This is a guide to the Outriders Chrysaloid Boss from the Forest Enclave zone on Enoch. Here you will find everything you need to know about the special abilities and attacks of the creature, all of the mechanics, phases and – of course – how to defeat the monster!
The guide contains light spoilers. Its goal is to help you defeat the boss easily, so keep reading if you’d rather not go into it completely blind or if you have already tried it and need a bit of advice how to beat it.
Heading Into the Forest Enclave
In Outriders the Chrysaloid is the fourth Major story boss of the game, fought in the Forest Enclave region of the story. This boss takes the form of a gigantic Monster (kind of looks like a badly mutated rancor).
Upon Entering the Forest, your convoy will be attacked and thrown off course by the Chrysaloid, where your character will decide the best course of action is to take care of it.
You’ll be thrown into the “Mayhem” quest and land in an area with only a restock option. Use this time before entering the fight to make sure you’re properly prepared. If necessary, you can safely change your Story Point via the Game Lobby to access an area to swap your mods.
Preparing for the Chrysaloid Encounter
While the Chrysaloid isn’t a particularly dangerous foe once you learn its moves, it does have a ton of health to burn through and can do plenty of damage if you don’t evade its attacks.
Since the Chrysaloid is located outside of the arena for the majority of the fight, most skills that reposition you to the enemy will fail to work. Alongside this, shorter range skills like Temporal Blade only have small windows they can hit. So it’s best to avoid these skills for this fight.
Given the Range you fight at, you’ll also want to stick to Assault Rifles, Light Machine Guns, Standard/One-shot Rifles and Sniper Rifles. Opportunities to use Shotguns or SMGs and deal meaningful damage are low in this fight. Yes, the situation is similar in that regard to the Molten Acari boss encounter.
If you are wiping continuously on this boss, check if your gear is updated and upgraded. Gear and Mods in Outriders play significant role for your combat performance and success. Another option is to just lower the World Tier (the difficulty of the game).
Keep in mind that the higher the World Tier, the better rewards you get. Better read this guide to learn how to defeat the Outriders Chrysaloid boss and get nice powerful loot than to lower the difficulty, breeze through the creature and get worse rewards.
For higher World Tiers building your character properly is done mostly through the crafting system in Outriders. And our dedicated guide will help you learn how to best use your resources and get the most out of your current gear.
The Chrysaloid Encounter Guide
The Chrysaloid is the second boss to feature phases, though there’s only one major difference between the two phases and it’s not attacks.
The Chyrsaloid’s weak point under their Mouth (on his belly). Though this weak point does move a fair bit, having means to apply a slow every so often will help quite a bit with hitting it consistently.
Phase 1: Entering the Arena
In this phase, the Chrysaloid has four attacks it will perform.
The first of these and easily the most dangerous, is Radiation Breath. The Chrysaloid will inhale, visible by the dust and debris being pulled towards it. It will also bow down its head noticeably. The preparation for this attack is quite long and gives you plenty of time to prepare for it.
It will then start at the side of the arena that has a nearby player and sweep the entire arena.
You can use the rocks as cover to avoid the damage and Vulnerable status effect it can apply. Alternatively, you can roll through it, but this is much much harder to perform.
The second attack is Claw Slam. The Chrysaloid will target a player and attempt to do an open-hand slam with it’s claw, covering a wide area.
This attack can be dodged by simply sprinting out of the marked area most times. Due to the larger area, it will tend to barely hit you more often than not.
The Third attack is Fist Slam. The Chrysaloid will target a player and attempt a closed-hand slam with it’s Claw, covering a longer but thinner range than the Claw Slam.
This attack tends to be easier to avoid than the Claw Slam, as it’s a much smaller AoE and easier to roll out of. Simply running or rolling to the side will have you avoid it.
The Chrysaloid’s last attack is Boulder Toss. The Chrysaloid will hurl several boulders which will attempt to indirectly hit the player. The creature will rise up and bash the rocky formations above its head to cause rocks to fall onto the arena.
Due to the more random nature of this attack, it tends to be easier to avoid with constant movement.
After 50% of the Chrysaloid’s Health has been depleted, the creature will climb up, its Health bar will disappear (stop shooting at this point) and a short cutscene will trigger, moving the fight to a different location.
Phase 2: Strix Phase
Phase 2 is more of the same attacks, this time with Strixes also being summoned. There’s no additional attacks or mechanics to existing ones, just adds to watch out for.
Given the Strix are ranged enemies, they can be particularly lethal, as Toxic is much harder to cleanse in this fight. There’s a very limited amount of Strix.
On top of Toxin, if you get caught in the Radiation Breath the initial hits and Toxin will be stronger. Make sure you get to cover for that attack in the second phase.
The Radiation Breath in this phase is much easier to avoid. It takes up the further half of the area and will once again mark the ground with red. The similar inhale animation also plays out before the monster performs this special attack.
When Chrysaloid climbs up on the side of the arena in the second phase, the Radiation Burn attack will mark the half of the arena that is closer to the boss .
In the second phase the Boulder Toss looks the same as in phase one, but here the markers where the rocks will fall are more clearly visible thanks to the water surface.
In this phase the Chrysaloid will move backwards and attempt to hide itself in preparation for this attack. You can still shoot it, during that time.
After the Chrysaloid’s health has been depleted, you’ll see a short cutscene of it collapsing on to the arena. Collect your loot and you can continue on your way.
This loot is also unique in the fact that it seems to drop a guaranteed Legendary Weapon on your first kill. It will drop standard loot for repeat fights which tends to be Rares and Epics.
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