Mirror Images/Samurai

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• Samurai: Did this as 50 Sam/18 nin. Being sam and with warding circle I intimidated him quite a few times through out the fight. Went in, meditated and cast shadows, then waited another for meditate to be back with in a min. of recast. Targeted Vassago, engaged and used Tachi: Jinpu. From there on out i just straight tanked him. NPC was set to heal and when he did Blighted Gloom i just ate it and put shadows up again. NPC cast cure 3 acouple of times and I used a few pots. Never dropped below 400hp and other then taking awhile had no problems. The only reason i ate the Blighted Gloom is because my NPC was only lvl 40 and if he used it on here she would get hate and could only take 2 hits before she died (which happened the first time).

• Strategy 2: Going with the all out brute force of a SAM50/WAR25 with "any" npc combat style and with an icarus wing and 10 hi-potion+3's in stock it is a sure-fire victory. My exact way of going about it is zoning into the arena meditating and eating a meat mithkabob. Wait for your meditate to be up and make sure your 2hr is ready for assured success. The NM Vassago and your NPC won't do anything until your in range so no worries. Once meditate was up it's go time, Seigan>> Third Eye>> Hasso (You cant hasso with Seigen up)and run in lock on and let one normal swing hit the mob. Time to unleash the ultimate Samurai combo... Berserk >> Jinpu >> Meikyo Shisui >> Jinpu >> Meditate >> Jinpu >> Jinpu >> "optional icarus wing" >> Jinpu >> "This is where the icarus wing would yield your 6th Jinpu. Yes with this strategy you "will" eat Blighted Gloom and yes will survive. To make this even more appealing the good news is I did "not" use my icarus wing "nor" any hi-pots+3 :) so all in all 5 jinpus a berserk and pure Samurai Honor will yield this Demon in totally humiliation and you with sweaty ballista type palms ^^

• Strategy 3: Tried this with Mithra SAM50/WAR25 with Soboro Sukehiro and level 40 NPC set to Soothing Healer. Used Meditate, waited for timer, used Meat Mithkabob, Seigan, Third Eye, Hasso, Warding Circle, engaged, ran forward. Attempted to use Berserk, Jinpu, Meikyo Shisui, Jinpu, Meditate, Jinpu, Jinpu, but was NOT able to kill Vassago in time; Berserk dropped defense down pathetically low, and I did NOT survive the 500-ish Blighted Gloom on top of regular attacks dealing about 200 damage. Soboro Sukehiro is an awesome weapon, but the actual damage per swing is much lower than your standard great katana so your weaponskill damage is much less, making Strategy 2 unfeasible for this weapon. After getting back up, I tried again (without 2-hour!) and won easily using Seigan tanking while standing behind my NPC and running away whenever Vassago started to use Blighted Gloom. My NPC did not have more hate than me, but since I was out of range Blighted Gloom automatically targeted my NPC, dealing 0 damage but triggering a 200-ish damage counterattack Blessed Radiance. Vassago may hit the NPC with a regular attack during this time, so be sure to run back quickly and Provoke to regain hate if needed. Vassago swings a slow scythe and never hit me once with Seigan up; the only damage he did to me was through special abilities and spells (the NPC was busy casting Blindna and Poisona on me and only healed me once). I just focused on keeping Third Eye up at all times and running away when Vassago uses Blighted Gloom; at the end, my NPC was at about 25% health and Vassago was about 10%, so I just stood there and took the final Blighted Gloom (which only did about 100 damage to me; perhaps Blessed Radiance weakened it?) to ensure my NPC didn't pull hate and get finished off.