Mastering the Clan Boss: A Deep Dive into the Best Artifact Sets
The Clan Boss in RAID: Shadow Legends is a formidable opponent, demanding meticulous strategy and optimized champion builds. A crucial element of that optimization lies in your choice of artifact sets. So, what are the best Clan Boss artifacts? The answer isn’t a simple one-size-fits-all, but generally, focusing on sets that enhance survivability, accuracy, and damage is key. Early to mid-game, Lifesteal, Speed, Accuracy, and Shield sets form the foundation. Late-game, however, sets like Savage, Stun, Swift Parry, Immunity, and Shield become crucial. This article will guide you through the optimal choices, explaining why certain sets shine against the Clan Boss and helping you maximize your Clan Boss damage output.
Understanding the Core Needs for Clan Boss Success
Before we delve into specific sets, it’s important to understand the core requirements for a successful Clan Boss team. These requirements dictate which artifact sets are most valuable:
- Sustained Survivability: The Clan Boss hits hard. Champions need to be able to stay alive for multiple turns to deal consistent damage. This can be achieved through healing, shields, and resilience.
- Consistent Debuff Application: Debuffs like Decrease Defense, Weaken, and especially Poison are vital for maximizing damage. Applying these consistently requires high accuracy.
- Damage Output: Ultimately, you need to deal enough damage to claim the best rewards. This often involves focusing on specific damage-dealing stats and leveraging critical hit bonuses.
- Turn Manipulation: Speed is king. Having your champions cycle through their abilities more often allows you to apply buffs and debuffs more regularly, and increases your overall damage.
Top Artifact Sets for Clan Boss
Early to Mid-Game Essentials
- Lifesteal Set: This set is invaluable for its healing capabilities. Champions equipped with lifesteal gear will heal themselves based on the damage they deal, often negating the need for a dedicated healer, especially when combined with the Leech debuff. This is a great starting option and helps immensely for new teams.
- Speed Set: Speed is crucial in RAID, and the Clan Boss is no exception. More turns mean more damage and more debuff applications. The speed set provides a direct speed boost that works with all champions.
- Accuracy Set: Consistent debuffs are key to damage output. This set provides a needed accuracy boost to land debuffs such as Decrease Defense, Weaken, and Poison. Focus on obtaining enough accuracy to bypass the Clan Boss resistance.
- Shield Set: Early game shields are immensely valuable for damage mitigation, providing a much-needed buffer against the Clan Boss. This set provides a good early game option.
Late-Game Powerhouses
- Savage Set: A staple for damage dealers, this set completely ignores 25% of the enemy’s defense. This is extremely powerful against the Clan Boss, whose high defense severely mitigates damage.
- Stun Set: The Stun Set can be used to control the smaller mobs that the Clan Boss can summon on higher difficulties, if your team does not have the damage to eliminate them.
- Swift Parry Set: This set is very useful for certain champions to avoid being one-shot by the clan boss.
- Immunity Set: This set provides immunity to debuffs, allowing champions to consistently provide important buffs and debuffs without being interrupted.
- Shield Set: Even in the late game, a shield set remains useful for its damage mitigation properties.
Specific Artifact Stats to Prioritize
Beyond the sets, the individual stats on your artifacts are critical. Here’s a general guide:
- Main Stats:
- Chestplate: Prioritize HP% or DEF% for survivability, or ATK% for damage dealers.
- Gauntlets: Prioritize Crit Rate% or Crit Damage% for damage dealers, or HP% or DEF% for support champions.
- Boots: Prioritize Speed always.
- Substats:
- Accuracy: Essential for landing debuffs.
- Speed: The higher the better for turn manipulation.
- Crit Rate & Crit Damage: Crucial for damage dealing champions.
- HP% or DEF%: Important for increasing survivability.
- Attack%: Important for damage dealers who are scaled on attack, and champions who apply HP Burn.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Clan Boss Artifacts
1. Is it better to focus on Lifesteal or a healer for Clan Boss?
While a healer can provide sustained healing, Lifesteal is generally more efficient for many champions. Lifesteal allows your damage dealers to heal themselves based on the damage they deal, freeing up a slot that could otherwise be used for a damage dealer or debuffer. This is particularly true with the added benefit of the Leech debuff.
2. How much accuracy do I need for Clan Boss?
The required accuracy depends on the difficulty of the Clan Boss. You generally need around 200-250 accuracy for the lower difficulties and up to 300+ for Nightmare and Ultra Nightmare.
3. Can you apply more than one poison debuff on Clan Boss?
While you can have multiple instances of Poison on the Clan Boss from different champions, you cannot stack the poison debuff from the same champion or skill more than once. Each source is calculated separately with its own individual damage ticks.
4. Are the Stun, Provoke, or Freeze artifacts good for the Clan Boss?
While these are valuable crowd control sets in most other aspects of the game, they are ineffective on the Clan Boss. The Clan Boss is immune to these debuffs and the effects will not trigger.
5. What is the best artifact set for a damage dealer champion?
The Savage set is generally considered the best option for the late game due to the 25% defense ignore. Lifesteal is useful for sustain in early to mid game, and Speed is always helpful.
6. Are there any artifact sets I should avoid for Clan Boss?
Avoid sets that focus on Crowd Control (Stun, Provoke, Freeze) as the Clan Boss is immune to them. Additionally, resist sets are generally not as helpful as boosting core stats like speed, accuracy, or damage.
7. How important is speed for my champions against the Clan Boss?
Speed is extremely important. The more often your champion can attack, the more damage they can deal and more debuffs and buffs they can apply. Focus on maximizing speed on your important champions.
8. How important are Auras?
Auras are important for every area in the game, as well as the Clan Boss. Only the All Battles Aura will work on the Clan Boss. These auras are generally stronger on Legendary Champions, but this is not always the case.
9. Does HP Burn work on Clan Boss?
Yes, but there’s a cap on damage per tick. HP burn ticks for 3% of the enemies max HP. The damage is capped at 50k for rare and 75k damage for Epic and Legendary champions.
10. What is a 3 to 1 speed ratio?
A 3 to 1 ratio is where a champion has three turns compared to the Clan Boss’s one turn. This allows for much more damage output and buff/debuff applications. This requires extremely high speed and is very difficult to achieve.
11. Is it worth it to sell artifacts with multiple bad substats?
Yes, if you have a five-star epic artifact with attack percent, defense percent, and speed but they are all at 4, this is the worst start for sub-stats. You should sell it, as it will never get the rolls you would want.
12. Is Defiant gear stackable?
Defiant will stack together additively but will be multiplicative with stalwart, meaning 3 Defiant sets will be stronger than 1 Stalwart and 1 Defiant.
13. Does turn meter reduction work on Clan Boss?
No, turn meter control does not work on the Clan Boss, the Dragon, or the Magma Dragon.
14. Can you use Decrease Speed on the Clan Boss?
No, the Clan Boss is immune to speed debuffs. This also means the Speed Set is particularly good as its speed bonus is a straight bonus, and is not a percentage, or a debuff that can be resisted.
15. How does the Clan Boss change affinity?
Once the Demon Lord’s HP drops below 50%, the Boss will change affinity to a random affinity, making teams with a good mixture of affinities advantageous.
Conclusion
Choosing the right artifact sets for your Clan Boss team is vital to progress in RAID: Shadow Legends. While early-game focuses on survivability and accuracy using sets like Lifesteal, Speed, Accuracy, and Shield, late-game requires sets that can push damage like Savage, Swift Parry, and Immunity. Remember to prioritize key stats like Speed, Accuracy, Crit Rate, and Crit Damage. By applying this knowledge, you’ll be well on your way to mastering the Clan Boss and reaping the valuable rewards. Good luck, summoner!