Boss fight stray war demons

[VoidHeart]

do they just spawn there randomly or what? ( not the ganishka fight, I know that one is always there) esp. on femto where it knocked me down to 1% of my healh, got killed due to cleave, then i got slapped by femto and died. I dont remember it being there the last time i fought him

[Schnittertm]

Besides the Ganishka one, that you mentioned, yes, the Stray War Demons spawn randomly on any of the five layers of a mission, inculding the boss level one. Therefore I usually check if there is a signal marker on the map before engaging in a fight.

I had to fight one on the Femto with Judeau. Since Femto doesn't start to move until you get within a certain range of him I first engaged the Demon, which spawned to the left of the starting point, well away from Femto. Once I had aggro on him I proceeded to pull him down into that little nook and killed him there. Only once that was done did I go and start the fight with Femto.

I don't know if there are other spawn locations for the Demons on Femtos arena, but if there are, hopefully they are all far enough away so that you can first kill the demon at your leisure and only then start the annoying and boring Femto fight.

[DeStYN♥Aerith]

Originally posted by Schnittertm:

Besides the Ganishka one, that you mentioned, yes, the Stray War Demons spawn randomly on any of the five layers of a mission, inculding the boss level one. Therefore I usually check if there is a signal marker on the map before engaging in a fight.

I had to fight one on the Femto with Judeau. Since Femto doesn't start to move until you get within a certain range of him I first engaged the Demon, which spawned to the left of the starting point, well away from Femto. Once I had aggro on him I proceeded to pull him down into that little nook and killed him there. Only once that was done did I go and start the fight with Femto.

I don't know if there are other spawn locations for the Demons on Femtos arena, but if there are, hopefully they are all far enough away so that you can first kill the demon at your leisure and only then start the annoying and boring Femto fight.

are you sure about it being random? because for example in the 5 layers with the lord of thieves there is always a swd on the second layer and always two on the third. not sure if that is an exception because 2 of the 3 other layers aren't really big enough

[Schnittertm]

Originally posted by DeStYN♥Aerith:

Originally posted by Schnittertm:

Besides the Ganishka one, that you mentioned, yes, the Stray War Demons spawn randomly on any of the five layers of a mission, inculding the boss level one. Therefore I usually check if there is a signal marker on the map before engaging in a fight.

I had to fight one on the Femto with Judeau. Since Femto doesn't start to move until you get within a certain range of him I first engaged the Demon, which spawned to the left of the starting point, well away from Femto. Once I had aggro on him I proceeded to pull him down into that little nook and killed him there. Only once that was done did I go and start the fight with Femto.

I don't know if there are other spawn locations for the Demons on Femtos arena, but if there are, hopefully they are all far enough away so that you can first kill the demon at your leisure and only then start the annoying and boring Femto fight.

are you sure about it being random? because for example in the 5 layers with the lord of thieves there is always a swd on the second layer and always two on the third. not sure if that is an exception because 2 of the 3 other layers aren't really big enough

It might be non-random for some layer section. I haven't really recorded everything, but I do know that certain layer sections, e.g. 96-100, have random placements of the demons.

Similarly, some missions use a fixed map sequence for their five layers (Ganishka mission would be an example - layer 91-95), while other missions have a pool of five maps assigned to them and chose one at random for any given layer, but won't repeat any of the maps (Zodd mission, layer 21-25, would be an example).

[DeStYN♥Aerith]

Originally posted by Schnittertm:

Originally posted by DeStYN♥Aerith:

are you sure about it being random? because for example in the 5 layers with the lord of thieves there is always a swd on the second layer and always two on the third. not sure if that is an exception because 2 of the 3 other layers aren't really big enough

It might be non-random for some layer section. I haven't really recorded everything, but I do know that certain layer sections, e.g. 96-100, have random placements of the demons.

Similarly, some missions use a fixed map sequence for their five layers (Ganishka mission would be an example - layer 91-95), while other missions have a pool of five maps assigned to them and chose one at random for any given layer, but won't repeat any of the maps (Zodd mission, layer 21-25, would be an example).

ok that makes sense