Zangetsu V.2

[JamesDreemurr]

Why on earth does this man have over 56k hp
it takes over 100 swings from my strongest sword to kill him and the entire fight turns into a chore of poking twice shielding and chugging ether, it's not very fun and is just infuriating

[Bob93]

have you tried using techniques? i mostly just used the katanas dash to atack while avoiding his atacks and the combo to deal some good damage when hes still. also for the mp problem make drinks and use them if you havent yet they give a perm mp regen boost for first time consumption super useful.

[CrazyLamer]

I killed him within minutes the first time around, second time around not more than seconds :D
You have a very bad weapon friend if he takes that many hits.

[JamesDreemurr]

Originally posted by CrazyLamer:

I killed him within minutes the first time around, second time around not more than seconds :D
You have a very bad weapon friend if he takes that many hits.

I assume you already found a way to farm gold dust and orichalum to have such good weapons as my gold dust sword is no where near strong enough to dish out 56k in seconds even with all the STR buffs I can apply

[JamesDreemurr]

As for techniques I dont have a single one for katanas mastered and would have a pretty difficult time killing him with an early game weapon with the skill

[CrazyLamer]

Originally posted by JamesDreemurr:

As for techniques I dont have a single one for katanas mastered and would have a pretty difficult time killing him with an early game weapon with the skill

If you only got an early game weapon, you need to farm more materials and craft a better weapon then.

[JamesDreemurr]

that was for techniques not every weapon of a type can use them unless you sit there and grind kills with them to master them, most endgame weapons either do not have the beginner form of the technique or have their own stick to the question I asked YOU about your weapon choices
do you use darkness on any of them?

[DarkFenix]

He doesn't have all that much health for where he is in the game. By that point you're either using, or are at least close to the endgame weapons, and have access to a ton of shards. Suffice to say, you have options, limiting yourself to just poking him is only making things harder on yourself, especially if you haven't bothered farming for a decent weapon.

[Dr. Gori]

I whipped him to death with ease, the beast killer whip is legit just a drop in the other lab and more then enough to dominate him. No crafting required.

[Darkfiro]

I'm not here to kill you I'm here to test you.

[JamesDreemurr]

I had to physically downgrade my weapon by 10 ATK and use a rapier to beat him please for the love of good stop paying attention to that last guy he was just troll posting I was farmed and well armed he just has clear weaknesses you have to use like shielding his fire wall and positional weapon techniques like rapiers spam lunge

[JamesDreemurr]

Originally posted by JamesDreemurr:

I had to physically downgrade my weapon by 10 ATK and use a rapier to beat him please for the love of good stop paying attention to that last guy he was just troll posting I was farmed and well armed he just has clear weaknesses you have to use like shielding his fire wall and positional weapon techniques like rapiers spam lunge

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1776429919 this was my winning build as I said I tried my hardest with STRONGER gear than this and it was no good.

[DragonByDegrees]

Well, I know it's possible to beat him just hopping around using a 2Hsword with no techniques or spells, because that's what -I- did, so rapier isn't required (nor would it be, because they wouldn't design an encounter that is impossible based on weapon type...)

[mr_tawan]

I use Acid Jet there to put extra damage on him while dodging (Silver Knight also contribute to this as well). He is vulnerable to poison (and may be ... curse ? haven't tried this though), though it might not be his weakness. I also use Blood Steal to heal a little bit more from time to time.

I focus mainly on dodging his attack, and only hit him when there's wide opening. It's quite a test of patient, well he said that it was just a test anyway.

[Riger82]

If you're up for farming lots of gold, you could always just craft one of the 16-bit weapons. They're stronger than most of the weapons you'll get until at least 70% through the story.

[Arcadian]

I know I'm late to the party. Just wanted to add that 16-bit Encrypted Orchid does wonders in this fight. The stun from its lightning basically turns him into a stuttering zombie while he's preparing his sword for the next phase, and that's when you want to spam attack him like there's no tomorrow.

I think I could get in around 10 hits before he was able to move, and that's around 500 damage with my stats. I also used the poltergeist and Riga Dohin(summons a stationary fire ball that does damage for several seconds) on top of that, and he was down quite fast.