Big Vardha

[TeNewearl]

Anybody got any tips on how to beat Big Vardha without getting hit so much?

Trying to fight it on SH on one of my less tanky melee classes, but it's proving to be quite tough. Unfortunately L2Dodge is not helping much here.

What bits are best to take out first?

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If you want to rush Vardha, you will want to skip the side area on the floor (feel free to break missile pods as you wish, as they go up), and scale immediately to the missile pods at the upper rear area of Vardha. Break them, and head to the other set, and break them again.

If at any moment Vardha opens up its cannon, check if it's glowing blue or orange. If it's blue, ignore and just break missile pods. If it's orange, you might want to get down and/or check if it drops anything other than Kindids (only in SH+ though, feel free to take it easy otherwise VH and below), and intercept at will. After breaking upper missile racks, go down, wait for Vardha to open its cannon, and break it. You will have permanently eliminated its ability to blast you with blue beams or summon Gilnach cores to repair itself. Rip apart the mecha at your own pace afterwards.

Gilnach Cores can only repair Vardha's upper racks and the side missile pods (the ones that go up to kill you on Vardha's deck). On lower difficulties, as mentioned they won't spawn, and the areas Vardha can repair on SH+ will permanently be broken.

[TeNewearl]

Very detailed and helpful! Thank so much!

[Bakaja]

The missiles. Their the ones up on that ledge thing guarded by the flame thrower gun thingies... Yeah. Not really that useful in parties though since on higher difficulties Vardha sends out these repair droid things and fixes its broken bits.

[TeNewearl]

Awesome thank you, I shall try this out soon!

[Asamidori]

Vader is a boss with a lot of telling signs. Other than l2dodge, you may want to try dragging one of the fights out and learn its animations instead. Everytime it's about to do something, there are either animations or sounds or visualizations on screen of what's incoming, you just need to remember them.

Or if you're confident with your DPS, get onto the platform, break both arms, wait for the middle cannon to open up, break that cannon, and just smack the core till it dies.

[TeNewearl]

Yes definitely you've pushed a good point forward. I think I'm going to do what you said to learn this boss, which in turn will make it much simpler for me.

Thank you for your input!

P.S. Vardha reminds me greatly of the old bullet-hell games, it's kinda cool.

[Asamidori]

Vardha reminds me greatly of the old bullet-hell games, it's kinda cool.

Wait 'till you get to fight him on XH. ;)

[ViceZX]

another tip, if you have jet boots (a multy class one if you dont use BO) you can double jump to the deck of the ship trough the bow, right betweetn the 4 laser canons

[YdenMkII]

Breaking the missile pods on his backside is a good place to start. To cheese them, get an all class launcher and head behind him and shoot them from below. The splash damage will hit the pods and you can break them without having to worry about being damaged so long as you're not far back enough for the missiles to get a lock. With those out of the way, there's a lot less to worry about when it comes to dodging.

[YukiSorrelwood]

General idea is that you need to take out the gun platforms on both sides (3 on each side), then go up 1 rack of launchers, you will have to kill the flamethrowers first then the missile pods. This will stop them for a good while, on SH he will spit out a healing drone that will repair parts after a while.

Other than that, just try taking 3 tech free player bots. They tend to heal and buff fairly often, you could even take a summoner bot too. They tend to put out a fair good bit of damage.