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I read a long thread with tips from 2010... and i can't seem to post in that thread.
How do you beat this thing? I block, I block like people block in youtube video.. it eats right throw and kills you.
Can't fly anymore like some vidoes he hits you flying too.
I'm 38 munitions/swords. I can't kill the mage because the snake gets me and I can't stand behind that ledge he spits right on it and you die anyway. The green flame stuff never seems to leave that area when he sucks it in, I die going in .. I die to his thing blocked with bionic shielding on and everything.. The whole mission up to this point was easy. I don't get how you beat this thing when I block my character does some animation that looks like fire snake and even if i block before that and hold block the whole time with every defensive power up or activated his breath goes right through it. I blocked all the other stuff fine up to this horrible monster.
I really want to beat this guy, anyone have any tips that are current?
EDIT actually I beat him but it wasn't the right way. He knocked me into a wall and i couldn't die. What's the correct way to beat this thing?
How do you beat this thing? I block, I block like people block in youtube video.. it eats right throw and kills you.
Can't fly anymore like some vidoes he hits you flying too.
I'm 38 munitions/swords. I can't kill the mage because the snake gets me and I can't stand behind that ledge he spits right on it and you die anyway. The green flame stuff never seems to leave that area when he sucks it in, I die going in .. I die to his thing blocked with bionic shielding on and everything.. The whole mission up to this point was easy. I don't get how you beat this thing when I block my character does some animation that looks like fire snake and even if i block before that and hold block the whole time with every defensive power up or activated his breath goes right through it. I blocked all the other stuff fine up to this horrible monster.
I really want to beat this guy, anyone have any tips that are current?
EDIT actually I beat him but it wasn't the right way. He knocked me into a wall and i couldn't die. What's the correct way to beat this thing?
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I figure it might be a bit hell on Elite without a Defensive Passive or a really optimized DPS. Anyhow, the way I do it is simply to rush the mage as fast as I can, and since he doesn't respawn, I can deal with the Spirit Serpent afterward.
I've been told that there's a trick to avoiding his breath weapon (look for the white flame), but truthfully, I never found out since it went too fast. Anyhow, I defeat it the same way I did with the mage except for a single difference, whenever he starts inhaling the flame, I block until he's done breathing fire, pop my Active Defenses, heals and finish him off.
If that doesn't work, then grab a buddy to help you out; there's no shame in that.
If I recall correctly though, any time you step inside a cell without the light in it, you start taking heavy damage just for being in there.
I DID beat it by getting stuck (some glitch happend) but I want to beat it the right way! I was playing on Very Hard. The whole thing is a decent challenge I guess and my equipped items suck, which is why I was there = get better things). I didn't die on anything up until this Serpent guy. My final attack was dragon kick... not doing much for me. I might try sword cyclone for more damage before I go back.
Yeah I died on that ledge, and the ledges on either side. I even took screenshots. It's pretty hard now, or actually maybe how the fight works. It's confusing a bit. It makes the Demon's Souls boss fights look easy. They should go over it, it doesn't feel right to me how it works and had I not got stuck in the floor I would hacve gave up. Also at the end the gate to leave doesn't appear. I followed Valania's post to get out.
First, try to pull the serpent mages before engaging the giant snake. Hit one of the serpent mages with your longest range attack and then back up to the door of the room and "arrest" them.
Second, I've never seen the white light thing (although I'm sure there is), but there is also usually green fire in each of the alcoves. When the giant snake breathes in for his big attack, one of the fires will go out. Run into that alcove, heal up, and run out after the attack is done (because the fire in that alcove will come back).
Good luck!
I didn't see anything white either. I went back at least 10 times since, and still have not seen that. All I noticed was you pretty much have to kill the snake first as fast as possible. The whole thing is confusing otherwise and poorly done. Like I said Demon's Souls boss fights are somehow easier if you try to block or understand this fight, because I can't find anything to understand about it. It's best to just rush in and kill the snake or the pillar .. the targeting is bad there too. The devs should really redo it. Two friends of mine did it and they had the same problems as me.
Spiritbrand is the alcove the flame goes out random? My character is small, it's hard to see what's going on with the camera there sometimes. I got stuck in the floor 3 times too. Like from waist down i'm stuck inside the floor mesh, clipping and strange things.
Things happen pretty fast, so it's entirely possible there's a better indicator.
That being said, the spirit serpent itself is a breeze compared to his high serpent mage attendant. I have at least one 100' ranged attack on all my toons for the specific reason of drawing the mage away from the snake. Target the mage, move up until you are JUST inside the range of your longest attack power and hit him as hard as you can then immediately run back into the entrance passage and hide beside the door. This will force the mage into the passage where you can take him down at your leisure. This tactic DOES work, I use it every time. I haven't bothered to fight the mage and the serpent at the same time because it is not necessary to do so. I have a few toons with offensive passives, I will try blocking through the serpent's and see what happens with that.
You don't have to pull him outside the room to beat him without aggro-ing the serpent spirit, just bring him to the entrance.
I don't think I even had to block.
My might toon ran in and punched it to death in a few demolish-es.
My question is maybe the serpent doesn't breathe if you stand right next to it? I have only done this for the few seconds necessary to kill it, but the only times I have had problems with the breath weapon are when teaming and NOT standing right next to the snake.
With a 2-person team however, even on normal mode the serpent becomes, um, annoying.
Edit: Im beginning to think Cryptic is trying to get you to buy more star refills from the C-Store. I've spent over an hour on just that Serpent. Cant pull that stupid Mage away for the life of me. And have not a clue as to how to drop it in a couple of seconds and there are no white lights that appear in the chambers. Every time I try to pull the mage even to the end of the main block in that room, it runs back and resets.
Edit: How do you drop the Mage before it does the shield buff?
I will state, for the record, that I have managed to see the white light *once* and it was at the end of the tunnel, because by the time I could tell which alcove had the damned thing and start to move toward it, I was about a quarter second from death by snake-spit anyway.
"A defensive passive" is not enough. Rank 3 shield + Rank 3 regen + superstatted END+REC, which is about as good as that passive possibly gets, gets eaten through in no time flat.
I had the misfortune to try it for my very first time on a team of five. This is when I discovered the lockout "feature" of all of the newer boss fights. :P
Seriously, though: anyone who can survive that attack is almost certainly geared or skilled so far that they'll never see it in the first place because they're dropping things that fast, and anyone who *does* see it is almost guaranteed to half over half their group die, because they're *not* going to have the ability to survive it.
This fight was a fight design failure when it first came out, and it has never gotten significantly better. Do it on normal and pray like hell, then *never* go back. I'm doomed to have to do it at least once more, because the system no longer believes I've actually run SL, but I'm really not looking forward to it. On normal. When I normally run solo/Elite without breaking a sweat. 'Nuff said.
This one doesn't mention the method I use which is simply bombard at 90 - 100ft range the fire is pathetic at this distance (or was a while ago - maybe shudder they are fixing it). Anyhow any kind of blast will get him down eventually and ranged squishies (defile, cascade, new(ish) ebon ruin) can pretty much ROFL stomp I believe is the phrase. Or like Lord did hang back and let the pets do him! Heroic stuff isn't it?
But then I didn't get this game coz i wanted a half assed tomb raider kinda experience.
First turn on the sound.
Then lure the mage out of the serpents range and kill it.
If you have fly power, fly.
Attack the serpent and deal a little bit a of damage.
It will start to make that "vhhhhkkkkkkkhhhkkkk" sound. As soon as you hear the sound fly/run back as far as the door (it locks down once you start fighting it).
Hold block and wait until the attack is over. It doesn't kill you from this distance.
Don't charge rightaway. Wait and heal. Then go attack the serpent.
Repeat.
It has low hp so you shouldn't be needing to repeat this many times. I got it in my first repeat.
Too difficult mission also. Too long to run with party members and too difficult to run solo.
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Edit: figured it out. Just a question of patience to get one or two hits on the snake, run back to the niche to hide/block and wait out the dots on you.