How to Brutal

[Xenobunny]

Less than 1% eh?

I've been playing Brutal Solo and Have made it to act 3. I have much advice but if I can provide one leading take away it is to do this.
PLAY THIS GAME LIKE IT IS THE WITCHER 3 ON HARD MODE. HOLD NOTHING BACK, DODGE EVERYTHING, **** THEIR WIVES, DRINK THEIR BLOOD, AND DO ALL THE DRUGS.
That said I will share my build. Longbow is the only weapon you will need. Spells are lightning ball and corrupting skull. Ult is army of the dead.
Take warlock gear and ideally warrior or scholar blood.
Drugs. ALWAYS do your drugs. blue and red. drink them.
The longbow's obscene range and cool downs synergies perfectly with these spells and the skeletons provide just enough distraction to always charge your shots.
Reserve dash for the bosses "Legendary Actions". Line of sight, sidesteps, and keep at range.
Finally. The finest of cheese reserved for the rat king... 3rd party boss baiting.
You can get Bright Archer or General at any level. They will always kill each other. There is no reason not to steal the Vblood asap. This unlocks both lightning ball and skeletons at low lvl.
BANE the Infiltrator. Bane will easily kill Jade, Vincent, or Christina if you lure him to them. Line of sight the match and eat some popcorn while he does the deed.
Many act 1 bosses can be pitted against each other or high level critters as well... like Alpha Wolf vs Goreswine. They are neighbours.
Finally Finally, and this one will make your hair fall out. You can use yours or your friend's castle hearts to make temporary bases on the road near a patrol route. Gather an army of servants at the roadside. And drop the soap.

[Skillo]

did you really beat the game if half of the fights were cheesing bosses against eachother

[paradigm1393]

@Xenobunny, you are most correct in your analysis and you hit the nail on head, fight smarter not harder & dumber

[Keith Preston]

On Brutal the undead general eats meridin with a few hits while not even losing 10% of his hp.

[Misery1ndex]

Originally posted by Keith Preston:

On Brutal the undead general eats meridin with a few hits while not even losing 10% of his hp.

Wasnt the case for me. I just went to the iron mine a little bit ago, and Kriig was fighting her, and he was at like 10% HP, Meredith wasnt even at half, was pretty chaotic as there was a ton of other adds and i missed most of the fight

[R4geKiing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqStqHYFfXY DEVS PLS FIX THIIIS. PPLS USING DRACULA'S BLOOD OUTSIDE FOR PVP

[kafersaft]

Originally posted by R4geKiing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqStqHYFfXY DEVS PLS FIX THIIIS. PPLS USING DRACULA'S BLOOD OUTSIDE FOR PVP

lol

[FDru]

Army of the Dead is okay but Raging Tempest is a game changer.

[Bunny]

Originally posted by FDru:

Army of the Dead is okay but Raging Tempest is a game changer.

Raging Tempest has always been super OP imo. It's an insane damage dealer while allowing you to dodge things.

[󠀡]

gl with the spider, the frog, matka and with styx (unless devs nerfed those)

[MegaNez]

Originally posted by R4geKiing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqStqHYFfXY DEVS PLS FIX THIIIS. PPLS USING DRACULA'S BLOOD OUTSIDE FOR PVP

why ? bc they can beat dracula but you can't ?

[CadeOfRoots]

Originally posted by Skillo:

did you really beat the game if half of the fights were cheesing bosses against eachother :fardy:

Honestly yeah. Once i'm done with the normal difficulty i'll def play brutal but i'd rather not cheese the fights. I'd rather learn their patterns and genuiely start using potions more often along with just generally getting better. Not just cheesing fights with other bosses.

[Zenogs]

Originally posted by Skillo:

did you really beat the game if half of the fights were cheesing bosses against eachother :fardy:

It ain't our fault dev are bunch of sweaty nerds and decided every one should do like them XD Like seriously bosses here kill you in a hit or two but for you it takes half a fcking night if lucky.

[Jet]

If you're willing to use tactics like having bosses kill each other or rely on gimmicks like using servants for help then you might as well just change the server settings to 3x damage output and 3x health for your vampire to make you stronger.

Both tactics essentially make the point of playing the Brutal difficulty pointless. That little achievement you get from playing it is worthless anyways. Not sure why people pick the hardest difficulty and then act like babies when they play it. Why not just stick with Normal mode and then slightly increase the damage output of the bosses and enemies if normal is too "easy" for you but Brutal is too "spicy" lmao.

[Severon]

In currently playing solo brutal. Ive just started act 4 and so far my goto loadout is similar. Using longbow, Corrupted Skull. Chaos Volley and Army of the Dead.

Some bosses have been tricky and require some spells switching out but Ive made a conscious effort to keep myself at the same gear level as the boss without over levelling.
Im also not cheesing any of the fights as I wanted to learn and experience the fights as intended as someone else pointed out.
To that end I deliberately waited until a boss was in suitable location to take on. So Kriig and Vincent for example I waited until they would go to their respective arena locations

[Chan]

Order of operations for bosses:

Do they have a lot of projectiles, constantly attack or string long combos together? Double shield
Do they have openings, but specific attacks with a lot of hard to dodge projectiles/a single combo string? Shield + aoe damage for adds.
Are they an easy boss that doesn't get in your face with dodgeable attacks? Whatever you want to run.

Basically how I've fought every boss. Adam, Dracula and Simon are the only three I have left so far.