How do you tackle Wormlord?

[rayman19001]

I can't figure out how to kill him. Do you need to climb something? If I'm expecting to do just like in the trailers and jump on his body, where do I do that?

[goka9696]

I used a magic staff. At first he would coil around tower and spam ranged attacks or fly around, but at some point he just landed on the ground and started moving around idly. I blasted him a few times and when he died he teleported into a corpse spot instead of dying with any animation, so he might've bugged out, not sure.

[Skulls]

Did you ever figure this out? I have no idea what you're supposed to do as a melee character.

[Lightbearer]

A lot of people have been using the Winged Bow since it has a charged shot (500%) damage and costs 1 FX. Although I haven't found a way to aim. The Arcane Bow has homing arrows that can destroy just about anything if you're a high level.

[chimyMC]

i used the Evolved staffed and i kinda just deleted the wormlord after a couple of shots idk if its an over sight or damage bug but it seems like technomancies just destroy him

[Skulls]

Originally posted by jdmccoy7:

A lot of people have been using the Winged Bow since it has a charged shot (500%) damage and costs 1 FX. Although I haven't found a way to aim. The Arcane Bow has homing arrows that can destroy just about anything if you're a high level.

Ended up doing this, it works but super lame. This fight could have been much more interesting.

[Outsider]

As a melee character I just used bow.
By the time I got there I had Vermillion bow, but winged would work too.
Remember you have 3 sets of arrows you can cycle through with mouse wheel, so it's not just metal arrows.

[goka9696]

Originally posted by chimyMC:

i used the Evolved staffed and i kinda just deleted the wormlord after a couple of shots idk if its an over sight or damage bug but it seems like technomancies just destroy him

Other enemies only get hit once by the multi-attack of various catalysts, but the worm gets harmed by every ball from what I've seen, so he takes like 8x the damage or however many projectiles one blast spawns.

[Frowny]

You can climb him like other giant enemies. Don't even need to weaken anything, just walk up to him while he snakes around and press F

[That Guy]

I just used the weapon ability of the twinblade and it died in like 2 hits lol.
Pretty sure the scaling on that weapon is broken, bcs it oneshots pretty much everything other than some bosses

[fly_neon]

if you can climb it and hit it and you will do a lot of damage

[Bokki]

Originally posted by Frowny:

You can climb him like other giant enemies. Don't even need to weaken anything, just walk up to him while he snakes around and press F

Thank you so much, I had no idea. This made the fight trivial, but I am just happy to be able to progress!!!

[r.kohout]

i run to the worm press the action button(like giants to climb up) - my char climbed up and i start to hit the worm. after 3 times(climb up) i made it. no weapon , no bow, no magic . strange .. :D

[kia256]

This fight was completely broken and frustrating for me. In my playthrough the WL was just roaming around without doing anything. The only thing I could do was pepper it with arrows. There was no prompt to grab on to the worm and every time I've tried to get close - I was just thrown away. Worse still - it's not really obvious that you can and should climb it. Since the climbing mechanic is rarely used - it's not really logical you can do this.

Honestly - the fight is very badly done and needs a complete rework to be intuitive and fun. It needs to be viable for all builds to fight it, both ranged and melee ones.

Give the boss several stages. Make it immune to arrows except for the difficult to hit vulnerable places, like the head, so that the ranged builds would have challenge and reward. Make it stop from time to time (to do a charge attack for example). This will give the melee builds the opportunity to come closer, wack it a few times and cancel the high damage charge attack.

Add several ruins with ladders to the arena to increase verticality. Have the wormlord turtle up it's vulnerable places and go up to fly between them on 2\3, 1\3 and almost dead damage levels. This way players would see the need to climb and jump on it's back.

Make the fight actually fun.

[TheMonsterFist]

Arrows to the face seem to work nicely. Or if your weapon has an ability that reaches away from you.

[srfrogg23]

I ended up using the Arcane Bow on this guy. I usually play as a melee character, so I just stocked up on the blue potions and it eventually went down.