Think nibbles might be a bit overtuned for solos on brutal lol.

[Kashra Fall]

I'm 32 and he's 33, but that area explosion doing 73 with a weaken on him, is a bit much, considering he has no other targets to go after.

[Mansen]

The entire game is designed for solo play, so "overtuned for solo" is never a thing - by design.

Brutal is meant to be just that - Brutal. You're always three levels or more behind, which translate into a penalty to damage taken and damage given.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Mansen:

The entire game is designed for solo play, so "overtuned for solo" is never a thing - by design.

Brutal is meant to be just that - Brutal. You're always three levels or more behind, which translate into a penalty to damage taken and damage given.

Then how on earth do you kill this thing? I've gotten it to 30% but the explosions are far too large and his range (Before resetting.) doesn't leave much wiggle room.

[burner19]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Mansen:

The entire game is designed for solo play, so "overtuned for solo" is never a thing - by design.

Brutal is meant to be just that - Brutal. You're always three levels or more behind, which translate into a penalty to damage taken and damage given.

Then how on earth do you kill this thing? I've gotten it to 30% but the explosions are far too large and his range (Before resetting.) doesn't leave much wiggle room.

Skip him till you have better gear. If you want to go in sequence than you will have bad time. I killed him when i was in act 2. Also at some point you will get ability to catch people and make them your minions yo just build tight room filled with your minions and summon the rat there and your minions will obliterate him.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by burner19:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Then how on earth do you kill this thing? I've gotten it to 30% but the explosions are far too large and his range (Before resetting.) doesn't leave much wiggle room.

Skip him till you have better gear. If you want to go in sequence than you will have bad time. I killed him when i was in act 2. Also at some point you will get ability to catch people and make them your minions yo just build tight room filled with your minions and summon the rat there and your minions will obliterate him.

Alrighty, good to know, thanks for t he tip!

[Imahero]

For anyone else struggling with him, I managed to find a way to do with no cheese. I was ilvl 34 when I beat him. The trick is the Cold Snap skill. Basically his stupid OP aoe explosion has a cooldown so you want to never be near him when he does it, but you can't use the dodge skill alone cos the 8 second CD will get you.

The rotation I used attack him some>dodge away>Wait for explosion>Attack him some>Cold Snap>Run and wait for explosion>Attack him some>dodge away> forever until you win. Honestly, it was such a pain the neck and I died like 10 times. So not worth it, I only did it cos I summoned him in my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ castle like an idiot.

[red-power]

You can kill nibbles with Tristan, or Tristan with 2 Nibbles. Or Vincent, or Jade...

[Moldon]

Other than timing Veil of Shadow with Blood Rite in succession to avoid the periodic explosion, I tried a big room with two doors, forcing him to go around by strategically closing one. Worked at first, lost aggro after a while.
I have other theories:
- Using servants
- Moving the vermin nest outside and make him aggro enemies

[Shadowpaw]

Another way without cheese is to use the unholy projectile spell to summon skeletons to draw his aggro. It has 2 charges, so between that and your dodge, you should have enough time to keep your distance.

If you're lucky enough to get the double helix mod for the spell, it will summon 2 skeletons instead.

It's how I fight most of the bosses solo tbh.

[Jack Sparrow]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I'm 32 and he's 33, but that area explosion doing 73 with a weaken on him, is a bit much, considering he has no other targets to go after.

I just one shot him on brutal, he hits pretty hard though, doesnt need to be changed, its Brutal

[Sajonji]

Fully agree OP.
His Slam cooldown is way too low and being able to fire those slams without any visual cue, some wind-up or such is plain stupid and simply unfun game design.

Best advice i can give you and anybody else reading this thread: Change difficulty to normal, beat this unfair, unfun fight, change back to brutal and enjoy the progression :)
Don't let any arrogant elitist gatekepper tell you otherwise.

[theworld]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Fully agree OP.
His Slam cooldown is way too low and being able to fire those slams without any visual cue, some wind-up or such is plain stupid and simply unfun game design.

LMAO, dude.

This boss is trivial, it cannot deal AoE damage if it has no direct line of sight on you, so you can just kite it around the Vermin Nest itself with Veil of Bones, Ward of the Damned and Corrupted Skull. It gets bogged down in summons and you just land a couple of hits and Mace Q on it right after it does AoE, summon something on it and back off, then repeat once AoE is done.

EZ AF.

[Kueschion]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Fully agree OP.
His Slam cooldown is way too low and being able to fire those slams without any visual cue, some wind-up or such is plain stupid and simply unfun game design.

Best advice i can give you and anybody else reading this thread: Change difficulty to normal, beat this unfair, unfun fight, change back to brutal and enjoy the progression :)
Don't let any arrogant elitist gatekepper tell you otherwise.

If you think Brutal Nibbles is OP you aren't gonna get very far in the rest of your Brutal run, whether or not you turn the difficulty down for the fight. It only gets harder from there.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by theworld:

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Fully agree OP.
His Slam cooldown is way too low and being able to fire those slams without any visual cue, some wind-up or such is plain stupid and simply unfun game design.

LMAO, dude.

This boss is trivial, it cannot deal AoE damage if it has no direct line of sight on you, so you can just kite it around the Vermin Nest itself with Veil of Bones, Ward of the Damned and Corrupted Skull. It gets bogged down in summons and you just land a couple of hits and Mace Q on it right after it does AoE, summon something on it and back off, then repeat once AoE is done.

EZ AF.

You just said two necro abilities. By the time you encounter nibbles, you have 1 necro ability. So you just basically said, come back later. Which is what the 2nd person in my post said. The actual answer, is avoid nibbles (As rat form isn't needed.) and go and gear up via a bit more. Gaining 2-3 gear scores was enough to make a difference, as was having completed gear sets.

[ZombieNation]

These posts are getting old bro nothing on BRUTAL is overtuned you just bad.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by ZombieNation:

These posts are getting old bro nothing on BRUTAL is overtuned you just bad.

Respect your opinion, but the forums exist to discuss things. I got my answer and someone revived the thread because they were obviously going to post about the same thing.