Stuck on Spider boss

[shinryu495]

So I'm 10 hours in and its the first time i died against a boss. Everyone is like lv17. I'm thinking i may need to upgrade to silver ore armor. In any case, this boss just seems to hit very hard and goes twice a turn even. He just spams an aoe that his everyone for 40-50 damage, confuses ppl, and binds them in spiderwebs. Any tips to beat this guy?

[Kixser]

I just died there the first time in the game too, my strategy was switching out Veronica and entering Serena, this battle doesn't really need that much dmg, more like an extra healing. Between Serena and your new partner, both will heal the entire party in 1 turn, apply some buffs and debuffs ( agility ) and enjoy the free battle.

[shinryu495]

Originally posted by @Gloomcamera:

I just died there the first time in the game too, my strategy was switching out Veronica and entering Serena, this battle doesn't really need that much dmg, more like an extra healing. Between Serena and your new partner, both will heal the entire party in 1 turn, apply some buffs and debuffs ( agility ) and enjoy the free battle.

Thats the thing. My main party is erik, veronica, and serena. Just to keep everyone healthy I had an extra member use a healing item every turn. Add in the confuse and bind and then you barely get a hit in. I managed to get him to yellow health though.

[itb]

hm yes it was the first challenging boss but i did kill it on first try i think my party was around lvl 17 but only one of my chars was alife at the end of the battel u can change in the battel ur extra char for a dead one that saved the win for me

[Necromancin]

I destroyed that boss, have super monsters on and was lvl 21 i think, I didnt even see the boss fight much tho it was on auto. Went out for smoke came back and it was dead. Erik has agility + 3 ring cloak of evade and trickster + 3 and other agility he never gets hit. Also he has bonus points on tile + 30 agility. He gets an extra + 10 points.

[shinryu495]

Originally posted by Spawk:

My party's at level 18. I've been breezing through the game with no difficulties whatsoever. Never even close to dying. Then they throw this thing at you, without a save spot nearby to boot.

His AoE wrecks the entire group, and then he uses 20 different status effects so I can't do anything about the situation. The entire fight is me trying to set up some damage mitigation, getting two or three hits in, then having all of my characters murdered, with only Serena staying alive while Rab heals her and tries to resurrect the other party members, who die in one hit after they get resurrected. After that it's an endless cycle of self-healing and failed resurrects by Rab until the boss gets pep and eventually kills me. Am I missing something here?

Just letting you know I beat it today. What i did was grind some levels and money to upgrade armor. I got lucky and killed 3 metal slimes getting me to level 20. Then maybe part of it was rng but the boss didn't spam the aoe as much and then I had more than enough dps to take him down. Just a bit of spoiler but when the next two characters join their level 23. I feel like we were just underlevelled for the fight.

[the wizard]

i'm not quite there yet but i've drastically altered from how i play most jrpgs just based on slayer. recommendations would be

- Serena is a must for Dazzle, Dazzle can be the difference between winning or losing the fight. drastically lowers the boss's chance to hit, it's basically a requirement
- if characters don't have natural healing/cleansing stock them up with items
- Erik's cobra strike is really good. envenom does crazy damage to bosses.
- Serena and Sylv's accelerate buffs are outstanding
- Veronica's debuffs are amazing, deccelerate is almost as important as Dazzle

fighting bosses on draconian is more about debuffing and buffing bosses and survival than most JRPGs where you basically just nuke the boss and occasionally heal. that's why Erik's poison is so good, even if you're spending turns just trying to survive at least that's doing damage

[shinryu495]

Originally posted by Boss:

i'm not quite there yet but i've drastically altered from how i play most jrpgs just based on slayer. recommendations would be

- Serena is a must for Dazzle, Dazzle can be the difference between winning or losing the fight. drastically lowers the boss's chance to hit, it's basically a requirement
- if characters don't have natural healing/cleansing stock them up with items
- Erik's cobra strike is really good. envenom does crazy damage to bosses.
- Serena and Sylv's accelerate buffs are outstanding
- Veronica's debuffs are amazing, deccelerate is almost as important as Dazzle

fighting bosses on draconian is more about debuffing and buffing bosses and survival than most JRPGs where you basically just nuke the boss and occasionally heal. that's why Erik's poison is so good, even if you're spending turns just trying to survive at least that's doing damage

Hows the hit rate for dazzle and how long does it last? I used it once against the spider boss but it didn't work.

[Silver]

The way to cheese him is using Veronicas no spells so he cant cast the confuse. That being said you are quite underleveled.

[Corinthas]

I had issues at first as well, level 18 odd. Came back at level 19. Key for me was to use follow orders and not tactics. Made all the difference.

[Nyphila]

I didn't notice any increased difficulty at that spider boss myself, pretty sure I beat it level 15. I did go to the casino as soon as I could and spent a few hours getting from 200 tokens to 200k, then bought everything I felt I could use.

[ByTheNumbers]

I had trouble at the spider boss myself. I had the harder to kill critters draconian setting enabled, too. The boss's party-wide damage move was the real KO move that he had against me. My solution? Salvando has an ability you can unlock toward the bottom of his skill tree that is a party-wide heal at a min of 70 HP's. It is able to heal back the damage the boss was doing with his salvo ability, plus even more than that. It made the world of difference.

[Broseph_907]

i had a worse time on slayer

[Rogue]

Can't really say Git Gud in this game. Grind more. lol.

[Malloc]

i just did this boss. it was a pain but only because of the status effect abilitys. it only managed to kill one of my people and i revivded him. i was using lvl 18s and 19s.

[Lust]

Pfft you haven't seen anything yet. Wait till you get to the octopus lmao.