I’m playing HC in ultimate and need advice for the final boss in the FG expansion.
I breezed through the game, including Port Valbury and the Ashes expansion, with maybe dropping to half health at worse. I got through the Forgotten Gods and its bosses (up to the final) without a hitch.
However, when I went up against the final boss for FG, I had to bail each of the 3 attempts I’ve made.
I killed him in SC with a templar, but died a few times. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to do that with my HC character.
What happens is I’m doing fine, the place fills up with fire, I’m still ok, then about 5 seconds later I’m suffering from some kind of burning damage and see my health drop quickly.
What can I do to change my build, just for this fight, so I am not vulnerable to the burning?
Notes:
I’m using all the 450 and 900 second consumables I have, including the one that resists burning, but they don’t help.
For devotions, they’re essentially vitality damage, lower resists and shields.
You have a shield, but you don’t have the tankyness to facetank bosses with it. Either drop the shield for a caster off-hand, or commit fully to it. You need more OA/DA, cap your resists even when not using ointments and drop the wps skills. You play a caster with RE, GoE and SS, you should be kiting and never using your weapon. The Boss also doesn’t do fire damage only, in GD every boss has different damage types on each move, even if it looks like fire, it could also be physical, lightning or vitality.
I believe the fire pillars he does are dodgeable, it works even better with a teleport rune.
For his damage types, look into the grimtools monster database, I would link but i’m on mobile right now
Thanks…I’ll check his entry. What’s a teleport rune? That is new to me.
Here’s a question, if I get reduction in burning to 100%, will that negate the problem? Such as aeon’s hourglass and various items that reduce it? Is it additive or multiplicative? Ie, would I only need aeon (25%) plus other things that add up to 75% more?
Edit: i put together higher resists and 125% reduction in burn and it seemed to do the trick, the pillars of fire burned for only about a second, easy win…then I remembered I still had a gate to go through! Will work on that later.
You can buy runes at the 3 faction vendors at the FG HUB. Those can be used as augments on your medal slot and grant mobility skills, such as rush, leap or teleport.
Thanks. Every time I come back to this game, there is a lot of learning, and unlearning too. Arcanist and shaman still feel like new classes to me!
I beat the titan-quest homage last boss, with the burn reduction gear it helped. I found the one before him with all the fire to be harder in some ways.