Mabinogi Black Dragon Raid Boss

The Black Dragon Raid Boss is a butt and is likely to kill you a whole bunch!

But there are ways to fight him that allow you to take minimal casualties.

Things to Bring:
- 100+ HP Potions (Even if you don't use them all)
- 40-60 Phoenix Feathers
- 40+ MP Potions
- 10+ SP Potions
- Bandages?

Raptors: How to
- Raptors are a very strange enemy and you cannot apply standard combat practices to them.
- They are multi-aggro.
- They have a stomp attack that ignores mana shield and hits health directly.
- Their knockback gauge is 3x as large as a normal enemy so even attacks that normally always knock an enemy back won't work on them!
- However, this means that you can hit a raptor like 14 times if you're using knuckles.
- Do not use skills such as Hailstorm, Shock, or Blaze on them.
- They heal non-wound damage almost instantly.

But this is all 100% okay because your job as Support is not to kill the raptors. Don't try to kill he raptors! Pull the raptors away from the boss dragon and hold them in combat to the side so that Assault and everyone else can do what they need to do.

Bards and Healers: A love song
- Bards can be one of the most handy users on the battlefield thanks to Enduring Melody and Battlfield Overture
- Everyone is constantly hurt so use party healing for maximum mana efficiency
- Keep your parties open and stay right next to the dragon boss so that you're doing some actual good.

If you're not in a full party or you're too far away to do any good, why are you at the raid at all? Support your fellow millitians or the Black Dragon will escape.

The Black Dragon
- He has Advanced Heavy Stander
- If you are under his front claws you'll take ~500 damage
- He has a ground pound attack that hits enemies in front of him.
- Defying physics, the dragon can swivel around to any new angle at any time
- It's hard to pin his hp but every 25,000 appears to be 1% so he's probably in the realm of 2,500,000hp
- Not that it matters, he heals hundreds of thousands of hp every few minutes.
- Archers, stay under his belly and rapid fire on him. If you can, avoid going out of his sides or being under any one of his legs
- Mages & Alchemists, stay under his belly and charge advanced magic to hit him with. He moves constantly so you will need to be fast
- Melee, when the dragon is about to fly up windmill. Windmill breaks him out of his flight animation and keeps him from doing his flying attack.
- Assault needs to be attacking him constantly. Even with a full server on the dragon you can fail to kill him because of how fast he heals.

This has been a very basic guide to fighting the Black Dragon raid. Good luck everyone!