Any advice for Boss Cell 2 Runs

[AlucarD]

I need some serious advice for beating this game on BC2 because I feel like I hit a brick wall, am I doing something wrong? I can manage to go full on tactics till the hand of the king but once there if I still have 3 health potions left he will kill me in 2-3 hits and just laugh about it xD is there a good strategy to beat him on BC2 any advice would be so appreciated.

[Rare]

Get ++ maxed if you haven't already

[SilkySmooth]

Pray. be lucky you havent reached 4BC yet.

[Moon]

As usual with bosses it's key to learn their pattern so you can dodge their hits. I keep forgetting HotK's ridiculously far reach and often get hit when running instead of dodge-roling away in the heat of the battle. Check it out.

[Gem of Temporarity]

Probably the easiest strategy is to use healing based(swap mutations for HotK) survival-focused(pump that stat) builds with lots of rooting and shield/ranged(less of that against HotK) action.

At that level still everything works well and probably you just need more pattern knowledge and better timing.

[Rathelm]

You just have to minimize how often you get hit in boss fights unfortunately. The only other thing you can do is get every cursed chest on the way to the HotK. With all the cursed chests and upgrading your items to S (cursed chests drop ++ so you don't need it unlocked on the forge) you'll have at least 30 in your primary stat. Hard to lose when you can hit so hard.

[AlucarD]

thanks for the great advice so far. I havent upgraded the ++ forge to 100% just 60% and am wondering isnt it just better to go on full suicidal putting everything on brutality and run the cursed sword??

[Rathelm]

Originally posted by AlucarD:

thanks for the great advice so far. I havent upgraded the ++ forge to 100% just 60% and am wondering isnt it just better to go on full suicidal putting everything on brutality and run the cursed sword??

That sounds crazy. You're dying on the HoTK right now, there's no amount of increased DPS that will let you kill him so fast to where doing it hitless is easier. I play Brutality and the way I do it is put all power scrolls, and any dual scroll with brutality into brutality. Then the Survival and Tactics points I just put in to whichever gives more life. You're a little glass-cannon-y but I live by the adage that a good offense is a good defense.

[Gem of Temporarity]

Originally posted by Rathelm:

I play Brutality and the way I do it is put all power scrolls, and any dual scroll with brutality into brutality. Then the Survival and Tactics points I just put in to whichever gives more life. You're a little glass-cannon-y but I live by the adage that a good offense is a good defense.

Coupled with "I'll kill them so they won't be a threat" playstyle it works wonders.

[AlucarD]

Okay guys, just came back from hell and I managed to push through 2BC! To my huge surprise all I did was just dodging the HotK and the two turrets killed him and made elites explode in 2-3 hits with 5-22-5 scroll setup. It gets insanely harder from here on in, any future advice on what to use, it seems like the cursed sword is a default random drop xD