[Spoilers] Final Boss advice?

[Spectacular_Insanity]

I'm trying to beat the final boss of the game (Nova at Difficulty 13) and I'm having a hell of a hard time. It hits really hard because it started the fight enraged and my AI teammates are getting downed constantly until they either run out of items or run out of endurance, at which point it's only a matter of time for me. I'm running a Scythe/Sniper build with Lightspeed HDH bullets. I've got literally every good level 10 Yellow/Blue/Purple skill I can equip on my items, plus Auto Guard and gain HP on Devour. Not sure what else I can do, other than play online, which seems to be broken since I don't see anyone online but I KNOW people are playing because this discussion forum is relatively active.

[•C]

Start the fight with stun grenades, take shots at her head with crush weapons. When she aggros again, she'll do her roar, that's when you drop another stun grenade. You won't immediately kill her off with the maxed 8 stun grenades you can have, but it'll give you a head start on killing her before she kills you and your team.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally posted by •C:

Start the fight with stun grenades, take shots at her head with crush weapons. When she aggros again, she'll do her roar, that's when you drop another stun grenade. You won't immediately kill her off with the maxed 8 stun grenades you can have, but it'll give you a head start on killing her before she kills you and your team.

Ah, thank you. I completely forget about stun grenades half the time. I'll try that. Any bullet recipes you might recommend? Or should I just use a default one? And should I be using a different weapon from a sniper (I do have a lvl 13 Blast weapon also nicely upgraded as a backup)?

[•C]

Use the Blast Gun, blow off her face while you got her stunned. For bullet, use this[i.imgur.com] at point-blank. Gravegun Gabbro is the best for this, so if you've got that, use that.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally posted by •C:

Use the Blast Gun, blow off her face while you got her stunned. For bullet, use this[i.imgur.com] at point-blank. Gravegun Gabbro is the best for this, so if you've got that, use that.

Okay, nice. I don't think I have that weapon, but I can probably farm materials for it... maybe. I might be stuck doing the final mission at this point, but we'll see. Thanks for your advice, BTW. I really appreciate it.

[Alice Proxy]

Devour HP Absorb + HP Devour + Quick Auto Guard and you can solo it.

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Originally posted by Ego Serpentis:

Devour HP Absorb + HP Devour + Quick Auto Guard and you can solo it.

I have Auto Guard, Devour HP absorb and HP Devour. Is Quick Auto Guard different from Auto Guard?

[Arcade]

I used a Sniper/Scythe build and this is what I did:

From my experience I used Soma and Lindow and just made them meatshields with a lot of aggro.

I know this sounds rather simple but just block a lot until there is an obvious opening. I don't use auto-block so I don't know how helpful this is. His pattterns become really obvious after fighting him 5 minutes in.

The most easiet opening is when he does the triple 3 wing attack as he roars for short while at the end, you can at most get 4 hits in as a Scythe user.

If your team mates die just leave them be, it isnt worth trying to res them.
If you die and respawn just spam the hell out of your bullets then go back to blocking.

Its a long blocking game, but I did beat him. I believe in ya

[THOA]

Fight it the same way as fight PITA, bring long range AI and order them to scatter, equip venom resistence, use airborne predator that suck huge OP and spam shot gun right at its face = problem solve!

[karl-emil]

All you need is hitscan sniper bullets, and the air devour that absorbs OP.

[Ahriman]

If you want to go easy mode use HDN bullets on your sniper rifle

[Sparse Dunes]

Thunder/Frost Weapons help.

I gave all my AIs damage reduction and HP boosts along with their signature skills..

From experience Alisa and Sakyua are good examples of bad AI partner as they'll more likely die within minutes. Lindow is a good choice to bring here. He managed to survive before the final few blows. Healers are a good idea too. Keep your retry stock longer.

Can't say how well Kota stacks up against the other parnters you can choose, but Lindow and Soma are good choices.

Block when you must, even if you think you can survive, like when being underneth Airus during the icicle AoE attack. Block.Bring stun gernades and all assortment of healing items(both HP and OP).

Originally posted by MoarAsianThanU:

Originally posted by •C:

Start the fight with stun grenades, take shots at her head with crush weapons. When she aggros again, she'll do her roar, that's when you drop another stun grenade. You won't immediately kill her off with the maxed 8 stun grenades you can have, but it'll give you a head start on killing her before she kills you and your team.

Ah, thank you. I completely forget about stun grenades half the time. I'll try that. Any bullet recipes you might recommend? Or should I just use a default one? And should I be using a different weapon from a sniper (I do have a lvl 13 Blast weapon also nicely upgraded as a backup)?

you don't really need to worry about recipies its still doable without it. I used assault default bullets all throughout the story. Only now, during post game, have I actually started to dabble into it. Been using Silent Cry pretty much since I was given the recipe.

[Taberis]

Also had a hard time with this, till I realsed you can't rambo your way through this.

In the end I just crafted the lvl 13 tower shield that has divine defense, with my lvl 13 scythe and assault rifle managed to win. Shot him in the face/behind and sliced his rear every chance I got and he was dead before I knew it.

The tower sheild should block all his charge and projectile damage. Also helps to fill up on consumables before the boss.

The ai partners for this fight are pretty much agrro bait.