Nibbles the putrid rat is terrorizing my home. Need help!

[Kat]

I'm playing on brutal and I did not expect this rat to be this strong. Now it's in the middle of my base and it's pretty much its home now. How do I deal with the fact it's faster than me, hits super hard and without a windup?

[The Royal Pain]

Wall it off, pretend it doesn't exist for 10-20 gear levels.

EDIT: Was half joking. If you *can* do that, I'd suggest it. Otherwise isn't Nibbles' big thing the little anger-mode into multiple-bite thingy? Could always just focus on dealing with its mobs, then kiting it and peppering it.

[Kat]

Originally posted by The Royal Pain:

Wall it off, pretend it doesn't exist for 10-20 gear levels.

EDIT: Was half joking. If you *can* do that, I'd suggest it. Otherwise isn't Nibbles' big thing the little anger-mode into multiple-bite thingy? Could always just focus on dealing with its mobs, then kiting it and peppering it.

I don't mind his bite, it's the massive unavoidable untelegraphed aoe blast that does 80 damage that kills me.

[The Royal Pain]

Originally posted by Kat:

I don't mind his bite, it's the massive unavoidable untelegraphed aoe blast that does 80 damage that kills me.

That might be one of the new Brutal-exclusive attacks I've heard about, in which case this is out of my pay grade, sorry. I retreat to my earlier suggestion of borrowing from Poe and Amontillado-ing this thing.

[WarDaddy]

I'm ten gear levels above this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rat, there's no avoiding its aoe, your best bet is to run skull and army of the dead to keep it distracted

[Chaos]

Lol, yeah I had this too.
Well, you just got to be atleast his level, then you run both buff skills from blood and chaos magic then trade with him with your melee of choice, but don't tank the multi-bite one tho, pull back once he do that.

[Vorshin]

if your having trouble with that then i would quit the game right now.
Why, well simple once you get to teh level 47+ boss's the difficulty triples up on the boss's.
2 are easy to take out, these are the 2 that enter the iron mine, you just let them duke it outr between each other helping the weakest one out at times, do this right and you can kill both of these easily. after that well good luck continuing.
I gave up after dying to each of the other boss's 15+ times each (except 1, which was the lvl 47 and gave a cosmetic wardrobe and i think the study), other than that i could proceed no further.
The game then took a sh...nosedive into oblivion, became un-fun, obnoxious and frustrating hard as you would have to spend ages grinding and hunting out items to repair your items to fight and fail and grind to repair and fight and fail and spend hrs getting absolutely nowhere. When a game has the No FUN element to it, then its lost the primary thing it is ment to do. for that reason i gave it a thumbs down and am going to throw it in the junk folder.

[Rayquaza608]

if completely stuck might have to respawn elsewhere and just relocate the whole castle.
though as far as dealing with this rat the explosion is on a timer so if you do kinda just get the timing down you can dash further away, this sometimes works depending on how you dashed and how much space you gave yourself as nibbles will stop at the decoy and preferably you aren't in the explosion radius at that point. the multi bite is also dangerous, had a similar issue when i thought i was ready and had no idea it was just going to explode constantly. in my case the castle was basically thrown together so everything was just somewhere on the floor, so i had obstacles in the form of chests to weave around to help put distance between me and the rat.

[Rakerburn]

He will despawn eventually, I had the same issue yesterday on brutal and he disappeared after a while.

[Skillo]

Originally posted by Kat:

I'm playing on brutal and I did not expect this rat to be this strong. Now it's in the middle of my base and it's pretty much its home now. How do I deal with the fact it's faster than me, hits super hard and without a windup?

bring counter spells and time the shockwave, its not telegraphed so you will have to count its cooldown in your head every time. Once you succeed at that it will be easy.

[Cam]

I don't have any advice, OP, but your post really made me laugh so I hope your rat problem is solved soon.

Honestly maybe just give him the castle, move to a new neighborhood, town, start over. Witness protection stuff.

[floridianslip]

property value went down
time to move somewhere else

[Kat]

Originally posted by Rakerburn:

He will despawn eventually, I had the same issue yesterday on brutal and he disappeared after a while.

This is pretty much the answer. I managed to wall it off and eventually it disappeared

[torqueblue]

You could have servants come to help with the fight. Depending on your server settings you can capture some Servants, gear them up, and have them help you. The rat fight lets you build an arena just for him, no reason to struggle.

THINK MARK THINK! YOU have the advantage here!

[HalfSaneFox]

Deconstructing the vermin nest despawns him immediately. Also the counter his pulses doesn't work they ignore counterspells such as blood rite or ward of the damned. also the pulses are 1 every 5~6 seconds (im bad with time)(June 1 2024)

[holdem]

Originally posted by Kat:

I'm playing on brutal and I did not expect this rat to be this strong. Now it's in the middle of my base and it's pretty much its home now. How do I deal with the fact it's faster than me, hits super hard and without a windup?

I was lucky and had a 2 servants to my aid.
My archer Nelly did a good job with her fire damage.