The new Dragalia Lost Mercurial Gauntlet quest can be a tricky beast to tame. While most will burst down the first 10 waves with ease, progressing much further requires a little more finesse and thought. In this Mercurial Gauntlet tips guide, we’ll mix some of our experiences and dish out the details on how changing up your strategy can push your teams beyond their usual limits.
Dragalia Lost’s Mercurial Gauntlet came out of nowhere. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was a new timed event, when in actuality, it’s a permanent addition to the quest pool. It’s also not quite the gauntlet we were expecting. Rather than being waves of increasingly tougher enemies – like most facility events – it’s a fight against a single increasingly more tanky stationary enemy – Fafnir Roy III. There are no ailments or debuffs to worry about, and chip damage is gone in favor of large AOE hits (which can be iframed) from time to time. It might sound easy, but it can get pretty tricky if you go in expecting your average MMO tank n’ spank brawl, as there’s only a single minute on the clock. Because of the unique fighting pattern of Fafnir, Mercurial Gauntlet runs benefit from high raw attack power. Offensive adventurers matched with powerful Wyrmprints and Dragons essentially to fully clearing the fight.
Mercurial Gauntlet Rewards

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