i am by no means pro at this game, but I am really enjoying it.
I’ve finished the game and the Forgotten gods expansion (Ultimate of course) on my Blademaster, killed most of the nemesis bosses etc, Kupakabra being the hardest perhaps, with my mostly self made build.
I recently discovered the secret boss Lokarr and i fail miserably in killing him. As soon as I get some HP off him he summons 2 clones and then i die really quick, despite having max resistances and 16K HP, basically not a glasscannon.
Can you give me any advice as to how to defeat him? I need better items for sure, i’ve watched a few videos but i just cant make it that far into the fight. Do i need to better sync my build and devotions?
your armor isnt as high as a BM could have with other items, but im not gonna suggest a whole new build to you now. This fire res and lightning res has to be overcapped by 30% at least. Restless remains for hands for the lifesteal. Also having more oa would help a lot in actually killing fast. War cry at 12/12 for damage reduction. But also look at what other blademasters made. try to look at the gear they use and relic.
Most videos show him being tanked and fast kills. In this case he doesn’t get much of his specials in play. This kind of build typically is fairly min max or has top equipment. This is the easy way. Lokaar doesn’t even start to use his specials for 5-6s.
So this is why GD has 2 modes: one where you see the specials and one where you kill so fast that the specials are mostly unseen.
Anyways, If you want to do it the harder way, you’ll need to practice and/or be aware of his specials:
He does a lot of fire/physical damage. He only has one attack with lightning.
You can sidestep some of his more damaging specials with a little practice or use the columns to hide when he does it.
The nastiest attack is his breath every 10s because it drops all your resistances by 40 for 5s, including physical…which is possibly what is killing you quickly. His default attack is mostly physical because with high fire resist, the fire portion isn’t that threatening, iirc. So if you get hit with it, it may mean you need to kite/stutter-step if you can’t sustain this damage.
He also has projectiles that can be dodged but reduce resistances by 30 for 3s. These do a lot of fire/lightning damage.
His other nasty is the Stun AoE, which can be avoided if you are stutter-stepping, but not if you tank. With 40% res you’ll be stunned for a 1.5 seconds (2.5 sec, normally).
He has an aura and a projectile attack which reduces player DA, but you’re ok with your DA + Veil Debuf.
And he has a teleport which doesn’t do that much more damage and can be side-stepped if you move at the same time as the teleport.
I’ve not memorized this and I’m just recalling the fight and using GD Monster DB (Lokarr) for the exact skills. I have played some pretty long fights against Lokarr with some fairly gimpy characters, though.
It can frustrating until you get the hang of it. Also note that his debufs help his clones. Further the clones will respawn if you kill them all. So focusing on the clones is not always shorter; the clones have less life-leech resistance, though - for emergency leech.