Hard bosses and how to defeat them

[bloggyelf]

Another cheap method, is to abuse the terrain like hell. There is a small passage between 2 buildings around where talos stands. Go in there, and whilst his minions can follow you in, he can't.

haha, just discovered this today with my Ranger. went into a little alley before you get to Talos, and was able to shoot him with complete impunity.

[bloggyelf]

greatest monster killed: Lernean Hydra.

so my Ranger kills the Hydra without too much difficulty (with a Bow, just standing in his face). Poison resist appears to be important. got total crap from his chests. no deaths. but Epic Dactyls killed me 6 times. whatever.

[bloggyelf]

man, Legendary Bandari is no picnic. he offed me once and almost again even after i donned all my elemental resist stuff.

[silenttales]

man, Legendary Bandari is no picnic. he offed me once and almost again even after i donned all my elemental resist stuff.

Same here, my recent Spellbreaker struggled with him even with 80% resists against him (lightning and fire I think). Had my first death, followed by 6 consecutive deaths. He just one-shots me every time with his pink bolt (2 with a maxed BS, his slow just pisses me off). Had no choice but to hit-and-run, chuck spell scrolls at him and letting my summons handle him, which I'm not used to, as a Spellbreaker, I usually end fights in a few seconds after ALL buffs/ summons are taking effect.

Weirdly, it is the first time I struggled with Legendary Bandari. I don't remember any of my other characters struggle with him, even the glass-cannons.

[bloggyelf]

just killed Typhon with my Ice Shard Elementalist. was easily the fastest i have taken him down.

[Irma2]

Same here, my recent Spellbreaker struggled with him even with 80% resists against him (lightning and fire I think). Had my first death, followed by 6 consecutive deaths. He just one-shots me every time with his pink bolt (2 with a maxed BS, his slow just pisses me off).

From Poinas' thread on bosses and damage types:

Energy Blast (3) : A purple projecile. 40% vitality, 60% cold. 3 seconds of 50% reduced total speed.

[silenttales]

From Poinas' thread on bosses and damage types:

I'm already past him ages ago (my SB is of my early characters) but IIRC I had like low resists for his three element (fire for eruption and lightning/ice for staff attack, pink bolt) and vit attacks (pink bolt), my character had like 20%-30% due to poor equipment planning at the first few tries. Had to mix-and-match equipment just to raise lightning or ice to 80%, fire maxed w/o trying hard. Probably the vit resist offed me, i think its around the low positive values.

Also, in an aggro rage, I keep on going after him immediately after I died,all spells on cooldown, not a good thing to do .

[lakaisija]

GAH! Just make a haruspex with 100% avoid and +2000 DA so bosses will rape themselves to your ToE. Gears for such a character are easy to get. Some greenies gives 10-20% CtAP each and with cowboy set you'll get your DA. Avoid projectiles alone was enought to help unlocking legendary difficulty.

Peace!
Lakaisija

[Violos]

While that is a possible (and very old) strategy, people do like to use other classes than the greatest known cookie cutter.

Also, you will be right back on tile 1 when playing any mod that counteracts such exploits.

[crimsonedge5]

Its probably been discussed already, but playing as an Oracle, Cerberus and 3 sisters is pretty much an impossible fight to win without abusing the mechanics in a cheap manner. I'm talking about using squall + lightning bolt to hit at the very edge of the screen and it draws no aggro. On cerberus, I can quickly step out and make the gate close with me being on the other side and cast pets in through the gate to fight cerberus. Impossible fight for me otherwise. And I actually tried really hard to win that fight in a legit way, I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm only saying that I can't do it. 3 sisters is the same way. I really hate resorting to cheap gimmicks to win, but I feel like I got no other options. Those fights are that hard.

Charon is a tough fight too, but I can go to the bottom corner and avoid his wave attack. Wait a second, then cast the pets in his face and retreat back while keeping squall up + lightning bolts when they are off CD. That is more of a legit strategy, because I'm in the actual battlefield for the fight. This fight was enormously difficult in normal because my pets died immediately. On Epic the pets face tanked Charon and my Liche King barely took any damage at all.