The Best Way to Fight Ravager of Souls

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Hi all,
This is my first time posting on the forums.

Among the three Ravager variants, I find Ravager of Souls to be the most troublesome.
After a lot of trial and error, I’ve come up with a stable and repeatable strategy for dealing with his projectile spam.

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(Each numbered marker shows where to move after each ghost summon phase.)

By rotating through these positions, you can effectively ignore most of the projectile hazards and focus on the fight itself.

:movie_camera: Video Showcase

I’ve tested this method with several builds and managed to achieve kills in under 2 minutes with each. Here’s one example with video embed:

  • :green_circle: [1.2.1.6 PT] Acid SnB Dervish – 1:23 (possibly a world record for a melee)

Other builds with successful kills:

Since there aren’t many videos on Ravager of Souls out there, I’d love to hear what others think or if you have any ideas to improve the strategy.

Thanks for reading!

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very nicely done, and handy :ok_hand:

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Fight with of Souls is similar to fight with of Minds, but of Souls is not as popular due to a harsh randomness.

This makes it hard to get stable results if he gets really lucky with fumble/IA/damage reduction after a occasionally successful sunder attack with 35-70% damage reduction (even if you can tank it :slight_smile:).

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just step out of fumble pool :brain: gg ez :scorv:

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Thanks, I needed this. I picked this donkey on a few of my characters (mistakenly) and eh… haven’t been able to kick his ass yet. :smiley: I just keep running in circles cause there’s balls of sunder everywhere :face_with_spiral_eyes: This tactic will definitely help me.

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This makes it hard to get stable results if he gets really lucky with fumble/IA/damage reduction after a occasionally successful sunder attack with 35-70% damage reduction (even if you can tank it :slight_smile:).

The debuffs from the pool are really nasty.
Fumble lasts for 2 seconds, and the others for 1 second — way too long in a fast-paced fight like Ravager.
So it’s necessary to predict when the pool will appear and avoid it proactively.

The pool always appears right after Ravager’s roar, so I use Amatok’s Breath to quickly escape my current position.
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Also, after marker 4 on my map, it’s possible to dodge both the pool and the sunder punches using Evade.
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In my video, I only get hit by the debuffs a few times thanks to these tactics.
GRIM DAWN IS AN ACTION GAME!! :muscle::triumph:

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A new fastest clear (50s) was achieved by another player.

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Ah, I see Starman strikes again :3

I usually just run around like a headless idiot for this fight, but this will help when I go back to kick his arse with my Vitality AoM semi-spam Sentinel

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I love the game , but sadly Celestials are off limits for me.Its content that I will never do, they are just too hard, require too much kiting and and too much memorising of telegraphed attacks and not small amount of luck , I tried a couple times and failed miserable, the moments I get close to the Ravager he immediatly sunders and oneshots me and I am runing with an end game build farming SR31 with one hand. Bosses like Celestials is why I dont play Souls like games its an exercise in frustration and I lack the patience to invest 10 or more hours to just learn a single fight.
Anyway I envy you guys for managing to clear all content something even after a hundreds of hours spent i will never achieve.

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You get discouraged too much. I did practice a ton and it’s worth it as it transcends to other builds. I have bad reactions / don’t see animations all that well and it took me many hours to learn to avoid Callagadra’s wing flap Sunder where for other players it was instantaneous but now it’s a second nature.

For Crate practicing a lot with a new build is sometimes a requirement because you may simply need to find a unique strategy that is different than for other builds.

But even if you don’t feel like doing that why say “never” when you can play some very tanky build with lots of HP and amazing sustaing (or pets maybe, not sure I don’t play them) which can tank Sunder? You could focus on this aspect instead of skill.

What helped me with frustration personally is that I expect to fail multiple times so it doesn’t bother me but on the other hand I know that with time I’ll get better and master the fight so that I can win it multiple times in a row even.

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Don’t worry — I used to feel the same way too.

One day, I just really wanted to shut down Ravager of Souls completely.
So I watched a bunch of videos, did my own research, and eventually made this post.
It was definitely stressful, and my keyboard might have been Sundered along the way :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

In the end, having fun in your own way is what matters most. If you ever feel like taking on Ravager, I hope this post helps!

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Everyone can kill Callagadra video proof by banana_peel

#BuffSunder2025

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misleading clickbait video title, i saw him move and click in the first 3 seconds :grin:

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Holy 42 minutes batman!

Just make a pet build and run around in circles throwing bodies at him and it will die in a couple minutes.

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lmao this is so silly :rofl:

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Defiler, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator - who needs good (/or even a completed) build when you can just do this :grin:

*still gets clobbered by Calla ofc because stats are actually low :sweat_smile: