Hard bosses and how to defeat them

[apocalypse80]

I'm not correcting you
I am confirming that as long as some conditions (the same you list) are met , the hydra is a joke of a boss.

[sadhukar]

Every boss fight is a joke, you just need 80% resistance on it's main attack (not very easy to do), or a character with ternion attack or a pet.

BTW - if you're an oracle, I politely ask you to leave this topic. You're playing the easiest, most rigged class in the game and when a fight comes up that is more than spamming ternion attack, you lose.

[apocalypse80]

No need to get defensive , mainly because I am not attacking.
As I noted , I'm using a conquerer.

[Klurig]

About Typhon: The hades statue is where he gets his liches, NOT the Zeuz statue. The Zeuz statue grants him (surprise, surprise) the ability to launch lightning bolts that do area damage towards you.

nice post otherwise

[LostInnocence]

Originally Posted by sadhukar

It works, but by the time the standard wears out, you'll realise that you've barely scratched him. Oh and, getting bitten with 10% poison resist and 4.5k hp doesn't help unless you got the standard, so don't overestimate yourself.

I know I did

That bad huh...I've always got my trusty Warbow to fall back on if things get sticky, but sticking bosses full of tiny sticks seem to take forever to kill them. My last resort: level up and when my experience bar is nice and empty, its time for kamikaze attacks.

[Klurig]

Originally Posted by LostInnocence

That bad huh...I've always got my trusty Warbow to fall back on if things get sticky, but sticking bosses full of tiny sticks seem to take forever to kill them. My last resort: level up and when my experience bar is nice and empty, its time for kamikaze attacks.

Apart from the fact that when u die the bosses regain their full health, it's a nice idea

[sadhukar]

Hydra doesn't regain his full hp when he dies, if you kite him far enough that he sticks there i.e. past the bridge to the ruins.

@apocalypse - sorry about that, I worded my post badly. I meant to say that any boss is easy if you have alot of resists, and that if ANYBODY in this topic is an oracle, I suggest they leave e.g. Paradox.

[mlaird]

Originally Posted by apocalypse80

The other point that applies to all bosses , is that slowing makes them easy.
Their potential one-shots almost always have very lengthy and very distinctive animations , dodging them at half speed shouldn't be a problem.

I didn't see this brought up in the original post, and its a very good point. 50% slowdown makes dodging the 1-hit kill attacks much easier, and the bosses don't have any resistance to the slowdown effect (beyond the 50% minimum speed).

[loek1]

Originally Posted by sadhukar

Can anybody email me the file, or host it somewhere else? Rapidshare is being annoying and won't let me download it

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3ZIKO9CA

Try this download site. It works much the same as Rapidshare.

[sadhukar]

@mlaird - Hmm, somehow I missed that point