Ace Final Exam?

[Jam]

I lowkey have been struggling to get an A in the Verona College dunj. Anyone got tips or ideas for it?
I'm thinking maybe I gotta defeat her without getting hit because my highest score is a B.

[🌸Mia 桜]

I got hit plenty and I tried it with multiple weapons. I got an A+ with beating the dungeon without dying and not dropping below 10 health not sure if that helps. I used my max lvl weapons for the exam and destroyed a lot of her scanners and beat her in a not to long time. I did take once really long and only got a B and as I failed I got a C.

[Lacy]

Yeah getting A+ was hard for me as well. I got a LOT of Cs and Fs and one B. I kept getting hit too much with close range weapons (and my favorite Pocket was the one that gave me a B). I ended up having to use Sawyer (I have them maxed out). The glaive allows for long range attacks and I was able to keep up my health enough to get an A+. I also used the flower to make health potions heal more. I ended up using only 1 health potion during the battle.

[Lazav, Dimir Mastermind]

I don't know but I've only ever gotten Cs and As. But the only one I've ever beaten her with is Pocket. I also was unaware that there were other grades (I mean I assumed F but I've been pretty good at getting past phase 1).

[ANAK BAPAK]

you can easily get a+ with sawyer, just throw him and dodge all the attack of the boss, keep your distance when the boss is on her 2nd phase, and you will be golden, the tricky part is when the boss throw her laser at you, since you can't block the 3rd laser (the one that spawn where the boss is), but i suppose if you block the first 2 laser inside the energy shield and move out from there and manually dodging all the 3rd laser you will be getting that achievement, valkyrie helmet or cultist helmet is helping with the damage too (bcs if u go no hit then health is not important right?), i don't know if the parasyte health drain matters, i haven't try yet, best luck to you

[🌸Mia 桜]

my go to weapons were pocket and rowan. Because rowans black hole on the ground also works on her while she has her shield up.

[Lucky_Icarus]

Get Pocket, have the Scaredy perk, then profit. Pocket is still the best weapon in the game due to his INSANE DPS. His combo chains end with invul, which lets you just ♥♥♥♥ all over the 2nd phase and spamming the heavy combo with Scaredy during phase 1 lets you tag Holmes in the AOE so long as theyre somewhat close enough. Getting hit doesnt matter, you just gotta beat her FAST, which Pocket excels at.

[Lacy]

Originally posted by ANAK BAPAK:

you can easily get a+ with sawyer, just throw him and dodge all the attack of the boss, keep your distance when the boss is on her 2nd phase, and you will be golden, the tricky part is when the boss throw her laser at you, since you can't block the 3rd laser (the one that spawn where the boss is), but i suppose if you block the first 2 laser inside the energy shield and move out from there and manually dodging all the 3rd laser you will be getting that achievement, valkyrie helmet or cultist helmet is helping with the damage too (bcs if u go no hit then health is not important right?), i don't know if the parasyte health drain matters, i haven't try yet, best luck to you

ah I did try the parasite one and your health drains too fast to get to the final battle with her

[bloodmagicrae]

Pockets and the Crown/Cat Ears Accessory, which increases the amount of critical hits you can do, is how I aced the final. Seven or Rowan is also great for this, but Pockets is best for speed. If your particularly good with Jonah, they are great too: you can one shot pretty much everything but bosses using Jonah+The Crown/Cats Ears accessory.

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

tl:dr (didnt read all comments)

This is really easy to achieve. When I fought first against here, I thought, its not possible, but when you know the little tricks, its no magic.

I did this:
Taking Sawyer as the weapon, choose throwing skills (more range, extra damage on flight back, etc.) and canon zines first.
Equip a crit helm and if you are brave enough, equip double/triple damage (be careful with that!).

Throw the glaive to kill the drones. Best is, to hit the boss same time. When you hit her, she cant move for a VERY short time, but its enough to spam your throwing glaive. If you got a good timing, she is down very quick.
When the laser turrets are shooting, just use the protecting walls and dont forget to heal and you cant hurt her while she has a shield.

In phase 2: Use protecting walls (like before) and when you can attack her, place all 3 canons and throw, throw, throw. She should be down really quick with these tactic. At least, I did that 10 times (or more) for unlocking stuff (because, you get 3 safes after the battle).

Last phase: She will shoot 4 "ball rings" in front of you. The more distance you have to her, the easier is it to avoid to get hit. Dont forget to throw your glaive to her, when she lost her shield, to bring this battle to an end.

Hint: Dont look at her health bar in the upper part of the screen, like you would normally do. Her green bar in the lower part is the one, you should follow. You cant see this bar all the time. You will know what I mean.

[Synderryn]

I managed to achieve this by using Rowan, the 'zines that give fireballs, and the Phoenix Helm. It took a lot of tries at only getting a C, but once the tricks are figured out, it's not too bad.

[Made of Magic And Wires]

Originally posted by eXeZ|Gamer433:

tl:dr (didnt read all comments)

This is really easy to achieve. When I fought first against here, I thought, its not possible, but when you know the little tricks, its no magic.

I did this:
Taking Sawyer as the weapon, choose throwing skills (more range, extra damage on flight back, etc.) and canon zines first.
Equip a crit helm and if you are brave enough, equip double/triple damage (be careful with that!).

Throw the glaive to kill the drones. Best is, to hit the boss same time. When you hit her, she cant move for a VERY short time, but its enough to spam your throwing glaive. If you got a good timing, she is down very quick.
When the laser turrets are shooting, just use the protecting walls and dont forget to heal and you cant hurt her while she has a shield.

In phase 2: Use protecting walls (like before) and when you can attack her, place all 3 canons and throw, throw, throw. She should be down really quick with these tactic. At least, I did that 10 times (or more) for unlocking stuff (because, you get 3 safes after the battle).

Last phase: She will shoot 4 "ball rings" in front of you. The more distance you have to her, the easier is it to avoid to get hit. Dont forget to throw your glaive to her, when she lost her shield, to bring this battle to an end.

Hint: Dont look at her health bar in the upper part of the screen, like you would normally do. Her green bar in the lower part is the one, you should follow. You cant see this bar all the time. You will know what I mean.

Should be pretty do-able with all Weapons. I've gotten A+ with Sawyer, Rowan, Isaac, and Valerie so far.

As mentioned Sawyer is great for this (and in general) because they've got great reach with the right click and they also do damage on return. Rowan is pretty good too for this.

Isaac can reach Holmes in the first stage with the heavy combo. Valerie is the most difficult in the first phase because she's pretty short range and as no catch. In further phases she's very fast with the crits though.

Things that weren't mentioned is that it's pretty difficult to catch Holmes in the first phase because they keep moving away from you as you get closer. Best is to make them move closer to the opposite side and then teleporter and use the teleporter if they aren't in reach.

Personally I've never used the canon zines, so you can use others (I forgot about them all together). Phoenix cap is also pretty good if you have troubles surviving.

Lastly for Holmes whip attack, they're pretty easy to dodge if you keep attention to the wind-up (they move backwards before attacking you, and then don't move for a bit).

[Jam]

Originally posted by eXeZ|Gamer433:

tl:dr (didnt read all comments)

This is really easy to achieve. When I fought first against here, I thought, its not possible, but when you know the little tricks, its no magic.

I did this:
Taking Sawyer as the weapon, choose throwing skills (more range, extra damage on flight back, etc.) and canon zines first.
Equip a crit helm and if you are brave enough, equip double/triple damage (be careful with that!).

I'll have to give Sawyer a try again, I mainly use the hammer and the valkyrie helmet for added damage too. Thank you :)

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

Originally posted by Jam:

I'll have to give Sawyer a try again, I mainly use the hammer and the valkyrie helmet for added damage too. Thank you :)

For me, the hammer is way too slow. I like faster attacks. Estoc is also one of my favorites.

[Jam]

Originally posted by eXeZ|Gamer433:

Originally posted by Jam:

I'll have to give Sawyer a try again, I mainly use the hammer and the valkyrie helmet for added damage too. Thank you :)

For me, the hammer is way too slow. I like faster attacks. Estoc is also one of my favorites.

Oh yeah I get it, Seven is still my favorite by all means, but the double damage i like better with the hammer since it kills the drones in 1 hit. It's list of combos is smaller and easier for my smooth brain to understand :D

[DilutedSanity]

i died once against her my first time cause i was overwhelmed. then i just used level 3 pocket and went in on her, no boosted weapons. i was using the Phoenix cap and never had to use it just maxed her out the in four fights including the first loss i used the invulnerability from the finishers to tank a lot of the hits that would have hit me