AFK Journey Primal Lord - Alpha Bear

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 - Bear Hunter 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 20 players who dealt the most damage will be recorded,
• The server rewards include:
  
  Diamonds,
  
  Invite Letter, A-Level Soulstones and chests with equipment.

Alpha Bear is one of the two available Primal Lord bosses you will encounter in AFK Journey. In this guide we will go over the boss mechanics and the best characters and teams to use against him.

Skills

• Ultimate - Summons a swarm that deals 80% damage per second to each enemy covered in honey for 3s. When all enemy heroes are marked with honey, a mega swarm is summoned, dealing 250% damage per second till the end of the battle.
• Skill 1 - Throws honey at an enemy hero, marking them until the end of the battle and dealing 100% damage. The healing received by the marked enemy is reduced by 80% and cannot be dispelled.
• Skill 2 - Throws honey at enemies in adjacent tiles, dealing 50% damage and marking them. Smashes the ground when there are no enemies in adjacent tiles, dealing 400% damage to all enemies.
• Skill 3 - Makes and pulls a Terraball towards the enemy, dealing 100% damage to all enemies in its path.

Tips and tricks

• Use a single character with 1 Range, who will 'tank' the boss. That's because of the Skill 2 as you want prevent the Bear from using his massive AoE - so you always need someone 'hugging' the boss,
• Avoid using damage dealers with the Range of 1 as they will have issues surviving close to the boss,
• Because the boss can reduce the healing received by an ally, characters that provide Shields help a lot,
• Consider using damage dealers who can keep themselves alive and provide additional utility to the team.

Supports / Healers

If you're a F2P player you will most likely want to run 2 Support as the constant honey DoT hurts a lot and you want to survive for as long as possible. For spenders, who have their characters ascended quite high, just Smokey should be enough to keep the team alive.

• Obviously,
  
  Smokey & Meerky are the backbone of every team for this boss - they will be able to keep your team alive with heals and support them with buffs,
• The character that shines here the brightest for F2P players is
  
  Koko as she can reduce the damage the whole team takes, by staggering it which will allow the whole team to survive longer and deal more damage.

Damage dealers

Use whoever you have most ascended from DPS here, but if the character also has the ability to keep themselves alive, it will help them a lot.

• 
  Smokey & Meerky - yes, this isn't a mistake. They are the one of the best DPS for the boss, but only if you have their EX weapon unlocked as only then their Aura on top of healing also deals damage,
• 
  Korin - has great damage (at Mythic+), has a range of 2, so he allows you to avoid the deadly melee range and also his shields are a massive boon to the team,
• 
  Odie and
  
  Marilee - both are great ranged DPS who shine in Dream Realm due to their massive single target damage output and this makes her great in other bossing content. At higher investment, Marilee will do more damage, but at the lower end, Odie will be better choice (especially that you will also use Smokey and Koko, so you will activate the faction bonus),
• 
  Vala - has great damage and she will shine especially well once the boss HP falls below 50% as then she will always stay in her sword mode.

Debuffers

• 
  Reinier when ascended to Mythic+ is a great bossing character, but only spenders will be able to afford that at the current stage of the game,
• Everyone else can use the good, old
  
  Kruger or
  
  Thoran who will also double up as the frontline.

As we mentioned earlier, F2P or early game players will need 2 healers to keep the team alive. Here are the roles you want to cover:

• x2 Supports
• x1 Debuffer
• x1 Tank
• x2 DPS

Team #1

• 
  Smokey & Meerky acts as the main healer and at Mythic+ a DPS for the team,
• 
  Koko doubles up as support who provides Life Drain, Damage Reduction and also shields (at Mythic+),
• 
  Thoran doubles up as the tank and debuffer,
• You can try using
  
  Kruger instead if your Thoran is too weak,
• 
  Korin doubles up as damage dealer and shielder. While his damage output is tied to Mythic+ upgrade, he can still do decently well before that (as the shields are what makes him a great pick),
• 
  Odie is the damage dealer here,
• If your Odie aren't ascended enough, just use your
  
  Cecia or
  
  Marilee here if you invested into her.

Artifact used in the teams above: Starshard Spell.

Team #1

The best spender teams pre level 300. Huge thanks to Zeeebo who came up with it! Suprisingly,

Koko is used as a tank in the team, teleported to the frontline by

Reinier and she actually can keep tanking really well and help the team with buffs and shields.

Character info:

• 
  Smokey & Meerky acts as the main healer and at Mythic+ a DPS for the team,
• 
  Koko doubles up as the tank, buffer and shielder,
• 
  Korin doubles up as damage dealer and shielder,
• 
  Marilee is the damage dealer here - she performs better than Odie at higher investment,
• 
  Reinier at Mythic+ is a great debuffer who also provides some ATK buffs and heals to the linked character.

And here's more information about the composition:

Artifact used in the teams above: Starshard Spell.

Team #2

This team will only work for uber-whales who already are past 300 level when it comes to their characters. For everyone else, using the Team #1 will work better as Smokey isn't enough to keep the team alive.

• 
  Smokey & Meerky acts as the main healer and at Mythic+ a DPS for the team,
• 
  Thoran doubles up as the tank and debuffer,
• 
  Korin doubles up as damage dealer and shielder,
• 
  Marilee is the damage dealer here - she performs better than Odie at higher investment,
• 
  Reinier at Mythic+ is a great debuffer who also provides some ATK buffs and heals to the linked damage dealer.

Here's how much damage that team was able to do back on the PTR (30m in total):

You can find the whole run by going here.

Team #3

This team will only work for uber-whales who already are past 300 level when it comes to their characters. For everyone else, using the Team #1 will work better as Smokey isn't enough to keep the team alive.

This is the exact same team as the previous one, but once the boss falls below 50%, replacing Marilee with

Vala allows you to push the damage even further.

Here's how much damage that team was able to do back on the PTR (31m in total):

And here's the recorded run (credits to

AFK Analytica - you can find their website here and their discord here.):