Tips and Prep for Fighting The Forgotten General
The Forgotten General has a ton of health, defense, and hits incredibly fast and hard. While she is classified under the same Overwhelming Beings tier as Beloth, the Darksworn, and Ator, Archon of Antumbra, The Forgotten General is significantly more challenging and the hardest boss fight in the game by far.
Judgment of the Soul
Her signature “Judgment of the Soul” attack summons a bunch of spirits from the armors lining the walls that charge you in a line in sequence.
It’s impractical to dodge Judgement of the Soul or block it with your shield/weapon. If you mess it up once, you will get hit by the remaining waves of spirits, which will deal lethal damage unless you take bites of food between waves.
You can see where they’ll be coming from next because the next wave shows up before the current one makes it to the other side of the room. Keep in mind that they can come from opposite sides of the room at the same time.
They don’t charge into the columns that line the outside of the room, but it’s really hard to orient yourself correctly amid all the chaos.
The timing is still tight, but it’s much easier just to encase yourself in ice using the Frost Mantle Skill and hold it until the ghosts stop coming.
Since you’ll be Imbuing Ice, we recommend pairing it with Kuku Ice-Resistant Armor so you don’t accidentally freeze yourself with the frosty residue.
This tactic does consume a lot of Spirit, so make sure you remain topped off or you’ll run out and become vulnerable to charges from subsequent waves again.
Again, your window to do this is pretty small as there is deceptively long wind-up before you’re actually immune to damage. Unless you luck out and happen to be on the opposite side of the room from the charging ghosts, it’s probably too late to use the ability once they’re already charging at you.
The Forgotten General’s telegraph for her Judgment of the Soul attack begins with her striking the non-pointy end of her onto the floor multiple times and then pointing it at you. It’s evocative of the Lord Chamberlain announcing guests at a fancy party.
She doesn’t deal damage during this animation, so it can be a decent opportunity to hit her and interrupt your impending doom, but you don’t have time to hesitate or charge up something beefy. Also, sometimes she slams it really hard at the end to knock you back.
Stunlocking her with heavy attack spam is valuable to minimize how often she does Judgment of the Soul and her own Nature’s Echo attacks, but you do eventually run out of stamina and she likes to teleport away before announcing the arrival of more “guests”.
Essential Preparations
You can only fight The Forgotten General with Kliff (the first time), so you basically need to make sure he’s fully maxed out. This is THE time to use Greater Abyss Gears, which should safely last the full battle.
- Refine and use a full set of Tier 10 equipment
- Repair your gear at an Anvil and Grindstone
- Max out your Spirit, Stamina, and HP, though it is possible to defeat her if you stop at the Research requirement, when you would have to start using 5 Artifacts per level:
- 11+ Health
- 10+ Stamina
- 8+ Spirit
- Spend at least ~160 Abyss Artifacts total in the Skill tree
- This is the number required to unlock most or all of Kliff’s skills and reach the Spirit, Stamina, and HP thresholds
- Use the following Greater Elixirs before the fight starts (do it before triggering the cutscene so you don’t have to reapply them between wipes)
- Freya’s Greater Elixir (+30 Defense)
- Apollina’s Greater Elixir (+10 Attack)
- Meliara’s Greater Elixir (+225 Max HP, +3 Attack Speed)
- Use a full set of combat-oriented Tier III or Unique Abyss Gears and swap out as many as you can for Greater Abyss Gears, for example:
- Swap out a Destruction III for a Greater Destruction
- Don’t use Abyss Gears like Ascent I or Haste II
- Stock up on the following consumables, and if you’re worried about wasting them or running out, you haven’t made enough:
- Aromatic Grand Meals (Full Health +600 over Max, -5% Spirit Cost for 3 mins)
- Satisfying Extravagant Meals (+75% Spirit, No Spirit Cost for 6s, 50% Heal, Ice Resist Lv 6 for 1 min)
- Refined Palmar Pills
- Use the Axe of Armageddon
Remember to save your game and then pop your Greater Elixirs before triggering the cutscene. This way, if it turns out you weren’t ready, you can just reload that save and don’t lose all the rare consumables you spent on your failed attempt.
Axe of Armageddon
The Axe of Armageddon is one of your rewards for beating the main story. Don’t worry, that’s not really a spoiler. It has no connection to the story and feels really random to get.
It has a whopping 99999 Attack but only 1 Durability, so you get a single devastating swing that should end the life of whatever it hits.
The Forgotten General is the supreme enemy on which to spend this fleeting weapon, but as a testament to her own strength, it will only hit for ~25% of her max HP and can’t be used to finish her off!
→ From our How to get the Odeck’s Protector Plate Armor guide.
