. After wallowing in a moment of disappointment, they continued running the dungeon.
Ye Xiu and co soon finished with Head Miner Zalu as well. The system didnt respond, just like Wei Chen had said. The items dropped from Zalu were only a few pieces of blue equipment, something they didnt even need to look at.
"If we had known this earlier, then we would be in a ten-player dungeon by now!" Wei Chen was still ranting, his headphones around his neck, "We dont really even need to use headphones and mics, really."
That was rather true actually. Everyone was sitting in the same room after all, so they could just talk directly. They didnt need the voice chat in game. Since they had split, it would be better for their communication if they didnt wear headphones. As for the sounds from the game, they didnt really need it since the small dungeon wasnt difficult enough for them to require it to make judgements.
Everyone then took off their headphones. Wei Chens group was already enroute to the next boss. As for Ye Xius side? As soon as Zalu fell, Mo Fan impatiently clicked open the DPS chart.
This times DPS was finally at an acceptable level, compared to how it was in Sealed Mountain Thieves Hideout. However, Mo Fan was still a little dissatisfied with his performance, because he was only second on the chart, not first. The first was still Wu Chens Dawn Rifle. During their run of Sealed Mountain Thieves Hideout, Wu Chens Dawn Rifle was always first as well.
Deceptions DPS was a little worse than Dawn Rifles, but not by much. However, Steamed Buns DPS that followed his wasnt far behind either. Chen Guos Chasing Haze, on the other hand, was a larger distance behind them. Mo Fan didnt bother looking at hers though. In his eyes, Chen Guo didnt even count as a competitor.
It wasnt completely satisfactory, but it wasnt too bad either!
Mo Fan perked up a little at seeing his DPS this, but then he saw that Ye Xius Sullen Kitten was already charging ahead with her massive axe. Did he not have any intentions to discuss this rounds DPS?
Mo Fans spirits fell.
This was a premeditated attack on him, wasnt it?
When he saw that Mo Fan had done well, he didnt say anything; when he saw that Mo Fan had done badly, he had to bring it up to humiliate Mo Fan? This guy was as vicious as ever!
Mo Fans thought spun wildly, but he still urged Deception forth to catch up with the rest of the team.
After that there were mobs, then the second boss, and then the third. The difficulty of a five player dungeon was negligible for these experts. Not long after Wei Chens team had finished, they had cleared Snowstorm Mine as well.
Unlike team dungeons, which often only allowed a characters entry once a day or even once a week, the new level 75 five-player dungeons all let a single character enter up to three times each day. This was why many guilds and players were researching them. If they could get more time to figure out the dungeons, some expert players might actually be able to clear them. Three tries were too few though. Ye Xiu and co mightve been a bit late to the party, but they managed to clear it on their first try; the First Clears were easily taken by them.
The players on the global chat were all admiring this, and there was no need to discuss how the leaders of the big guilds felt. Wasnt this just dandy? Three First Clears had been bound to Happys name already. These records would be immortalized in the game.
And on Ye Xius side? The two teams were preparing to collect their respective First Clear rewards, Wei Chen bet Ye Xiu a pack of smokes that their rewards would be better than Ye Xius.
"Hahahahaha!" Their reward was revealed amidst Wei Chens laughter.
"A weapon!" Wei Chen announced with triumph. This weapon was half a win for their bet, as weapons were far more valuable than other pieces of equipment.
However, Weki Chens expression fell a little upon checking the type of weapon.
Blood Chipper Greatsword.
It was Orange, and the stats werent bad, but it was, unfortunately, not something Team Happys members needed. The only swordsman, Ghostblade One Inch Ash, would never use a Greatsword. Even Sword Demons would never use the completely melee focused Greatsword in the Pro League.
"This effect seems interesting!" Ye Xiu said, looking at the Blood Chip effect that was at the bottom.
Blood Chip: 3% chance to inflict Blood Chip, reducing the targets max HP by 1%
"Just 1 percent? Thats not much," Wei Chen said.
"But what about against a boss?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Boss...?" Wei Chen paused for a second, "It would be useless against a boss too, unless it activated immediately. If they took a whole percent of health as damage, thats pretty terrifying. Its just that this effect is has too low of a chance to activate. If it doesnt activate immediately, then after a while, the boss wouldve long since lost more than a percent of its health and the effect would only work to reduce its maximum health, and what use would that have?"
"It might be useful in some special situations," Ye Xiu suggested.
"It wont be very useful in PvP, at least," Wei Chen said.
"Theres a one percent, so whos to say theres no five percent, or even ten?" Ye Xiu said.
"Hm, if thats the case..." Wei Chen wavered a little.
"Lets just hang onto it for now!" Ye Xiu said. Without these words, the weapon would be deemed useless, just like the blue and purple equipment they had gotten from the other boss drops. Those would be thrown into the guild storage later. As for Orange weapons like this, they would research the stats for their silver equipment development.
"Whats your reward?" Wei Chen asked Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu hadnt collected it yet. Seeing Wei Chen paying attention to his screen, he clicked it.
It was also a piece of orange equipment. The rewards for the First Clear of a five player dungeon were incomparable to the rewards of a team dungeon, too. Sealed Mountain Thieves Hideout had given them two pieces of orange equipment and four materials for First Clear. On the other hand, their five player dungeons only gave out a single piece of orange equipment each, on par with a First Kill of an individual boss in a team dungeon.
"Hurry up and take a look!" Wei Chen urged.
The orange words: Cloud Bust Moonfall. They didnt hint at what sort of equipment it was at all.
Ye Xius cursor hovered over it and its information popped up. Wei Chen fell silent, because he had lost.
Cloudless Moonfall was a Spear and, in Happy, Tang rous Soft Mist was an obvious choice of user. This reward had found itself an owner. Cloud Bust Moonfall.
Weight 3.5 kg, Durability 35, Attack Speed 3;
Physical Attack 911, Magic Attack 632; Strength +55;
Attack Speed +1;
Crit Rate +12;
Light Element attacks; When attacking with Chasers, there was a 5 percent chance that an extra same-element Chaser would be generated and hit the target directly, doing piercing damage. With Ye Xiu, who was so well versed in the Battle Mage class, the others didnt feel like they had a right to even comment on the weapon. As for Ye Xiu? He very much satisfied with this spear.
With just the basic stat of Attack Speed, this spear had 3 in comparison to the slowest 1 that was common among spears. Then, it even had a bonus to Attack Speed of +1, so that made the overall Attack Speed 4, an incredible improvement. This was something both valuable and hard to come by for spears.
Apart from that, the additional bonuses for Strength and Crit Rate were common on spears. Cloud Bust Moonfall had stats that were deserving of its status as a level 75 orange weapon. As for Light Element attacks, that had to be judged according to the situation. A weapon with an element would mean that resistances also had to be taken into account during damage calculation. If the target had high resistance to Darkness, then Light element attacks would do far more damage; if they had high resistance to Light, then the damage would be greatly reduced. Ice and Fire didnt affect Light Element attacks directly, but the damage from an elemental attack would be slightly higher than a damage from a non-elemental attack. Overall, a weapon with an element might give you an advantage over your target, but might also give you a disadvantage. It was hard to judge the overall benefits compared to the situational ones.
As for the last effect, it was something new to level 75. Ye Xiu had never seen anything like it either. From the description, this was definitely a great addition to ones DPS. Five percent was a bit low, but if there was a high chance of an effect like this activating, then that would be too overpowered.
Overall, Cloud Bust Moonfall wasnt as eye catching as the Tiger Seal that they had obtained earlier, but the stats were a good bonus and even the Light Element wasnt something that would drag you down. Without a doubt, this was a weapon that should be immediately equipped upon reaching level 75, so it would definitely be given to Soft Mist.
"Five-player dungeons are boring. How about we find another ten player dungeon instead?" Wei Chen suggested after they exited from their respective dungeons. With just a single reward item waiting for them at the end, five player dungeons werent really worth it.
"Sure. Theres two more ten player dungeons, right?" Ye Xiu said.
In the three new level 75 areas announced, only Barrier Mountains had a ten-player dungeon. However, everyone now knew that the other three areas that were revealed with the update would also have two other ten player dungeons.
Everyone prepared to head of to the ten player dungeons. Mo Fan was rather depressed though. The five player dungeon had been cleared and though he hadnt overtaken Wu Chen, his DPS wasnt bad. Yet what was the worst was that Ye Xiu didnt talk about DPS at all for this run. Mo Fan couldnt take it anymore and, for the first time ever, initiated a conversation, "Arent we going to take a look at the DPS?"
"Oh? I forgot to look during that run. Well check when we do the ten player dungeon later," Ye Xiu replied calmly.
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