Surgeborn Herald

[MADAO]

Am I missing something? I'm supposed to harvest her for the last Kinetic Stream strand, yet Brynn cannot complete the harvest without being grabbed and taking half her health in damage. What am I missing? Is this a bug, for the boss to be acting so unreasonably fast?

[Cahalith]

I think the journal mentions you have to restrain the herald's arm to prevent it from grabbing you as you harvest. Use ice wall, like always ;)

[MADAO]

Originally posted by Cahalith:

I think the journal mentions you have to restrain the herald's arm to prevent it from grabbing you as you harvest. Use ice wall, like always ;)

Then why didn't she behave that way down in the fight at the Source?? I despise inconsistency.

[Savatage79]

Originally posted by MADAO:

Am I missing something? I'm supposed to harvest her for the last Kinetic Stream strand, yet Brynn cannot complete the harvest without being grabbed and taking half her health in damage. What am I missing? Is this a bug, for the boss to be acting so unreasonably fast?

Yea it was absolutely annoying af, maxed out ice mine is what you want imo throw it at him and just shoot it with arrows in the body.

[Dr.JulY 🐨]

Fight her at Bastion, and freezer her hand to the fortress wall, then harvest...quiet easy...

[Cahalith]

While we're sharing general tips for defeating the herald: I found the kinetic two-hander's special attack really useful for quickly getting on top of this boss to break its armor and to quickly get harvesting.

[AceMechanical]

Originally posted by Cahalith:

I think the journal mentions you have to restrain the herald's arm to prevent it from grabbing you as you harvest. Use ice wall, like always ;)

I've been doing this and the ice wall just breaks immediately. Level 3 and everything, the herald just moves it's arm regardless. Any attack and the ice just breaks. Not to mention how finicky the ice walls are about touching each other

[Psi23]

My biggest problem with this boss is that Brynn just has a real hard time climbing it. She just bounces off 90% of the time when you try to kinetic tunnel onto it, and you can't climb from the base.

Also, I finally managed to get on it's face for the last kinetic strand thread, after dozens of tries, had its arm pinned, and was trying to pull the thread for a good ten seconds, and then still got grabbed and pulled off. It's just too artificially hard.

[Savatage79]

Originally posted by Psi23:

My biggest problem with this boss is that Brynn just has a real hard time climbing it. She just bounces off 90% of the time when you try to kinetic tunnel onto it, and you can't climb from the base.

Also, I finally managed to get on it's face for the last kinetic strand thread, after dozens of tries, had its arm pinned, and was trying to pull the thread for a good ten seconds, and then still got grabbed and pulled off. It's just too artificially hard.

Yea it's a horrible boss. Not sure if you're doing this but ice mines help freeze the body to give you more places to grab. I did the same just fighting the jank, then you get on its face and still get picked off... I hated it.

[Savatage79]

Originally posted by AceMechanical:

Originally posted by Cahalith:

I think the journal mentions you have to restrain the herald's arm to prevent it from grabbing you as you harvest. Use ice wall, like always ;)

I've been doing this and the ice wall just breaks immediately. Level 3 and everything, the herald just moves it's arm regardless. Any attack and the ice just breaks. Not to mention how finicky the ice walls are about touching each other

Yea it's accurate tho you gotta get that off hand good before you climb him so that he can't pick you off. What kept happening to me tho was I'd start to harvest and the game would reset the harvest because it's head would move? No clue but it was infuriating, like I said in previous post.. Hated every second of surgeborn fights.

[Savatage79]

Originally posted by Savatage79:

Originally posted by AceMechanical:

I've been doing this and the ice wall just breaks immediately. Level 3 and everything, the herald just moves it's arm regardless. Any attack and the ice just breaks. Not to mention how finicky the ice walls are about touching each other

Yea it's accurate tho you gotta get that off hand good before you climb him so that she can't pick you off. What kept happening to me tho was I'd start to harvest and the game would reset the harvest because it's head would move? No clue but it was infuriating, like I said in previous post.. Hated every second of surgeborn fights

[Cahalith]

Yeah, that boss breaks through ice really quickly. I'm not certain about why, but I wonder if maybe the ice gets damaged by the miasma around the base of the boss?

All I can suggest is to bring the kinetic two-hander to the fight. Once you've destroyed the armour pieces on the boss, try to restrain its free arm by freezing it to the ground or to some other part of the herald's anatomy. Then use the kinetic two-hander's special attack to jump right in the herald's face and get harvesting. That way, you won't waste time climbing up, which minimises the window the boss has to break free and grab you.

I may have just been lucky, but I fought the herald three times using this strategy (just to fully upgrade its strand) and I think it successfully grabbed me maybe once during the actual harvesting phase.

[selino]

I've put 80 hours into this game and really enjoyed it. I've mastered every boss on Normal, made all of the armor sets, and will have all the codex soon. That said… I spent a week on this boss before I gave up. I work full-time and am not a leet gamer. I mastered Kena, Doom, Sifu, etc., but this boss is impossible for me, even after all the walkthrough videos. It takes me 30 minutes to get it down to 50%, and then I die. It's not fun for me at all.

I'm not telling anyone how to make anything. I'm not saying that anyone here needs to change anything. I'm just telling you I spent $50 and won't ever see the end of the game. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Lyren]

I got to say, I enjoyed learning the mechanics for most of the bosses and getting better at them... mostly. The herald however... I don't think I have been as frustrated with the climbing mechanics as I was fighting this thing. The launching myself off when the hand came close seemed to just get stuck half the time, kinetic stream would bounce me through it somehow. The kinetic two hander really is the better bet but I finally just hopped between the roofs of two buildings and kept it around there to help limit what it could do and let me get straight to it.

I didn't beat it by pinning its hands with ice. I tried that. A lot. It literally would break free and grab me anyway - with its hand still a literal ball of ice. Obviously some people got it to work but for me it seemed to break free before I was even done casting ice wall. I ended up using luck and timing - it had just done a head shake, then tried to grab me from the back of its head while I was moving to the front. I was lucky enough to finish the harvesting animation before it got me.

[Dark Skysz]

Just don't forget to spend your whole mana bar creating that ice wall. Making multiple layers
around the arm and the wall/floor. It will last longer.