So how do you avoid the wandering vagrant nuke

[Herr Sten]

Seems to be very very large, and cover doesn't seem to prevent damage.

wat do?

[Butt Lumps]

Roll. I took out wandering vagrant solo on medium difficulty. If you find a gunner Drone like the turret one hug it, it'll be your best friend. First time playing the new one and I'm in love tho!

[Zefar]

When I started to see him I had enough speed that I could run far away and his large aoe wouldn't affect me.

[Corazon-Ray <3]

When you notice it start to telegraph the nuke by means of the initial "pulse" you get on your running shoes and get away from it.

[Boboscus]

The closer you are the more damage it does, so staying at range means you will barely feel it.

[Boofus]

hiding behind anything completely mitigates any damage done

[kheiyz]

As No Popo said, anything blocking lign of sight will negate damage ...
Or you could get about 7 Tougher Time and hope it gets blocked

[Calcium Deficiency]

Just break the boss' line of sight.

[Wywern]

Originally posted by Herr Sten:

Seems to be very very large, and cover doesn't seem to prevent damage.

wat do?

It seems you encountered a bug or were mistaken, since cover totally blocks the damage. I could even take cover behind a tiny rock and I'm sure my head was poking out, but I still took no damage.

[Herr Sten]

Huh, break line of sight. Will attempt next time. Thanks

[Mr. Stimpson]

There's also they handy "sprint reduces damage" items. Very useful against bosses when you just want to kite smaller mobs from point to point while damaging the boss.

[Typisch]

if you are mercenary you just press r

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by Typisch:

if you are mercenary you just press r

Yep. Commando can roll it too.

If you can't break line of sight to prevent the damage then just run like hell away from it when you see it charging up. If you're fast enough thanks to stuff like Goat Hoof and Energy Drink then you can even be basically right beside it when it starts the attack and run out of range before it goes off.

[Juno Brier]

Basically fighting near cover is the best thing to do against any boss not named Magma Worm.

[flashugem]

emmm, engi can survive in his barrier, merc can hide in R abillity, but other must run away so fast how they can. So, i am just always pray to science, for not get Vagrant as my first teleporter boss :D. but near endgame u will already have more items for spring and jumps

Anyway he uses his AoE nuke when Hp reach 10%-15%, if u know that, u will know when u must run or burst damage

[Lunacy]

Certain abilities with invulnerability (huntress blink(shift), engineer shield(shift), and merc R) can avoid it if timed well
but most of the time you want to get behind a wall of some sort