What weapon are you using to beat viper?

[Wilus]

Any greatsword users because if you did that's amazing

EDIT: I finally beat him with duel blades, the free dash block is amazing and so is the axe throw transport move to get back on top.

[sgrey]

I beat it with dual-wielding pre nerf. It was not bad.

[Decitron]

just sleep through the fight with the spear

[Jenjamek]

beat him pre nerf with greatsword, take your time and use the brink guard counter skill (cross slash thing) to chip him down, then bring out the beefy moves to down and brutalize him

[Mephisto]

Greatsword. What a challange pre nerf.

[Mephisto]

Greatsword. What a challenge pre nerf.

[Naamtar]

Here's a greatsword kill in about 3 minutes, if you want to see. It does use the demo greatsword and Heartpiercer, which isn't available until after this boss, but overall it's solid.

https://youtu.be/3jRZT7UZwlE?feature=shared

[nygar]

Pre nerf with spear.

[Dregora]

Spear. First phase is very susceptible to being stunned by either a heavy attack (after he does one of his combos its USUALLY safe to use) that staggers him and every hit after that will keep him staggered until you run out of stamina and can't extend your combo. Once you realize this all you have to do is bait him so you can do your heavy attack into combo.

Second phase is very easy compared to his first phase to me, especially before I realized I could stunlock his first phase a lot. But he does less attacks, easier to parry imo.


Don't let people attack you on whatever weapon you use though. The people crying spear is OP probably don't even know why it was considered OP and the skill is nerfed.

[Anatolius]

Greatsword, by spamming Helm Break with occasional Combat Cadence basically, and in case of stagger the combo extends into Savage Momentum -> riposte -> Giant Hunt.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Wilus:

Any greatsword users because if you did that's amazing

EDIT: I finally beat him with duel blades, the free dash block is amazing and so is the axe throw transport move to get back on top.

Great sword is amazing and rightfully so if you use, furious swipe and counter strike. Counter strike destroys stamina, furious swipe allows you to move quickly and chase and or get some quick hits on them after a stagger. Combine with the swift ability to do standard attack combos after a dodge and you can then follow up with a blood talon for massive damage output.

[Kaivo]

Did it with Greatsword, it definitely has a learning curve since its slower than other weapons. You'll really excel when you start to experiment more with different combo strings and find what works well, what staggers, etc. Spirit skills especially can help stagger, in particular Phantom: Night's Veil. The pulses it generates from the buff on charged attacks helps a lot and the attack itself is good too.

Heart Piercer as mentioned for the video posted above is amazing. I went back and fought him again after getting it and would use it at the end of his attack string, it would stagger and set me up to string together spirit skills and charge attacks. I was able to force him into the second half of phase one (his tornado move) after just one of his attack strings this way.

The 2 hit attack followup after a brink guard can safely be used very frequently, not just after the last hit, even on very quick attacks like the move where he stabs twice quickly you can get the 2 hit in and still brink guard the second stab.

Something that may not be obvious to a lot of people is how Savage Momentum (charged swift attack) and Combat Cadence (dodge double hit) work together. You'd expect the needed inputs to be dodge, swift attack x 2 for the Combat Cadence then hold swift attack for Savage Momentum. This works, but you can execute this string SIGNIFICANTLY faster by inputting dodge, swift attack, hold swift attack. Dunno why it works like this but it does, and it makes this string a fantastic bread and butter especially as a followup to dodging a boss's last attack in a string. You can then ffollow that up with Mortal Blow, or wait a split second and charge up a normal potent attack, use a spirit skill etc.

[MostlyPanda]

pre-nerf dual-wield