How to beat the Priestess?

[skyhrg]

I couldn't even get a scratch on her despite having lvl 10+ gear as warrior. Her mirrors kept cropping up to absorb damage.

What's her strengths and weaknesses?

[KoV]

necromancer beat her 1st try
supereasy

[MorbidJester]

in my runs i have found that attack speed is key with her. Bump up your AS% and it should be easy.

[taggedjc]

The Stained Glass gives her a 20% chance per surviving glass to absorb a hit against her, so with five up, she can't be damaged. You'll want to have enough attack speed to hit at least twice (preferably more often) between her Stained Glass reapplications, as your first hit will be negated to break one and put her at 80% avoidance, and each avoid drops the avoidance by a further 20%.

Counter is useless against her, as the only attacks done against you are by untargetable Angels.

Defence is useful, and probably better than Evade since you'll want to be saving your Stamina for having plenty of attack speed.

The warrior comparatively has some difficulty with her, as the rogue can naturally get a high amount of attack speed and the necromancer just overwhelms her glass with multiple summons.

[twpe]

Warriors and Rogues want attack speed (honestly necro does too but for different reasons). Necro can kind of just blunder into the fight and not really pay attention and just win.

[skyhrg]

Awesome

TLDR: Attack speed.

[venenifer]

I tried some runs against her as a knight and it seems that less than 50% attack speed is almost impossible. I would aim for at least 90+% attack speed to fight her as knight/rogue. Necro completely counters her mechanics so if you just wanna complete the chapter easily, go for necro

[Jean]

Many, many attacks. I'll add that placing the boss between 2 outposts can give you a huge early fight damage boost, this should help no matter the class but particularly the warrior.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

The necromancer with a good build and enough skeletons can do it, it's probably the easiest way. A few forrests help a lot but it appears that you can do it if you have enough shield at start, 200+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqVP9LfBbr8
With the other classes it depends on other things but i wouldnt try it in the beginings since you dont have enough upgrades

[Shiranai]

You have to be able to destroy the mirror before she can summon them again, either by having a high attack speed/damage all or summoning multiple skells with necromancer.

[Maercs]

Are ya'll ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious? This is like 10th "priestess vs warrior/rogue" thread I'm reading, and it's all just the same: "just beat it with necro". Read the question title. Everyone already knows that necro is imbalanced. That's why some ppl want to complete this game playing for the other two "fairer" classes.

[Yojo0o]

Originally posted by lava_popsicle:

Are ya'll ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious? This is like 10th "priestess vs warrior/rogue" thread I'm reading, and it's all just the same: "just beat it with necro". Read the question title. Everyone already knows that necro is imbalanced. That's why some ppl want to complete this game playing for the other two "fairer" classes.

One guy said "just beat it with necro" two weeks ago, and the rest of the advice is pretty balanced and helpful.

[Spud the Spud]

Having level 10+ gear makes me wonder if you understand progression in this game. With each loop, everything (including the boss) gets stronger. So if you have 10+ gear on loop 15, you're weak. If you have it on loop 8 or 9, you might be very strong indeed (depending on stats on the gear, of course).

The sooner you fight the boss, the weaker they are, so you'll want to fight them as soon as you think you can win, and not delay it even one loop as it'll just make it harder and harder as time goes on.

[>//The_FALCON]

Originally posted by lava_popsicle:

Are ya'll ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious? This is like 10th "priestess vs warrior/rogue" thread I'm reading, and it's all just the same: "just beat it with necro". Read the question title. Everyone already knows that necro is imbalanced. That's why some ppl want to complete this game playing for the other two "fairer" classes.

maybe if you didn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ necro the 11 days old post it would've stayed dead

[Leopanther]

Eh.. since the topic is back up again anyways..

Another interesting thing is 'dmg to all'. While it doesn't affect mirrors (since they're not enemies), for some reason the dmg to all hits the priestess on every attack even if all the mirrors are up and your normal damage gets blocked. While attackspeed is most important for dealing with her as warrior, having a bunch of 'dmg to all' can help whittle her down as well - it also gets increased by warrior's 'deal more dmg the longer the fight goes on' ability.

[Tumalu]

Originally posted by Leopanther:

it also gets increased by warrior's 'deal more dmg the longer the fight goes on' ability.

The warrior has one of those? I don't remember this one o: I guess there's the potions to damage trait, but that one is permanent, not per fight