Communio Sanctorum: Hieronymus
Hieronymus is a Raid boss in Blue Archive.
The main gimmick of this boss is that healers are an absolute must. Battle is split into two phases, with switch happening after a certain boss HP threshold is reached.
Green lantern will be present on field immediately at the start of a battle. Healing the green lantern applies a debuff on Hieronymus that stacks up to 5 times and increases all incoming damage. After each activation the green lantern receives a 20-second healing debuff that reduces all healing by 50%, so either find a way to heal it through it or wait for the debuff to fall off before healing it again.
Second phase adds a red lantern, activating it stops the boss from using his insta-kill attack and increases cost recovery by 2500. Note that if you are aiming to kill the boss in one round it's possible that he won't have time to use his instakill attack at all.
| Armor Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Armor | |||
| Difficulty | Reccomended Level | Boss HP | Coin Reward |
| NORMAL | 17 | 400,000 | 40 |
| HARD | 25 | 900,000 | 60 |
| VERYHARD | 35 | 1,350,000 | 80 |
| HARDCORE | 50 | 2,500,000 | 100 |
| EXTREME | 70 | 6,000,000 | 120 |
| Skill Name | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Damascus Calling | EX | Attack all enemies in a circular area, enemies with lower HP receive increased damage (up to 50%) |
| Vulgate | EX | Apply a curse to one enemy. Cursed enemies receive continuous damage,
10 seconds later explode and cause AoE damage. If the student is at 100% HP or gets healed to such, the curse is removed. |
| Lion's Aid | EX | AoE Attack |
| Desert's Pain | Passive | Every 10 seconds, attack all enemies. If ATG gauge is maxed, attack enemies for 100% of their HP. |
| Reccomended Units | |
|---|---|
| Supports | |
| File:Student Portrait Serina.png | Queen of this raid and more important than your damage dealers because you will deal no damage if you don't heal the lanterns. A low investment Serina can still clear but it's reccomended that you level her auto heal to the point that she can heal the lantern with one activation of her normal skill and up her EX skill so she can heal the lantern with one kit too. |
| File:Student Portrait Ayane.png | Can compete with Serina due to having an AOE heal and might be better if you can get her to heal both the lamp and your low HP students at the same time. |
| File:Student Portrait Hanae.png | Can heal the lamp to max even with debuff active so she's excellent for that but might want to pick one of the above two if you also need to heal your units. |
| File:Student Portrait Hanako.png | Passive skill buffs the team's healing while being a healer herself. Like Hanae but instead of strong regen to one unit, she gives a weaker regen in a big AOE circle. Great as a second healer if you want stronger heals. |
| File:Student Portrait Hibiki.png | If one healer is enough then you can take her for more damage. Properly allign her circles so all 5 hits land on the boss for maximum damage and remember the mantle on the back isn't a hitbox but the staff on the front is. |
| Front | |
| File:Student Portrait Azusa.png | Excellent for this raid and will likely be great for other red raids to come. Will deal the most damage out of your team while debuffing defense using her normal skill. Time your damage rotations and skills when her defense debuff is active for maximum damage. |
| File:Student Portrait Serika.png | Great damage dealer for this raid. Low cost EX, great damage capabilities, cheap to raise and can obtain her fragments from hard nodes. Easily a top student on this raid. |
| File:Student Portrait Akane.png | Here only for her EX skill that applies a defense debuff because she will deal almost no damage. Keep in mind that she will rush to the front and take most of the damage so hope she's either beefy enough to survive this or to use some of your heals on her to keep her alive for long enough to be useful. |
| File:Student Portrait Yuuka.png | Other tanks like Eimi, Hoshino or Tsubaki or any tank you have invested on could be good for this raid too because they will take most of the damage from Hieronymus and you don't have to worry about healing them. If you are using a character like Akane that rushes to the front then a tank like Yuuka could be useful because she will take cover in front of Hieronymus and force Akane to position herself away from his attacks and be significantly easier to keep alive |
| Other good damage dealers for this raid | |
| File:Student Portrait Shiroko.png File:Student Portrait Hina.png File:Student Portrait Akari.png File:Student Portrait Shun.png File:Student Portrait Mutsuki.png | |
