Nordis Descended!

Reminds me of certain dungeons in the pokemon mystery dungeon series...

This level was made in hell. I would be content if there was never another "start from lv 1" dungeon again.

Always spend way too long looking for this dungeon strat so figured I would repost here.

Credit to ViewtifulGene from the PAD Forums. His post here:

http://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/threads/de-traumatizing-nordis-with-curious-greek-waifus.90018/

To summarize:

APanda//UuvoPanda/Hanzo/Zuoh/AAma//APanda

1 - 5-orb match
2 - Row match
3 - Can stall a bit if you used actives, kill without actives. One tpa sweeps.
4 - Row match
5 - Stall if needed. 8-pack plus row to sweep green, 8-pack to sweep light.
6 - Spend a turn or two to set-up, then 8-pack plus a few off color combos.
7 - 8-pack plus a couple combos to break def.
8 - 8-pack plus row. You should have a couple turns to finish if that wasn't enough.
9 - Stall floor. Heal during shield, attack during no-shield. Can stall all day here. *
10 - Bind Clear, then hit with Zuoh-Panda or Zuoh-Hanzo.

*Note RE floor nine. Keep in mind when his actives loop, he does two attacks in a row. (Triple Thrust is followed by Ha!, not shield)

As I say this is a simplification, do check out VG's most excellent forum thread for more details.

Went in with an Awoken bastet team and made it to Nordis' final form. Didn't have a dark attribute monster and ended up getting killed by a normal attack pre-emptive i didn't know was coming. Not sure if he does that if no dark attribute monster exists or if his normal attack will kill you.

EDIT: never mind. it was at the bottom of the page and i didn't see it...

That Halloween Alraune in the Halloween Collab is a blessing for dark teams in this dungeon.

So for the leveling up aspect, does the monster just level up to whatever level it was when you went in, or does it go past that and keep leveling up? Aka if I went in with a level 1 monster, would it permanently stay at that level, or could it level up beyond that?

After many attempts, I finally had success with:

Awoken Minerva Lead
Hypermax Ronia
Hypermax Ronia
Phoenix Rider, Valen
Shinra Sun God Apollo
Awoken Shiva Friend Lead

General strategy is to TPA, 6+ combo, and conserve skills, but depending on skyfalls you may need to use Minerva as needed, with Apollo acting as a "safety net" for one of the first 8 floors if you can't put out enough damage otherwise. Ronia needs to hit combos, not rows, to activate Shiva's LS. Minerva's LS will halve all light damage and make the end survivable, so take advantage of that on Floors 5, 9, and 10. Valen's shield active reduces damage by 1/3 for 4 turns, so get it out if you know you need to tank.

Floors 1-4: TPA and hit red, stall on 1 or 3 if you need to to get skills up.
Floor 5: Light is easier, simply grind down with red combos. For green, since you do double damage, be careful not to knock into the <20% range or she'll 1 hit KO you with her -100% hp skill.

Floor 6: You get 3 'free' turns here. Use 1 Ronia right off that bat with combos, not rows; this should knock him below 50% and hopefully not kill him. This gives you 2 more turns to stall for the Ronia skill and hit with regular combos. Use Minerva if you're unsure about your damage output.

Floor 7: This will somewhat rely on luck; you need to conserve your Ronia and, if possible, Apollo. Use Shiva to break their defense, but since the team is dominantly fire, you need 147,895 damage to take out the water dragon. One TPA with a 7+ combo is about the bare minimum; if you still have Minerva, make more reds before using Shiva or use Apollo to double your damage.

Floor 8: Use your Ronia, with combos not rows, and Apollo for an insta-kill. Without Apollo, it's still doable. Deploy Valen to ease the damage while it's green, combo hearts, and activate Ronia while it's still green but before your shield wears off.

Floor 9: Stall for skills by comboing hard and getting hearts. Try to pop your reds during its 'shield' phase to give yourself more turns. Recovery can be an issue, but try to save your Valen shield; you need it for floor 10.

Floor 10: This is the meat and potatoes. Your Ronias get bound right off the bat, so shucks. Combo hard, because you need as many heats flowing in as possible. Deploy your Valen shield on your second turn to ease the pain. Use Minerva to clear up some extra orbs if dark and red are mixed up. If you survive your Ronia binds, pop one, engage Apollo, and put Shiva to work. This will hopefully knock the big nasty below 50%, where he'll waste his turn to remove your last turn of shield. Use your other Ronia immediately, because he's now in the green and Minerva's leader skill won't prevent you from dying. I hit a perfect 10 combo board with one skyfall, which was enough to finally make it all worthwhile.

Final levels on Floor 10: Minerva 67, Ronias 36, Valen 96, Apollo 91, Shiva 61.

Good luck fellow adventurers!

KInd of ironic i guess that the boss drop is like an ideal leader to farm this dungeon? If you had duel N.1845 youd have x9 for dragons and roughly 50% resist from everything in this descended. The subs wouldnt even need to be rem heavy if you put things like sonia gran and defound on the team. Just an interesting thought that might not even work though havent seen any videos on it yet.

Cleared with Zaerog Infinity team, took me 2 stones (messed up on the easiest floors go figure) but it is definitely doable with zero stones. My only concern at first was dealing with Shining Dragon if he shows up in Fl5, but I was able to stall out the leader bind while healing every turn no problem (got lucky with heart drop).

Zaerog Infinity +297, sk 9
Beach Pandora +240
Moonlit Hanzo
CDK,V +99
Aamir, sk 1
Zaerog Infinity +297

All max lvl, awoken, & skilled (except where noted). Use skills as needed, except Aamir (hold for Fl10), & stall when possible.

Awesome skill up dungeon but probably tough to farm...

Floors 1 - 6 looked pretty easy and then suddenly 7, 8, 9, and 10 showed up and I think I"m going to have to give up on the Nordis dream.

I wonder if a double meimei with subs being liu bei,vishnu,gzl and maybe an athena can clear this...

Gotta luv it when you clean sweep a floor off a wicked combo and proceed to the next w/o leveling up. Like, what the hack else does it take to to get buku level boosts in rogue dingeons? Despite my 27,000 max HP, I can't break 20000 to tank Threedias wild talon rake. Wurt gives?? >"<

neptune dragon
hermes
hermes
mori
andromeda
neptune dragon

all you need is sufficient hp to tank one Pround Slash (about 20k dmg), which is not easy since you can only reach lv 60 at the boss stage T.T. I spent one stone anyway to end my potential nightmare tonight~

i managed to beat this with this set up:

awoken leilan
gzl
l. meta
rodin
ares
awoken leilan

it's really easy to stall on nordis with dual awoken leilan. my friend's awoken leilan was hypermaxed and both leilan's were max skilled. l. meta wasn't max skilled but it would help a ton with recovery. as long as you save up gzl for the final form of nordis and you don't get horribly orb trolled then it's doable. i managed to get lucky on the last floor cause i activated gzl and was able to do three fire rows with my leilan active and got 7 combos (with skyfall) and one shotted him.

Brave Resistance can also clear buffs

Ra Dragon works surprisingly well for this dungeon despite not being able to level up all that much. Ra Dragon, DKali, DKali, Dzanami, and Awoken Isis or B/G Sun Quan with Ra Dragon friend. My team didn't have a lot of pluses, but all were max skilled, leveled, and awoken.

Tackled this with a makeshift Dark Sakuya build:

ASakuya
AHades
DKali
DIza
LKali
ASakuya

DIza allows you to take down F8 Threedia over a few turns if you need to. One Sakuya gravity can be used to clear Threedia's bind or to soften up F9 (can't use all gravities on Nordis as you want to keep him Light attribute). Nordis's first form gives you a couple turns to find a good activation with a dark TPA, so you shouldn't need to use any Kali actives. Going into his final form you should have at least one Kali active and 2 gravities: 1 Sakuya gravity + Hades gravity puts him at 60% health, then just one-shot him from there using a Kali (if needed) and +5 orb seconds.

I had close to 800 plusses on this team, but they were mostly on Sakuya and LKali and contributed very little to damage. With an 11 combo (8 matched), Hades actually did enough damage to one-shot Nordis on his own and he had 0 plusses. DIza active should be enough to survive against Threedia's Rake even with no plusses, though they definitely help a lot with survivability in general with the reduced levels.

I wonder why no one has suggested a pandora build with sleeping beauty to clear the dark bind on the last floor. Am I missing something here?

This dungeon seems "scary" when I have the first look at it, but I finally did it last night.
I suggest two teams here, I have cleared it with both teams myself.

Team.1
Leaders:
A.Yomi x A.Yomi(only friend hyper maxed)
Subs:
A.Haku(max SL)
A.Isis(hyper maxed)
Moon Dragon Caller Satsuki(max SL)
D/G Persephone(SL 6)

This team runs pretty smoothly if you are used to A.Yomi team. Only a few things need to pay attention to. If you got green knight on floor5, either one shot him b4 he put his green absorb up, or wait it out, he will one shot you if u put him below 20%(I died here once XD). For boss floor, use Isis(use on FIRST turn coz he has a chance to delay your skill, and it goona be disaster with this team's Rcv to stall), take a hit, and boom(5+3 dark orbs will be enough to kill).


Team.2
Leaders:
A.Ra x A.Ra(both hyper maxed)
Subs:
Lubu(no skill-up, +297)
A.Isis(hyper maxed)
L.Kali(hyper maxed)
L.Kali(no skill-up, +0; this is the wild card slot, but unbindable dark or double light TPA prefered)

Lubu is the super-star on boss floor. He resisits the dark bind, his 2.5 mutiple applys to both Ra and Isis and himself. If you have more than 6 dark orbs in the final combo, Lubu gonna eats more than half of boss's hp, alone. Nothing special need to mention here, just roll as a normal A.Ra team.

Hope you guys all claim the +50 Tamadra soon :)

I like how floor 7 is just to discourage people from using something like dual Angelion resist leads :B

...I bet Awoken Meimei & Leilan curbstomp this dungeon

FYI: on the boss, the buff in skill set 2 applies to the "proud slash" attack on the same turn. Killed my awoken bastet team...

F**k this dungeon! Again and again i try to swap last floor and die with 1% health on boss.
I try with Tsukuyomi dragon team, with AShiva...
I lost my hope.

It took me many tries, but I finally 0-stoned it with Blonia.

Leader : Blonia, hypermax, Latent = 5 HP.
Sub 1: BlOdin, skill max, +57, Latent = 3 HP.
Sub 2: A. Karin, hypermax.
Sub 3: A. Lakshmi, skill max, +2.
Sub 4: B/W Hermes, skill max, +0.
Fr. Leader: Blonia, hypermax, Latent = 5 HP.

Better if you have at least 21.826 HP once at Floor 9.

Fl1: Kill with 4 or 5 blue orbs
Fl2: Kill with a row
Fl3: kill Pengdras with 4 and stall on Dragons to refresh skills if needed.
Fl4: Kill with 5 or row
Fl5: Always got the Shining one. Unbind with hearts (use Lakshmi if needed), or just stall. You can refresh skill here too.
Fl6: 3 turns to kill. Sonia might be needed.
Fl7: Rows needed.
Fl8: Sonia + Odin.
Fl9: If HP >= 21.826, you can stall and refresh all skills. Else, kill before 5.
Fl10: Lakshmi and hearts to unbind. Then try to ping down a bit while healing (but keep above 50%). When skills are available and he's not absorbing blue, Sonia + Odin to kill.

When your Yomi Dragon refuses to kill Nordis...ORZ

So many runs, so many close kills (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

0 stone clear with (all max awoken/skilled/lvled even though it doesn't matter):

Hypermax A.Ra
L.Kali
WDotMS.Odin
A.Bastet
A.Isis
Hypermax A.Ra

Please let me know if there are any questions!

P.S. Egyption S.1 Gods are the best.
Edit: Why does this get downvoted? Is making posts looking to help out bad?

Is the shiron on a two turn timer? I thought it was on a one turn timer.

Getting absolutely trounced w my Ronia teams. 4 ronias lead by lubu & one of the ronias and a Pandora to round out the 5. But my forced to use all my ronias before final boss.what are folks using to beat this????

Okay... it looks like combo teams are the only way to go here... I can't imagine trying to grind through this dungeon in any way. If the monsters are synced, recovering would be... difficult to say the least. That being said...

Hey mods?
Why does it not show that the boss drops?

Kinda annoyed we still haven't received arena but we get this and a couple other things instead

Seriously we're back to this again? People just going through and down voting almost everybody

I might use batman + gat to do this