Stuck at Root Nexus boss

[InfiniteHench]

At about half health roughly 13 trillion enemies spawn, including 12 trillion of the rolling spike balls and a giant tree dude who two shots me. What the hell am I supposed to do here

[EthanT]

Keep your distance and kill the adds. Dont bother shooting the tree unless its the glowy bits

[SunfireKnight86]

Or use an engineer turret if you have one. Mops up adds in every boss fight like a champ.

[CHO_PpER]

i can help i send you a friend request

[Alex]

Originally posted by Road to Herald:

Keep your distance and kill the adds. Dont bother shooting the tree unless its the glowy bits

This is correct. Also it spawns that many enemies cause you melted it's hp past a certain threshold too fast. If you do a lot of damage to it before killing all the other normal mobs then it'll spawn even more until you get overwhelmed.

[Warbreaker]

The last wave is the tree with awful range attack, kill him and you have won the boss fight, took me a long hour raging at it, in veteran difficulty is almost impossible solo, such a pain in the butt.

[GhostEcon]

This is literally my first boss fight 15 minutes into the game. I get annihilated by endless waves of spicy meatballs.

[Nope]

Originally posted by Warbreaker:

The last wave is the tree with awful range attack, kill him and you have won the boss fight, took me a long hour raging at it, in veteran difficulty is almost impossible solo, such a pain in the butt.

Took me 5 try of cursing at the balls on veteran with gear score 1 Hunter, but other than that the big enemies are easy to deal with

[pcdeltalink]

The mobs aren't infinite, or they certainly weren't during my two attempts to beat it. There was long gaps of down time while I whittled away at Nexus health (using melee to save bullets) and I would be completely alone for that whole time. Far as I could tell enemies spawned solely in relation to how much hp the nexus had left. Then it stops and waits for the next threshold to be hit.

[Quake Nukem]

THOSE MEATBALLS ARE NOW SOME OF MY MOST HATED ENEMIES IN A VIDEO GAME. I ACTUALLY ALMOST THREW OUT MY GF'S DINNER SHE MADE FOR US BECAUSE THE AUDACITY OF HER TO MAKE MEATBALLS AND SPAGHETTI. THIS GAME ALMOST JUST MADE ME LOSE MY GF.

[g]

This was the second boss I fought since I decided to leave for later. Oh boy those damn rolling balls are my most hated enemy in this game. Took me about an hour or two but eventually got it. The third wave was by far the worst one.
-Nightmare difficulty

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by InfiniteHench:

At about half health roughly 13 trillion enemies spawn, including 12 trillion of the rolling spike balls and a giant tree dude who two shots me. What the hell am I supposed to do here

Every wave there are like 3-5 mobs with one elite...easiest fight ever.

[bdelgado]

Only hit the tree enough to unleash one wave of enemies. Dispatch them and hit the tree some more to unleash the next wave. Heal and collect ammo before triggering another wave. You'll take out all of the waves eventually and then just hit on the tree with no more enemies and can just destroy it easily.

[Tao314zdin]

Ohh, the tree thing, was the first boss encounter for me when I started. Basically 2 things:

-clear waves 1 by 1, do not trigger next one before you dealt with the previous:

-find a way to clear the adds, they are the main issue. for me with gunslinger start - I found a kiting pattern that allowed me to break distance (used a small ledge to jump and tree-piece to run around) and clear adds before they overwhelm me.

But the solution really depends on the char you have currently, if have access to AOE for adds basting - that should be the quickest way to victory.

[pcdeltalink]

Nice unnecessary necro

[Tao314zdin]

Originally posted by pcdeltalink:

Nice unnecessary necro

Ugh indeed...