AFK Journey Primal Lord - Crystal Beetle

Primal Lord is a boss killing event where together with everyone on your server you aim to kill the Raid Boss who spawns on the world map. The less time it takes for the Raid Boss to die, the bigger rewards everyone on the server will receive.

Here are the rules that govern the event:

• You can challenge the Primal Lord 3 times a day,
• After each challenge, you will instantly obtain personal rewards based on the total damage dealt to the Primal Lord. Those rewards include
  

  Essence
  ,
  

  Gold
  ,
  

  Experience
  and chests with equipment,
• Players will be ranked based on the total damage dealt to the Primal Lord during the event:
• The top 20 players will receive a special title - Beetle Slayer and top 200 players will receive a unique border + and various amounts of
  

  Twilight Essence
• After killing the Primal Boss, an Eternal Inscription will spawn where it died. There, the names of the top 50 players who dealt the most damage will be recorded,
• The server rewards include:
  

  Diamonds
  ,
  

  Invite Letter
  , A-Level Soulstones and chests with equipment.

Crystal Beetle is the first Primal Lord available in the Season 1 of AFK Journey. In this guide we will go over the boss mechanics and the best characters and teams to use against him.

Here's the list of Crystal Beetle skills:

• Ultimate - Flies into the sky, becoming Invincible while hurling a magic projectile at each enemy, dealing 80% damage to the target and adjacent targets.
• Skill 1 - Casts a spell that enhances the scales on the wings and back at 10/30/50/70s into a battle, increasing Dodge by 100 for 15s.
• Skill 2 - Summons 3-tile-wide spike that extends forward, dealing 60% damage to enemies hit. If enemies lose HP from this damage, they will also be knocked into the air and stunned for 2s.
• Passive - Spreads an enchanted mist across the battlefield, fueling the magic obsession of those within. Increases the Haste of allies and enemies within the mist by 60 and their magic damage by 100%. Allies and enemies also recover 50 Energy per second while in the mist.

• Use Shielders. Because of Skill 2 of the boss, you are forced to use Shielders and not Healers - if any characters loses HP they will be stunned, and Shields can prevent that.
• Consider using damage dealers who provide additional utility to the team, especially if the utility takes the form of Shields.
• Use True Damage attackers. While the Beetle's passive boosts Magic DMG by 100%, it seems the bonus isn't enough to compete with True Damage dealers as the boss MDEF/PDEF scaling is similar to Endless Dream Realm bosses.

Realistically speaking, your meta team will depend on your specific box, and your account focus, so use your highest rarity DPS carry characters, along with whoever can best boost their damage. Try running Dual/Triple carry, as currently there is no way to boost a Hypercarry’s damage high enough to make it worth running only one. Keep faction bonus in mind but don’t run suboptimal characters just to force it.

Still, below you can find a few example teams. Big thanks to

AFK Analytica for the team building tool. You can find their website here and their discord here.

• Team #1 - Current Best
• Team #2 - With Phraesto
• Team #3 - No Cele/Hypo