PC UR Dragon Gen 407
The online Ur Dragon is a non-story-related late-game raid boss that requires the participation of the entire community to bring down. The purpose of this continuing series of topic posts is to share/discuss the status of the current Generation's health, in order to make it easier for any player reading this to bag a kill.
Questions about the online's Ur's mechanics are considered on-topic, but keep in mind that there is a lot of good information about the online Ur Dragon here. That said, if you are an experienced Ur-fighter from console, the PC's Ur Dragon is not at all the same in terms of defenses and damage cap; its parameters are 'set' for a much easier/lighter range than either the PS3's or Xbox's Ur Dragons.
Gra-a-a-aaace!
Once Grace is seen, please post a single exclamation, which is ! grace, without the space. Don't use the string term until it happens.
You can set an alarm for Grace:
Chrome has a plug-in called Auto Refresh Plus (or a variant) that will pick up a unique string on the page. Set this to the string term. ARP can be set to refresh in intervals of a second up to 300 seconds long. It's possible to put your team at the door of Lament, set the alarm, and go to bed.
DAMAGE CAP
If you do not see "Accessing server..." at the end of the round, you have exceeded the damage cap. Scale back or leave early. You must learn to judge that moment for yourself, because party composition and loadout varies from player to player. Your only clue will be the server message at round's end; this does not apply when the Dragon is in Grace.
Reporting health:
Report the health going in, not going out. The player's damage is transmitted to the collective that is "The Online Ur Dragon" at the moment the game says "Accessing server..." at the end of the round, so reporting it when the Ur Dragon displays its health bar on landing is more accurate.
....and about reading that Health Bar:
The health bar represents how far the Ur Dragon has to be damaged in order for the next bar to start counting down, and the number indicates how many bars still need to be depleted. The dots also serve as a ruler indicating the progression of the current bar; each one corresponds to 5% of one bar.
The Dragon starts with 11.0 as its full health, which looks like this:
As an example, if it presents with 5 lit dots and its bar is 4 dots in length, then its health is 5.2.
I want a quick look at its health!
Use it in conjunction with the current topic for best results. The API link provided on its page also enables an alarm; its string term is yes.
The tracker requires a Steam log-in for reporting.
Don't rely on the tracker's Average Health Report.
The box on the tracker that averages its health is no longer useful, since the tracker doesn't get enough reports to calculate that accurately. Review the lower box with the actual report records instead, with the understanding that if the tracker's last report is more than a few hours old, it's possible that its health figure is moderately to severely out of date... just like topic reporting.
When Grace's clarion call goes out across the internet--
Kill it. The Grace dragon will spawn with anywhere from 1 to 15 hearts. You have one job, Arisen-- destroy every single one of those hearts in one round.
Here is a list of potential loot rewarded for logging a kill on the online Ur Dragon.
About those loot drops: The Ur's hearts die very, very fast in Grace. Capcom confirmed a while ago that there's a finite number of objects that can be on the arena floor at one time. If you do not pick up the bits and pieces of Dragon that the Ur's hearts drop as they blow up and die, you run the risk of missing one or more of the eight loot bags in the Monument Room. Shorted loot bags is pretty much guaranteed if the Grace dragon presents with three or more hearts and the Arisen does not pick up mats from the floor as the hearts are destroyed.
Posted Jun 17, 2017, 11:51 AM UTC