Anyone have tips on how to beat Astel?

[Firehawk4427]

Can't find people to summon

[Netsa]

Try to keep close to him and hit his head.

His AoE attacks are pretty well telegraphed, so just run away or block when he does them. Don't try to dodge through them unless you're on light load. Wait a second after he teleports to see if he's teleporting away from you or on top of you (you don't want to be caught healing/buffing if he's going for the grab). If he's teleporting on top of you, give it a beat and then dodge to avoid the grab.

Also, if you have any good ranged Ash skills or throwing items, this is a good place to try them out.

[Zeromentor]

Rotten Breath as a Faith build, costs like 17 arcane or so. Rot just eats him alive. The underground one has something like 13k HP, and applying Rot at the start can easily burn 3k of that before the fight is over. Other methods are using spirits to get his attention, or wait until a gravity well drop and spam poison knives or rot arrows/bolts. The damage is pathetic, but can really build up over the course of a fight.

[TyresTyco]

The way I did it was luring out his moves where he spams these explosions in a wide arc.. roll through them.. dont lock on and jump attack with a colossal weapon in his face.

[Netsa]

Oh yeah, and when he uses the meteors, just begin genuflecting and pray that they miss.

[TyresTyco]

In my experience when you hug his left feet (from his position) .. no meteor will hit you.

[Dagný]

Originally posted by Netsa:

Oh yeah, and when he uses the meteors, just begin genuflecting and pray that they miss.

That's the easiest part of the fight, spam rolls sideways and you'll never get hit

Now getting close to it always led to that gravity-thing attack. ALWAYS.

[Julymorning]

for this boss lock-on actually works, and dont go for the body, hit its head when you see an opening

[Netsa]

I'm convinced those meteors are RNG. One time I dodged it and another meteor immediately hit me when my iframes wore off. One time I blocked it and got mobbed by 3 meteors at once. One time I stuck close to him and a meteor slammed me in the back of the head. On my last attempt, I went back to dodging and I never got targeted by more than one. It's too weird.

[Barf]

I found that boss kind of stupid. Get too close and his AOE is going to one shot you. Pretty bad for melee builds. Just go sorcery or faith and nuke him from afar. Mimic will help with that

[Sokurah]

The fight is actually pretty straight forward. Stay in his face and dodge.

If he use his magic ball attack that sends shock waves thru the ground use a good magic shield to block most of the damage.

Also use a talisman to lower magic damage. Also maybe wonderous physics.

Good luck.

[Subset6]

My first kill as a sorc I used melee range. Got Wing of Astel weapon and used its weapon art on his face, nebula. It worked very well. You do have to learn the timings for the his pew pew laser, grab's, swings, and ground pounds.

Also did not use a spirit summon, I found they would really screw up his timing and actually make the fight harder.

[Professor Hugedix]

Originally posted by Barf:

I found that boss kind of stupid. Get too close and his AOE is going to one shot you. Pretty bad for melee builds. Just go sorcery or faith and nuke him from afar. Mimic will help with that

did you forget to level vigor?

[Evilinferno]

Astel generally only uses his big AoE moves if you are too close to him, so it's best to treat him like Midir and stay in front of his face and attack the head.
As long as you keep that rule in mind and learn which direction to roll for every other attack you can beat him and rarely get hit by the very few moves he has.