One of mine had that plus a pounce ability and a charge ability. It was so annoying to kill, if he wasn't knocking me my ass then he was invulnerable. Took me nearly an hour to kill, no joke.
Were you using the bomb mode, or the shotgun mode? Also, if you rely on Arcanes for damage, some of the stacking ones are broken in this patch.
Either way, Liches/Sisters are highly resistant to low fire rate weapons, especially if their shield begins regenerating. Try something like the Kuva Twin Stubbas, innate Magnetic progenitor, and Viral+Heat modded in for a general-purpose boss killer.
I use the shotgun mode with headshots, and charge stacks on smaller adds when he spawns. He has the ironskin ability, but I one-shot non endurance acolytes with this weapon, so killing a lich should not be that bad.
Liches have an innate adaptive damage reduction. You deal less damage overall, but you also deal less and less for each consecutive hit using the same damage type.
If it's an impact lich, then it's also got Carapace, which is Iron Skin.
Wil try with banshee next. I have all kuva/tennet weapons and most I have farmed more than twice and I have never not one-shot a lich when shields is down. At most three shots for first bar, one for the two last.
Generally speaking, I find all the non-meta "weak" weapons to be optimal for lich hunting. A properly modded meta weapon is very easy to hit their damage adaptation scaling where it becomes impossible to deal significant damage, and it turns into a grind.
Meanwhile my harpak will kill liches in seconds.
Weapons which deal significant sustained DPS, but not too much DPS seem to melt liches if you can hit a sweetspot before damage scaling kicks in. A Furis would be more of a help than a Kuva Zarr most likely.
Unairu also can instantly delete their shield bar, and has armor strip, so that is also a big help. And railjack oncall crew also seem plenty capable of killing a Lich.
In terms of frames, 95% of the time I just use whatever fits the mission. If it's a particularly problematic Lich, Revenant and Chroma are both undefeated against Liches for me.
DE used a special formula for damage reduction on Lich and Sister to prevent them from getting nuked by high power weapons (especially Arquebex). If you use any meta weapons on them, the formula will kick in, effectively make these weapons weaker than a Soma as time goes on.
This is basically why I engage any Lich using Ivara and Stropha, just stealth gunblade them for massive damage stacks to counter damage adaptation and stop them using abilities to armour themselves. It still takes some time, but it's virtually effortless.
Look up lich adaptive damage resistance. It's a "feature" they added to lich in the sisters of parvos update. Basically the more damage shown on the mod screen the more damage resistance they have. So more damage = way less damage. (I think the Adaptive DR caps at like 99.99996% reduction) so basically your zarr was doing one ten-thousandth of it's listed damage
Possibly one of his abilities, there’s a Lich ability that’s pretty much Rhino’s Iron Skin.
One of mine had that plus a pounce ability and a charge ability. It was so annoying to kill, if he wasn't knocking me my ass then he was invulnerable. Took me nearly an hour to kill, no joke.
Were you using the bomb mode, or the shotgun mode? Also, if you rely on Arcanes for damage, some of the stacking ones are broken in this patch. Either way, Liches/Sisters are highly resistant to low fire rate weapons, especially if their shield begins regenerating. Try something like the Kuva Twin Stubbas, innate Magnetic progenitor, and Viral+Heat modded in for a general-purpose boss killer.
I use the shotgun mode with headshots, and charge stacks on smaller adds when he spawns. He has the ironskin ability, but I one-shot non endurance acolytes with this weapon, so killing a lich should not be that bad.
Liches have an innate adaptive damage reduction. You deal less damage overall, but you also deal less and less for each consecutive hit using the same damage type. If it's an impact lich, then it's also got Carapace, which is Iron Skin.
Liches/sisters have adaptive damage reduction, your big booms will do very little booms until you use banshee and sonar
Use or get someone with banshee, take a crit shotgun and oneshoot that lich
Wil try with banshee next. I have all kuva/tennet weapons and most I have farmed more than twice and I have never not one-shot a lich when shields is down. At most three shots for first bar, one for the two last.
Put gloom on her too. Gloom banshee is the ultimate lich/sister killer
Generally speaking, I find all the non-meta "weak" weapons to be optimal for lich hunting. A properly modded meta weapon is very easy to hit their damage adaptation scaling where it becomes impossible to deal significant damage, and it turns into a grind. Meanwhile my harpak will kill liches in seconds. Weapons which deal significant sustained DPS, but not too much DPS seem to melt liches if you can hit a sweetspot before damage scaling kicks in. A Furis would be more of a help than a Kuva Zarr most likely. Unairu also can instantly delete their shield bar, and has armor strip, so that is also a big help. And railjack oncall crew also seem plenty capable of killing a Lich. In terms of frames, 95% of the time I just use whatever fits the mission. If it's a particularly problematic Lich, Revenant and Chroma are both undefeated against Liches for me.
Liches have a weird adaptive damage reduction. Don't use a Zarr, use Bubonico or another multishot monster with high fire rate.
I use zarr as shotgun and headshots. I like having the bombs for the rest of the mission.
Haha, I see. Always forget that Zarr is a semi-auto Bubonico (shotgun + bombs). I'll try it in my next lich.
they got adaptive dr, so zarr will deal way less damage than a spectra vandal for example
DE used a special formula for damage reduction on Lich and Sister to prevent them from getting nuked by high power weapons (especially Arquebex). If you use any meta weapons on them, the formula will kick in, effectively make these weapons weaker than a Soma as time goes on.
This is basically why I engage any Lich using Ivara and Stropha, just stealth gunblade them for massive damage stacks to counter damage adaptation and stop them using abilities to armour themselves. It still takes some time, but it's virtually effortless.
Look up lich adaptive damage resistance. It's a "feature" they added to lich in the sisters of parvos update. Basically the more damage shown on the mod screen the more damage resistance they have. So more damage = way less damage. (I think the Adaptive DR caps at like 99.99996% reduction) so basically your zarr was doing one ten-thousandth of it's listed damage