After helping a bunch of lower levels with bosses lately and having problems I wanted to create a small guide for Rappelz that describes what to do and not to do when getting help from higher levels to kill bosses.

Bosses
Most bosses in Rappelz are far more tougher than their level implies. It is quite tough to kill a main or minor dungeon boss with 8 same level characters without high level pets or uber buffs. The bosses to which I refer are mainly the end bosses and the sub-boss. Sometimes the sub-boss is more difficult than the end boss of the dungeon.

Dungeon of Arid Moonlight
Oforia
Abhuva
Lost Mines
Primal
Taranida
Crystal Valley
Crustillino
Likivirus
Palmir Plateau
Soul Seeker
Takin
The temples on the island
each have a final boss only
for example, Betrayal in Temple of the Ancients

The first thing to remember in Rappelz is that the high levels are helping you. In return you should help lower levels if you can. It is the nice thing to do. Since they are helping you, make life easier for them. Do not take forever to get to the dungeon, do not go afk unless you say you will, the people who need the quest should do the chipping unless the high levels say otherwise.

The second thing to remember regarding Rappelz is that you are killing the boss to complete a quest and NOT for experience/jp of the kill. This applies ONLY to the bosses to whom quests are linked – therefore ignore the PP bosses.

Party management
Character selection
People will debate what levels you need but…let us just call it high level.
I recommend a high level dd, a high level tank, and a high level healer. If you are MUCH higher you can just have tank/cleric. “tank” includes a dd. For bosses who fear/stun I recommend having a dd + tank + healer regardless of level unless healer can take aggro.
All others are filler. They can be more high level characters, a huna is nice for buffs, or all people who need the quest
Party strategy
There is more than one way to skin a cat but…
#1 Tank aggroes (takes aggravation or attention of the boss) and others attack except healers just like in a dp. Pluses for this include faster kill speed, more fun for low levels.
#2 – may favorite – let the high levels do all the work. People who need quest take care of ads.
In both cases unless you want your pet to die and possibly get aggro bug, NO PETS attack. The high levels can have their melee pets attack but no pets attack from a distance. People die because of the pet aggro bug – rp attacks then stops then attacks again and Liki breaks tank aggro and goes after the rp, who is next to the low levels, who are next to the healers -> people die.

Lastly, if your high levels suggest something….do it unless it will lead to your death.

How to deal with pet aggro bug of Rappelz.
If the boss breaks aggro and starts going towards the ranged pets/stored pets then everyone recall their pets that get aggro. This aggro is due to the 1 minute rule. A pet did an action then did nothing to the boss for 1 minute -> the boss aggroed the pet. This applies to characters too.

How to deal with Rappelz infinite health/health bar bug
The boss shows zero hp on its bar, you cannot tab him, and pets cannot attack him. This happens due to HP regen. So the boss has hp but cannot be targeted.
Note that if one person clicks off and others do not then you cannot reclick the boss until all are clicked off and health bar fixes.
Solutions:
1. keep killing - this is easy if the tank is not a pet
2. pet tank user relogs fast or goes thru a portal fast while something else tanks. this is what i do. then pet comes back and gets aggro.
3. die - this is not good.