Pacifist challenge

[S'bass thulu]

Love it. Really showcases the vampire queen's dynamic. To anybody trying it, I found it useful to use blood syphon as a passive. With everything going on on screen, switching back and forth between anachronistic, the flash of the blood syphon talent helped me personally remember I was in a general range while avoiding all the craziness without having to keep an eye on her health bar. It doesn't really hurt any horde in this mode, but it's nice to have that visual range to focus on.

[Dirian]

I agree
This challenge is really interesting in a lot of way.

[S'bass thulu]

Some of the most unique game play I've ever known.

[tru-]

I did not understand how to beat her, she keeps healing herself and the dot damage is not enough to overcome the healing

[S'bass thulu]

Remember that she'll run to you. If you run away, she will chase, so for most of it, you don't have to run to her, dodge the healing beams. And as that final healing attack starts at the 3rd part of the life bar, if I couldn't get her down through there without her healing herself, I'd start (the battle) over. Once it went back up, it was too much for me.

But she heals herself through the prisms, and through her own beam. So dodge that and live in anachronistic as much as possible.

After that third health bar part is cleared she refills her life bar, but this time her max health cap can be reduced, so even if she heals herself, I kept being close and dodging needed attacks. Eventually the max health cap wears down and I won.

There's other small tricks between armor and talents, but that's the main concept. Took me maybe 5-10 tries to dial it in. You got this.

[Detached Soul]

I was able to make it to the final healing attack but once that starts the beams just aren't possible to dodge reliably enough, she usually heals at least a little bit at the start of the beams and that's enough to heal through the HP decay so she just slowly gains HP.

[S'bass thulu]

After finishing those first three parts on her first bar, the health bar refills. At that point, when the fight is there, her max HP cap can be reduced. That's the key. Even with a full health bar, the cap for it can slowly be reduced. There are probably more effective ways. There's a lot of real clever folk on the discord. That's what I focused on.

on her first health bar that has three sections, don't get confused. In the third section of that first health bar, she tends to refill pretty easy. That's where using blood syphon helped me keep from hitting tunnel vision. It doesn't do any damage but the flash helped me remember when she was roughly in range for that part so I could focus on avoiding everything she uses to heal. And again, the gift of the fight is that like a lot of real world emotional and social vampires... you run away and she will chase you down.

Avoid the beams as possible. There's the two prisms. Each of those shoot out 3 beams. Then there's her beam (usually). Time anachronistic right and make sure to do everything possible to keep her from healing until that 1st bar with the 3 sections hits zero. Then the bar will refill. The second health bar, it doesn't matter as much if she heals.

There's other tricks but it's one of my favorite challenges. Nothing I did other than watching the timing of her behavior was too wild compared to any other challenges. I know I'm repeating myself a lot, but if I got into a situation where I messed up in that third section of the health bar and a beam caught me long enough to heal her fully, I reset the fight. That small section in the third part of that first health bar is the trickiest to me. The rest is tenacity and figuring what works for your play style.