Ok.. this is the last straw "The Great Sage's Broken Shell"

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Whoever made this retarded boss must have been living in a monkey phantasy.
one hundread billion combo monkey that steals your potion, perfect dodges and doing the exact same moves as you. It even steals your power and become his.
The only thing he cant do is pull rabbit out of his helmet. This boss is outrageously hard and toxic. i barely make him to first half hp. I cant do this anymore. My hands are in pain and i want to punch the screen <.< How more OP these bosses can become?? Fck this tarzan monkey.

[froilanxx3]

skill issue lol

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by froilanxx3:

skill issue lol

We have a smart one NOT.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Originally posted by froilanxx3:

skill issue lol

We have a smart one NOT.

I mean it IS a skill issue, that is a true statement.

That said here are some tips...

1. For the gourd thief move, if you keep your distance when you chug a potion, it won't trigger. The gourd thief moves requires you to be close enough for his immobilize to hit you and for him to NOT be actively attacking. So if you keep your distance you can usually drink your gourd safely.

2. You have no choice but to learn this guys attack patterns... He has so many delayed attacks that you can easily get some consistent staff spins in after each move he does then dodge, this will RAPIDLY charge your focus gauge to allow you to prep heavy focus attack.

Do NOT underestimate how fast staff spin can charge focus and how rapidly it comes out... It is a good move to hit him with after nearly every attack since it has no dodge delay.

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by dustin1280:

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

We have a smart one NOT.

I mean it IS a skill issue, that is a true statement.

That said here are some tips...

1. For the gourd thief move, if you keep your distance when you chug a potion, it won't trigger. The gourd thief moves requires you to be close enough for his immobilize to hit you and for him to NOT be actively attacking. So if you keep your distance you can usually drink your gourd safely.

2. You have no choice but to learn this guys attack patterns... He has so many delayed attacks that you can easily get some consistent staff spins in after each move he does then dodge, this will RAPIDLY charge your focus gauge to allow you to prep heavy focus attack.

Do NOT underestimate how fast staff spin can charge focus and how rapidly it comes out... It is a good move to hit him with after nearly every attack with no dodge delay.

Sure but unlike this guy above, you bothered explained instead of just throwing "Skill issue" which obviously anyone knows it doesnt help nor understand other people desperate situation.

Question. Should i equip the bull set helmet and armor for just extra defense? Do you think it will help?

[Hobgoblins]

Take a break and come back, if you're in a bad space mentally you stand much less of a chance.

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Question. Should i equip the bull set helmet and armor for just extra defense? Do you think it will help?

I went full bull set with wukong arms & weapon for the extra crit & focus buildup.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Originally posted by dustin1280:

I mean it IS a skill issue, that is a true statement.

That said here are some tips...

1. For the gourd thief move, if you keep your distance when you chug a potion, it won't trigger. The gourd thief moves requires you to be close enough for his immobilize to hit you and for him to NOT be actively attacking. So if you keep your distance you can usually drink your gourd safely.

2. You have no choice but to learn this guys attack patterns... He has so many delayed attacks that you can easily get some consistent staff spins in after each move he does then dodge, this will RAPIDLY charge your focus gauge to allow you to prep heavy focus attack.

Do NOT underestimate how fast staff spin can charge focus and how rapidly it comes out... It is a good move to hit him with after nearly every attack with no dodge delay.

Sure but unlike this guy above, you bothered explained instead of just throwing "Skill issue" which obviously anyone knows it doesnt help nor understand other people desperate situation.

Question. Should i equip the bull set helmet and armor for just extra defense? Do you think it will help?

I strongly recommend the bull helmet and armor for sure...
Also if you have beat the secret boss of chapter 6 and got his spear weapon, that is INCREDIBLY strong and useful in conjunction with thrust stance.

Without the secret boss spear weapon, I recommend smash stance and make sure you are fully specced into staff spin, I underestimated that move for 75% of my playthrough.

Another thing I can recommend that helped me,
Equip as many mana boosting gear as you can, and fully spec into spellbinder...
Effectively this is the daoist spirit, the accessory that gives you a mana bonus, and see if you can afford to respec some points into the mana bonus skill and max it out...

If you have the needle, that is good to be used in conjunction with spellbinder (because of it's passives)

Finally for non bull gear, anything that increases focus gain or crit.

Then when you fight broken shell use needle and transformation first, then spellbinder after.

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by Hobgoblins:

Take a break and come back, if you're in a bad space mentally you stand much less of a chance.

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Question. Should i equip the bull set helmet and armor for just extra defense? Do you think it will help?

I went full bull set with wukong arms & weapon for the extra crit & focus buildup.

You cant have full bull set in first run. You need to play in new game plus to get all materials.

[Hobgoblins]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

You cant have full bull set in first run. You need to play in new game plus to get all materials.

Apologies you're right it was bull helm / chest with wukong legs / arms.

[dustin1280]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Originally posted by Hobgoblins:

Take a break and come back, if you're in a bad space mentally you stand much less of a chance.



I went full bull set with wukong arms & weapon for the extra crit & focus buildup.

You cant have full bull set in first run. You need to play in new game plus to get all materials.

Use bull helm, bull armor
Either Ochre Armguard or Dian-Cui Loong-Soaring Bracers
Lotus Silk Cloudtreaders

Best of luck, hopefully you can get by with the stuff that has been mentioned, you can also take a look at this topic and see if anything helps:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2358720/discussions/0/4763207511835524015/

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by Hobgoblins:

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

You cant have full bull set in first run. You need to play in new game plus to get all materials.

Apologies you're right it was bull helm / chest with wukong legs / arms.

No problem.

[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]

Originally posted by dustin1280:

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

You cant have full bull set in first run. You need to play in new game plus to get all materials.

Use bull helm, bull armor
Either Ochre Armguard or Dian-Cui Loong-Soaring Bracers
Lotus Silk Cloudtreaders

Best of luck, hopefully you can get by with the stuff that has been mentioned, you can also take a look at this topic and see if anything helps:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2358720/discussions/0/4763207511835524015/

Yes, i will. Thanks for the help.

[Hobgoblins]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

No problem.

Would advise using spellbinder too, atleast for the second phase alongside crit/mana boosting curios.

Use spirit, vessel and transformation to blast through most of the first phase then spellbinder to finish.

[Galactic hatkid]

these guys over here making strategies while I just did it at 95 with full wukong armour by beating my head into it like a break wall until it broke, also you might be able to dodge the gourd steal but unsure

[Tao Shamash]

In my ng+ i cheese him a bit because it was tiresome facing him AGAIN to unlock the chapter 6 music video/true "true" ending (after beating him first to face the secret boss you have to fight him again). This shouldn't have to be necessary for the true "true" ending imo. Same for the need to do several runs for upgrading all the armor sets. Just IMO

What i did was going full Iron Bull armor plus ring of fire. Try to trigger second phase with minimal wasted mana and hp. Force heavy smash attack while in the ring while tanking his light combo (he can't stagger you with that armor ser).

Smash him a few times with full focus heavy attack. When you put him on low hp hit him with the fan to perma stagger him, rush to finish him.

Also a tip: remember you have a one use per fight of the resurrection medicine

[=(eGO)=™ MIB2]

Originally posted by Sky Striker Ace - Kagari:

Originally posted by dustin1280:

Use bull helm, bull armor
Either Ochre Armguard or Dian-Cui Loong-Soaring Bracers
Lotus Silk Cloudtreaders

Best of luck, hopefully you can get by with the stuff that has been mentioned, you can also take a look at this topic and see if anything helps:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2358720/discussions/0/4763207511835524015/

Yes, i will. Thanks for the help.

I took a different approach, might work for you too.

Galeguard set upgraded to mythical at the Blacksmith gives you additional dodge i-frames and just massively boosts your perfect dodge bonuses while still providing good defense.

I found that counterintuitively it's best to be very aggressive, chaining Tiger's Acolyte into immobilize, getting off a level-4 heavy dodge-thrust, then going into Blacksmith transformation, parrying his flurry of attacks and doing a heavy punish afterwards.

As for the gourd steal, it's annoying, but I found I can tank it once as for some reason I ended up being healed every time he did it anyway.

I'd also advise to stay relatively close and get upgrades that let you continue the combo after dodging, he's easily staggered by the final hit of the light combo and it's a great way to build up meter for another level-4 dodge-thrust. Also, if he does his ring of fire, get out of there ASAP and lure him out instead.