Impossible first boss

[saturnales]

I tried maybe 30 times, I'm unable to remove even half of the first boss life. (canyon)
I maybe took the bad skills (i don't have berserk) but I'm full stuffed iron.

Even if i manage to dodge the biggest attacks, i'm not able to beat this boss.

[Flankspeed]

Here is what I did in case it can help you. I don't have berserk either.

Wear any items that boost your speed. You need to avoid his two high damage attacks so you want speed over armor.

His close in attack, lets call this Dervish is when he winds up and then does multiple melee strikes really quickly.
His other attack is flying leap with a powerful slam at the end.

He need to try to get out of the way of both of these if possible.

His Dervish attack sometimes locks him in place, so if you can get off to his side you can avoid the attacks and hit him while he is furiously striking empty air.

If your health gets low run around in a circle and eat food while avoiding his attacks until your health is back up. Watch out for his leap attack though, he loves to use this when you try to keep your distance.

If you are just not fast enough to make this work you can farm the Ratmen in the first level of the Mine, they drop a rare mask "Kabuki Mask" which increases your run speed by 15%. That is what I used, plus whichever boots that boost your speed.

[Omega]

use range weapons and grenades maybe

[kennycojo]

I used grenades, while eating bread and cheese running circles around him.

[Big Kusa Time]

Kabuki mask and cowboy boots are enough to be able to run without him ever hitting you. Just shoot with bow when he does the big slam or the multi-attack and he should die in about 60 shots.

[Daltorak]

I just finished off the first boss. Brought 20 cheese, 45 simple grenades, wore all the speed-increasing gear, and then kept throwing bombs at it and running away. Took 25 bombs which did 35 damage each. I missed a few times.... My guess is that the boss has 800 HP.

[Just a dog]

He's super easy to kite with the bow, you don't even need healing.
Just get your best bow and a stack of Quills if you have some collecting dust or make some stone arrows if you used all your quills up.

[Yagger]

stack run speed, run in circles wait for it to do its two slow attacks, take a shot and run again, its not a good boss

[Just a dog]

Originally posted by Yagger:

stack run speed, run in circles wait for it to do its two slow attacks, take a shot and run again, its not a good boss

He's ok for a fist boss. The other bosses are more involved.

[123]

I just arrived at this boss havent tried fighting it again coz first time I used heavy armor and figured out I have to make distance to it, but I'm running out of Meat Bread, what and where is the best way/place for farming meat ?

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Killed it, as already mentioned, kabuki mask 15% speed and cowboy boot 15% speed can outrun the boss, even if gets hit, only 15 dmg on me, while my meat pie heal me for 45 in a few secs, very easy, can use bow or melee it or bomb depending on what you want to waste.

[Darke]

Yeah, it feels like there's literally only one way to win this one. I'm trying to play a melee focused build, and already have all the +speed stuff mentioned but I don't believe it's actually possible unless you're perfect.

I've been able to progress though everything until getting here just with melee and tactics, but there's no way to get past this guy without being lame and kiting with a bow or explosives.

Without some sort of dodge-roll there's almost no way of getting out of the way of the attacks, and actually doing reasonable damage without him getting a lucky shot in and KO-ing you.

I made the iron bow+arrows, bumped up my +accuracy skill to max and did the 'run around in circles and plink at him' technique and yeah, I could probably kill him that way but it's literally the most boring part of the game so far.

And this is the game where I spent half an hour making potatoes and juice before going questing; so, yeah, I'm totally unimpressed. :(

I'm not after "dark souls" combat, but is there literally nothing I can do other than cheese the bosses?

[Darke]

Originally posted by Nintendo:

Killed it, as already mentioned, kabuki mask 15% speed and cowboy boot 15% speed can outrun the boss, even if gets hit, only 15 dmg on me, while my meat pie heal me for 45 in a few secs, very easy, can use bow or melee it or bomb depending on what you want to waste.

I eventually gave up trying to use tactics and used this method with melee. Hit him a bunch, run in circles whilst the meat pie heal happens; repeat.

At least the next area has a fun mix of enemy types until about half way through it starts feeling a slog again since prioritizing targets for one hit vs two hit vs ranged vs shields vs bombs breaks down when there's a dozen people attacking you at once; you just have to go back to the "kite them into a line and then pick off the nearest" technique.

It's still better than the mines where there was only one enemy type (stab you) or the desert where there was basically only two (close and stab you vs shoot you with spikes).

[Passenger 57]

First boss is actually the easiest as you only need to worry about him with no damage from other things.
Wearing the best gear and having the best weapons (esp. bow) available goes without saying.
Don't try to tank him. Keep your distance and use the bow every time he stops to do a special attack. Have two types of the best health food you can make in hot bar, then you can heal up much faster if necessary as the heals stack and the cool down to eat a different type of food is short.

[Section8]

Originally posted by kennycojo:

I used grenades, while eating bread and cheese running circles around him.

Me too

[Zpgg.corey]

I dunno, i tanked and spanked it. then again i was level 11 i think. I grinded the map over and over, I popped out to kite only to eat and drink, then ran back in

[Saelwinn]

Well I am not sure what I am not doing right or what I am doing wrong but I cant get this Boss lol. Oh well I guess I have had enough fun with this game <shrugs> I may try and get higher by respawning the gnomes and animals ect but you shouldnt have to do that to beat this Boss. He starts healing as soon as you run out of the circle and he hits way too hard!!