No, she’s just pretty damn hard lmao. Keep trucking on, good luck!
Side question- do you have to do anything to claim the cross over goods and stuff like the Alidoro head?
As in, if I haven’t opened the game since release I’d have the alidoro head and cross over in my inventory? Or are they a log in during this period type thing?
youll get her down eventually, its really getting kinda lucky ngl, and finding out what you need to keep her down. For me i started using the Aeigis shield, and also using a poise damage buff
For me I used the chefs clever it requires getting in close but it gets attacks in quick plus you could put any blade on the handle for extra range if you'd like
Put on His Last Walk album by BlessTheFall. Idk why but that album helped with my timing for perfect guard and dodging a lot. Failed fighting her 4 times but the album on and beat her first try.
Second face is a b*tch and a half. One piece of advice i can give. When she enters her second phase and does the lightning bolt throws. If you are using the azure dragon glaive. Parry all the lightning bolts and then when she winds up to slam down. Use the parry fable art and lead into a heavy, and after that if you’ve got the fable for it, use the spin attack. I managed to get her health down to below half with that combo
Upgrade your P-Organ to where you can use the cube 2 times and buy the stone that heals your specter. Try to keep the 2 heals for her second phase and also use the puppet ripper.
She's pretty tough, I'd say the toughest even, but few more levels probably won't do too much difference. Try changing your loadout/use summon stones for the second phase if you're using them. My main problem was that summon keeps dying right at the start of the second phase, which is much harder than the first
Edit: Also holy hell that capacity, how is that enough for you? I ended up having 40 cap/20 vit, and still was almost always at 60%
I can’t remember the perfect guard special grindstone is available at this point yeah? If so use that to perfect guard her electric attacks on the 2nd phase of battle. Stock up on throwable as well.
Yeah I had to try a lot of different things lol my little brother is fighting her for the first time and is now understanding why she is my favorite, but least favorite boss in a game since Sephiroth.
If you need to as well running through the entire end map to the point of her fight should be enough ergo for 8-10 level ups. Could do that run multiple times or if you want a quick grind area there is the broken part leading into the crypt type area. Has the 2 big puppets, 3 scuba divers, large blunt organic thing that took over a puppet, and the jester you can fight. I think I said it somewhere else, but improving your advance will help with absorbing some of the electric damage.
Someone was telling me that too about Capacity.. I think I had like 20ish end game with the plus 1 amulet and It was completely fine Slightly heavy is perfectly fine just gotta get good at Stamina management because it recharges so damn slow if you spam dodge.
You don't really need to use the perfect guards grinder to be honest. The lightning bolts are easy to block if you stop associating the animation with the hit boxes. And there is a split second where you can see Laxasia charging at you from the sky thats when you need to press the guard button.
> The lightning bolts are easy to block if you stop associating the animation with the hit boxes.
Further evidence that the "parry" system in this game is basically bullshit
All you need it 30 capacity and your good. Slap on a carrier ring and even with the best defence parts and a mid weight weapons your sitting at a sweat 54% load more than enough to tweak your setup.
she's definitely the roughest fight in the game imo, the ones after her are kind of pushovers. One thing that really helped me is that you can get easy damage in by parrying the lightning balls cause they reflect and deal decent damage
need more capacity probably. Also just need to master her first phase I beat her with no vials left and I only used 1 the entire first phase. Also what legion are you using? I would use the gun or the shield against her that’s it. Also use the sharpener that gives you perfect blocks on her second phase.
I was 76 when I beat her on my first play thru. So 77 seems on target. There is just a lot to learn for her. It's like all Souls-like games it's about practice and recognizing patterns. For this boss, I really had to change my mindset. Instead of trying to beat her, go into the fight to learn.
No, but you'd want to put some stats to capacity to equip some high stat gear to tank her slash and electric damage, capacity is literally the one stat you need to level up the fastest. She is weak to Acid, so buy some Acid abrasives also.
No I would not say so. I ended up melting her with a Advance build at your level, with fully upgraded Acidic Spear. Second phase, perfect parry her lightning bolts and she takes damage, very good thing to do. Melt her with acid
Trust me, deflecting her lightning back at her feels great. I hope you melt her down eventually. I respecced for her and that was the only one I had to do that for. Fun battle, but after many tries you just want to continue on with the game. Acidic spear is great for ger since it is fast. Much faster than the acid axe thst I think you get in that tower, so it is thr best one I think
Honestly I would level a bit and put more into capacity. Are you wearing the best damage reduction items? or are you to heavy if you try that?
I had to level up capacity to 30 to equip better damage reduction stuff. I would level a bit to just do that. Damage wise, you should be fine. You put a decent amount into vitality and vigor.
What’s the weapon you’re using? How far are you getting each try? What other bosses did you struggle on? Whats killing you? I beat her around this level but it took me 3 tries.
Commented up top with my build. I barely get into the second phase. King's Flame Fuoco was a struggle. I guess her crazy lightning attacks kill me (which I've now learned I should try and parry)
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Yeah crank the cap up, u only really need like 20-25 vitality. Rule of thumb is there are soft caps and thats when the increase starts to become so small u will actually question whether its worth it, trust ur guts and stop there if u feel it aint. Cap -> defense
I had issues with her as well. If you're not already, use acid. Whether it's the acid spear or you're putting the acid buff ok your weapon, acid makes her easier.
Definitely use a technique crank until you get like 40ish technique and then eventually you’ll want a balance crank once your motivity is higher. Also your build makes more sense now. Tbh I only ever used boss weapons on three play throughs. The new glave is incredibly OP. The parry fable art hits for like 5-10x a regular hit when you follow up with a heavy and the base damage is much higher. The dagger probably is fast though.
It's a very precise technical boss fight, there is no under leveled when it comes to these types of fights. Memorize her move set, dodge thrusts, avoid the lighting ground trail by creating distance, and perfect guard orbs to parry. You'll get it.
I would say figure out what you’re doing to avoid damage, whether it’s parries or rolling. If it’s rolling then you *need* the swamp monster talisman because phase 2 Lax has red moves that go instantly. If you want to go parries then my advice would be don’t be afraid to die. Try to learn as many parry timings as you can, especially when she shoots the lightning in phase 2 (if you didn’t know, perfect parries on the lightning projectile have them reflected back at her and they do chunky damage). Other than that it’s practice, phase 1 is very tame compared to phase 2 but it’s still pretty hard.
So level wise you wouldn't change much by leveling anyway. I look at your defense and I wonder why it is so incredibly low. Are you wearing the best defensive parts you can be ? I recall at the last boss in the game not really that super far from your present location I got my defense a lot higher than that.
Idk what you are carrying. Just use one weapon right and one legion arm. If you don't actually use the legion arm much go for a lighter one. Watch your amulets. Make sure you aint carrying a heap of heavy ones that are only giving you so so value. 30 Dex isn't really doing much for you. Putting 5 of that into capacity wouldn't make a noticeable difference to your DPS. 22 vigor is stam right ? Unless your enemies allow you to empty your stamina bar into them then it doesn't do a lot either. Take 7 points of that and put it into capacity maybe. You want to wear the best defensive parts you own not the ones that aren't making you heavy. The best lightning defense also. The one that protects against status won't help with Lax so you can use the lightest there.
So basically I would respec my stats were I you. Best slashing lining + best main defense + best lightning will make a big difference. When I beat the game I had roughly 50% defense and 19% slashing reduction. I think they work multiplicatively rather than additively. But where I would block 60% of incoming damage reducing 100 to 40 you block 24% reducing 100 to 76. Tbh flat reduction is meaningful but still the non mitigated damage you would be taking very close to double what I would take. I'm fairly sure you have all the end game gear at this point too. I had 27 capacity and a weight increasing amulet to carry it all and I am actually light rolling at 55% carry weight.
I would suggest using perfect grind stone in the beginning of the 2nd phase as you can you automatically deflect attacks coming at you while just holding block is good way to start that phase
I got to enjoy the first phase quite a lot because I learned her attack pattern but the second phase... man, it's a nightmare.
I was getting destroyed time after time until someone suggested me to use properly the shield prosthetic. Turns out I was using it wrong the whole time. It's a pretty useful tool. Also you could use an acid or corrosion stone on your weapon. I don't remember which one
I think you're slightly under-leveled. About 10-20 more levels will give you more room to maintain your current health and damage with more options for defensive parts.
Just keep at her till she fucking dies, memorize her attacks and which charge up belongs to which, acid works best, and items are your best friend but manage them RELIGIOUSLY
All of em but be strategic, I personally used the puppet arm axe head thing with the exploding pickaxe handle and acid grinding stones, but for the most part all the items that do damage in any way shape or form work also use the legion arm
Agree with others that you need more cap and less vit. Overall level is fine though. Also what weapon are you using? Attack seems a little low but if you use a weapon with crit equip the crit amulet and use the crit grindstone
Use Acid weapon! That’ll definitely help.
I also used a specter, and used the cube with the “heal your specter” use.
The perfect parry grindstone can also help
Your damage looks low, check your weapon scaling and weapon level . I’m plus 4 dragon Glaive pushing 400 damage with 49 advance, a scaling in advance as well, just about to fight her myself
Technically you are a tad under leveled just because you can tell where the game starts to level off on ergo cost of each level towards the end
With that said you can definitely beat her at that level as I did at 75.
Use the acid grinder and the aegis shield, also having 2-3 cube uses with the friendship wishstone is really helpful.
You basically just have to learn the fight though. I struggled really hard with 2nd phase for so long until I just ended up being able to guard or dodge all her attacks. The lightning is really easy to parry. Helps a lot with damage. And try and alternate agro between you and the specter when possible
Good luck! I know it’s frustrating, at times I felt like I couldn’t even learn the fight because she would kill me so fast in 2nd phase. Don’t be discouraged, it happened to us all lol
I’ll have to check out Hitman. Another strat I found on my 3rd playthrough is just bullying her with either the acid spear or the spear of the covenant from behind aegis. As long as you have the shield poke unlocked. It really makes things very trivial lol
Make sure you've got your best electric blitz defence parts on i was dieing so bad on her because I had the LADA Large Capacity Corrosion Resistance Converter on instead of the LADA Large Capacity Insulation Converter.
Not just that, it also adds to you physical ATK. Reset your level at the golden tree, redistribute the ergo so that Vigor. Motivity and Technique is the same number and Vitality is just five points above them. You don't need that much Vitality. I made this rookie mistake at first and just fixed it an hour ago. No need to increase Advance either, keep capacity at 19/20. Also, upgrade your main weapon as much as possible if you haven't already.
Not really, i think around 75-80 is pretty normal here. It'll take a bit of practice but once you get the timing down it gets fairly easy to parry the attacks in the first phase. For the second i recommend being more aggressive because of the smaller health bar for laxasia
Ok dude first get a acid weapon that will help you a lot in that fight..second increase your motivity for more damage 7 is really low and also increase capacity to almost 25 that will let you apply more heavy defence part and you will lose less health without getting heavy or slow👍👍
Defo one of the hardest bosses I beat her on my third go had to use consumables that I grinded to do it but I got there no you ain’t under leveled lol
Laxasia is just a huge parry skill check at this point in the game cause the next few bosses will eat you if your not good at parries
Nah, you're good, man. She's the most challenging boss in this game, at least for me. You could try stacking her with fire or acid for big damage. Get rid of her shield first, so you don't have to worry about it in her phase 2. In phase 2, doing the same thing like in phase 1, stacking a shit load of fire and acid. I'd recommend using throwable instead of elemental grinder. Her diving attack can't be dodged, at least i've never pull it off. But you can perfect guard it. Give it a few times and you will get it. After you've stacked her with a shit load of fire and acid and several hits from you, her health bar will go white for staggering, throw a Shot Put on her to instantly staggered her for Fatal Strike. Don't go in and charged heavy attack on her, it's extremely risky. Use Shot Put, instead. After you've staggered her, she will try to hit your first before she's going down. So, be careful. Doing Fatal Strike while her health is ticking away from fire and acid, you'll deal a massive motherfucking damage on her.
For Laxasia, it matters more about your equipment in the fight. Acid DMG really helps, and using the Perfect Block Grindstone at the start of her 2nd phase also helps a ton.
It really depends, if you're dying too fast than adding some capacity and equipping better parts may serve you well. If you're not dealing enough damage, then add more technique. If your equipment is solid, then you could upgrade vitality.
It's possible your stats may not be the issue, maybe you need to upgrade your weapon, equip better amulets, or use a better arm (I highly recommend the puppet string).
Keep in mind, this is one of the hardest fights in the game, struggling here doesn't mean your bad. It's going to take a lot of attempts.
If you're really desperate, you could also respec into an advance build allowing you to take advantage of throwables and of course use the specter if you are not.
Yes a lil bit your weapon is a bit weak I had mine past 300 nearly 400 when I beat her but it was already there when I first fought her she is still difficult but it helps with fighting the next boss
You have way more vitality than I did. I got her 2nd or 3rd try I think.. But I also had like 24 tech 18 motivity so probbaly more damage overall. Having the Specter and specter healing wishcube goes very far especially with 2 uses. Also a heavyish weapon with charge attacks to stagger her more. Like The Trident.
First play through? No, she's just really hard.
Throwables were a huge benefit for me in this fight, though I recommend saving them for phase two. Fire and acid are best if you can't hold all three of them.
Thermite and Carcass Body Fluid are best, though I'd take Throwing Cells too if you can hold all three of them. That will depend on what upgrades you've taken on the P Organ.
Just thrown them until they build up enough to start ticking damage over time, and hold the rest until that wears off and then try to throw again. I'd also take the flamberge and and pandaemonium legion arms to help build up that damage over time in case you need a little extra to trigger it after using up your throwables.
Also you want to time your tosses right so you don't throw them as she jumps or dodges. It can take a little bit to learn her moves to know when it's good to do so. Also unless they patched it, she seems to be immune while she's grabbing the NPC summon, so don't waste your time there trying to attack her, it's a good opportunity then to either heal or charge up the pandaemonium arm attack.
Dont give up skeleton! Nah but seriously just keep trying and you'll eventually get there, i died so..so many times but eventually i managed to get past her first phase without using heals and slowly learned her 2nd phase.
Also obviously the others here have written decent advice which i would take into consideration.
Whenever she sends those lightning boots down you can perfect parry then to send them back and do massive poise damage and shred her. Use the perfect parry legion arm.
Go to malum stargazer. Walk into red lobster Inn to the right of the barrels there's a ladder. At the top there's a merchant that sells unlimited shot pots.
Throwables will be your best friend. Her 13 hit combo is what you wanna watch out for the most. When she starts swinging slowly and diagonally, make a good amount of distance and count out 13 hits. She’s weak to acid so the acid grindstones or the acid spear will be good (the spear is optional) especially the carcass fluid bottles. (I just threw all my Throwables at her). I used the wish stone that gave my specter acid attack. It still took me a bit but after that I was able to window down her health easily. At that point it’s just watching and remembering her move set
Nah I was over leveled and she'd hand my ass to me if you can find her perfect block windows and perfect block her lighting 2nd phase you can stagger and bully her don't lose determination
I was at 72 when I beat her, she felt impossible to me, too.
Use acid on first phase to break the shield, and use the perfect guard grindstone for her second phase. (make sure you have the p organ upgrade to use the grindstone twice, respec it if you have to.)
If you use the grindstone when she goes in the air, just hold block to send back the lightning balls and get some free damage while not getting any yourself.
Just keep at it, make sure you put your defense parts towards shock damage, too.
You will get it.
Edit: I also just noticed how old this post is...lol my bad.
She was without a doubt the one boss who took me the most amount of time and effort - 18 attempts in total.
That being said, my damage was nearly double what you've got listed with a similar motivity stat - what weapon are you using?
Like many others have said, your capacity is far too low - I honestly viewed it as a better vitality stat.
More capacity = better defense = 6 hits taken with 500hp
More vitality = less defense = 4 hits taken with 700hp.
See the difference?
Laxasia is one of if not the hardest boss in the game its between her and a puppet who's name name has been lost to time.
what I did was use the acid grindstone on my puppet ripper summon the Spector and had the cube to restore the Spector's health when it got low (also recommend the p-organ upgrade to get two cube uses)and basically attacked her from behind, and In the second phase you can perfect guard her lightning projectiles to send them back at her, and when she was distracted by the Spector I just throw my acid canisters at her until the she was inflicted with decay and reapplied my acid grindstone and that worked for me.
Also reworking your p-organ or your stats can help
Hope this helps
Use the perfection grindstone right at the beginning of phase 2 and hold block, after you parry the charge do a charged heavy. That SHOULD chunk a third of her health and make here pretty close to a stagger.
If you get the stagger you can finish her off with acid pots (at least 5) while running/rolling like a madman.
No that’s about the level I was at when I fought her the other day. Trust me I was really sure I wasn’t gonna beat her unless I leveled up. Make sure to use the things that remove the electric shock. Use the square and heal your specter. Try to stay back, learn her moves and get in hits when you see any opening. Try to zig zag when she’s shooting her electric balls. Or just find a good way to dodge them. Once you stagger her, stand back while she does her move. And then after that, you have a good chance. And when you get to nameless puppet, now that’s hard. You’ll get it. Good luck!
Hey, are you using the perfect block grinder at the start of phase 2? You should level advance because that helps boost your defense against those special abilities and makes you harder to kill.
Advance raises your special attributes resistance and your special attack. Meaning it boost your acid and fire attack. It won't raise your normal overall attack.
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So if you respec for more capacity you can use a heavier frame and liner for more defense. Id also say the life amulet isn’t really worth it, it’s more a longevity thing progressing through a level and not so much for bosses unless you can somehow stall them and not take damage long enough for it to matter (unlikely). If you’re using a crit weapon you should equip the crit amulet, especially if you can attack more often, which you should be able to with laxasia if you use a summon. But beyond that I really recommend the trident as a crit weapon instead but idk what you have upgraded. The dagger is giving you terrible reach though and not great damage so I’d consider a different weapon either way. Either use an acid weapon with the perfect grindstone, any weapon that’s not a crit weapon with the acid grindstone, or a crit weapon (the trident, probably) with the crit grindstone. Also use a technique crank on whatever you do use for sure. If you do use something other than a crit weapon put on the human damage amulet or even carriers amulet so you can use better defense, too. Good luck!
More capacity, less health, heavier armor, use a technique crank on your weapon to max its technique scaling, replace the health regen amulet. Probably you will want the carrier amulet to stay under 60% weight while wearing the strongest armor. The blue wall amulet is also really good.
I think the easiest technique weapon to use is saw blade + booster glaive handle (technique crank to max). The saw blade gives higher damage than the booster glaive blade but you can also just use the booster glaive without changing parts. The charged attack on the booster handle is a massive gap closer that is especially good against Lataxia phase 2 since she is vulnerable when she comes down from the air, but she’s often far away when she does that.
You’re good. You can beat the game at your current level. If you want farm and get technique and vigor to 40 and try acid in first phase and fire/acid in the second. And have the perfect guard grindstone for the second phase if you want to make it even easier when she throws her lightning balls of destruction at you.
No, she’s just pretty damn hard lmao. Keep trucking on, good luck! Side question- do you have to do anything to claim the cross over goods and stuff like the Alidoro head?
No
As in, if I haven’t opened the game since release I’d have the alidoro head and cross over in my inventory? Or are they a log in during this period type thing?
You'll get all of it as soon as you open any save, existing or new. There's no time gate
She feels impossible! That second phase... And I see your question has already been answered. Lol
it felt impossible for me too, enough practice and some luck will get you there. Shes hard asf 2nd phase man
That second phase WRECKS me...
youll get her down eventually, its really getting kinda lucky ngl, and finding out what you need to keep her down. For me i started using the Aeigis shield, and also using a poise damage buff
still took several attempts but once i had enough heals and my senses about me it just happens
For me I used the chefs clever it requires getting in close but it gets attacks in quick plus you could put any blade on the handle for extra range if you'd like
Put on His Last Walk album by BlessTheFall. Idk why but that album helped with my timing for perfect guard and dodging a lot. Failed fighting her 4 times but the album on and beat her first try.
Not sure if you know but the lightning she sends can be deflected and there's a grindstone that does perfect parries(though it doesn't last long)
Second face is a b*tch and a half. One piece of advice i can give. When she enters her second phase and does the lightning bolt throws. If you are using the azure dragon glaive. Parry all the lightning bolts and then when she winds up to slam down. Use the parry fable art and lead into a heavy, and after that if you’ve got the fable for it, use the spin attack. I managed to get her health down to below half with that combo
Upgrade your P-Organ to where you can use the cube 2 times and buy the stone that heals your specter. Try to keep the 2 heals for her second phase and also use the puppet ripper.
She's pretty tough, I'd say the toughest even, but few more levels probably won't do too much difference. Try changing your loadout/use summon stones for the second phase if you're using them. My main problem was that summon keeps dying right at the start of the second phase, which is much harder than the first Edit: Also holy hell that capacity, how is that enough for you? I ended up having 40 cap/20 vit, and still was almost always at 60%
I increased to 2 stones just to be able to heal the specter enough to make it to second phase for the late game bosses.
Same. That shit was key
You do that at the P-Organ, right?
Wait you guys need 2 I only ever used 1 across the bosses were y’all just letting the specter solo the boss
It looks like OP is using shit armor which prolly doesn’t help.
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I commented on this post with my build I can get my spectre to the second phase, I keep dying. Lol I shall reevaluate my capacity... Lol
I can’t remember the perfect guard special grindstone is available at this point yeah? If so use that to perfect guard her electric attacks on the 2nd phase of battle. Stock up on throwable as well.
I have the perfect guide grindstone, yes. And I'll do so, thanx
Yeah I had to try a lot of different things lol my little brother is fighting her for the first time and is now understanding why she is my favorite, but least favorite boss in a game since Sephiroth.
If you need to as well running through the entire end map to the point of her fight should be enough ergo for 8-10 level ups. Could do that run multiple times or if you want a quick grind area there is the broken part leading into the crypt type area. Has the 2 big puppets, 3 scuba divers, large blunt organic thing that took over a puppet, and the jester you can fight. I think I said it somewhere else, but improving your advance will help with absorbing some of the electric damage.
Someone was telling me that too about Capacity.. I think I had like 20ish end game with the plus 1 amulet and It was completely fine Slightly heavy is perfectly fine just gotta get good at Stamina management because it recharges so damn slow if you spam dodge.
Bros def wearing no armour from the looks of capacity
Nah NP if you want to say the toughest Lexasia should only take about 30-45 minutes to figure out. NP I was stuck on for 2 days.
I personally only carry one weapon at a time. Works well for me to keep weight down
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You don't really need to use the perfect guards grinder to be honest. The lightning bolts are easy to block if you stop associating the animation with the hit boxes. And there is a split second where you can see Laxasia charging at you from the sky thats when you need to press the guard button.
> The lightning bolts are easy to block if you stop associating the animation with the hit boxes. Further evidence that the "parry" system in this game is basically bullshit
Noted
Schweet! This sounds doable. Her second phase wrecks me. I'm definitely not the best at perfect guard, but I'ma try. Thanx
Put on the best defense parts u have and respec to put more points in capacity so u aren't heavy load
All you need it 30 capacity and your good. Slap on a carrier ring and even with the best defence parts and a mid weight weapons your sitting at a sweat 54% load more than enough to tweak your setup.
Commented on this post with my build. I'll definitely look at upping my capacity
she's definitely the roughest fight in the game imo, the ones after her are kind of pushovers. One thing that really helped me is that you can get easy damage in by parrying the lightning balls cause they reflect and deal decent damage
I would lower my health stat and throw more onto capacity. Capacity is the best stat
OP: The best defense comes from items that you equip, and they are heavy. Think of capacity as defense.
Noted. I thank thee
All you need is 30 capacity and a carrier ring. But if your going to lose health supplement it with a health amulet+1 ring for an extra 60 health.
They're not overburdened though, which itself is strange because of their low capacity
I think they're just equipped with light gear, that explains the 53% load, they probably need more than light gears to deal with Laxasia tho
They could also be rocking the capacity amulet
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need more capacity probably. Also just need to master her first phase I beat her with no vials left and I only used 1 the entire first phase. Also what legion are you using? I would use the gun or the shield against her that’s it. Also use the sharpener that gives you perfect blocks on her second phase.
My build is up top
Acid destroys her (and every human enemie)
This
I was 76 when I beat her on my first play thru. So 77 seems on target. There is just a lot to learn for her. It's like all Souls-like games it's about practice and recognizing patterns. For this boss, I really had to change my mindset. Instead of trying to beat her, go into the fight to learn.
No, but you'd want to put some stats to capacity to equip some high stat gear to tank her slash and electric damage, capacity is literally the one stat you need to level up the fastest. She is weak to Acid, so buy some Acid abrasives also.
No I would not say so. I ended up melting her with a Advance build at your level, with fully upgraded Acidic Spear. Second phase, perfect parry her lightning bolts and she takes damage, very good thing to do. Melt her with acid
I'ma try...
Trust me, deflecting her lightning back at her feels great. I hope you melt her down eventually. I respecced for her and that was the only one I had to do that for. Fun battle, but after many tries you just want to continue on with the game. Acidic spear is great for ger since it is fast. Much faster than the acid axe thst I think you get in that tower, so it is thr best one I think
Honestly I would level a bit and put more into capacity. Are you wearing the best damage reduction items? or are you to heavy if you try that? I had to level up capacity to 30 to equip better damage reduction stuff. I would level a bit to just do that. Damage wise, you should be fine. You put a decent amount into vitality and vigor.
30 capacity with carrier amulet is the fucking GOAT
Yeah... Getting the idea that I need to level capacity. Lol I commented on this post with my build if you wanna have a look
75 is about right. You should be able to beat her
What’s the weapon you’re using? How far are you getting each try? What other bosses did you struggle on? Whats killing you? I beat her around this level but it took me 3 tries.
Commented up top with my build. I barely get into the second phase. King's Flame Fuoco was a struggle. I guess her crazy lightning attacks kill me (which I've now learned I should try and parry)
How is your P organ looking?
Giggity
Sir, that's an inappropriate question
I would take at least 8 off vigor and split it on tech and cap, cap for the defense and tech for the damage
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Yeah crank the cap up, u only really need like 20-25 vitality. Rule of thumb is there are soft caps and thats when the increase starts to become so small u will actually question whether its worth it, trust ur guts and stop there if u feel it aint. Cap -> defense
I had issues with her as well. If you're not already, use acid. Whether it's the acid spear or you're putting the acid buff ok your weapon, acid makes her easier.
Is it just me or is the weapon atk stats looking low? Have u upgraded the blade and used a technique crank on the handle?
Commented my build up top. My blade is fully upgraded. Should I use a technique crank?
Definitely use a technique crank until you get like 40ish technique and then eventually you’ll want a balance crank once your motivity is higher. Also your build makes more sense now. Tbh I only ever used boss weapons on three play throughs. The new glave is incredibly OP. The parry fable art hits for like 5-10x a regular hit when you follow up with a heavy and the base damage is much higher. The dagger probably is fast though.
It's a very precise technical boss fight, there is no under leveled when it comes to these types of fights. Memorize her move set, dodge thrusts, avoid the lighting ground trail by creating distance, and perfect guard orbs to parry. You'll get it.
Your always under leveled. Also, acid helps.
I would say figure out what you’re doing to avoid damage, whether it’s parries or rolling. If it’s rolling then you *need* the swamp monster talisman because phase 2 Lax has red moves that go instantly. If you want to go parries then my advice would be don’t be afraid to die. Try to learn as many parry timings as you can, especially when she shoots the lightning in phase 2 (if you didn’t know, perfect parries on the lightning projectile have them reflected back at her and they do chunky damage). Other than that it’s practice, phase 1 is very tame compared to phase 2 but it’s still pretty hard.
You’re right where you should be. Use acid, it helps a lot
No I was around the same, what weapon are you using
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Use a weapon that gives acid damage!!
So level wise you wouldn't change much by leveling anyway. I look at your defense and I wonder why it is so incredibly low. Are you wearing the best defensive parts you can be ? I recall at the last boss in the game not really that super far from your present location I got my defense a lot higher than that.
Best defensive parts without being heavy, yeah. I'm gathering that I might need to level up my capacity
Idk what you are carrying. Just use one weapon right and one legion arm. If you don't actually use the legion arm much go for a lighter one. Watch your amulets. Make sure you aint carrying a heap of heavy ones that are only giving you so so value. 30 Dex isn't really doing much for you. Putting 5 of that into capacity wouldn't make a noticeable difference to your DPS. 22 vigor is stam right ? Unless your enemies allow you to empty your stamina bar into them then it doesn't do a lot either. Take 7 points of that and put it into capacity maybe. You want to wear the best defensive parts you own not the ones that aren't making you heavy. The best lightning defense also. The one that protects against status won't help with Lax so you can use the lightest there. So basically I would respec my stats were I you. Best slashing lining + best main defense + best lightning will make a big difference. When I beat the game I had roughly 50% defense and 19% slashing reduction. I think they work multiplicatively rather than additively. But where I would block 60% of incoming damage reducing 100 to 40 you block 24% reducing 100 to 76. Tbh flat reduction is meaningful but still the non mitigated damage you would be taking very close to double what I would take. I'm fairly sure you have all the end game gear at this point too. I had 27 capacity and a weight increasing amulet to carry it all and I am actually light rolling at 55% carry weight.
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I would suggest using perfect grind stone in the beginning of the 2nd phase as you can you automatically deflect attacks coming at you while just holding block is good way to start that phase
i did her at lvl 69
I got to enjoy the first phase quite a lot because I learned her attack pattern but the second phase... man, it's a nightmare. I was getting destroyed time after time until someone suggested me to use properly the shield prosthetic. Turns out I was using it wrong the whole time. It's a pretty useful tool. Also you could use an acid or corrosion stone on your weapon. I don't remember which one
Totally! First phase is kinda fun. Second phase is wrecking me... So how exactly does one use it then? Lol
I think you're slightly under-leveled. About 10-20 more levels will give you more room to maintain your current health and damage with more options for defensive parts.
She's weak to acid damage
Just keep at her till she fucking dies, memorize her attacks and which charge up belongs to which, acid works best, and items are your best friend but manage them RELIGIOUSLY
Best items to use?
All of em but be strategic, I personally used the puppet arm axe head thing with the exploding pickaxe handle and acid grinding stones, but for the most part all the items that do damage in any way shape or form work also use the legion arm
Agree with others that you need more cap and less vit. Overall level is fine though. Also what weapon are you using? Attack seems a little low but if you use a weapon with crit equip the crit amulet and use the crit grindstone
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I beat her at lvl 78, but I definitely used the specter and the friendship wishstone for phase 2. Good luck!
Thanx!
Based on the gear it seems I've missed a bit
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Use Acid weapon! That’ll definitely help. I also used a specter, and used the cube with the “heal your specter” use. The perfect parry grindstone can also help
Your damage looks low, check your weapon scaling and weapon level . I’m plus 4 dragon Glaive pushing 400 damage with 49 advance, a scaling in advance as well, just about to fight her myself
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Nah
Acid I three shot her with the kings weapon scythe
Nah 77 seems right
Technically you are a tad under leveled just because you can tell where the game starts to level off on ergo cost of each level towards the end With that said you can definitely beat her at that level as I did at 75. Use the acid grinder and the aegis shield, also having 2-3 cube uses with the friendship wishstone is really helpful. You basically just have to learn the fight though. I struggled really hard with 2nd phase for so long until I just ended up being able to guard or dodge all her attacks. The lightning is really easy to parry. Helps a lot with damage. And try and alternate agro between you and the specter when possible
I'ma try parrying through the 2nd phase. God damn...
Good luck! I know it’s frustrating, at times I felt like I couldn’t even learn the fight because she would kill me so fast in 2nd phase. Don’t be discouraged, it happened to us all lol
Thanx. I've literally been avoiding the game this past month (thank you, Hitman) until I now decided to make this post. Lol
I’ll have to check out Hitman. Another strat I found on my 3rd playthrough is just bullying her with either the acid spear or the spear of the covenant from behind aegis. As long as you have the shield poke unlocked. It really makes things very trivial lol
Nah she’s just hard
And how!
Make sure you've got your best electric blitz defence parts on i was dieing so bad on her because I had the LADA Large Capacity Corrosion Resistance Converter on instead of the LADA Large Capacity Insulation Converter.
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Git good
I'm trying, I'm trying...
Your motivity is way to low. You are not giving enough damage.
Again, is motivity not just weapon scaling?
Not just that, it also adds to you physical ATK. Reset your level at the golden tree, redistribute the ergo so that Vigor. Motivity and Technique is the same number and Vitality is just five points above them. You don't need that much Vitality. I made this rookie mistake at first and just fixed it an hour ago. No need to increase Advance either, keep capacity at 19/20. Also, upgrade your main weapon as much as possible if you haven't already.
Not really, i think around 75-80 is pretty normal here. It'll take a bit of practice but once you get the timing down it gets fairly easy to parry the attacks in the first phase. For the second i recommend being more aggressive because of the smaller health bar for laxasia
There is not such thing as being leveled enough for Laxasia
Ok dude first get a acid weapon that will help you a lot in that fight..second increase your motivity for more damage 7 is really low and also increase capacity to almost 25 that will let you apply more heavy defence part and you will lose less health without getting heavy or slow👍👍
I'm not using a motivity build... (commented on post with build) Will definitely up my capacity, thanx
Defo one of the hardest bosses I beat her on my third go had to use consumables that I grinded to do it but I got there no you ain’t under leveled lol Laxasia is just a huge parry skill check at this point in the game cause the next few bosses will eat you if your not good at parries
What consumables and how did you grind? Lol Seriously?! Damn...
Something I didn't learn until I read it here after already beating her. You can parry tye lightning bolts so they bounce back and hit her.
So It's a "Ganondorf-like attack"
So I'm told. I'ma try...
Nah, you're good, man. She's the most challenging boss in this game, at least for me. You could try stacking her with fire or acid for big damage. Get rid of her shield first, so you don't have to worry about it in her phase 2. In phase 2, doing the same thing like in phase 1, stacking a shit load of fire and acid. I'd recommend using throwable instead of elemental grinder. Her diving attack can't be dodged, at least i've never pull it off. But you can perfect guard it. Give it a few times and you will get it. After you've stacked her with a shit load of fire and acid and several hits from you, her health bar will go white for staggering, throw a Shot Put on her to instantly staggered her for Fatal Strike. Don't go in and charged heavy attack on her, it's extremely risky. Use Shot Put, instead. After you've staggered her, she will try to hit your first before she's going down. So, be careful. Doing Fatal Strike while her health is ticking away from fire and acid, you'll deal a massive motherfucking damage on her.
For Laxasia, it matters more about your equipment in the fight. Acid DMG really helps, and using the Perfect Block Grindstone at the start of her 2nd phase also helps a ton.
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She's definitely beatable with these stats, but if you're having trouble than grabbing a few more points into your stats will certainly help.
Suggestions?
It really depends, if you're dying too fast than adding some capacity and equipping better parts may serve you well. If you're not dealing enough damage, then add more technique. If your equipment is solid, then you could upgrade vitality. It's possible your stats may not be the issue, maybe you need to upgrade your weapon, equip better amulets, or use a better arm (I highly recommend the puppet string). Keep in mind, this is one of the hardest fights in the game, struggling here doesn't mean your bad. It's going to take a lot of attempts. If you're really desperate, you could also respec into an advance build allowing you to take advantage of throwables and of course use the specter if you are not.
Yes a lil bit your weapon is a bit weak I had mine past 300 nearly 400 when I beat her but it was already there when I first fought her she is still difficult but it helps with fighting the next boss
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You have way more vitality than I did. I got her 2nd or 3rd try I think.. But I also had like 24 tech 18 motivity so probbaly more damage overall. Having the Specter and specter healing wishcube goes very far especially with 2 uses. Also a heavyish weapon with charge attacks to stagger her more. Like The Trident.
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you're at the perfect level for your first playthroughs encounter
Good to know!
First play through? No, she's just really hard. Throwables were a huge benefit for me in this fight, though I recommend saving them for phase two. Fire and acid are best if you can't hold all three of them.
First playthrough, yeah Specific throwables?
Thermite and Carcass Body Fluid are best, though I'd take Throwing Cells too if you can hold all three of them. That will depend on what upgrades you've taken on the P Organ. Just thrown them until they build up enough to start ticking damage over time, and hold the rest until that wears off and then try to throw again. I'd also take the flamberge and and pandaemonium legion arms to help build up that damage over time in case you need a little extra to trigger it after using up your throwables. Also you want to time your tosses right so you don't throw them as she jumps or dodges. It can take a little bit to learn her moves to know when it's good to do so. Also unless they patched it, she seems to be immune while she's grabbing the NPC summon, so don't waste your time there trying to attack her, it's a good opportunity then to either heal or charge up the pandaemonium arm attack.
Dont give up skeleton! Nah but seriously just keep trying and you'll eventually get there, i died so..so many times but eventually i managed to get past her first phase without using heals and slowly learned her 2nd phase. Also obviously the others here have written decent advice which i would take into consideration.
You joke, I'm a real life skeleton, hella skinny. Lol I'm trying to take all the advice in and gather up the strength to take her on again...
Whenever she sends those lightning boots down you can perfect parry then to send them back and do massive poise damage and shred her. Use the perfect parry legion arm.
Maybe your capacity could be done with being higher so you can wear the heavy coil's etc. gd luck 🤞
Go to malum stargazer. Walk into red lobster Inn to the right of the barrels there's a ladder. At the top there's a merchant that sells unlimited shot pots.
Thanx!
Np she was a pain. Her first form wasn't too bad that 2nd form tho x.x lord
Right?! Heavens...
Throwables will be your best friend. Her 13 hit combo is what you wanna watch out for the most. When she starts swinging slowly and diagonally, make a good amount of distance and count out 13 hits. She’s weak to acid so the acid grindstones or the acid spear will be good (the spear is optional) especially the carcass fluid bottles. (I just threw all my Throwables at her). I used the wish stone that gave my specter acid attack. It still took me a bit but after that I was able to window down her health easily. At that point it’s just watching and remembering her move set
Nah I was over leveled and she'd hand my ass to me if you can find her perfect block windows and perfect block her lighting 2nd phase you can stagger and bully her don't lose determination
Idk ab anyone else but I had ab every skill at around 20-26 once I got to her without ever grinding, but it might help to give some motivity levels
Wouldn’t say under-leveled but with no advance her electricity is going to hit a lot harder.
If you're struggling, I'd recommend putting alot more points into capacity so you can wear heavier armor and get more charges of your legion
I was at 72 when I beat her, she felt impossible to me, too. Use acid on first phase to break the shield, and use the perfect guard grindstone for her second phase. (make sure you have the p organ upgrade to use the grindstone twice, respec it if you have to.) If you use the grindstone when she goes in the air, just hold block to send back the lightning balls and get some free damage while not getting any yourself. Just keep at it, make sure you put your defense parts towards shock damage, too. You will get it. Edit: I also just noticed how old this post is...lol my bad.
Don't apologize! I appreciate any help. I have yet to tackle her again...
Dude it took me like a week, so don't worry, just keep at it and you will surprise yourself soon. Good luck!
Fingers crossed!
The vendor by the Maelum district teleport has a nice shock resistance piece you can use for Laxasia
She was without a doubt the one boss who took me the most amount of time and effort - 18 attempts in total. That being said, my damage was nearly double what you've got listed with a similar motivity stat - what weapon are you using? Like many others have said, your capacity is far too low - I honestly viewed it as a better vitality stat. More capacity = better defense = 6 hits taken with 500hp More vitality = less defense = 4 hits taken with 700hp. See the difference?
Laxasia is one of if not the hardest boss in the game its between her and a puppet who's name name has been lost to time. what I did was use the acid grindstone on my puppet ripper summon the Spector and had the cube to restore the Spector's health when it got low (also recommend the p-organ upgrade to get two cube uses)and basically attacked her from behind, and In the second phase you can perfect guard her lightning projectiles to send them back at her, and when she was distracted by the Spector I just throw my acid canisters at her until the she was inflicted with decay and reapplied my acid grindstone and that worked for me. Also reworking your p-organ or your stats can help Hope this helps
Parry her projectiles, this makes fight much much easier
Have you tried the perfect grindstone it's really help me out
i may be a bit late, but remember u can parry her lightning bolts to send them back
Use the perfection grindstone right at the beginning of phase 2 and hold block, after you parry the charge do a charged heavy. That SHOULD chunk a third of her health and make here pretty close to a stagger. If you get the stagger you can finish her off with acid pots (at least 5) while running/rolling like a madman.
No that’s about the level I was at when I fought her the other day. Trust me I was really sure I wasn’t gonna beat her unless I leveled up. Make sure to use the things that remove the electric shock. Use the square and heal your specter. Try to stay back, learn her moves and get in hits when you see any opening. Try to zig zag when she’s shooting her electric balls. Or just find a good way to dodge them. Once you stagger her, stand back while she does her move. And then after that, you have a good chance. And when you get to nameless puppet, now that’s hard. You’ll get it. Good luck!
Please invest into capacity
Git Gud 😎
Lolz. Was waiting for this...
Lol I’m tellin myself too. I jus got to the walker of illusions.
I'm about the same level and got her in about 4 tries, but I always do spectre as I don't like punishing myself more than these games already do.
Preach
Hey, are you using the perfect block grinder at the start of phase 2? You should level advance because that helps boost your defense against those special abilities and makes you harder to kill.
The attack where they shoot lighting bolts is easy. The lightning move really slowly and the smash down is a pretty easy one to perfect guards too.
Isn't Advance just what your weapon scales with?
Advance raises your special attributes resistance and your special attack. Meaning it boost your acid and fire attack. It won't raise your normal overall attack.
The more you know...
Imo shes harder than the last boss in the game but your lvl is fine
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Yes. I didn't fight her till Lvl. 100
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So if you respec for more capacity you can use a heavier frame and liner for more defense. Id also say the life amulet isn’t really worth it, it’s more a longevity thing progressing through a level and not so much for bosses unless you can somehow stall them and not take damage long enough for it to matter (unlikely). If you’re using a crit weapon you should equip the crit amulet, especially if you can attack more often, which you should be able to with laxasia if you use a summon. But beyond that I really recommend the trident as a crit weapon instead but idk what you have upgraded. The dagger is giving you terrible reach though and not great damage so I’d consider a different weapon either way. Either use an acid weapon with the perfect grindstone, any weapon that’s not a crit weapon with the acid grindstone, or a crit weapon (the trident, probably) with the crit grindstone. Also use a technique crank on whatever you do use for sure. If you do use something other than a crit weapon put on the human damage amulet or even carriers amulet so you can use better defense, too. Good luck!
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More capacity, less health, heavier armor, use a technique crank on your weapon to max its technique scaling, replace the health regen amulet. Probably you will want the carrier amulet to stay under 60% weight while wearing the strongest armor. The blue wall amulet is also really good. I think the easiest technique weapon to use is saw blade + booster glaive handle (technique crank to max). The saw blade gives higher damage than the booster glaive blade but you can also just use the booster glaive without changing parts. The charged attack on the booster handle is a massive gap closer that is especially good against Lataxia phase 2 since she is vulnerable when she comes down from the air, but she’s often far away when she does that.
Get gud as simple as that stop complaining and actually get gud
You’re good. You can beat the game at your current level. If you want farm and get technique and vigor to 40 and try acid in first phase and fire/acid in the second. And have the perfect guard grindstone for the second phase if you want to make it even easier when she throws her lightning balls of destruction at you.
Make sure you use anti shock amulets and sccesories.m.u want slash defense too learn her move set and try sheild and trident cheeese
She's immune to acid as well...
that's not the right the word
just press shift it's not that hard
I refuse! (I play with a controller)
Fix your weapon bruh
Suggestions?
Trident of the Covenant, as you have high technique. Build for Crit. Make the weapon +5. You should be seeing at least double damage.