Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

I beat him last night. It took as long as I needed to memorise his attacks plus half a dozen goes to stop me getting greedy and settle for hit and run. It’s kind of unsatisfying because it is attritional but my tips would be be

Hold block more or less all the time
Use the heal on damage spell before every grapple. It’s worth h at least one free heal
Parry the arrows to gain poise back
The low level ice bullet knocks him out of his fire mode
Don’t get greedy. It will take ages

I know it sounds stupid but it’s not actually *that* hard. He’s very predictable and robotic, more so than any boss yet. He just hits hard and takes no damage.

I would add, if you have trouble deflecting his different "red dot" attacks, you probably deflect *too early*, not too late. 

Yeah, 100%. You really have to hold your nerve. I found myself actually running at him when he was winding them up as it was easier to time.

Is Lu Bu the boss of the snowy level? If so I'm nearly at him.

Actually thinking of just binning the allies off. They kind of ruin the experience for me now I think. I can't keep proper tabs of what's going on and I don't feel I can read enemy attacks properly because of those twats. I kept them in as the game kind of started like taht but I've had enough now I think.

Just the opposite for me, exactly the type of lazy, formulaic boss design I can't stand, where you have to do exactly the right thing at the right time two dozen times. No strategy involved, just muscle memory, and a huge health bar to draw it out as long as possible. Oh, and a bullshit grapple attack with on overlong animation that takes half your health bar while you have exactly zero player agency.

No, not my type of boss.

I'll probably be singing a different tune once I reach Lu Bu (at least, if the above comments are implying he's more predictable) but for now the seemingly increased AI randomness is not exactly pleasing me... The bastard first boss took far too long to actually do anything that would deal meaningful spirit damage to him, which of course is pretty much the only way to charge your Divine Beast for the finisher...

Some guides are all like "Oh once he's around half health your Divine Beast will be ready, use it to win." Well I got him to that point at my... third try, I think. Was the beast ready? Was it fuck! Cue ~2 more hours of head-bashing against both first and second phase (because it's not like his first phase was any more accommodating )

Does anyone quite understand what the "Memorial Tablet" does (which, I assume, everyone has in their inventory, with an infinite number of uses)?

"Using Memorial Tablet grants the following effect:

Negates the effect of all current vengeances when used. Enemies who have been strengthened due to vengeance will return to their original strength. Using this while vengeance is disabled will cause additional vengeance targets to appear. "

Thanks, but that can't be quite it, can it? "Using this while vengeance is disabled will cause additional vengeance targets to appear" How would I disable vengeance in the first place? I suppose it has somethign to do with the multiplayer?

I had a teleporting cheating near invincible invader yesterday. We managed to beat them still as there were two of us and the npc and used our guardian spirits etc but at first he took no damage for ages and was flying around. Unless it was 9000 ping as I thought it wasn't cross play and you generally don't get console cheats.

The boss after lu bu is almost jarringly easy. I was expecting its second phase to be pretty traumatic but it just kind of melted.

Also: the lightning dragon on that level

There are loads of cheats on anything that crossplays with the PS4. They take saves and modify them on a pc.

What spirits are people using? Im finding all of their summons basically useless. The weapon coating is useful for countering bosses affinities, if the boss lets you actually attack it, but thats about it.

Yes, it gives you back a percentage of the hit and if you pile into the wood stat, the life steal on hit spell is much more effective. Im getting about 1/5 (maybe more) health bar back now from one grapple and a decent chunk from faster, lower damage hits.

I might try that one. The AI, like all the other AI characters, is fucking useless and the summon never actually seems to do anything.