What are the best weapons/skills for the bosses around mid-game?
I did the spider first and it took me like an hour and about 30-40 retries and was throw your controller level of frustratingly difficult. I was using the standard melee attack so I had to stick to its face and I found the hitbox hard to get just right so I wouldn't take damage while doing damage, some of his moves hard to escape in time once they start and being right in its face (the forward ram, the triple spit) and had a lot of deaths trying to micro-manage during the add phase because couldn't kill the adds fast enough while also paying attention to its tells and dodging. Shard-wise all I really had was 20% def reduction and the one that boost atk based on total light (lvl.1 so 3000 cap, had 3000). Also using the one that gives health orbs more often and magnet to catch energy/health and climb.
It also felt like I was doing really minor damage. Was using the butterfly spirit orb weapon lvl.1 to add some extra damage while I was doing melee and it was just a long very difficult fight.
But then I did thesecond, and I tried changing it up and used the bow lvl.1 with the skill that lets you fire 25% faster. Against this fight just rapid smashing bow shots from a distance I did crazy damage and basically took off 50% of the bosses HP in the first 10-20 seconds without taking much damage. The second half was tougher since could only get a couple shots in at a time out of the water, but overall this boss only took a few tries and was generally fine.Frog
Not sure if it's just that ranged is a lot easier, or if I was just doing something wrong on the spider or maybe the spider isn't a great one to do first since you get stronger each boss/area.
I haven't bought about 1/2 the weapons or skills available and most of my weapons/skills are still the lvl.1 versions. At this point around 50% in the game with two bosses down, what should I be focusing on to make my life easier combat-wise. I'm fine with the regular combat and even the combat shrines are tough but I've managed to do them, but that spider boss was a whole different thing.
2 words for you:
Flash and Hammer
Flash does constant AoE damage to any enemy within the "sphere" . And the hammer is just great.
There's also a shard that does extra damage to airborne enemies, that stacks with this combo.
I would recommend doing the
Baur's Reach
There are 2 optional quests that give you an attack power boost that you can do before attempting any of the bosses as well.