Eli Edwards jetpack boss fight

[mricci1049]

holy crap! rotating adds, aoe 25% devotion debuff, 80 point single target laser and a boat load of hp. I know ill figure it out eventually but dam this is a rough fight. suggestions other then git gud are appreciated. love the game btw its like lord of iratus , dd 1 and 2 and i just get tickled by theses types of games.

[mricci1049]

nm figured it out. Taunt works wonders.

[Chris_Unfair]

Playing in Hard this boss fight is a block for me. Can't change the difficulty so it might be the end for me.

[[Heretic]Rivga]

Stun lock, focus fire on him and huge luck.

[lowix]

About to quit. Tried this fight about 15 times. Reload. Most of my guys are level 6 or 7. No way to get them higher. Game went from normal, to easy to too hard. They are hitting me for 120 damage. Often hit me before I get to go. Taunt doesn't help when you get 3 times in a row for 100+ damage each time. Or if they do -25 moral 4 times in a row.
Not sure how to beat it at this point, but not sure I want to keep going.

[lowix]

I figured out how to do it. Up until now when someone died I just kept going. That doesn't work here. You just have to attack, hope you don't miss with a 90+% chance to hit (which misses about 1/2 of the time), and keep attacking. When one of your guys dies from getting hit for 100+ damage 2-3 times in a row then reload. Repeat this about 30-50 times and one time you will get lucky.
Maybe the game was designed to where you weren't ever suppose to loose a person.
Shame it was a good game up to this point.

[HieronymusGoa]

no idea how to manage this fight either ^^ i absolutely breezed through everything in this game until this boss. but then: there is a reason not even 10% have beaten him. maybe take him down like 10% of everything? or not make the mobs spawn again at least. (i uninstalled it for the time being)

[jahill007]

Yeah his crits one shot all characters. In general, enemies do way too much damage. It's often compared to Darkest Dungeon, but that game has a series of battles where you manage your slowly decreasing health and sanity the best you can.

These are individual fights, so the enemies burst you down to kill characters. The game slightly missed the mark on expendable characters. Gadgets are lost and there are legendary characters and here you pay for recruit refreshes.

Reload really is the only way to get through it, although disables and burst of your own gives you a better chance. Took maybe 6 reloads for me on hard. Seems like skills used are random, so you can get lucky and he won't use his crazy strong skills.

[Blaeys]

It took me a few tries, but I finally beat this by getting him to position one (where my big damage could use their heavy hiting abilities) and then focus firing him down. Bring good damage mitigation, some control (again to get him forward on the foster) and heavy single target damage.

It frustrated me at first but I really like that this fight made me have to think more strategically.

[VivUs]

Originally posted by Blaeys:

It took me a few tries, but I finally beat this by getting him to position one (where my big damage could use their heavy hiting abilities) and then focus firing him down. Bring good damage mitigation, some control (again to get him forward on the foster) and heavy single target damage.

It frustrated me at first but I really like that this fight made me have to think more strategically.

Which character can make him go in position one ?

[snuggleform]

just kill stuff in front of him until he slides into position 1

[VivUs]

Originally posted by snuggleform:

just kill stuff in front of him until he slides into position 1

I’m dead long time before lol

[solthusx]

In my experience, there are two things that can immediately ruin this fight if they happen:

1) The Balancer stuns multiple party members with a Sonic Boom attack
2) Eli mind controls more than one character

No. 1 is particular troublesome as the Balancer has also used that attack on his turn in all my attempts at this fight. Not helped by the fact that he's fast enough to go before most of your guys except for the Acrobat and maybe the Knife Thrower (a Juggler might also be fast enough but you're not likely to have one by this point).

[VivUs]

Ok i made it. The 33 % damage reduce help me to kill all 3 monsters before Eli. Then the Fakir save my life with his 100% stun skill.
Eli couldn’t turn on the circus to change his team of 3.

[bambaladam]

I feel very lucky to win this fight with only 3 restarts. I thought it will be hopeless when I first saw rotating stage. But it rotated only once. My team consisted of Magician>Snake>Fire>Strong

[HardRock]

Originally posted by bambaladam:

I feel very lucky to win this fight with only 3 restarts. I thought it will be hopeless when I first saw rotating stage. But it rotated only once. My team consisted of Magician>Snake>Fire>Strong

It's quite ambitious to play without a healer. :)

What difficulty are you playing at?

Originally posted by VivUs:

Which character can make him go in position one ?

There are a few options, each with their own downsides:

1) You defeat all enemies standing before him. This takes time obviously and may not be something you want to do, if your team is focused on single target damage. That said, it is definitely a viable tactic with certain party compositions.

2) You push enemies back, for example with a clown. This may take the most time (at least a few turns) if you only have one character capable of doing this.

3) You use the Illusionist's Shuffle skill. This randomizes the position of all enemies AND your team as well. This is not a 100% reliable of course, and due to it affecting your team as well, doing this requires a team that either works well regardless of positions, or can reset their positions quickly. Strongman's have Show Off to get back into the front for example, but it cannot be used from the last position.