AZKi Wins Her First ARK Boss Fight on the Hololive Server’s Final Day
Teaming up with Danchō, the player who took her in, AZKi finished a four-day stay in Kawau-sō with a boss kill and a ship sail-out.
HOLOLIVE — AZKi beat her first ARK boss on Sunday, the last day of the Hololive community server in ARK: Survival Ascended. She went in with Danchō, whose name means captain and who had taken her in when she joined the server, and the two of them cleared the fight on a stream that ran about three hours.
The day began with preparation. AZKi had logged in before going live to gather and cook what she estimated was about 2,000 pieces of meat, much of it to keep a Daeodon, a pig-like support creature Danchō relied on, fed and healing. At Danchō’s request she also crafted saddles at a workbench, a slow job once the materials grew too heavy to carry. She then put the team’s creatures in position for the summoning, including a large group of crocodiles, which she described as playing crocodile Tetris.
“It was short, but it was intense.” — AZKi, closing out the final day
In the fight itself AZKi rode a Deinotherium, an extinct elephant relative, and pressed its buff key to strengthen the team’s animals while Danchō kept the healer fed. Food ran down fast, and AZKi said the stretch was mostly a matter of holding out until the next opening. When the boss fell, she said that everyone was still standing, though several creatures were badly hurt, and the two collected the loot. AZKi thanked Danchō for letting her join the fight so late in the server’s run.
Chat applauded as the boss went down, and 73 Super Chats and Stickers came in over the stream. Afterward AZKi looked back on four days that had taken her from a sightseeing visit to a naval victory and a trial cave. Danchō then changed tribes, which locked AZKi out of the base’s storage and benches, and she called it a parting ending. Her ship ran aground on the way out, and she had to work it free before sailing off to a farewell cannon salute.
AZKi read out the names of Super Chat senders from all four days of the server. She said the server ran until noon Monday but she would stop before midnight because of work in the morning. She added that she would like to try ARK again on a different map.
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