The Scarlet Shadow (Red Variant)

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Looking for tips farming the Red Reaper as it's being called. If anyone has other tips, we'd like to hear them.

Note: TSS equals The Scarlet Shadow (Red Variant).


Tip 1: Player can sit forever as long as no other enemies are around blocking TSS and it can't kill you (Tested for around 10 minutes with a sword, as well as a few minutes with daggers and a shield.). Player will need a fast moveset weapon to attack when block is dropped, so they can move right back into blocking.

Note: This is due in part to the stamina never being depleted enough to matter.

Note: You can also use spam spells prior to blocking. You'll want to cast several from different schools of magic for best effect.

Edit: This may have gotten patched, either that or it doesn't work in Co-Op if you're the one summoned.


Tip 2: It can be parried. Recommend using daggers over other weapons for this.


Tip 3: If you want to fight it isolated where you don't need to worry about the Umbral enemy spawns, the elevators are a good choice, as well are areas near Vestiges where it spawns but other Umbral enemies can't (Keep in mind if you get too close to the Vestiges TSS will despawn refilling its healthpool.). There other areas where it'll spawn by itself, however, not useful to farming TSS as far as I've been able to find. Many of the elevators are also near Vestiges BTW.


Tip 4: Using Soulflay on TSS causes it to go into its ground attack and jump to player. Useful for controlling where it is. If playing in Co-Op, this makes offing TSS a joke. Also means even if one player can't do damage they can keep agro on them, and just spend the entire time blocking whilst the other player takes them out.


Will add to the list as I'm forgetting the other things I tested out yesterday.

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(Not looking for exploits, glitches or non-intended methods of taking it out BTW. Basically, as long as it's a part of the game mechanics, I'm looking for it.)

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Things I haven't tested in the last few patches;

A. 1-Shot Builds (Assume these still work, but they're a very late game thing and require a lot of investment.)

B. Multiple status attacks (Basically building up the weapon caused status effects back to back using more than 1 type at the same time. Could previously cause damage numbers in the 10K range.)

C. Fall damage (This may have been patched out as I haven't been able to get it to make the mistake of attacking perpendicularly to the ledges since a few patches ago. It's also spawning on the sides of me. I was told, but as such haven't been able to confirm that it's now immune to fall damage.)

(Note: They changed the level design in areas where you were meant to kick other enemies off of said ledges. Found this very confusing in the tutorial area, though maybe it was just meant to apply to posture/poise and not result in those enemies deaths.)


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Early game methods that no longer work;

A. It's no longer possible to just off it duel wielding non-upgraded daggers with 4 charged heavy attacks.

B. Haven't been able to find any weapon that pushes the enemy back, meaning distance is harder to control, and that it's no longer as far as I know possible to push it off of ledges (There are attacks in game that will still, however, I can't remember what were. Likely spells.).

Note: They changed the timing on heavy weapons, making it far harder to pull of some charged heavy attacks. You're likely going to have to use a certain item with your lantern if you're planning on surviving those attacks. Said item can be gotten to pre-mid game.

C. Haven't tested the weapon caused or rune caused debuffs on the TSS.

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Will clean this up later. Too many words for what I'm trying to get across. Will likely be turning this into a guide at some point for early game, so late game methods aren't as important. Also, if you read all of this, currently, Co-Op is the fastest method I'm aware of if you're planning on farming it.