Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25737724-20160229184639

Fellow Treasure Cruisers,

Exciting news today! Treasure Cruise announced Aokiji will be this week's raid boss! We haven't had an boss yet, and many speculated this would be the next boss seeing as how the movie boss Zephyr has never made an appearance. But how will you fair?

If he follows the Japan model, what you need to know is this will most likely become the new, hardest Raid Boss for Global. A heavy presence will be needed as turn 3 hits for 80% health, and turn 6 will hit for just below 10,000 (again, assuming it follows Japan release). You will want to aim to get him to just above 50% health, and then burst him down. Doesn't sound bad... until you're informed he has 4,000,000 health! Not to mention, stage 3 will silence your captain, so if you don't have level 1 despair reduction, you will lose half your health on a double Garp team, ouch. Experts recommend a level 2 bind reduction, and level 1 despair reduction. We'll see what shakes out on Global, but we presume the stages will be similar.

What's particularly vexing is we haven't been given a 2x special event since Garp last visited, so hopefully you've put some previous work into lowering your Garp special as most people will get only low 20's amount of turns for stalling. Sockets are also new to Global, so the Usopp sockets from Brother Soul! Afro Luffy! were hopefully applied on your Usopp Impact, and if you haven't already, start putting Mr. 2 sockets on your Mr. 2 Bon Clay Bombardier Arabesque for the bind and despair sockets for a Garp, Mr. 2, or Usopp Impact burst round.

If not, consider getting one Aokiji and stopping until you can get sockets and your cooldowns low enough to farm him. We hope to have guides up soon, but give us some time to validate what is the same, or different, from Japan. Good luck everyone! Hopefully you're as excited as me as Aokiji is a monster character to have! 