Thought I'd write up a really quick guide since wiping means returning to floor 51 and GG your soul.
First up, the higher your aetherpool arm and armor, the easier this is going to be. Our first run through we ranged from armor at 40s to 70s and the one with a armor at 40ish was starting to get one shot by mobs around level 160.
Our second run through with our aetherpool in the 90s has been CONSIDERABLY easier, especially the boss fights. Something to keep in mind.
Another tip is that every boss fight we got into, one dps would hit a lust pomander and stack up 5 stacks of vulnerability then clicking it off and starting dps.
Strength pomanders increase heal potency so if you're heading into a shady area, these are better for healers.
Floors 180 to 200 ARE NO JOKE
Keep an eye on your time here, you're probably gonna be pulling one mob at a time. The 180s are actually a bit harder than 190 so make sure you have a lot of "oh shit" pomanders going in. It is entirely possible to spawn into a room with 3 chimeras and immediately wipe.
Floor NotesThere are wandering monsters around so keep an eye out for them. There are a lot of traps on the higher floors. Keeping round the edges usually works -ok-. Otherwise go slow, don't yolo through a room before the mobs are dead.170 - Gonna have some super loud gorrillas that will give you vuln up stacks through the walls. Just wait for their buffs to come off and your buffs to drop and its safe to get them.
180 - The big Cutters Cry sandworms actually have an enrage where they suck you in and kill you, this can be a party wipe. There's wandering Chimeras also exactly like Cutters Cry, remember,
Ram's Voice - Out /
Dragon's Voice - In.190 - Wandering Fachan (Ahrimans) will cast Level 5 death which is a insta one shot. Have a stun ready. You can stun it up to 3 times as we found out. Coffin hands dudes wander around as well, just keep spread out so you don't all eat the AOE next to each other. The Palace Knights are back, they will cast the lunar dynamo (donut aoe) looking mechanic from Dusk Vigil. Stand in melee range.
Bosses I know no ones name sooo descriptions being used.
Boss 110Moth dude from Lost City. He does an AOE windburn that does very little damage. Just burn it down.
Boss 120Rafflesia. The hornets will go for the person marked with prey, these can be taunted off by the tank but just burn them down.
Boss 130Hydra. He will cast Fear Itself so don't stand in the middle of the arena. Bait the fire and ice to the edges and wait for the cast then get under his belly in the middle.
Boss 140Wraith dude. He's gonna do a massive un-stunable, un-silencable from the middle of the arena. We stacked up with shields up and full health, on the second we tank LB'd.
Boss 150Succubus. This is the Haukke Manor hm boss. She's gonna spawn adds (floor crawly zombies) (use Kiribu here) and a succubus like Lady Armadine which you need to burn down asap before she eats her and casts blood rain.
Boss 160Headless Horseman. Basically the AK HM Boss. Bait his ground aoe to the sides of him (melee try stay on the flanks) to keep a clear path for the charge. When he targets someone for a charge, run in close so you don't get catapulted into the edge AOE.
Boss 170Sea Serpent boss. He will spin and spit aoes at random members, this will kill you or come close to killing you if you get hit. He will then cast Dowse on himself which will put a puddle on the ground, giving him haste and damage up.
You need to get him the fuck out of those puddles asap or he'll get so fast he'll one shot everyone. Learnt this the hard way.
Boss 180Behemoth. He will cast the tornado AOE's which will pulse and drag you in and kill you if you're too close to them. These pulses are bigger than the floor 80 Behemoth. He will also stomp to a random corner and turn around and do a massive cone aoe so try to follow and stay close to him to easily dodge it. Last phase of this boss he will cast Ecliptic Meteor, he cast this twice in a row for us. We barely survived the first one with deploy adlo then our healer had us topped up again for the second. You want to burn him down asap, hes a bit of a dps check too. Definitely use a lust at some point to get some vuln stacks on him, consider a tank lb if its looking bad.
Boss 190Pharos Sirius HM fat ghost. Auto attacks hits hard. The untargetable small bombs that spawn does a 'Deep Freeze' AOE attack so stay away. The first actual ad that spawns is the Lava Bomb (Orange). Unlike the floor 90 version of this boss, the orange bomb is the one you need to hit into the boss. I would dedicate just one person to be in charge of this. The second ad will be the 'Remedy Bomb' (Blue) - burn this ASAP. Burn boss.
