Gigantes in hades room

[Question]

I was really surprised to see 2 gigantes in hades's throne room that take almost no damage from my attacks. I checked the guides, but i see no mention of any near-invulnerable gigantes in the hades room...is this an underlord specific thing?

I was able to kite them to the door of the throne room and kill them through the door safely, but it took a LOT of squall + lightning bolts to do it because they have near immunity to my attacks. Squalls - resist debuff didnt help either.

[LittleJoeRambler]

They are Underlord-specific. They're called Anapests, and they SUCK to fight, but they're not terrible as long as you kite them. I think they are the only enemies that drop one of the components of a Mythic weapon too, so if you want Mythics in late Legendary, you'll need to farm them.

[Question]

Why were they added?

[ASYLUM101]

Why were they added?

Because UL wouldn't be much of a mod if it didn't add anything, would it?

[fathersquid]

More seriously, I would imagine to give a challenge to those who felt there wasn't enough in the game...

[LittleJoeRambler]

I agree with fathersquid; it was most likely added to increase difficulty, and makes more sense from a story-telling context that Hades would have some powerful guards to help him in case anyone ever actually managed to reach his throne room.

Even if it does lead to lots of screaming and running around in circles while spells do their thing.

[ASYLUM101]

Not to mention vanilla Hades is SUCH a push over.

[Question]

Then how do you kill something that takes almost no damage?