Super Robot Wars/DD/Events/ThunderDruidSaw

General Info

祭司が見た稲妻 (The Thunder the Druid Saw)
Availability: 4/3 14:00 – 4/17 13:59

This event features two Gloucesters as bosses, piloted by Darlton and Guilford, from Code Geass. The event lasts for 15 days and you will receive rewards for obtaining a maximum of 270000 points. It will take 9 days to obtain all of the point rewards.

Boss Information

As of Stage 4, Gloucester (Darlton) has these effects.
-At the start of the stage, increase Morale by 10. When HP is below 60%, add 20% of the unit’s base Defense stat to the Attack stat. (Lowering Defense does not decrease Attack bonus.) The closer the unit is to an enemy, the higher Attack is increased. (Maximum of 12%.) -When Morale is 120 or higher, decrease damage received by 20%.
-When Break Gauge is broken, Defense decreases by 20%.
-Triggers Spirit (気合) twice when HP is 90% or lower.
-Triggers Persist (不屈) and Intuition (直感) when HP is 70% or lower.
-Triggers Focus (集中) and Rock (盤石) when HP is 40% or lower.

As of Stage 4, Gloucester (Guilford) has these effects.
-At the start of the stage, increase Morale by 10. When HP is below 60%, add 20% of the unit’s base Accuracy stat to the Mobility stat. (Lowering Accuracy does not decrease Mobility bonus.) The closer the unit is to an enemy, the higher Attack is increased. (Maximum of 12%.)
-When Morale is 120 or higher, Attack is increased by 10%.
-When Break Gauge is broken, Mobility decreases by 20%.
-Triggers Spirit (気合) and Flash (ひらめき) when HP is 80% or lower.
-Triggers Sacrifice (捨て身), Charge (突撃), and Soul (魂) when HP is 40% or lower.

Both Gloucesters are weak to Strike (打撃) and Special (特殊)

Advice

It’s very easy to attack outside of the boss’s range. They both only have 1-2 Range on their Normal Attack and their Special Move is 1-3. You can have a tank defend against both of them, then have your other units pick at them from afar. They both have Morale based effects, however, since they trigger Spirit it will be difficult to keep their Morale low even with Morale lowering effects. Darlton will cap his Morale at 150 after he takes just 10% damage, due to starting with an extra 10 Morale and gaining another 40 from double Spirit activation. He triggers a lot of defensive Spirits as well, but his damage is pitiful, so if you wait his buffs out, you can take him down easy.

Guilford can be a bit more annoying, due to his focus on Mobility. His Morale won’t get as high, however, and he’ll go down much faster if you can hit him despite his Mobility. He triggers Sacrifice and Charge when he’s at low HP, two Spirit Commands that lower the user’s defense, so you can likely down him in one good hit when that happens. Of course, he’ll hit pretty hard if he hits you since he also triggers Soul on top of those other two Attack boosting Spirit Commands, so avoid that.

If you’re having trouble staying alive, you can lure the bosses to the forest and out of the bases. The forest tiles have +5% to Defense and Mobility and lower Accuracy by 5%. Meanwhile, the tiles in the base have -2% to Defense and Mobility, while increasing Attack by +2% so you can fight there if you want to hit harder. And there’s a line of tiles in between the base and forest that don’t have any terrain effects if you just want a middle ground.

Limited-time Missions

You will receive further rewards such as SSR Parts, various material fragments, etc for doing the following objectives.

Defeat Gloucester (Dalton) within 10 of its Actions. (Stages 1-4)
Complete all Battle Missions. (Stages 1-4)
Defeat Gloucester (Dalton) within 10 of its Actions and complete all Battle Missions. (Stages 3-4)
Clear 75 battles in the event.

You can obtain Skill Orb Fragments for Zero’s 2nd Skill by doing the following objectives.

Obtain Druid System SSR – x20 2nd Zero Skill Orb
Obtain Thunder Break SSR - x20 2nd Zero Skill Orb
Level Druid System to 75 – x35 2nd Zero Skill Orb
Level Thunder Break to 75 - x35 2nd Zero Skill Orb
Clear Stage 3 with Gawain equipped with Druid System (Rentals can be used) - x35 2nd Zero Skill Orb
Clear Stage 3 with Great Mazinger equipped with Thunder Break (Rentals can be used) - x35 2nd Zero Skill Orb

Halfway through the event, two new stages and more missions are introduced.

Clear 75 battles in the Event. Defeat Gloucester (Darlton) within 7 of its Actions. (Stages 2-6) Deal 30000 damage or more in a single attack against Gloucester (Darlton). (Stages 2-6) Clear all Battle Missions. (Stages 5-6)

Battle Missions

Stage 1 & 2:
1. Do not use Continues.
2. Defeat all enemies.
3. Wing Gundam Zero Rebellion is sortied.

Stage 3:
1. Defeat all enemies.
2. No ally unit is shot down.
3. Wing Gundam Zero Rebellion is sortied.

Stage 4:
1. Defeat all enemies.
2. Clear with ally units HP at 30% or above.
3. Do not use Rental Units.

Stage 5:
1. Clear without using Continues.
2. Clear with ally units HP at 40% or above.
3. Do not use Rental Units.

Stage 6:
1. Defeat Andreas Darlton with Zero.
2. Defeat Gilbert G.P. Guilford with Zero.
3. Defeat Andreas Darlton with Tetsuya.