Shield Generator vs Fader's meteor attack!

[TwoTokeTrain]

Has anyone tried setting up a shield generator outside the arena to create a little corner of sanctuary during the boss fight? If so is it worth setting up...does it help much?

[Tomiro]

With 4 or so shield generators you should be able to cover the whole arena, so I'd say it's worth it.

[Darren Daulton]

Haven't tried it , but i'mma guess they wear down pretty quick.

And those green spikes , and the pools of acid will likely but them up.

Let us know how it goes.

[c0mad0r]

Probably not a good metric, but I had one setup to raise approx. 50 1 star asksvin to fight fader and it was gone after the second volley of fader attacks. Not sure if the spikes destroyed it or something else, but the generator was destroyed.

Good news is the asksvin had a nice Fader lunch in all of about 6 minutes time.

[Mineralwasser]

I have an example for the generator from my solorun. Had the arena next to a captured fortress. Generator was inside the lootchamber. It was loaded to max when i started the fight. It was about 2 volleys of meteors when the generator shut down. But that can depend on your difficulty. Played on very hard.

Sidenote: Fader trashed/damaged the fortress walls with the spikes pretty heavy. Fighting from the walls of a fortress for the bossfight is ok and has it´s downsides. But i wouldnt recommend it if you want a permanent base inside. (if in any case you would have a fortress near a fader bosslocation)

[Tomiro]

Originally posted by c0mad0r:

Probably not a good metric, but I had one setup to raise approx. 50 1 star asksvin to fight fader and it was gone after the second volley of fader attacks. Not sure if the spikes destroyed it or something else, but the generator was destroyed.

Good news is the asksvin had a nice Fader lunch in all of about 6 minutes time.

I went a bit overkill, and had close to 100 1-star asksvins, and shield generators covering 75% of the arena. One part being lava, so didn't build any there. Of course Fader spawned in that unshielded area. I didn't time it, but the fight probably took less than a minute, with most of the asksvins dead. I also had one shield generator destroyed, so probably a good idea to cover them if you go this route, unless it's the spikes that destroyed it. The fun thing was fishing up the "father things" from the lava. Couldn't see them, or reach them from basalt platforms, so I had to jump in and out repeatedly into the lava where I could see something shimmering, that mostly were rocks or Asksvin parts.

[TwoTokeTrain]

Thanks all for the examples...Gonna tame some askvin for the fight as it seems to work well! I blocked up all the ways into the arena last night with raised ground and then realised the grausten pillars are easily broken so it was almost pointless haha so at least now i know to raise some askvin to deal with the mobs that will join mid fight.

[OctoberSky]

This looked intriguing. And if you continue feeding the generator it actually works for the meteor attack but unfortunately the grausten spike attack will destroy the generator (and you if you stick around).

[Nerevar]

just let 50 2 star asksvins zerg him. hell get like 1-2 attacks off at most before he is done for.