So lets talk about Rathbreaker

[Press5000]

Or rather how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up he is for a solo witch like ???
You need spear throwers and also a horde of DOZENS of hyenas?? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ please... The roll is way too slow to escape and/or do any meaningful attacks as spears and hyenas AND the big ♥♥♥♥ try to give me wartime ptsd, this is my personal D-Day but I'm the only one on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ beach. Anywho, if anyone has any strats to recommend, drop them in the comments ♥

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Don't go on the cliff stand on side kill the 2 smaller ones, then run to cliff edge and you have him 1 on 1 with no arrows/ spears whatever they are.

[serotoninpack]

You need to grind a few levels more. How exciting, right?

[Pervy]

You fight him on top of the hill. If you get close to the wall you get hit by spears, and if you leave the boss area, you get a endless wave of mobs, till you go back into the boss area, which is the top hill.

[Morgan Darkstar]

Spears what spears? all i saw was fire then he was dead!

[TrashPanda]

....he gets easier, like a lot easier but you have to slog through normal first, once you get to cruel youll be making the bosses eat dirt on the first attempt.

That said Rath can be a pain in the arse as his attacks go off fast, so you have to keep an eye on his animations as he does do a wind up for them, once you see that wind up GTFO and go stand behind him.

Takes a bit of dying in normal but itll help a ton of later bosses if you can nail watching for their one shot animations, Ignore the telegraphs due to latency the attacks wont always hit where the tele was.

[Octopuses]

Stand on the edge of the cliff and in melee range of the boss. He does 2 scary attacks in a row with a slow windup and you just dodgeroll through the boss when he is about to do each of them. He will not charge away and you are outside of throwing spear range.

[DarkFenix]

General rule, hug him. His tracking is poor when you're up close, making it easy to dodge his strong attacks.

I've been through that point on two witches, I don't remember him being difficult, just tedious. He takes a while to go down, the hyenas he swarms you with are a blessing in disguise, they're a supply of temporary minions you can raise to get a bit more dps on him.

[TrashPanda]

Originally posted by Octopuses:

Stand on the edge of the cliff and in melee range of the boss. He does 2 scary attacks in a row with a slow windup and you just dodgeroll through the boss when he is about to do each of them. He will not charge away and you are outside of throwing spear range.

Personally Ive found through a bit of cheese testing that the boss AI gets a little confused if you go stand in their face and just roll behind them all the time while dropping attacks.

Getting in their face works super well on the Chimera bosses..that is when they are not flapping about wasting my time with attacks that will never hit me.

Also works really well on fixed position bosses that cant move around, go stand in their face, you can avoid 90% of their attacks that way and just burn them down.

[SadPlastic]

It's not a problem because there's little to lose in the story, but that damn guy is the boss I hate the most in the endgame. If I see a boss node in the savannah, I'll just turn around and go. The javelin throwing gimmick beyond that damn map absolutely needs to remove. Either get rid of the damn Endgame One Portal system or fix Rathbreaker. It's absurd.