The Latest Boss Rush Game Mode in Arknights is HARD! - Trials for Navigator #4

Trials for Navigator is a time limited Boss Rush game mode in Arknights featuring a variety of enemies and bosses you need to beat consecutively from one stage to the next. I had alot of fun last time around with TN#3 so I thought of challenging myself again with the latest season.

This time around, your reward for beating these stages either with brute force or tactical genius is a skin for PureStream.

Stage Clears

Frost & Fire  TN-1

As usual the first stage is relatively easy to clear. The basic and elite enemies are not too much of a hassle to deal with and so is the first boss, Degenbrecher. But oh boy the second boss Clip Cliff, is so annoying to deal with. Not only does he have alot of Health, Defense, Resistance and Attack, but he can also one shot even the toughest Defender during his phase two. And when he does, he refreshes that skill and uses it again!

So how do you deal with such an annoying boss? Use a combination of Shamare and Typhon to debuff the boss's defense and deal crazy amount of physical damage from a safe distance. This really is a good showcase of how busted Typhon is...

Out Of Tune TN-2

Due to how overwhelmingly effective Typhon was on the last stage, I decided to not use her especially since all the bosses in this stage are extremely weak to physical damage. Typhon would instantly shred them like paper. Still to deal with Dolly, Pompei & the Rat King, I am going to need some busted physical damage and I think I know just the red haired sharpshooter for the job.

With the help of Warfarin's attack buff, Exusiai is able to shred both Dolly and Pompei given your able to find the optimal positioning and timing for her skill 3. As for the Rat King, I relied on good old Surtr to destroy his shield while finding the right moment to burry him in artillery shells courtesy of Horn. Kal'tsit summon (Mon3ter) also proved to be extremely useful to bait out his skill that does near 4k physical damage.

Dublinn Burning TN-3

You may have noticed that alot of the bosses have a gimmick related to having a shield. The last boss in this stage Eblana, is very much reliant on her shield mechanic as she is accompanied by her Dublinn army and two of her generals, the Brigadier and Mandragora.

The Brigadier and Mandragora are easy to deal with. Heck you can kill Mandragora using her own gimmick. However it's about time I utilize Virtuosa to apply elemental damage and bypass Eblana's shield as much as possible.

The last portion of this stage really required me to stall. The mud tiles reduces attack speed of my operators so trying to kill the enemies that Eblana periodically absorbs for her shield before they resurrect from their ghost forms proved to be annoying to deal with. Also during her phase two, her skill disables two operators and prevents them from attacking and using skills before you remove that debuff. Ultimately it boiled down to inflicting elemental damage, baiting one of the disable with Mlynar and just whittling down the boss.

Gone The Ages Past TN-4

The last stage in Trails for Navigator #4 has us fighting ancient deities Sui-Xiang, 'Free' & Ya. The spectacular trial (challenge mode) of this stage is particularly hard as it buffs the Health of the bosses quite a lot. The dragon bosses can also easily wipe your entire team while the last boss (Ya) can overwhelm you with an army of mobs he summons on the tiles he has passed over.

Not gonna lie, these bosses on hard mode felt like a DPS check. You need to quickly deal with the first dragon boss (Sui-Xiang) before he can unleash an AOE blast that covers the entire map and also shuts down the tiles, preventing you from deploying on them if you manage to pass onto the 2nd boss. The 2nd boss ('Free') does alot of damage from range especially during it's phase 2. Thankfully Nightingale proved to be invaluable in providing healing and arts damage mitigation so that Mlynar and Typhon can burst down those bosses. The last boss (Ya) even with his increased Health was more manageable with proper timing and positioning. Overall this stage did not make me feel guilty that I used both Mlynar and Typhon, two of the most broken physical DPS in the game.