Giant Cave Grub in Old Town? Strategy?

[dbarron]

I've made my way there and cleared about half the old town map, but I fail to get the grub more than half way every attempt.  Does anyone have any better suggestions than come back when bigger ? (chars are level 7 currently)

Hee, I kinda miss playing a game that already has a walkthrough, so I could answer this by research.  The hazards of new games. 

Thank you.

[Hazmy]

You can cheese the fight by constantly charming him with Serafin and knocking him down / interrupting him inbetween charms.

I found this to be the only way as he is one-shotting. At least on POTD.

This way you can kill him.

[dbarron]

I decided to charm and run away...I completed quest at least

[Hybridsalmon]

You can cheese the fight by constantly charming him with Serafin and knocking him down / interrupting him inbetween charms.

 

I found this to be the only way as he is one-shotting. At least on POTD.

 

This way you can kill him.

He's one-shotting even on relaxed 

But if you have an arbalest guy you can actually shoot him outside of his range. Stand next to the southern doorway and see it being useless.

[Miro]

I didn't find any giant cave grub down there, is this related to a quest? and if so, where do I get it?

[dbarron]

Umm, probably a quest to find a mural for dieso, I believe the name is...a thug boss in the narrows.

[TheisEjsing]

This was my strategy! 

 

Edited May 13, 2018 by TheisEjsing

[Miro]

Umm, probably a quest to find a mural for dieso, I believe the name is...a thug boss in the narrows.

Do you mean Dereo? He only gave me a quest to find the Cornett of Waves from Takano's Villa

[dbarron]

Yes

[Melusina]

I'm currently level 6 - is it possible to beat him now?

[CAlmond]

I did beat him with level 6s but it was a tough fight and I only succeeded on the 4th try, the main thing for me was to spread out except when doing an AoE heal. Use potions when abilities are gone. Use grenades/bombs when abilities are gone. In my final successful fight eder and xoti was both down, but we finally managed to kill it.

[andreicde]

The boss cannot reach if you use arquebus, so use Maia and anyone else that has an arquebus and keep the rest close to her in case it spawns grubs.

Edited May 11, 2018 by andreicde

[Hybridsalmon]

 

Umm, probably a quest to find a mural for dieso, I believe the name is...a thug boss in the narrows.

Do you mean Dereo? He only gave me a quest to find the Cornett of Waves from Takano's Villa

 

 

Probably the quest after that. Also got that quest, but I didn't want to give him the conch. When I got the other one and went through the undercity areas, the game treated me like I received the quest from him to enter the temple.

[meixie]

It's really rough but I managed it at 9 on Veteran with:

 

Eder (Fighter)

Pallegina (Paladin)

Aloth (Wizard)

Xoti (Priest)

PC (Swashbuckler)

 

I grouped everyone up right under the boss, used Aloth to debuff it with Expose Vulnerability and Combusting Wounds and tried to do as much damage to it as possible in that window. Xoti used healing spells (Got a lot of use out of Consecrated Ground, hence the tight grouping) and debuffs/buffs during that window when only the boss was up and the adds hadn't engaged yet. When the adds came up, I focused on keeping them engaged as best I could while trying to burn the boss down. The Frighten affliction (Xoti has a spell and my rogue has a helmet that gives it) were really useful in peeling adds for a few seconds.

 

Chaining Knockdowns on the boss (helped that I had two Fighter-type characters for it) was really useful as well.

Edited May 11, 2018 by meixie

[Melusina]

Bump. I'm at the same spot this time at level 7,I'm trying to get no knock-down playthrough and having bad time.

Have Maia, ranger, Pellegina, herald, Xoti, monk, Eder, swashbuckler and me, celebrant.

 

Any help?

[IndiraLightfoot]

I was lvl 6 PotD. I used all kind of boosting and protective potions before the fight.

We snuck by him along the wall and killed the two grub nests and that little urn.

 

Then I used a number of summon figurines, as well as my summons from my characters (like your Herald), and I just had my custom AI shred that bastard. Though I noticed that the AI got distracted by a few worms still, so I had to manually click on the super grub's body to keep them focussed on him, while my constant healing did its work. You need to be able to stand a lot of heat in this fight.

Edited May 13, 2018 by IndiraLightfoot

[ManifestedISO]

that thing is weak to Will afflictions, Serafen or anyone can Dominate it every time

 

which is great because your party can now attack dominated enemies and they won't instantly turn red

 

the only thing is, any summons you cast won't attack a dominated enemy

[dbarron]

I think now that I'm a level 13 party, I should head back and lay this worm to rest.  See how he likes it now that I have powerful attacks (lol)...that is assuming he still spawns for me.

[xelnod]

Struggled with a lv7 party a bit, then decided to ditch him and just sneak past.
On the way back I had to use Shadowing Beyond to avoid being one-shot, and while I was at it, I hit the bastard with Gouging Strike as a kind of a parting gift.

For some reason, I was never out of combat, though I already ran all the way to the edge of a map. Turns out, this thing literally never ends: the poor bastard just bled pure damage until death and I just had to hide and wait. I guess it's a suitable way for an assassin to kill the big game after all.

 

TLDR: Gouging Strike then wait.

Edited August 8, 2021 by xelnod
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[Boeroer]

Damage over Time effects usually prevent combat from stopping. Using Gouging Strike, Brand Enemy and/or Lover's Embrace from stealth are ways to kill any enemy as long as you can employ invisibility that doesn't break on DoT-ticks (most invisibility abilities work except Skaen's version of Shadowing Beyond and Arkemyr's Brilliat Departure iirc - use potion of invisibility when in doubt) and hide - or if the target is stationary/can't follow for other reasons just run away (like the Giant Cave Grub).

Only things that can prevent you from killing the big ones this way is not being able to even graze (e.g. Gouging Strike or Lover's Embrace vs. Belranga, Brand Enemy is an Auto-hit) and if the enemy has unlimited uses of a healing ability (e.g. some Ogres like Torkar have unlimited Robust-inducing potions) - and Huani o Whe because the two splitted oozes who will be there after his initial death will just merge back again at some point - and you can't prevent that from happening with the above DoTs alone. It works if you are a Cipher though with Disintegrate (will dissolve Huani without splitting it up as long as Huani dies while Disintegrate is working on him) - but it's very hard to hit him because his fortitude is enormous. Better to kill him with DoTs first and then Disintegrate his "kids". Another thing is if there's no place to hide (Water Dragon fight - if you want to fight him in the first place).

But in general you can kill everything with endless DoTs, yes. You just need a place to hide and patience. 

[Elric Galad]

6 hours ago, Boeroer said:

but it's very hard to hit him because his fortitude is enormous.

While near death, try until you get a graze (Morningstar as a prequisite, Might/Con debuff can help).

Then use an insta-kill effect (Marux Amanth being the most reliable, albeit 1 Full attack use - pair with Sun & Moon for triple roll).

Seems doable, albeit not convenient.

[Boeroer]

**** hits the fan when Marux Amanth rolls a miss then. Happened to me recently.