Hyrulian Hero
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Definitely just used Bewildering Gaze and turned a goat into a cait AND got x5 xp in the same dance! I think my main gained 5 levels in a single battle!
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Definitely just used Bewildering Gaze and turned a goat into a cait AND got x5 xp in the same dance! I think my main gained 5 levels in a single battle!
Actually a little cheese helps a lot. There are ways to buff your damage and get some really powerful attacks out. That's how I fight the bosses. As well as removing their shields as often as possible. For all the many reasons that removing all of an enemy's shields is good for in game.I cannot do this game. Im 6 levels above recommended and i cannot kill this boss.
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***Spoiler alert ***
Only reas this spoiler if you want to read how I beat a few specific bosses in the game.
How I beat the 4 special job/class bosses in their shrine dungeons
A few things to know first that apply to all 4 battles
- Get all 4 characters to level 55-ish
- Learn when to use Leghold trap. You need to have it active all of the time except when you are about to break the boss because that prevents his turn anyway.
- Plan your turns ahead. You can see the order your characters attack in the next turn. This is very important because most of the time you want the buffing characters to have their turn before your attacking characters, for the obvious reason you want to buff them before you attack with them.
- Save your burst combo attack for when the boss is broken. Obvious I know but well worth mentioning.
- Visit all of the 3 towns in each zone as well as everyone in each town so you can buy/steal the best gear that you’ll need for this.
- Have healing items. The mid strength berries and the bunch of berries.
- Have BP restoring items that your 4th character can use when required on everyone else.
Steorra the Starseer
It’s best to do her first as she is beatable with the standard classes/jobs in the game.
She attacks mostly with spells. AOE ones that hit really hard but there is a way to beat this.
Divine Skill - Sealticge’s Seduction + Reflective Veil (at max BP)
What this does is when the boss does her triple hit AOE attack, all of the shots are reflected back at the boss. That’s 3 shots per character by 4 characters for a total of 12 reflected shots. At roughly 1k per shot, that’s 12k damage. Nothing to be sneezed at. This is your main source of damage.
Note well all buffs like this can stack to 9 turns or 9 uses max, so yes it does stack. In this case it’s 9 hits, and the 3 hit AOE obviously takes off 3 stacks of your Reflective Veil each time.
Also having someone with the Scholar job is very nice so you can burn through the boss armour quickly to break her. This gives you more turns to set up the Reflective Veil combo.
When she cases the remove debuff ability of your characters one by one, just keep the Reflective Veil combo up as much as you can on everyone else and heal/revive the 4th character when it dies.
This fight is tough and can take a while but it’s not too hard.
Dreisang the Archmagus
His fight is very similar to Steorra the Starseer and how you win is very similar. Sealticge’s Seduction + Reflective Veil combo as mentioned above. However for this battle you do want a quite a few heal confusion items. As the boss can confuse you a lot.
Also the boss can AOE prevent you from buffing your team for a few turns. That’s ok. If you have stacks of Reflective Veil you should survive through so you can use the combo again.
Also using the multi hit skills that the various classes have to break the boss quickly over and over really help a lot.
Even though this boss feels like it should be harder than the previous one, it’s not. Very doable after a few tries.
Bolgar the Runeblade
Very hard boss, that has a nasty AOE attack, can put your characters to sleep and has a enrage mode.
Firstly bring along a few cure sleep items. Secondly you’ll need an Apothecary class as well as a Merchant class here. Purely for the BP boosting and sharing.
I tried many different ways to beat this boss but all failed. Well almost all, I did work out one way to win. Using brute magical force. The key here is the following combo:
Aelfric’s Auspices + Alephan’s Enlightment + a Sorcerer 3 hit spell (with Maxed BP).
Also you need the Sorcerer to have the BP Eater Support Skill equipped.
For Support Skills you can only have 4 equipped at once. But you can have them from many different jobs. Once you unlock a support skill with a character you can always use it with them, even if you’re not using the class it came from.
Note Well - you have to unlock each support skill separately, meaning if you want the same support skill on two different characters, you have to unlock it 2x separately, once for each character.
The BP Eater Support Skill buffs by quite a large amount any skill you use boosted with BP.
For reference my Scholar had the following 4 support skills for this battle.
Elemental Augmentation
BE Eater
Augmented Elements
Second Wind
The Merchant and Apothecary are important because you’ll need to feed the characters buffing the Sorcerer and the Sorcerer itself with lots of BP. Donate BP of cause and also the concoct recipe of purifying dust + essence of pomegranate. That gives the entire team 2BP.
So when set up properly and geared well you need to finally know when to act in a turn and when to defend. Defending puts that character at the start of the next turn. This matters because you want to buff your big sorcerer before he hits.
When you get your combo off.
Aelfric’s Auspices + Alephan’s Enlightment + a Sorcerer 3 hit spell (with Maxed BP).
On the broken boss, that’s 6 hits each for 9999 damage. Would Surpassing power get each hit past 9999? I don’t know, I didn’t use it, but it’s worth a try.
3-4 turns of 6x 9999 damage is enough to beat the boss.
If you wake too long his runes have an opening and the next turn you get hit for 2x nasty AOE attack, which will most likely kill your party. This doesn’t happen though until you’ve broken the boss a few times though.
This boss is much harder than the other two, but it’s not impossible.
Winnehild the Warbringer
This boss only attacks with physical attacks and lots of them, so much that trying to heal and attack gets quite difficult. But we’re going to ignore all of that and use some delicious cheese.
One of the characters in the party has to be merchant/runelord
This does mean you need Tressa at a decent level, 50+ for this battle
You also need an apothecary. Doesn’t matter if it’s primary or secondary.
The cheese here is transfer rune + sidestep.
This basically allows everyone to sidestep the bosses attacks. If played well, once you have the set up going, either on turn 2 or turn 3, depending on your RNG luck with the player attack order, that’s it you’ll never be physically attacked again by this boss.
You just have to keep both buffs up on Tressa so she buffs everyone with sidestep. The goal is to have at least 6 stacks of side step on everyone at all times. To get enough BP for this, you get the Apothecary to concoct the 2 BP per turn for the party almost every single turn. Only stopping when the party is near or at max BP.
But how to actually do damage? Doesn’t matter really, you can take as long as you want. I just used Aelfric’s Auspices on my Sorcerer to get 6 weak point hits every turn.
Note Well, this boss is only weak to the staff and magic. No other weapon will break it.
My 4th character did little apart from be the item giver. The only item he needed to give a few times over was the mana restore items to Tressa could keep buffing herself and casting sidestep on everyone.
Without the cheese this boss is pretty hard, however with the cheese, this boss is the easiest of the 4. However it does require the runelord class so you have to beat that tough fight first.
Which first boss? Of the ones I listed in the spoiler or first boss in the game you've tried to beat? I don't think I have enough info from you to know which boss you mean.Yes but i'm stuck on the first boss.
Which first boss? Of the ones I listed in the spoiler or first boss in the game you've tried to beat? I don't think I have enough info from you to know which boss you mean.
That boss was a tough one. I did her second and all I had was Tressa and Primrose. Which makes it easier as the game scales up the Ch1 difficulties for the first 4 you do, but the next 4 are all the same difficulty as you can't have more than 4 party members.Helgenish in Primrose's chapter. She's the 4th character i'm recruiting
Helgenish in Primrose's chapter. She's the 4th character i'm recruiting
Kind of. I needed Olberic at certain levels to duel certain people. Not story related, just to enter their rooms in the towns. I found a nice level 15-ish forest which I grinded my party up to level 40-ish. This didn't take all that long either. Olberic is not normally in my party but I had to sub him in and level him up.I'm usually really conservative about using items and advancing the storyline in RPGs but it seems that Octopath Traveler rewards you adequately for pushing the limits.
Strategy helps, along with buying tons and tons of healing stuff.I cannot do this game. Im 6 levels above recommended and i cannot kill this boss.
I was level 40ish when I tried one of them and lasted about 6 entire turns of combat. Felt proud but sadIf you are thinking of trying to get the 4x special jobs / classes in the game you have to beat a special boss to earn it. Each of these boses, 4x in total, are very hard. I have tried them with a team of all level 55 characters with decent gear and they kick my ass. These bosses are seriously hard and require the right set up to beat them. Even though their shrines say recommended Lv50, that I think is just for the regular enemies in the shrine. The boss will wrek you at Lv50. I am thinking a level 60-70 team would fare much better.
I just hope there is an even harder boss in the game than these 4 because I don't waant to earn these 4x special class and have nothing to properly use these classes on.
I did all 4 of them with my party at level 55. So they are not really super hard. They are still pretty hard though but with a little practice you'll be able to do them. It's all about strategy. Really, that's how this entire game is. Just choosing one party set up and hoping to beat everything in the game, won't happen. Be prepared to swap character jobs and get just the right secondary passive skills required for each boss fight. Most of the harder bosses do have a trick to make it easier to beat them. Working out what that trick is, that's most of the fun.I was level 40ish when I tried one of them and lasted about 6 entire turns of combat. Felt proud but sad
Very true. Remember to have quite a few handy. Mid single heals, grape bunches for party heals, mana restore items and for some battles the concoct ingredients so you can give the party +2 BP. Also some fights will benefit from a few status heal items. But that depends of the boss will use a status ailment on you or not.Strategy helps, along with buying tons and tons of healing stuff.
Yeah I try to plan ahead a lot.I did all 4 of them with my party at level 55. So they are not really super hard. They are still pretty hard though but with a little practice you'll be able to do them. It's all about strategy. Really, that's how this entire game is. Just choosing one party set up and hoping to beat everything in the game, won't happen. Be prepared to swap character jobs and get just the right secondary passive skills required for each boss fight. Most of the harder bosses do have a trick to make it easier to beat them. Working out what that trick is, that's most of the fun.
You'll be able to do them soon enough. And good luck.
Very true. Remember to have quite a few handy. Mid single heals, grape bunches for party heals, mana restore items and for some battles the concoct ingredients so you can give the party +2 BP. Also some fights will benefit from a few status heal items. But that depends of the boss will use a status ailment on you or not.
That's a good strategy. Well done!Yeah I try to plan ahead a lot.
Currently I use a front-and-back kinnd of approach where tressa and the other character with the merchant subclass just give olberic bp every turn while he uses Brand's Thunder and Ophilia is just there to heal and Tressa (a cleric too) does that on occasion. I only tried one of those fights that one time, but this is still mostly my strategy with high level bosses and mobs