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M. Cursor - The Crepe Analysis

⚙️ This “control panel” was hard to analyze and harder to actually control because of all the control skills it has. But with every other analysis on YouTube and beyond that Meringue’s seen, it’s about time he came up with SOMETHING. Anyways, let’s open this file.

M. Cursor is the mid-boss of stage 18-20 in Goddess of Eternal Gold and the only enemy in this stage. According to Mozzarella Cookie, it’s something that’s possessed her control panel, although this could very easily be a lie considering what happens in the cutscene after you defeat it… and something for YOU to find out yourself because we aren’t putting spoilers here. But what we WILL put is the specs of the Story difficulty stage itself.

Story Stage Power: 849,032

Guaranteed Rewards:

71,703 Kingdom EXP

7,056 Coins (Includes a +1% buff from Guild Relics)

18x Level 4 EXP Star Jellies

2 Topping Pieces

Possible Bonus Rewards:

Healthy Peanut S (+HP)

Sweet Candy S (Amplify Buffs)

Hard Walnut M (+DEF)

Swift Chocolate M (-Cooldown)*

Magic Powder (Upgrade material for Magic Cookie skills from level 1 to 20)

⚙️ *This topping makes the stage a potential replay area if you wanna grind or farm Swift Chocolate toppings since those are very much meta for a LOT of Cookies.

Stage Statuses

Ally Healing -65%

Ally Shield Capacity -65%

Enemy Debuff Resist +40%

Glitch: Adds Error Points to a unit’s gauge when damaged by certain enemies. This gauge has 10 segments for Cookies and 2 segments for summons. Purifying skills like Herb Cookie’s skill or either Monocle treasure will remove 3 segments from the gauge. When the gauge is full, the target becomes Glitched and immobilized, bypassing most interrupt resistances and immunities until it expires or is purified. Removal of the Glitch debuff on Cookies causes other effects to happen.

Data Corruption: Inflicts damage on the target after Glitch expires using a non-dispellable Corruption debuff. This damage is proportional to the target’s Max HP and lowers their Max HP count similar to Injury, but HP deducted can’t be restored with things like Pure Vanilla’s skill. Damage can be somewhat negated by revival or the Invulnerable/Immortal buff. The more dangerous effect to watch out for, since it makes it easier for enemies to break through.

Data Copy: Creates an enemy clone after Glitch expires if another enemy is nearby. This clone has no additional default passives besides the default stage statuses unless buffed by another enemy teammate. It does melee attacks at the same rate as GingerBrave and looks like him too, but more glitched. Less dangerous, since it just creates enemy reinforcements. They can be cleared out with splash damage and crowd control easily, but don’t let them overwhelm you.

M. Cursor’s Stats

Power: 155,067

HP: 6,547,400

ATK: 62,471

DEF: 95,057

Click: Deals damage to the nearest target and increases the number of Error stacks.

⚙️ Each hit adds one Error point to the targeted Cookie. M. Cursor will seek out Cookies with this one.

Double Click: Deals damage to the nearest random target, Stuns them, and increases the number of Error stacks.

⚙️ While M. Cursor will seek out a random Cookie, this one will damage and stun everyone for a split-second. While not necessarily a control move, the brief stun can throw off your attack pattern just enough to lead to you losing outright. It’ll also increase everyone’s Error count, so watch your teammates and lower their Error where possible, or else they’ll be much more fragile and more likely to fall to other attacks because of Data Corruption.

In Use: Deals damage to all targets, applying Silence and Anti-Gravity.

⚙️ This is one of M. Cursor’s control moves since the Gravity effect will keep everyone from acting at all. Skills can’t be used, nobody can attack or move into position, everyone is slowly levitated backwards, and this one will even bypass Stun Immunity despite the stun icon used to lock the skill buttons. The Silence debuff will keep your skills locked out for a few more seconds even after you land and pauses any active cooldowns the whole time. Purify the Silence debuff ASAP so your skills can rotate while Gravity is active and you’ll be ready to cause havoc once your Cookies land.

This is an especially big problem if a Trash Can is in play and currently devouring its captured unit since your Cookies can’t respond to destroy it. This will cost you several seconds of precious time in which you have to attack the Trash Can before it deletes your Cookie. If you use a skill that grants interruption resistance or intangibility, however, you can dodge this prolonged control status completely.

Delete (D): Summons a Trash Can that Devours the target in front of it.

⚙️ M. Cursor’s summon and instant-kill move. Also one of the main features that makes M. Cursor rage-inducing to face. The Trash Can looks like a gilded version of your computer’s Recycling Bin and has a segmented HP bar similar to Prune Juice Cookie’s summon, which means you need to land about 40 hits on it to destroy it. Once the Trash Can is in play, it will immediately move forward and capture the nearest target, removing them from play. This renders them unable to act and the teammates behind them vulnerable to everything else.

After about 15-20 seconds of holding the target, the Trash Can empties itself, instantly defeating whatever’s in it. Destroying the Trash Can while it’s holding a unit will release whatever’s in it, allowing that unit to continue fighting without taking damage from the Trash Can. There are a number of bypasses to this instant-kill that you can use.

Fettuccine and Capsaicin can survive being devoured if their Immortality failsafe passive hasn’t been used yet, allowing them to get back in the fight once if the Trash Can empties them out. Golden Cheese and Vampire have revival-based failsafe passives that work in a similar manner should they be forced to the front.

Sugar Swan’s Shining Feather can revive your first KO that isn’t saved by a Cookie’s on-potential-KO passive. Consider it an insurance policy against a player mistake, but you’ll lose a Treasure space to equip it and it could be wasted on another attack sooner than you expect to use it on the Trash Can’s latest catch. HP deductions from Data Corruption may still apply.

Engage rapid fire skills on Cookies that haven’t been captured to shred the Trash Can’s hit-based HP bar before it deletes your Cookie. Skills that rely on multi-hit damage (and a high number of hits) used by Cookies such as Twizzly Gummy, Clotted Cream, Rye, Milky Way, and Black Raisin can rapidly destroy the Trash Can while other Cookies follow suit with their standard attacks. Just make sure they aren’t interrupted or KO’d during their attack run or you’ll probably lose your Cookie to the Trash Can.

You can bait the Trash Can into capturing one of your own Summons, preferably swarming units like Licorice Servants, Cotton Sheep, House Oyster Soldiers, and Cream Wolves to increase the likelihood of a Trash Can catching a Summon instead of a Cookie. Single heavy Summons like Pompon, Prune Jellies, and Crunchy Chip’s mount (left behind after he gets KO’d) can work in a pinch, but you’ll probably want to get them back since they’re very integral to their summoners’ skills. Summons can also whittle down the Trash Can’s hit-based HP bar while the other Cookies attack it, allowing you to destroy the Trash Can quicker.

Display Pointer Trails: Deals damage to all targets and applies Paralysis.

⚙️ M. Cursor’s high-damage control move and a second frustrating feature of M. Cursor as a boss. Once used, the screen darkens and M. Cursor attacks everyone on-screen, dealing high area damage over the course of a few seconds. Anyone damaged by this attack becomes Paralyzed for a few seconds, greatly slowing ATK SPD including that found in skills used usually after infliction unless the affected Cookies have skills that grant immunity to forced ATK SPD changes. If you know M. Cursor is about to drop this one, use your Ambush Cookies’ skills (and ambush-like evasion skills found on Cookies like Moonlight and Squid Ink) at the last possible moment before the attack and save your healing skills for when the cursor tracers start flying.

You should purify the inflicted Paralysis ASAP if possible, but it’s not always necessary if the Trash Can is out of play. If the Trash Can is not moving in to capture or currently mid-capture, it is either too far away to capture or is on a cooldown caused by emptying its contents, and therefore does not pose a threat that you need to react to immediately with Cookie skills or Paralysis purification.

Error Message (Passive): Gains a Hit Shield for using Skills a certain number of times.

⚙️ After M. Cursor attacks several times, it gains a hit shield that works similarly to the Trash Can’s segmented HP bar. Once the shield is up, the only way to damage the boss is to break through the shield by attacking it. Dispelling skills will not affect it, and hits received will only remove segments regardless of damage dealt.

While it’s tempting to utilize the insights seen with quick Trash Can removal, do so if you KNOW that the Trash Can isn’t gonna appear and delete something before you can respond to it, usually with rapid-fire skills on cooldown. Summon skills can be used more freely in either situation, but proper skill timing is still important.

Team Lineup

🪸 Crimson Coral Cookie

Level 75 ⭐️

Somber Affection: Level 75

5x Sea Salt Almonds +12

ATK +6.9%

DMG Resist +37.2%

ATK SPD +5.2%

Cooldown -6.7%

CRIT Resist +11.4%

⚙️ Crimson Coral Cookie is the vanguard in this plan, and the only Cookie that should be in the front row to get the most out of her Coral Armor buff, namely the 30% DMG Resist/Reflect buffs on herself and the +15% HP buff for everyone else. She should be the primary target for Click and the Trash Cans, protecting the others behind her. The catch is that you’ll need to be ready to shred the Trash Can after it captures her so you can get her back before it deletes her.

For her skill, the mass +25% DMG Resist (possibly boosted by 30% as a passive in her stats) and HP Shields will further protect her teammates as the only relevant buffs in her skill for this boss fight. Resistance to DEF Reduction and CRIT DMG Resist hold little weight as buffs here since M. Click doesn’t inflict CRIT damage or DEF Reduction. Curse effects inflicted by her being captured by a Trash Can (which is standard for devouring skills) will block buffs, but this can be counteracted with Curse Protection so her teammates can still buff her and get her ready once released. As for when to use her skill, just use it ASAP. The aforementioned DMG Resist will keep everyone protected even if her 4-hit charge attack hits the Hit Shield and does no damage or if she charges straight into the Trash Can. Her resistance to interruptions and immunity to forced ATK SPD changes while her skill is active allows her to power through “In Use” and “Display Pointer Trails” if timed correctly.

🐦‍⬛ Black Raisin Cookie

Level 75 🌟🌟

Shadow Watcher: Level 75

Magic Candy - Sentinel’s Strike: Level 10

5x Sweet Apple Jellies +12

ATK +2.6%

HP +2.3%

CRIT% +46.4%

DMG Resist +9.4%

Amplify Buff +4.1%

DEF +2.3%

ATK SPD +1.6%

Cooldown -2.9%

Debuff Resist +1%

⚙️ Black Raisin Cookie is gonna be one of your two main damage sources in this boss fight, recently made relevant again from her Magic Candy which increases her basic abilities and amplifies her CRIT potential immensely. This is achieved through massive damage in her initial strike combined with another bonus area hit whenever she rolls a critical hit. While she can cast Amplify Debuff and a stacking Weakness debuff once her Magic Candy reaches +10, these are irrelevant unless she’s attacking clones spawned from Data Copy. For damage output, use her skill immediately when it’s ready since she does 8 hits with her basic skill once you make her Magic Candy. This not only allows her to do more damage per hit and grants ample opportunities to roll CRITs for bonus area damage, but also allows her to hack away at M. Cursor’s Hit Shield when it’s active. Keep in mind that her marker signifies that she will almost always go for M. Cursor as the center of her skill, which might miss a loose Trash Can if one’s in play.

However, if you suspect that M. Cursor is about to drop “In Use” or “Display Pointer Trails” on you, wait a bit and use the skill right before the boss’s attack goes off to evade the incoming damage and debuffs while dealing some damage of your own.

🥧 Tarte Tatin Cookie

Level 75 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cannonade: Level 53

5x Searing Raspberries +12

ATK +49.6%

HP +3%

CRIT% +2.98%

DMG Resist +9.6%

Amplify Buff +1.6%

DEF +3.8%

ATK SPD +3%

Cooldown -1.6%

CRIT Resist +3.8%

Debuff Resist +2.7%

⚙️ Tarte Tatin Cookie is going to be your second main damage source in this boss fight because of her bonus damage abilities when she uses her skill on bosses. Her Cannonade skill shot will cycle between normal and enhanced with each use, with the enhanced shots doing 1.5x damage (+50% more) overall. But regardless of which skill shot is loaded in her cannon, Tarte Tatin Cookie’s skill gains a massive bonus damage percentage against bosses, allowing her to chop off a large chunk of M. Cursor’s HP bar with a direct hit.

Unlike Crimson Coral Cookie and Black Raisin Cookie, who have amounting group buffs and multi-hit utility that allows their skills’ use under any circumstance, Tarte Tatin Cookie has a two-hit attack that is best used in an Anti-Boss Damage role. This severely limits her usefulness against Hit Shields and the Trash Can. M. Cursor and the Trash Can are immune to her burn damage, which negates use to tick down shields with a damage over time debuff. Use her skill only when the boss’s Hit Shield is down to actually deal damage, but there’s a trick. Use her non-enhanced skill immediately when it’s ready- regardless of M. Cursor’s status regarding its Hit Shield- to prepare the enhanced skill for when the opening emerges, then use her enhanced skill when the shield is down to inflict skill damage, boss damage, AND a +50% multiplier on top of all of that. Timing her skill uses against M. Cursor’s control skills is still needed so you don’t get interrupted when the boss uses them during your opening.

🌾 Rye Cookie

Level 75 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Final Showdown: Level 75

Magic Candy - Best Shot in the Kingdom: +2

5x Solid Almonds +12

ATK +2.6%

HP +4.9%

DMG Resist +20.5%

Amplify Buff +1.2%

DEF +5%

ATK SPD +2.5%

Cooldown -3.6%

CRIT Resist +7.4%

Debuff Resist +4%

⚙️ Rye Cookie plays a supporting role in this plan despite her capabilities to do high damage and burn with her skill, as well as gaining an ATK SPD buff afterwards. This is because her skill does 24 hits aimed directly at the target with the lowest HP. With the exception of the opening salvo and the finishing combos, Rye Cookie’s skills should ONLY be used when the Trash Can spawns in because its HP is technically ~40 as a segmented HP gauge. Because the HP of the Trash Cans are significantly lower than M. Cursor, Rye Cookie will always aim at the Trash Cans first, granting a significant advantage in dealing with them since she’ll do 24 hits against them per skill use. If the skill still has shots remaining when the Trash Can is destroyed, she’ll either focus in on M. Cursor OR an enemy clone if one exists. If she focuses on an enemy clone spawned from Data Copy, those are vulnerable to getting burned.

The real problem here is her much lower HP pool against M. Cursor’s damage skills, namely “Display Pointer Trails” which can do the most damage to Rye Cookie. As such, her survivability depends on her receiving Solid Almonds to maximize her Damage Resistance. And here’s the worst part. If she falls, the Trash Cans become a serious menace that can dispatch the rest of your team quickly.

🎖️ Clotted Cream Cookie

Potential replacement for Rye Cookie if you have him.

Level 73 ⭐️⭐️

Consul’s Orders: Level 73

5x Solid Almonds +12

ATK +2.5%

HP +4.1%

CRIT% +4.29%

DMG Resist +22%

DEF +2.5%

Cooldown -4.8%

CRIT Resist +7.5%

Debuff Resist +1.5%

⚙️ If you have Clotted Cream Cookie at a good level, he can be a good substitute for Rye Cookie if she’s too finicky to play with. Clotted Cream Cookie’s skill does less damage overall and has 22 hits against Rye Cookie’s 24 hits, but that damage is dealt as area damage to everything on the screen. Because he is filling the same shieldbreaker role as Rye Cookie, this multi-hit splash damage coupled with a similar cooldown can work well in more situations against Trash Cans and M. Cursor’s Hit Shields… even if they’re both active! Lined up well and timed correctly, one skill can tackle both problems at once. But given the choice between both of them, save it for the Trash Cans to keep them out of the way while dealing some extra damage to M. Cursor itself. Only use his skill solely against Hit Shields if you know you can use his skill again before another Trash Can spawns, captures your Cookie, AND deletes them.

Clotted Cream Cookie’s survivability is similar to Rye Cookie’s, which dictates that he needs Solid Almonds to maximize DMG Resist against incoming attacks so he doesn’t fall and allow Trash Cans to overwhelm your team. And while he does not have a burn capability like Rye Cookie’s Magic Candy, Clotted Cream Cookie can still cast a Light Cage against an incoming enemy clone to keep them out of the way and possibly defeat them outright. His Light Cage will not work on M. Cursor or the Trash Cans.

💫 Cream Puff Cookie

Level 75 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jellius Extremus! Level 75

Magic Candy - Extra Cream: +10

5x Juicy Apple Jellies +12

HP +5%

CRIT% +49.18%

DMG Resist +11.1%

DEF +3.9%

ATK SPD +2.9%

Cooldown -2%

CRIT Resist +3.4%

⚙️ Cream Puff Cookie is the burst healer in this plan and relies HEAVILY on rolling CRIT. Why? Because a critical hit does exponentially more damage and healing, and also provides a Cream Buff that even further increases her skill’s damage and gives herself a DMG Resist buff. Regardless of whether she rolls CRIT or not, she also provides a Stun Immunity buff and an ATK buff based on her CRIT%.

Anyways, after all the vicious math calculated behind the scenes which comes out to a CRIT% of 67.18% with a Magic Candy passive CRIT% of +14.7%, that’s a pretty good chance of getting a CRIT. Add the +30% CRIT% buff from the Grim-Looking Scythe and… well… neither me nor Meringue have access to all the numbers at work here nor a calculator that can crunch them all. If M. Cursor didn’t give Meringue a migraine trying to approach this tactically, trying to calculate how Cream Puff Cookie’s CRIT% came to 67.18% considering the aforementioned bonuses definitely messed with his head.

But for the sake of Meringue’s mind in this mathematical conundrum, let’s just say all of these factors present some VERY good odds to rolling critical hits, which means Cream Puff Cookie’s burst healing potential stands better than dedicated healers like Pure Vanilla Cookie, even with the -65% healing mitigation factor. This makes Cream Puff Cookie excellent in both fields of burst healing and CRIT splash damage. Timing her skill isn’t too hard, just use it when someone’s HP goes below half or so to get them back in the fight. However, mind the cooldown and how much your party gets attacked between when you last healed and when Cream Puff Cookie’s skill becomes ready again, as one second too late could mean losing a Cookie just as her skill cycles around again.

Grim-Looking Scythe & Eerie Haunted House

Scythe Level 12 - CRIT% +30.0%

House Level 10 - CRIT% +8.0%

⚙️ With all this CRIT talk, we might as well bump up the odds of rolling CRIT for everyone even more!

Squishy Jelly Watch

Level 12 - -25.0% Cooldown

⚙️ Because Meringue’s Sleephead’s Jelly Watch is still underleveled, he’s working with this one. It still works just as well with cycling everyone’s skills!

Explorer’s Monocle

Level 1 - Purges debuffs, +25% Max HP healing, +20.0% DEF/+15% Debuff Resist for 16 seconds, 14 second cooldown

⚙️ Considering the healing mitigation, you’re gonna be using this for the debuff cleansing and temporary buffs. Even then, upgrading this monocle only improves the DEF buff. It still has a superior healing/cooldown ratio over the Bookseller’s Monocle, which has to be level 9 to match the Explorer’s Monocle’s healing output. And yet, it still gets hampered by a 17 second starting charge time and 23 second cooldown. Overall, the better pick for World Exploration and gameplay overall unless you really need a 30% heal pulse over 25% and buffs.

A Demonstration of This in Practice

⚙️ ANYWAYS… enough talk. Here’s a screen recording that proves that this composition works, recorded by Meringue personally. This one in particular puts Clotted Cream Cookie in as the multi-hit attacker. This ends the analysis.