Can't beat wolf boss in woods

[FlashStep]

In the second set of woods after the Ruins and Halure. I am getting destroyed by this boss. Are there any strats or should I just grind levels?

[BlueDragonXD]

Well the obious is change to easy if you have not. But this boss is very doable on normal. I have not reached him yet. I did it back on Xbox 360 multiple times. That boss may have a secret mission if your at all into doing those this run? But I don't have a guide in front of me. If you just want to beat it. Usually the strategy I would recommend.

Is making sure your healer Estelle has the right A.I commands to keep distance and focus on healing. You can assign an auto command for Estelle to use her healing art then you move your right analog stick.

So this way you can spam healing as needed. Other than that if your under leveled and don't want to decrease difficult or your already playing on easy. Than grinding a little may help. Make sure you bought the better gear if you can.

[BillBoiGaggins]

Kill the smaller wolves. Use the Flowers to keep it in stun using Azure Edge(with correct positioning) so you dont stun yourself. Have Rita in your party since it's weak agaisnt Fire. You should have learned Destruction field by now. Activate Over Limit and spam it but watch your TP or just combo it since Over Limit gives you an unlimited combo chain. You can get an extra hit in if you use free roam attack right after your basic 3 hits and link it into an arte into an arcane arte. You can try to stun lock it in a combo chain but the party A.I is pretty brain dead. I recommend using Poison Ward. Karol should have learned Nice Aid Smash by now so that should be useful as well. If the wolf is in Over Limit you can still stun lock it using the flower. If you play as Rita you can spam fire ball since Over limit gives you Insta-Cast.

[FlashStep]

I had to switch to easy to beat it... anyone know if this locks me out of any achievements? =/

[Simon]

Originally posted by Flash~Step:

I had to switch to easy to beat it... anyone know if this locks me out of any achievements?

Nope.

[Aahzmandias]

Originally posted by Flash~Step:

In the second set of woods after the Ruins and Halure. I am getting destroyed by this boss. Are there any strats or should I just grind levels?

This is the first real boss. Grind a bit or switch to easy, and use the flowers to stun him. They are there for a reason.

From now on every boss battle has some special "tasks" in it, like these flowers, you can gain points and XP by detecting them.

[Yuria]

I died to him a lot, grinded a lot, died some more, went back to town (the town becomes available again after the last cutscene) and minmaxed a bunch, crafting etc, killed everything on my way back to him, died again because I forgot to change orders, died again after changing orders...

...and then I told my allies to stop using overlimit because I noticed they were just wasting it. I thought I'd stunlock him with it, oh, nevermind, he's super armoring everything, I'll just back up and cast a few heals... instantly...?

Playing as Estelle, using overlimit, you can spam a heal a second. That's how I won.

[edit] I think it's so hard because there's a clear and obvious gimmick, but imo he runs around and uses humungous aoe's too much to take advantage of them. The difficulty hasn't spiked like this again though, (unless you count that last tutorial fight I had with tweedleA and tweedleB, omg, infuriating, I'm currently taking a break because they made me so mad) hopefully there aren't any more gimmick fights awaiting me.

[txh0881]

Position yourself so that he is standing between you and one of the plants near the edge. Use the ranged skill (forgot name, but it is the first one that you got) to shoot through him and hit the plant. Then, just hit, hit, hit, skill, repeat until he dies.

[omegazeda]

I played this game back in 2009 on xbox 360, finished it on normal with no problems and this was my first Tales game back then. Maybe they buffed some enemies in definitive edition.

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

use apple gels on your party members, always make sure Estelle is up - also dont forget free run; left trigger for xbox one controller- you can dodge any upcoming attack AND run behind the enemy for good dmg.

but anyway, start the fight and get the small wolfs out fast, then try and make sure Estelle is just alive.

[mohammed2935]

just lower the diffculty to easy and then back to normal after you beat it, just like me.

[[Lethalvriend]]

This boss had a reputation back in the day, not all bosses are as difficult but he was one giving many new players trouble. Some good advice has already been given it seems, Rita destroys him and Estelle should just focus healing.

[BorderYuzzo]

if it keeps giving you trouble and can't come up with a solution:

1) keep farming with rita, spam "fireball" as much as you can. that spell becomes stronger after it reaches a certain amount of uses, after 200 times it shoots 4 fireballs and they do all full damage.
2) try to have a party with: Yuri, Karol, Estelle and Rita. Repede is too fragile here, and karol can heal you.
3) if things get very desperate, you can use free dlcs to raise your levels. They're on a specific category in the inventory.

Aside from that, everyone told you pretty much everything you need to know. This boss has a reputation for being a sick bastard and it's there pretty much to test that you understood how the game works this far.

But trust me: after you get good at the game, while it still remains hard, it's definitely a doable boss. It just takes a very good amount of practice.

[Blu Ray]

I beat him on hard without any grinding.

Yuri, Karol, Estelle and RIta party. Set everyone to keep distance, only leave Rita with Fireball and Estelle with healing.

Farm level 1 overlimit before the battle, cook the steak recipe for attack boost. As soon as the battle starts, with Yuri, activate overlimit (far from the enemy to not knock them back) and kills the smaller wolves.

From that point it's really most about trying to distract him to let Rita cast fireball. Try to make it target you with azure edge and bring it close to the flowers. I personally found it easier to just use destruction field near it, even if that made both of us get stunned.

[asdf]

Make sure to use Magic Lens on bosses every time, this is very important for easy boss kills, make sure you fight monsters to get an adequate level for future fights (you don’t have to grind level nonstop, just try not to avoid monsters). And I would say you should try to understand his pattern of attacks, it is pretty easy when you fight him for the second time. Gl!

[OnlyOffensive]

Originally posted by Blu Ray:

I beat him on hard without any grinding.

Yuri, Karol, Estelle and RIta party. Set everyone to keep distance, only leave Rita with Fireball and Estelle with healing.

Farm level 1 overlimit before the battle, cook the steak recipe for attack boost. As soon as the battle starts, with Yuri, activate overlimit (far from the enemy to not knock them back) and kills the smaller wolves.

From that point it's really most about trying to distract him to let Rita cast fireball. Try to make it target you with azure edge and bring it close to the flowers. I personally found it easier to just use destruction field near it, even if that made both of us get stunned.

yea thats a very solid advice. Alot of fights are about some patientce. Watch enemy attacks, spend some time blocking, look for an openings, use alot of running to bait attacks. Alot of fights are not about pulling biggest combo ( unless you are sure you can ) but about your own strategy. Also dont forget to utilize orders, if boss runs rampart on everyone - order defense, if you have him on you near flowers, order charge, etc.

Also, not exactly related to wolf, but most of basic combo differetions have interesting impacts on different enemies. For example stick down atack and then left or right + attack spin enemy and up attack after that launch enemy into air, and for example tutorial fat guard flies upward and land on his belly, losing couple seconds compared to second guard. Alot of these finishers launches - pushes enemies away from you, giving you time to block > run.