Final boss loadout

[Bale Lakan-Executor of VI Sun]

Murda!

To those who completed the game without NG+, what was your party looking like for the final boss? Violet is 99 and the siblings are 91, but I am taking damage in the thousands from Nosredna and getting completely mowed down regardless of my buff situation. I adore this game but I do not have it in me to do everything again in NG+, so it would be helpful to know if I'm completely boned or not.

[errantstar]

To murda Nosredna, hit him with thread until he dies.

Ok in all seriousness:
- Take the start of the fight slowly. The TV can be hit with status effects to give you some time to buff with. Also, if you have 2 good attackers, you can use something that targets randomly or is AoE to eliminate the second TV and hit Nosredna as he shows up.

- Never let anyone die if you can help it. You get silently buffed with double all stats after Reality goes down; dying resets them to normal.

- Every part of the fight has a daunting amount of HP compared to everything before it, but they're critically weak to thread (around 10x damage) and you can use all the Dead Candies you get to make one character into a freakishly powerful spirit attacker.

- You need to be able to survive the specific gimmicks of Holy, Gravity and Radiation attacks. Take Iodine in the talent tree if you haven't already (there is no other way to deal with radiation), buff spirit as much as possible (dead candies), try not to overbuff your defenses or rely too much on walls.

- if you have Metal or Spears on anyone, evasion really helps make you less likely to explode on any given turn.

- To a lesser extent it's nice to be able to survive his Thread, Lightning and Dark spells. If you can get resistance to any, or immunity to dark debuffs after having hit every other priority point, get them. If not, understand you're on a time limit before he decides to oneshot someone.

You're at around a good level to beat the game but with the point of no return you might have missed things and thus it might be harder on you. However, even if you can't respec, you can still buy ghost potions and take new talents at the talent tree so you should be able to maneuver into being able to beat the game.

If everything fails put on a podcast and grind at the well of training in the SE of End of Rust for an hour until you have enough talents in your talent tree to ignore everything that happens in the fight.

[Bale Lakan-Executor of VI Sun]

Oh the thread vulnerability is crazy thank you. I do have it pretty developed but was rushing through the early section with king bombs.

This sounds achievable! I was really worried about having softlocked myself. Are there any noteworthy fights that use Holy and Gravity to the extent this fight does? I only had three crystals left unactivated so I had assumed there couldn't be that much I had missed, but I've never gotten stomped like this.

[errantstar]

Holy's pretty common, but gravity's only really on the lategame Fate enemies and major bosses. If you just bombed every fight then yeah the final two fights will force you to interact with them something fierce.