I was working my way through Elvira dungeons, and got so close to getting her--until I got stopped by a team with the artifact trait. They wipe me extremely quickly since they're immune to status effects.

My team of Al-Canine, Cloud, and Kaori is hopeless against em since they can't be denied. What's the right strategy here? Or what light monster should I target to replace Kaori or someone else?

I believe my team was an Al canine,Demise and Kaori. I don't remember the enemy team I am pretty sure I must have set up the hairs down hater after activating cooldowns so that I could deal triple damage against them.
Can u tell me the team which u r facing I might able to help you more.

The problem is they are immune to all status effects, so even guard down and CDA don't work on them. It means my Al Canine is pretty much useless, and Kaori gets wiped 1st round since CDA doesn't deny them.

I'll have to check what the enemy team is exactly next time it comes around, since it just passed.

Is the key to switch runes to strength and health and just try to overpower them, instead of relying on speed and denying?

@surf-otter said in Elvira dungeon--artifacts:

Is the key to switch runes to strength and health and just try to overpower them, instead of relying on speed and denying?

Yes, either just kill them with more strength, or trait disable them (e.g. with Ingenica).

@ekto-gamat problem is you have to use light

Or you could use Grumpex with plenty of red

@surf-otter said in Elvira dungeon--artifacts:

The problem is they are immune to all status effects, so even guard down and CDA don't work on them. It means my Al Canine is pretty much useless, and Kaori gets wiped 1st round since CDA doesn't deny them.

CDA doesn't work on artifacts?

When did that change?

I've always used CDA on timerion and flamerion. It's always been the best way to stop them since CDA isn't a status effect.

@marianne-van-es Good point.

Killing them straight away is the better option anyway.

@grnxnham said in Elvira dungeon--artifacts:

@surf-otter said in Elvira dungeon--artifacts:

The problem is they are immune to all status effects, so even guard down and CDA don't work on them. It means my Al Canine is pretty much useless, and Kaori gets wiped 1st round since CDA doesn't deny them.

CDA doesn't work on artifacts?

When did that change?

It didn't. I assume there is some kind of other effect in play that stops the artifacts from being CDA'ed, or that the artifacts simply all carry 0 CD skills.

Since I play with max speed, yeah--maybe there's another effect in play alongside artifact that I'm not noticing. The bottom line is the guard down/CDA skill is a double miss, and Vendetta (sunburn/stun) also misses both. Next time the dungeon comes up I'll resurrect the thread so I can show exactly what effects are in play.

It seems really hard to try and brute-force everyone with sheer strength and HP, but maybe that is what is required. Not sure what else to do.

This is the team and runes I used to get Elvira

See, that's crazy, LOL. My team is way stronger. Al Canine lv 110, Kaori lv 95, Cloud 105. I should have no problems. And I breezed straight through until this level, where all my status effects miss and I get wiped out immediately after. Now I'm extra curious to see who exactly I'm fighting, so I can report back.