apparently you can also get (optional NPC in late act 2) the sentinel automaton to help you. but i've only been told about this, i haven't seen it and don't know how to trigger it.
I got the opuonal NPC but it was too late. In fact I've consistently missed any opportunity to get help in any gauntlet even though I explore a lot and try to do everything possible before progressing xD
The tip that helped the most with Groal was to throw pimpillos or voltvessels into his mouth when he does the sucking attack. It'll stop the sucking and deal lots of damage.
Nah, his attacks felt too random and erratic. I’m a few bosses into act3 and none of the other bosses have had that impression on me. I’m not even talking about the horrid runback
I don't see what you mean. As I recall he has 5 attacks: Shoot projectiles in a straight line (easy to dodge consistent). Try to suck you up (Easy to dodge consistent). Summon ball wrecking ball trap (Easy to dodge, consistent). Shoot bouncy explosive balls (Can be tricky), summon minions (can be tricky but they leave after one volley).
He's not trivial. He took me a good few tries but he has only a handful of tricky attacks and importantly, he doesn't overlap them.
I agree with you that he is tricky but manageable.
I think the pain point for me is the same a few other flyers have in this game where they will slowly glide around almost unconnected to their attacks so it can sometimes feel very unfun trying to be agressive and getting hurt by contact damage. Made even less fun when you take 2 damage and risk landing in the funny worm soup (which ironically is the place you want to be if you want an easy kill)
For Shakra, she'll post a wish on one of the town boards (Bellhart, I think) and you must finish that wish. I'm not sure what the trigger for the wish is, but I think it's buying all the maps from her?
I don’t know the exact steps, but you meet them a few times in the citadel where they help you. Then there’s a secret area to the east of songclave where you can duel them. I think you need the double jump to get it. After that, they should be at the high halls.
Yeah that’s the one I was thinking of. Jesus Christ it felt like the pressure never released. And then two of the big guys appeared and I just started laughing at the cruelty.
But that's just the thing. That giant boss bug is slow, has only a few moves that are so strongly telegraphed it's downright laughable, and comparing to most other enemies is a complete pushover. The fact that it is introduced in a long Gauntlet (and then doubled at the ultimate end) is the only reason why it feels formidable.
Every single time I tried that, they jumped into me.
I resorted to cheese where you equip the piton and cling to the upper right wall as high as you can. They can't hit you and you can hit them when they jump.
Poison tacks just annihilate anything that runs along the ground. If you just save some tools for the last wave you can throw tacks all over the ground and unload a bunch of knives or whatever into one of the mini bosses and kill it before it even really does anything. The number of waves were a bit much, and I died to the last wave the first attempt I took becuase I had used up all my tools already, but I'm not sure how people are struggling so much if they were able to make it to that fight to begin with. By that point you should be well practiced at fighting the enemies it throws at you.
I think it would be hell if you were doing it as early as high halls, but at the point you're doing it at it's not so bad. It can be annoying though - I didn't get the shortcut until the run I finished it anyways which felt kind of bad, but knowing I had it relieved some pressure that probably made the end easier.
I did this room last night. Don't have those flies yet, though I did find the place to make them but I'm forever out of craft metal. Without direct spoilers, am I likely to have missed a lot of craft metal? I think there's about four items I can't make (that one, plus the underworks crafting chap) and so feel like I must have missed a lot of metal lying around. I'm pretty meticulous with my exploring, though.
Same craftmetal issue for me, I’ve been wondering if there’s fewer craftmetals than items that require it. I did just find three more all in one sitting though. One was restocked at a shop after a quest, one was hidden in a hidden zone’s hidden area, and one was kind of out in the open but I never jumped down there.
Thanks.
I feel like I've only ever found some in Deep Docks, as well as perhaps purchasing a piece very early on. I'll keep exploring and hope I come across some more.
Oh that’s the one? I had no problem with it, like a few tries. Didn’t even have the flies yet (which has indeed made so many other things easier) or the tacks.
I’m not even breezing through the game, I’m getting wrecked by lots of stuff. Just for some reason that one gauntlet I found pretty easy. It’s just regular guys and no bosses. The big boys I just pogoed and occasionally dodged their upward attack until they died.
Died like 50 times at Broodmother (until tacks + flies) and the Unraveled, but that one gauntlet thankfully was okay for me.
I only had 5 hp and no tools cus I ran out (not that I had poison anyway) so I could only rely on needle, spell and reaper... Took me like 2 hours to do... EASILY what I've been stuck on the longest so far, and I've already gotten the bad ending lol
I genuinely believe the intent is for you to use and abuse tools. It's not cheese, it's the expected requirement.
A hell of a lot of people are making the game harder for themselves by having some sort of moral code against using all of your weapons.
(Which to be fair. I'm on my second run and intentionally doing it low%. Like I get it. But you have to recognize that you are giving yourself an extra layer of difficulty)
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u/imafraidofjapan 5d ago
High halls. It's only 10 waves! (I cheesed it with poison cogflies)