Does anyone have a clue how to beat old king? Checked guides that said to break, but in my game, the old king always casts the insta-death spell and then I die right afterward.
I have 7378 speed and 5365 luck, 13966 attack as well. I also always have "Deep Sea Knight's Anchor +5" equipped, and have its special ability "indignation" on at all times. Do i need to grind until I get my speed up to like 30,000 or something?
Also, even when I successfully breaked him (it happened once)! autodeath killed me WHILE he was breaked??? WTF
You need like 10k~ luck to make sure your breaks land since it's technically a status and your odds of inflicting statuses is determined by luck. Once you have that though you just gotta make sure to break every mirror image, typically for each turn doing just one attack to keep it from regenerating too much hp and then using all your other actions to break should work. Very important, break the MIRROR IMAGES, not the main boss. Main boss just sits there regenerating hp. If you don't have enough actions it's honestly worth it to just use breaks on everything and whittle him down after. If it's any consolation you probably only need to get up to like 7.5k luck and then let buff items do the rest.
[Edit] Unless you're talking about the insta death early on, for that one he hits you with an attack that gives you a hidden status, something like you've been planted with deathseeds or whatever, that triggers an insta kill later. This means you either need to have requiem ready to survive the insta kill attack when it goes off ( I think it's when he gets to half hp?), or 100% dodge so that you don't get hit by the initial status attack in the first place. 100% dodge is probably the easier option since normal dodge already gives you 70% so you just need 30 from equipment. You don't even need Abhorrent Wrap, you can do Phantom Thief's Mantle + Griffin shield and you get to keep the ability to heal. Sadly this doesn't work against the Zex Calibur or whatever it is, that one just kills you no matter what so you have to break or you die.
TL,DR: Get to 10k luck to land your breaks and try again. There's 3 insta kills, one you can either dodge or requiem through, one you have to break, and the end where you have to spam break over and over.
