HOW TO KILL LERNEAN HYDRA as CONQUEROR?

[qpho47]

Hi fellow players, is this possible to kill the Hydra with Warfare/Defender mastery?
I'm level 66 as Conqueror but the best I could do is to take 2/3 of the Hydra health. I keep dying and when I come back again the Hydra's HP regained in full.
I feel like Conqueror Mastery does not give you the possibility of killing this hydra

[Aainiikkusu]

What are your resistances? You must have Poison, Fire and Cold covered.

Yes, Conquerors are fully able to beat the Hydra.

[Atomic Kid]

imo hes not bad as conquerer...max the rally addon for elemental resists to cover fire and cold, max poison via gear...you should be able to kill him before the rally elemental resists turn off and make you vulnerable again...

also conquerer has battle standard+collousus form to stack damage absorb which makes you really hard to kill even with bad resists though you dont need all of them to be high and conquerer has generally high hp and armor rating (due to armor handling) that you dont have to add to hp and can instead add to str to maximize dps...

[Strider_9000]

It's very possible. Conqueror was my 1st character. It's been so long that I don't remember my level or gear, but I do remember it being very easy after using a Scroll of the Maddened God. Maddened god doesn't last long, but the hydra (and pretty much every other boss) targets it as a priority, leaving you free to activate every other skill you have to beat it into submission. Every character since, I've always stocked up on Maddened God scrolls.

[halo]

My strategy was to use ancestral horn to pull agro, battle standard and nuke down. Just need to move behind once agro was locked in, it moves a second time after initial engagement so you have to readjust.

Depending on your damage output you should be able to take it down in less than 10 seconds.

[qpho47]

Originally posted by Atomic Kid:

imo hes not bad as conquerer...max the rally addon for elemental resists to cover fire and cold, max poison via gear...you should be able to kill him before the rally elemental resists turn off and make you vulnerable again...

also conquerer has battle standard+collousus form to stack damage absorb which makes you really hard to kill even with bad resists though you dont need all of them to be high and conquerer has generally high hp and armor rating (due to armor handling) that you dont have to add to hp and can instead add to str to maximize dps...

THANKS dude,
I did fking kill it in 10+ seconds.
I got about 80% fire resist and 18% poison resist in my stats.
My base DPS was already 3300
I used all Collossus form, Battle Standard, War Horn..... altogether
I faced the Hydra head on and still kept more than 50% of my HP.

Sadly, the collected loots were not good.

[Atomic Kid]

one of the biggest boons of hydra is he is really close to the rebirth fountain making him ideal to farm esp if you mix in stonebinder cuff farming ontop of that...once you get enough fire, cold, and poison and rasie your armor rating and absorb so his phys move doesnt hurt too badly you'll win every time...

conquerer will consistently win if you use rally for resists all and cap poison and kill him before standard and collousus form times out which usually happens..once your gear is really good you can use collosus form to just run to the boss (you move so insanely fast with it) and then kill him before that buff even ends...and your most important resists can be in the negatives since rally resist all add on fixes that problem for you...

there isnt any other boss you can just collosus form and then run to him at insane speeds and kill him before the buff times out..and ya his drop rates are about as good as the telkine and you doint have to kill 2 bosses in a row everytime..

though if your gear is really really bad you prob want to save collousus form for the boss and not just use it up to reach him faster on future runs...chars with good gear can beat him without collousus form and therefore can be used just to reach the boss faster

[Pannathrax]

^ which boss near hydra can farm stonebinder?

[Atomic Kid]

typically you start in the area before the gorgon sisters and kill them and hope you get the gloves, then you run though the caves which spawn in more gorgons...then after leaving the caves you make a mad dash to the hyrdra and then kill him and then repeat respawning in the area before the gorgon sisters

edit: if you dont want to farm for stonebinders in adttion to hydra you can just use the closest revive fountain near hydra and just skip the gorgon sisters and the cave after the sisters and the area inbetween, though i usually do both at the same time cause stonebinders cuffs is quite good and its just before hydra so mighta well do it too..

if you are going to use collosus form to make the run to hydra faster, dont use it vs the gorgon sisters or in the cave area as the larger model cannot fit though the cave entrance so you get stuck....most other areas on the run forward to the hydra is big enough for you to be able to run it there though it'll prob time out before you reach him but with good gear you can win without it and saving time running faster to reach him helps and the large outdoor area is big enough that you wont get stuck...