Horntail Guide - HTPQ (BOSS GUIDE)

NAO_Project Fri 14 Sep 2012, 9:34 am

Note: this guide is pre-unlimited or unleashed whichever u want to call it so HP and attack patterns may have changed.

Welcome old generation Splendors and new generation Accelerationeers I noticed the Bossing Zone of accer.hot-me lacked some guides to some major bosses both past and present, thus I decided to make some guides with different information I found from various websites or from my own experience.

GUIDE HORNTAIL

When you first start attacking horntail its the prelim. the two heads are only the prelim the 3rd stage is the actual thing DO NOT BREAK THE PURPLE CRYSTAL Mad

if you do your ENTIRE party is screwed and you've failed your run since breaking the purple crystal will summon horntail

The Party Quest before the prelim.
HornTail Party Quest : Stage 1
1. Upon entering the map, kill the Cornians to obtain Keys.
2. Appoint 1 Member to wait outside, he or she must not have possesion of a Key (this Member cannot be the Party Leader).
3. Other Members with the Key will proceed into the Portal at the top Left corner.

HornTail Party Quest : Stage 2, 3 and 4
1. 1 Member will complete the Jump Quest to get to the other end.
2. Other Members will jump down to kill the Monsters and obtain a Key, then complete the Jump Quest.
3. The Key must be dropped at the Shining Spot next to the Portal, it will then be sent to the first map.
4. The Member who was left at Stage 1 Step 2 must now retrieve the Key from the tree in the middle and talk to the NPC found directly below.

*Repeat this for Stages 2, 3 and 4.

HornTail Party Quest : Stage 5
1. 1 Member will complete the Jump Quest to get to the other end.
2. Other Members will jump down to kill the Monsters and obtain a Key, then complete the Jump Quest.
3. The Key must be passed to the Party Leader, and he/she will proceed through the Portal.

HornTail Party Quest : Stage 6
1. By talking to the "HornTail's Schedule" NPC, all Members will be teleported to the "Cave of Choice" Map.
2. The Party Leader must hit the globe from either the left or the right direction, then proceed into the Portal.
3. Depending on which side you strike, you will be sent to either "The Cave of Light" or "The Cave of Darkness".

HornTail Party Quest : Stage 7
1. In either "The Cave of Light" or "The Cave of Darkness", kill the Monsters to obtain 6 Keys.
2. All 6 Keys must be passed to the Party Leader.
3. The Party Leader will then climb over the high wall and talk to the NPC.
4. All Members will then kill the remaining Monsters.
5. When all the Monsters are killed, the Party Leader will talk to the NPC.
6. You will then be teleported to the Entrance to HornTail Map.
7. Wait there till other Parties have completed the Quest.

Note: HTPQ can be skipped if you do the Badge of Members of Squad by getting
3 certificates from zak, pap and pianus (fish boss) and get badges( 3 total) that drop during the HTPQ

Horntail perks
Horntail Prelim Stage 1, Head (Left) 330,000,000HP
Stage 1: In the Prelim stage you just have to kill the 2 heads of horntail which is sorta pointless since all the first head (LEFT) just sits there using cancel MATK/WATK , use a super knockback attack some ice attack which does 1/1 and sometimes summon dark wyverns which can dispel got to be careful of wyverns. Most likely for most classes touch dmg would be an instant ko so be careful not to touch it unless you lag or your a complete idiot. Like Zakum if you leave the head it will summon a whole load of wyverns so a crowd control class is recommended. Normally a seduce mule hangs on the rope warrior/shadower class.

Horntail Prelim Stage 2, Head (Right) 330,000,000HP
Stage 2: Now the 2nd part of the Prelim stage is to kill the Right head which is horribly boring once again. It's practically the same as the left head just attacks look different and rushing won't work here.

Before Stage 3 begins just don't hit the freaking purple crystal just leave it to your expd. leader to hit the crystal and reorganise your expd. before summoning the real thing.

Horntail Final Stage (3) whole body Approx. 2,080,000,000 HP
Horntails Legs: 130,000,000 HP
Horntails Tail: 70,000,000 HP
- Since Horntail's leg and tail are pretty much next to each other we'll just talk about them together. For melee class you guys stay on the left side with seduce party and attack the legs whilst surviving. Exceptions are shadower's who although are seduce mules have smoke screen which can aid the range party. The tail is always killed first due the ridiculously high damage it does. Range is recommended to attack the tail whilst keeping distance, even though the tail may not seduce having shadower's there can speed up the rate of attacking since smoke screen now adds crit dmg. the faster the tail dies the better.
Melee the legs shouldn't be too much problem just make sure you do not get dispelled, since I'm unsure whether the bottom part of ht dispels or the top does but unless you somehow lack eyes you would check your buffs/hp all the time. If your seduce mules hang around on left side of the rope unless ur shadower and range requires smokescreen. Bishops follow seduce mules ONLY once the tail is defeated.
Horntails Wings: 270,000,000 HP
- Seduce party move to the right side and hang on the rope extra seducers attack. all range and melee attack wings if you used some HP gear to survive the first parts you can now remove them and equip pure battle gear since the parts of horntail (legs & tail) which do the most dmg have been removed.
Horntails Right Head: 330,000,000 HP
Horntails Left Head: 330,000,000 HP
- Pretty much the same as the prelim head just hit it till it dies only difference is that the middle head supports it. Just be careful of dispel and 1/1.
Seduce party move to the left side and hang on the rope extra seducers do crowd control killing wyverns. Dispel comes from the Wyverns.
Horntails Middle Head: 490,000,000 HP
- The middle head is the most annoying one since at 50% HP it will start to cast FULL MAP dispel apart from that it's attacks have identical effects as the past two heads, e.g. summon, dispel, 1/1 knockback, seduce.
Horntails Left Hand: 230,000,000 HP
Horntails Right Hand: 230,000,000 HP
- Horntail is pretty much dead now the hands only have seduce (cuz horntail's hands are sexy) and mana burn thats about it.

Order of defeating:
1. Tail- highest dmg
2. Legs- high dmg and people can now move left to right on the map, magic of 2D games...
3. Wings- They summon a lot and dispel as well they cover the hands
4. Right hand - Seduce
5. Right head - Seduce, summon, knockback, 1/1, cancel watk and cancel matk
6. Left head - Same thing as the right head pretty much
7. Middle head - Full map dispel at 50% hp, seduce, 1/1 cancel watk, cancel matk, summon, knockback (pretty much everything)
8. Left hand - It's easy and it only seduces
Note - every body part of HT pretty much seduces cuz its so sexy Razz

If you managed to kill ht congratz if you didn't, don't complain to me cuz ive never gone ht so go make your own guide or msg me and tell me some corrections and ill change it. Any maple jargon you don't understand PM me on forum im almost never on maple though i will be on a bit more once christmas holidays start Very Happy