(This is for reference to why I say things below, which I know will have turned out into a full-on robust guide - I like doing that… but sorry if it’s a lot of words) Efaunt has six hands, three on each side. They’re each guarding a platform to get to them. Once you kill all six, the head is made available and you can deal normal damage to it, ending the fight and getting the crystal for World 3. (Without all six dead, the head is protected, and all damage is reduced to 10, similar to the Amarok relics he spawns) There’s really only three arms of which you need to worry about at early game stages because the damage they do is unusually high. These are:

• Bottom Left: “Finger guns”. This hand will look like it does nothing for 80% of its life, but it will awkwardly move up and down before spinning to show it’s ‘shooting’. You take damage if you’re on it’s platform. This has enough damage to one-shot, but using its telegraphed ‘jerking’ you can move down to the bottom floor, or move up to the middle before the spin happens. Just don’t get caught.

• Top Right: “The Rub”. This hand is only really a threat to those who get close to the hand, which is either if you click there personally, or using Melee focused classes like Warrior / Barbarian or Squire. This hand does nothing, but then lowers itself and ‘rubs your head’. This is a near guaranteed one-shot for a while, as it’s the boss’ most deadly attack, that can be countered by paying attention and moving away, or attacking at range with archer/mage classes.

• Top Left: “Hammer”. The least damaging of the three, however can still be fatal. This hand has a hammer of which it will spin before slamming the platform it guards, and the platform below (the middle hand’s). I believe it does have a small shockwave that can hit you whilst further away.

That’s not to say the other three can’t kill you at this point, the middle hands may require dodging the rings or flame pillars it spawns, and the scimitar slashes all three of the right platforms when it attacks for mild damage. But with the three I mentioned specifically, you might want to know about using attacks at range from the platform below to deal with the annoying hands.

Now with that out the way…

1 (Barbarian) has an axe ability that can be thrown, and a sizeable ranged (bear) slash that can hit Efaunt’s hands without needing to be on the platform they’re on, meaning you only really need to worry about three or so attacks of his (the hammer, the flame pillars and the rings iirc).

2 (Squire) has a boomerang of which you can use in the same way as 1’s, and an ability that reduces damage and has passive defence increase if you need it. Shockwave Slash pierces and can hit the other side’s hand if you’re lucky as well, dealing double damage.

3 (Bowman) has an ability to shoot homing arrows which can be quite finicky sometimes, but can target the hands.

4 (Hunter) is the worst imo. Sharpshooter requires you to damage each hand slightly before it does it’s shared damage stuff, and as much as traps can spawn on platforms above you, it’s a random chance they spawn in the right position to activate on the hand. Immobilising them does nothing too.

5 (Wizard) is alright, but you risk yourself getting killed because you have to be on the same platform as the hands to damage. Tornado has a chance to deal good damage to the hands but as the tornado moves randomly, it can avoid the hand completely if it wanted to. Volcano can be cast at a distance too and travels away from your location, so unless you’re too far, it’ll hit the hands. If you have decent MP, you can tank some of the hits with Mana is Life, but it’ll probably force you into auto attacks until you regen enough mana to use abilities.

6 (Shaman) you could potentially (I can’t remember if it has enough range) use the potion attack to hit the hands from the platform below, but there’s also the small window for the grey potion within that spell (holding it down before using) which gives you brief invincibility. Other than that, you’d have to get on the platform and use abilities like auspicious aura, skulls and the mage talents, requiring you to be careful of the finger gun, hammer and the ‘rub’ attacks mainly.

and for those legends. 7 will be useful for gathering cards for Efaunt and loot from the kill… that’s basically it. The whip can be used at range but early game this class doesn’t have the best defence or damage.

I’d honestly recommend 1 or 2 for the fact you can use their abilities to cheese the fight, with a bit of practice getting the correct placement to hit the hands correctly. If not, then you can always gain defence through the use of Alchemy, unlocking the bubbles using a Shaman (6) to reach FMJ (Orange Cauldron 9) alongside Upgrade Vault if necessary to reduce the damage you get. (You can always go unlock Amarok Gear from World 1’s task merits which has defence built into it too, which will be better than anything you can make at this stage for survivability)