Devil May Cry 4

[Serif]

Any advice on the Lightning Rod guys?

I am going through the 3rd Difficulty in the room right before you fight ehrrr Scientist dude behind the wall you have to hit with swords. Where you have the dice roll, when landing on red you fight monsters blah blah but it is the lightning dude that always kills me. I am just used to shooting him until get goes out of the mode where you can't hit him and then unleashing Yamato on him and then repeating. Is that the best strategy on these guys or am I just being a noob?

Edit: So apparently Level 3 Exceed disrupts the shield....

[MisterBob]

Any advice on the Lightning Rod guys?

I am going through the 3rd Difficulty in the room right before you fight ehrrr Scientist dude behind the wall you have to hit with swords. Where you have the dice roll, when landing on red you fight monsters blah blah but it is the lightning dude that always kills me. I am just used to shooting him until get goes out of the mode where you can't hit him and then unleashing Yamato on him and then repeating. Is that the best strategy on these guys or am I just being a noob?

Edit: So apparently Level 3 Exceed disrupts the shield....

Charge Shot 3 is the best approach with Nero, 2-3 of those should take the shield down. After that, just charge up a 3rd shot while Devil Bustering it. When it turns red, immediately release the Charge Shot, it will explode before it goes into red mode and you will get an automatic SSS.

[MisterBob]

For those who are curious, here is the Bloody Palace floor listing:

1. Scarecrow x 3
2. Scarecrow x 4
3. Scarecrow x 6
4. Frost x 2
5. Bianco Angelo x2
6. Mephisto x 3
7. Gladius x 6
8. Chimera Seed x 9
9. Chimera Seed x 9, Scarecrow x3
10. Scarecrow x 12
11. Assault x 2
12. Mega Scarecrow x2
13. Assault x2, Bianco Angelo x2
14. Faust x1
15. Bianco Angelo x2, Alto Angelo x1
16. Scarecrow x6, Mega Scarecrow x1
17. Alto Angelo x2
18. Blitz x1
19. Basilisk x4
20. Berial (Boss)
21. Mephisto x2, Frost x1
22. Frost x2, Faust x1
23. Assault x3, Frost x2
24. Assault x 3, Basilisk x 4
25. Assault x3, Blitz x1
26. Blitz x1, Basilisk x4
27. Frost x2, Bianco Angelo x2
28. Assault x2, Gladius x8
29. Blitz x1, Gladius x5
30. Frost x4, Assault x6, Blitz x1
31. Chimera Seed x6, Mephisto x3
32. Scarecrow x3, Faust x1
33. Mephisto x2, Mega Scarecrow x1
34. Mephisto x6
35. Mephisto x3, Frost x1
36. Scarecrow x2, Faust x1
37. Mephisto x2, Assault x3
38. Mephisto x2, Blitz x1
39. Chimera Seed x9, Faust x1
40. Bael (Boss)
41. Chimera Seed x9
42. Chimera x5, Chimera Seed x5
43. Chimera x4
44. Chimera Seed x6, Gladius x6
45. Chimera x2, Blitz x1
46. Basilisk x2, Chimera Seed x4
47. Chimera Seed x5, Bianco Angelo x2, Alto Angelo x1
48. Scarecrow x1, Chimera Seed x6
49. Chimera x3, Faust x1
50. Scarecrow x6, Chimera Seed x12, Assault x4
51. Scarecrow x6
52. Scarecrow x3, Gladius x8
53. Mega Scarecrow x3, Frost x2
54. Scarecrow x5, Alto Angelo x1
55. Mega Scarecrow x1, Faust x1
56. Mega Scarecrow x1, Alto Angelo x2
57. Scarecrow x4, Mephisto x3
58. Mega Scarecrow x1, Basilisk x5
59. Chimera x2, Mega Scarecrow x1, Chimera Seed x4
60. Echidna (Boss)
61. Bianco Angelo x4
62. Cutlass x2, Bianco Angelo x3
63. Blitz x1, Bianco Angelo x2
64. Bianco Angelo x1, Gladius x6
65. Bianco Angelo x7, Alto Angelo x1
66. Alto Angelo x1, Basilisk x4
67. Blitz x1, Alto Angelo x2
68. Bianco Angelo x2, Scarecrow x6
69. Alto Angelo x1, Frost x2
70. Bianco Angelo x10, Alto Angelo x2
71. Gladius x16
72. Mega Scarecrow x1, Gladius x9
73. Gladius x8, Frost x1
74. Cutlass x2, Basilisk x4
75. Alto Angelo x1, Cutlass x3
76. Cutlass x4, Gladius x8
77. Basilisk x10
78. Frost x2, Basilisk x4
79. Cutlass x2, Basilisk x2, Gladius x4
80. Angelo Credo (Boss)
81. Mega Scarecrow x1, Scarecrow x5
82. Mephisto x4, Faust x1
83. Frost x3
84. Chimera x4, Chimera Seed x10
85. Blitz x2, Chimera Seed x3
86. Bianco Angelo x2, Alto Angelo x1
87. Basilisk x4, Gladius x7
88. Cutlass x3, Bianco Angelo x2
89. Mega Scarecrow x3, Blitz x1
90. Scarecrow x20, Mega scarecrow x3, Chimera Seed x3
91. Faust x3
92. Alto Angelo x3, Bianco Angelo x4
93. Assault x8
94. Chimera x3, Chimera Seed x6, Bianco Angelo x2
95. Basilisk x16, Chimera Seed x4
96. Gladius x8, Cutlass x3, Bianco Angelo x3
97. Mephisto x6, Mega Scarecrow x2
98. Chimera x4, Chimera Seed x3
99. Alto Angelo x2, Bianco Angelo x44
100. Angelo Agnus (Boss)
101. Dante (Boss)



Died on level 26, god damn Blitzes combined with other enemies

[Tajin]

Is that a typo on floor 99? 44 enemies looks incredibly hot >.>;

I notice a lack of variety in enemies, which kinda sucks given the whole next-generation deal.

[Elcura]

I'd rather a few, well designed enemies than a lot of shitty throw away enemies. Not saying that's the case with DMC4 (frankly I find Angelos very very annoying). But I wish they brought back the type of enemy design DMC1 had.

[Tajin]

Well yeah, to be fair is not like most of capcom games have enemy variety.

[Kiarax]

Is that a typo on floor 99? 44 enemies looks incredibly hot >.>;

I notice a lack of variety in enemies, which kinda sucks given the whole next-generation deal.

It's not a typo lol. Craziest floor ever.

@Serif: You can actually pick what number you want to roll. Wait for the number you want to appear on top of the die and then hit it with a single Buster. It always cycles in the same pattern, don't remember it off the top of my head, but say you wanted to roll a 4, just pay attention to the number before the 4, wait for that number to appear again and get ready to Buster the next roll. Other then that just keep blasting them with the Blue Rose, regular shots or charge shots are fine.

[Chreman]

Couple of questions. . .

Using Yamato as Dante useful for anything? Other than being badass of course.

Are you able to quit & continue in any way in the bloody palace?

Other than that, primo game. Son of Sparda's another cakewalk and can't wait for dante must die and hell & hell modes.

[Kiarax]

Couple of questions. . .

Using Yamato as Dante useful for anything? Other than being badass of course.

Are you able to quit & continue in any way in the bloody palace?

Other than that, primo game. Son of Sparda's another cakewalk and can't wait for dante must die and hell & hell modes.

Yamato's okay for throwing in mid combo for more style points. I usually do Swordmaster's Aerial Rave (well, the first 3 hits only, the 4th knocks the enemy back), switch to Dark Slayer and then do Yamato's Aerial Rave. I rarely use it outside of that though even though Dimension Slash is pretty useful for packs of enemies.

No you can't save and quit Bloody Palace, has to be done in 1 sitting unless you just decide to leave it paused.

[MisterBob]

I love Dimension Slash for getting huge style points on enemy groups. On its own, Dark Slayer isn't a great style, but it is excellent for support if you are good at switching mid-combo.

[MisterBob]

Yay, beat DMD

[Serif]

Are you guys just trying to beat the game or are you trying to do it with style, some bosses I get to I end up getting a C or D evaluation for the Mission because either I continued too much or the Boss had a handicap.

[untouchable]

i usually restart the mission if im getting less than an A.. got this habit from dmc3 >.<

[MisterBob]

Usually get A and S, with the occasional B. I find on DMD mode that keeping the enemies down and out (along with killing them before they DT) requires some heavy comboing, thus I get pretty high ranks. I usually refuse to use items at all.

[Elcura]

First playthrough is usually survival. I'll use whatever items I can find. Second time is for style (and to S rank all of a single difficulty before moving up). Harder modes style = getting through, since you have to do good damage quickly and usually that boosts style up a lot.

Misterbob, are you good at using RG?

[Takie]

You retain all your proud souls when you switch difficulties, so I played through Human after beating Devil Hunter. YAY for all moves! I love Trickster so much, I would make love to it if I could :nikkei:

Side Note, curious to hear everyone else's Live Ranking. I'm 4000 and change on Human, playing through Devil Hunter again now for more S Rankings.

[Kiarax]

You've got every ability from just DH and Human mode? I didn't get my last til halfway through Hell or Hell. Gonna (slowly) start working on S'ing DMD. Done either 6 or 7 missions with S ranks so far so hopefully now I'm actually attempting to S it shouldn't take too long. Not looking forward to S'ing Bloody Palace though.

[Elcura]

I haven't had much time to play (still working on SoS) but I got like 2000-ish on my first run through on DH. I haven't really gone back to S rank everything there yet.

[-Zer0-]

Placing on Live isn't too hard, but placing in the top 1000 can take a bit of effort. If you really tried, I'm sure you'd have np. I went back and placed 538/10,000 on one of the missions when I actually sat down and just tried to raise a mission from a B to an A, ended up with an S. Most of the latter out of the top 10,000 are B ranked.

[MisterBob]

I don't use RG too much yet.

My DMD rank is in the 200s, with a bunch of ranks in the 70s and such when I get S's on a mission.