Exploding hot guys ?

[Haperski]

Whats with these discount Gangnam-Style Psy self exploding tendencies ?
I keep dying on these guys's casting self-target fireballs on death that I eventually ignored them as they deal 0 damage to me normally. Their wave of fiery farts are even bigger than the kamikaze yeek with the visible dynamite armor.

Is this the dev's take on 「リア充爆発しろ！」 or "popular guys go explode !" ?

[Sairek Ceareste]

If they're wet, they can't explode.

You can use ice arrow to make them wet, or if that's for some reason is not an option, keep a watering can handy and just pour water on them if they get close. A watering can with more hardness can hold more water.

You can also pour water on yourself to have the wet status to protect your gear from burning up. You are immune to anything you're holding burning up into ash while you have the wet condition on you.

[Haperski]

Originally posted by Sairek Ceareste:

If they're wet, they can't explode.

You can use ice arrow to make them wet, or if that's for some reason is not an option, keep a watering can handy and just pour water on them if they get close. A watering can with more hardness can hold more water.

You can also pour water on yourself to have the wet status to protect your gear from burning up. You are immune to anything you're holding burning up into ash while you have the wet condition on you.

Seriously this game keeps getting better and better !
50 hrs and I hadn't figure out you can use watering cans on enemies !

[Lake]

Hard gay.

[Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform]

Originally posted by Lake:

Hard gay.

I encountered the kamakize yeek, so i am wondering when the dreaded elona chain reaction explosions are going to happen.

Didn't samurai used to explode? or am i misremembering?

[󠀡󠀡]

I just throw potions at them to turn them wet since it does not seem like you can miss and dungeons are usually full of potions anyway so my backpack always has them. I tried the watering can method and just kept forgetting to fill it up.

[AvG]

The hot guys do a static 100 damage when they explode so you can calculate the danger. They do 90 if you have earth god faith, and I am not sure if shield reduces the damage on top of this. I think their damage type is a rare type too so getting resistance is difficult.

[Dirty Old Man]

Originally posted by Explicitly Offensive Cuneiform:

Originally posted by Lake:

Hard gay.

I encountered the kamakize yeek, so i am wondering when the dreaded elona chain reaction explosions are going to happen.

Didn't samurai used to explode? or am i misremembering?

Those that exploded were atomic(or nuclear?) samurais, I think. I bet they will get added further down the line as a samurai sub-type, just like with recent yeek additions.

[Astasia]

Technically they don't cast it on death, they cast it when at low life to finish themselves off. If you kill them in one hit or before they get a turn (high speed) you can also avoid the explosion.

If you are on autobattle the game generally protects you from mechanics like this as well. Because the autobattle just tends to rush blindly into melee, to make it less punishing when something like this does a large amount of damage that would kill you, the game keeps you alive at 0 hp and turns autobattle off. So if you are at like full health and you see a lone hot guy or bombrock, just right clicking to autobattle them is usually "safe." You either kill them before they explode, or they explode and drop you to 0 health, then you heal and move on.

The most efficient way to deal with them is the ice arrow spell though, you can hit them from range, it does a lot of damage to them compared to other elements IME, and it makes them wet so they wont explode. The wet effect has a chance to wear off immediately though, so using ice arrow until they die has the highest chance to keep the effect on them while still doing damage, assuming you don't fail to cast constantly.