Dactyl

[Growlybear]

After killing the Warden of Souls, I proceeded to get the Shard of Erebus. It was guarded by a few Gigantes, oh well my Oracle has wiped out every one of them so far. I lasted about 2 seconds, but I kept going back for more. Finally I came here and searched for a "Dactyl". I would have been better off not knowing.

OK, after reading all of the comments, what is a fairly powerful Oracle Lv 43 (Normal mode) supposed to do? It seems some of you have never seen a Dactyl, does that mean it may not be there if I go nback: or once a Dactyl always a Dactyl? I'm going to go on and kill the Night Mistress and then raid the treasury, but I know I have to come back to this spot.

What weapons, armor, jewelry, scrolls, prayers, should I be looking for?

Thanks for being here for me and thanks for help in the past.

Growlybear

[Gunstar]

Its a random mob and fortunately, quite rare. When you reload into the game it will probably not be there. As to how to beat it, there are several suggestions in these forums, but for casters, they are best avoided when encountered.

[Viper_Sweden]

Max Spell Breaker and Spell Shock. That'll take care of any Dactyls...

[Harwel]

And if spell breaker / spell shock isn't doing it, let them close until they do their wave attack, then outrun it. It moves slowly, assuming you have a little bit of run speed modifier. Then close with them again, and rinse and repeat until they're out of mana.

Dactyls are actually pretty easy, provided you know they're there. They're really just kind of tedious.

[Wyvern]

When I found the Dactyl in normal with my Diviner, I remembered the thread where someone complains about its "earthquake" attack. I knew it would be a tough fight, but it showed me how tough the fight really was. I died once, but not twice, thanx to my life-leech-then-phantom-strike combination. It fell like a tree in da forest.

[maul]

Died once taking the screenshot. If you find Dactyl easy, try the insane "typhoon" mod. Dactyl always comes in two, plus two gigantes heroes when they appear. One time, farming hades from the last rebirth fountain, met a total of 6 dactyls from 3 groups of gigantes, the run was a lot tougher than 3X hades.

[Drakex99]

if you have some decent da, oa,dps and converted to health weapons socketed with anubis hes just a meatbag, but trying to kill him with bow really takes sometime, with spells idk since i never tried to spell kill him, the first time i found dactyl i tried to bow kill him, but it was so innefective that i had to draw my spear and bang bang 3 hits and hes dead, melee vs dactyl = most effective way i know, spells i cant say much, never tried to be honest, with bows thats too slow for my taste, anyway all the spellcasters classes have pets, so use one of them to kill for you while you shoot him with debuffs spells, auras and anything that will soft him

[Argantes]

Originally Posted by Drakex99

... anyway all the spellcasters classes have pets, so use one of them to kill for you while you shoot him with debuffs spells, auras and anything that will soft him

erm, 1 wave attack and most of the pets are dead, maybe the Liche King can survive the first wave .. for caster builds, spellbreaker+spellshock is the key, plague (with synergies) works fine as well, but requires more defensive approach

both spells are out of that "chance to avoid projectile" scheme, so they always land on Dactyl and can do their work, too bad Earth mastery doesn´t have similar one

btw I use pets only to scout the area where Dactyls use to spawn, that´s the only thing pets are good for, when speaking of Dactyls

[ffreakk]

But i seriously doubt that you can 3 hit a Legendary Dactyl. Unless you hav powerful debuff like Study prey and such.. And even then it ll need VERY high DPS, mayb around 13k+ to 3 hit them

OM*G, that room was just HELL man.. I dont know what i d do to get pass that, mayb hit and run and try to finish them off 1 by one... But anybody that can get in and win the fight as is.. I bow to you w utmost respect..