Whats the proper way to deal with elites?

[Dregora]

Great game, playing on gamepass. However, i'm having a bit of a struggle with the beefy elites you find.

They attack a lot, they don't stagger as much and it's quite hard to get damage in. What's the proper way to try to deal with them?

[Marcel]

the upgraded aegis legion arm lets you tank a lot of stuff and even attack while you guard. you could also imbue your weapon, deals tons of dmg

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Marcel:

the upgraded aegis legion arm lets you tank a lot of stuff and even attack while you guard. you could also imbue your weapon, deals tons of dmg

Don't you block with your weapon? How do you block with the legion arm?

Sorry if I misunderstand things, so many different terminologies here haha

[DilTinman]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by Marcel:

the upgraded aegis legion arm lets you tank a lot of stuff and even attack while you guard. you could also imbue your weapon, deals tons of dmg

Don't you block with your weapon? How do you block with the legion arm?

Sorry if I misunderstand things, so many different terminologies here haha

Aegis is a specific legion arm that acts as a shield when using it.

[Insanity Factor]

Elites are honestly worse than the bosses, when it comes to being just unrelenting, and they usually have a pretty beefy hp bar too.. If all else fails.. cheese with a lot of throwables! I gave up on the "hunter killer" after awhile personally and just tossed a bunch of the electric and fire bomb things at it until it died.

To help with the cheese, at certain point in game you unlock a vendor who sells infinite amount of the "elemental" throwables etc.

Fighting them otherwise probably requires either being really good at perfect guarding (Not sure, but some may have a breakable weapon, and ofc perfect guarding also eventually helps breaking their guard allowing for a fatal attack for nice chunk of damage) or dodging and taking pot shots at them during the (very few) pauses between their combos/attacks. One thing I don't think you can be with elites is greedy. One hit and dodge/block again pretty much.

This could all also be stupid advice from someone who needs to git gud, so take it with a nice spoonful of salt.

[Vakula]

you are supposed to parry them and hit em with your charged R2. thats the way the game wants you to play - dodging around and R1 is suboptimal.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Vakula:

you are supposed to parry them and hit em with your charged R2. thats the way the game wants you to play - dodging around and R1 is suboptimal.

I kinda figured this, I just suck at parrying so I just put absolute defence (a skill from the greatsword, the handle) onto my electric club, but apparently it changes the moveset of the club too to that atrocious greatsword moveset.. fml

Crying everytime

[BBQ]

You can also try different consumables/throwables.
Maybe you find something that is very useful on one of those.
Just had some sort of "oh, that made 'that one' really easy" experience when I threw a sawblade at one, to which I died five times before.