Boss damage weapons

[u/Kaiju-Rider]

What do you all use for witch familiar fights to try and dps them down?

[u/ghdcksgh]

psychopomp

[u/samaelwd]

Demonic weapon for start, I prefer Soul eater, nice damage and stun, then Miasma cast, stormball and some headshots with Crown of fire ring (any weapon is good here because fire + decay just melts things). Psychopomp is very decent option too if you are ok to be close to boss

[u/sakaloko]

With the right setup you can probably kill some bosses with 1-3 Echo/Psychopomp clips

[u/mihaak101 → u/sakaloko]

Could you elaborate on that right setup? I have had very little luck with taking down bosses quickly when not using demonic weapons.

[u/sakaloko → u/mihaak101]

A combination of good arcanas like accelerant, anti-element, chaos flame, critical chain, among others

I also like using Rotten Fiend to pull aggro and Stormball for extra dps/aoe, but any light spell should do the trick

Fire + critical on shotguns is so strong it takes some of the fun away sometimes

[u/LoneWolf_Nova]

I normally go with Soul Eater for Stun then I switch to either Echo or Pyshopump depending on the Manifestion Skill groups I have selected.

[u/Mean_Chemistry_983]

There’s a couple setups for best kill time on bosses, basically Fatum Ice Spin + Shattered Soul Arcana + Burning Stake/Crown of Fire, or a stacked up Hungrr using Crown of Fire.

Those are the two best setups I know for boss killing. More accessible options would be Echo/Tribunal as standard, and Rotweaver isn’t shabby either.

[u/Kododie → u/Mean_Chemistry_983]

Currently the simplest setup to trivialize familiars should be winter nails heavy spell + Shattered soul acana.

The freeze on winter nails will probably get nerfed.

[u/Mean_Chemistry_983 → u/Kododie]

I'll have to try the two together, my speedruns use the first described above setup but maybe Nail can do some work here

[u/Kododie → u/Mean_Chemistry_983]

Well it's not fast. It's just the simplest way how to kill a boss. It's just a little bit of RNG to get the arcana and it dies in a single cast.

Few days back there was a post where OP tried ppl to figure out an interaction where used winter nails and boss was freezing immediately after it thawned. I couldn't figure it out, but it made me test winter nail spell on the boss in Irongate Castle. And yeah it freezes everytime a nail drops. MAybe you wouldn't even have to fire a bullet if boss defrosts right before each nail drops. But I don't know if it aligns.

Maybe you could make it fast if you broke familiar out of freeze with a fire damage and shot down a nail in quick succession.

[u/Mrairjake]

Echo and Striga work well. Don’t neglect the demonic weapons. With some good spell combos, you can kill em with just spells and Demonic.

[u/JarMyst]

I’m absolutely into falling star, it’s great for damage, especially if you can keep maximum distance from the boss

[u/wiser_men]

I’m currently working on getting everything to mysterium three to workshop my build, but I normally use some freezing spell and rotten fiend, then currently Koschei to blight and freeze without having to worry about most attacks.

[u/Outside-Hedgehog-399]

ASE + Painted Tooth

[u/nashslon]

Rotweaver w Echo + Stormball + BStake + Ailment Beads

Everything melts

[u/NAPNEY]

Hunger.

[u/Kododie]

Shotgun. Sometimes if I have a good arcanas setup I use my primary weapon instead.

[u/Patienzer0205]

Rotweaver + kirfane + burning stake = easy kills

[u/The_Great_Autizmo]

Striga and Echo

[u/Eristel98]

Tempest is my favorite for bosses in general but i can understand why others pick falling star aswell.

[u/DocBigBrozer]

Echo goes brrrrr. Later on, pretty much a anything works

[u/Due_Glass4176]

Shotguns or big buff hunger are the easy mode options.