Another :How to beat Imlerith" thread...

[Atom.Little]

The battle seems fairly straight forward and I don't really expect to get tips about how to beat him that I haven't thought of - and tried - mysef. But so far, I simply cannot beat the guy.
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Spec:

Level: 30
Armor: Superior Griffin
Spec: re-specced for this fight.

Combat (Red Tree)
Strong Attacks, 5/5 in 1.st row, 5/5 2.nd row, 2/5 in 3,rd row.
Full Fast Attacj 1st and 2nd row, no 3rd row.
Asrenaline, 4/5 in 1.st row.
Signs (Blue Tree)
Aard, 4/5 in 1.st row.
Igni, 5/5 1.st row, 5/5 2.nd row, 2/5 3.rd row.
Yrden, 2/2 1st row, 3/3 s.nd row.
Quen, 5/5 1.st row, 5/5 2.nd row, 3/5 3.rd row.

Oil and decoctions: Oil against humans and non-humans.

Potions: 4x Enhanced Swallow
3x Thunderbolt

Bombs: 3x Enhanced Samum
2x Grapeshot.

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The battle.

I do my best to always have Quen up (which is enhanced by the Place of Power). But I don't always succeed because my opponent moves/switches positions too fast, and I also focus on getting his Frost Shield, that cloaks him, blown off him so his armor becomes temporaritly weaker for dmg.

I roll and use a lot of dodge, mainly around him to the right so as to get at his back. But mostlyit is a matter of dodging his constant moving right to the spot directly behind me where I can't defend myself.

Once I get his life down to 1/3, he chases me and is now faster than I am. Since Quen at tis stage doesn't have much effect, if any, and you can no longer block his attacks AT ALL - I'm not sure if you ver could because he has always broken through my blocks with ease, or - when I had Quen up - he would just launch another attack.

To say it quick, in this final stage he quikly gets me killed. Noting I do to counter his attacks work even in a minor way, and if I attempt to attack him he counter me easily with a heavily damaging blow.

It usually ends with him killing me by some minor thing, running into me or something like that, it often seems as if our weapons clash by accient and in passing, but I'm always the one who dies - probably because his mace does such insanely much damage.
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I will be very grateful if anybody can give me some advice about how to beat this boss (I'm still in the learning process as a somewahat newcomer to the gamer scene) I will be very pleased and grateful.

Thanks to you all in advance.

[Gohenko]

Just keep dodging his attacks and strike when you see an opening. Try to have quen on at all times and cast igni at him every now and then when you have the stamina to spare.

You could also watch and learn from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE0XSLl1fJ8

[Nihilio]

Bear in mind that this fight is not a Witcher Boss fight, but a fight that escaped a console game, so much of what you learned to not apply here.

First, cover your silver sword with elemental oil (you fight with Silver Sword, not steel), drink Petri Filter/Tawny Owl (to keep your Quen up) and Thunderbolt for damage and go for him.

Start hitting him and, during final phase just dodge roll when he blinks out of existence, his club will smash where you stood. When his club gets stuck, just hit him a couple times, rinse and repeat.

[markdb92]

using the fire sign useless on the battle. Quen sign can be used to regain hp real quick esp in sign heavy builds making you a god in this battle. Ie just hold it and walk up to him and wack him till his hp goes down. So easy with sign heavy build it not funny.

[Atom.Little]

Thanks guys for your replies. After placing this post I couldn't find it again, and I assumed nobody had replied either since it also didn't turn up in my Comments List. Now is the first time I see it again, and I appreciate your advice and suggestions.

However, I decided to start a new thread on the same topic since I really wanted to find out if I did something wrong or if the quest was temporarily bugged since Imlerith behaved differently from how I saw him behave on videos I looked up.

Here is the URL to the thread. I also describe here how I finally broke the mystery, solved the riddle about Imlerith's behavior and completed the quest, defeating him the same way I'd seen others do it.


Here goes:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/517141882712870193/?tscn=1442842031


It was quite a trial, I tell ye. But man, what a relief when I reallized there was nothing wrong with what I did, that it was a matter of hit or miss AKA having a stroke of luck or the opposite.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Only hard part is once he throws the shield, until then it´s quite easy.

[rodbarker007]

Like all the battles its about being able to dodge and roll and strike in the openings , just a pattern really .

[YoSnail]

Just takes a while of dodging and regening while his health slowly goes down. Once I managed to save all the Sup. Swallows and Sup. White Raffords for the last stage the fight was not so bad. It was like dodge-attack-dodge-quen-dodge-dodge-attack-dodge-potion.

[Revolucas]

Hmmm really? I beat him at level 20. I guess only going into swordsman tree is OP. Dodge and Rend.

[Marbur]

Originally posted by AmaDraque:

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Oil and decoctions: Oil against humans and non-humans.
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Originally posted by Nihilio:

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First, cover your silver sword with elemental oil (you fight with Silver Sword, not steel)
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I beat both Caranthir and Imlerith with relict oil, but I'm curious what is the right oil against these enemies.
Are they human?
Or doesn't help any oil?

[Bad Humour]

Didnt seem to difficult imo. I needed only 2 attempts to do it and all I really did was dodge hit def spel (forget the name), dodge hit hit def spel, even when he was teleporting it was quite predictable just keep dodging until he tires and hit him.

[Marbur]

I didn't say I had difficulties, I only wanted to know what oil is the best.

After looking in the Oil descriptions in English, German and Polish, I think "Hanged Man's Venom" should be the right oil.

Funny ist the additional phantasie of the translators:
Polish: Sila ataku przeciw humanoidom
German: Angriffskraft gegen Humanoide und Bestien
English: Attack power versus humans and nonhumnas