Drake Down (the drain): Solo Professor Guide

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IGN: Professor, Stalker

Introduction

Drake Down is one of the three missions available in Tier 1 of Royal Operations, also known as RDC. The evil Drake is trying to sneak aboard a ship to wreak havoc on the world, and you have to stop him! Be warned that this Drake is stronger than the one you face in the MVP room. Click here for a look at Strong Drake’s stats.

To successfully complete the mission, you must kill the Strong Drake. Before you can kill him, you must first find him! He is hiding among the Wraiths scattered around the map. Killing them will spawn a cluster of Wraith Deads and potentially Strong Drake himself. Make your way around the map killing Wraiths until Strong Drake spawns next to you.

Build

For this mission, we will use a Professor as our killer. Professor is a nice class to use as you can also tank Drake as you kill it, something Sniper has a harder time doing. We will be using Fire Bolt as our damage skill.

STR: Not needed, but some STR for carrying emergency Ygg Berry is nice.
AGI: Enough for 196 ASPD.
VIT: Any extra stats should go here.
INT: Max INT to get as much MATK as you can.
DEX: Get a total of 150 for no cast-time
LUK: Not needed.

Equipment
Note: Drake can do massive damage using  Water Ball. To counter this, we need to get at least 100% resistance to the Water element.

Upper Headgear: Hair Bow, Event Coppola, Flax Hat, Archangeling Hat, Magic Wizard's Eyes, Drooping Tortoise or any other +MATK or +Water resist headgears you have. Use Vesper Cards to ignore MDEF, Rata Cards for MATK, or Leaf Cat Cards for Water resist.

Middle Headgear: Large Blue Angelwings, Fable Silk (if you do not have a Soul Linker), Golden Wings, or any other +MATK or +Water resist headgears you have. Use Vesper Cards to ignore MDEF, Rata Cards for MATK, or Leaf Cat Cards for Water resist.

Lower Headgear: Black or Orange Tie for more MATK, equips like Kitten Love or Fuzzy Bunny Scarf for Water resist, or Hip Ribbon for resist and combo with Hair Bow.

Armor: Great Old Hauberk gives MATK and Water resistance. If you already have over 100% Water resistance, something like Reset Girl’s Robe may give more MATK. If you have one, Naght Sieger Card gives a good magic damage bonus to Undead monsters.

Shield: Valkyrie Shield gives 20% Water resist. Slot it with Golden Thief Bug Card, Alice Card, or Aqua Elemental Card for more Water resist.

Weapon: Testament [3] is the best damage weapon for Drake, if you do not have one, a Rod [4] or something similar works just as well. Fill your weapon with Ancient Tree Cards for best damage.

Garment: Caliginous Cloak and Marse Card for Water Resist, or Great Old Cloak MATK.

Footgear: Tenebrous Boots for more damage, Valkyrie Shoes or Ebony Greaves if you need a slot or more HP.

Accessory: Asomatous Ring, Resplendant Ring, Ring Des Nibelungen or Aqua Orb. Slot your accessories with Imp Cards for extra  Fire Bolt damage.

Completing the Mission

Upon spawning in the mission, buff yourself with Blessing and Increase Agility if you have a High Priest in your party. Get a  Sage Spirit Soul Link from the Soul Linker in your party, or equip a Fable Silk for the mission. Use Auto Spell and select Fire Bolt. Walk around the map killing the Wraiths to try and find Strong Drake. 

Having party members with AoE attacks will help make finding Strong Drake faster.  

When Strong Drake spawns, use  Double Casting and use/stand on Volcano (for bonus Fire damage), then start meleeing him. Auto Spell will start raining down bolts and the damage will start flowing.

Tips

• Drake can use a very high level of Decrease Agility, so use Golden Thief Bug Card to block it or make sure to get re-buffed by your High Priest.
• Drake can break your armor, so if using a breakable armor like Reset Girl’s Robe, be sure to have Full Chemical Protection from a Creator, have a Whitesmith in your party for repairing, or use an item like Grendel’s Gloves for repairing.
• Strong Drake will normally first attack the person who uncovered him, or the person who was nearest to the Wraith he was hiding with.
• Use a Coldproof Potion for an extra 20% Water resist if you have trouble getting enough Water resist equipment.
• The Wraiths can also Curse you and slow down your movement speed while searching, so bring ways to remove Curse such as  Panacea or Holy Water.
• Considering bringing Yggdrasil Berries for emergency healing,  or Yggdrasil Leaf to resurrect party members.

With 100% Water resistance, Drake is no threat at all.

Rewards

The rewards found common in all RDC missions, and the rewards for specific missions can be found on this wiki page.
The most notable award from this mission is the Drake Sabre [4], a level 2 Sword with 4 slots, useful for most melee classes.
 

 

Edited October 19, 2019 by Class

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