Help with beast boss

[Law Abiding Engineer]

This boss is pissing me off. The moves are easy enough to dodge, but I cant climb up the fcking arms. I try to go slow, I slip, I try to jump up it, I miss, I try to go at an angle, I slip. What the hell am I suppose to do to climb up the damn thing without falling? I would have easily beaten this thing before, but everytime he goes to sleep, I try to climb up the arms and i just cant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do it. I doubt theres anything that can be said that will help, but for the hell of it, is there anything to do when approaching the arms?

[Mustachious]

Definitely you want to jump up. The places you have to jump are... weird. I think it's really hard to jump up when he's on the sides... when he's in the center I find it a bit easier. Of course, you don't get to choose where he will be unless you purposely prolong the fight which is not a good idea. Just try to find the right "jump spots." Even though I feel like I've pretty much mastered this game, sometimes I get "stuck" or miss trying to jump up. Just practice until you have a feel of where the spots are you're supposed to jump to. Maybe watch a video of someone else playing and you'll get an idea of what it should look like.

[Law Abiding Engineer]

actually, fck that. The boss is such bullsht. Maybe its due to being a close range person instead of the one guy with his long range attacks. Im done .

[Mustachious]

It feels a little unintuitive, but it's not that bad? I don't think it has anything to do with range since the problem doesn't involve attacking. Once you get the hang of where it wants you to jump it's not that hard. It's just that at first it seems kinda off.

[Berahlen]

Jump on the wrist (on the ground), then the midpoint of the upper arm, then the shoulder, then the head.

It's easiest when he's on one of the sides, because the arm closest to the screen is nearly a straight shot up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhqFy_y3tk

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

There are parts of its arms that are more slanted than others. Shouldn't be too hard to find them since they'll noticeably stop you from ascending without jumping.

I've occasionally slipped off of it when its position isn't in the far center of the arena, I admit. But it only really made a huge difference in Nightmare difficulty.

[Law Abiding Engineer]

Ok so just wanted to clear things up since I basically raged at a jrpg boss. First, I was able to beat the beast boss and beat it rather easily after realizing one thing. And that thing was that I was under leveled. I farmed 3 levels and tried the boss again and after only getting hit twice, I was able to take down the boss. Second, I still hate climbing the arms but I figured out how to climb them easily if the boss would 'rest' on the sides. As for climbing it when it was in the middle, that was still a challenge. Still, leveling up a bit, helped me out since it allowed me to only have to climb the boss about 4 or 5 times, max, unlike before where I would have to climb it like 9 times.


Anyway, of course I didn’t quit I didn’t give up, I just 'got gud' since JRPG bosses seem to be good at punishing people for making mistakes or charging in without trying to be tactically smart.

[Berahlen]

Yeah you're supposed to be able to kill Velagunder in 4 cycles. He thresholds and resumes attack after taking just over a quarter of his health in one go, and any character can hit that easily even on Nightmare. The fight is just getting him stunned without letting him heal.

Being three levels under is...unusual though, unless you were literally running past everything. These games give hidden exponential XP multipliers based on the difference between your level and your target's. If you're under level at all, you'll get up there in seconds, and just killing most of what happens to be in your path will keep you from falling behind to begin with.

[Isenlia]

It is defiantly a pain to climb the bosses arms, jumping seems to be the best way up but still sometimes you'll miss or slide off. Main thing is you hit him when you can and kill all the little bugs he spawns to heal himself with. Another thing I found helpful was if the boss was too strong go back and level up 3 more times and you'll simply walk all over them.