Boss Strategies

Magical constructs with bodies crafted from sturdy elven steel, created by the high elves to guard their ruins.

Your first real wall, guarding the opening ruin. Slow, heavily telegraphed swings and poor tracking — circle behind it, stay on its back, and feed it charged heavy attacks. Dodge (don't block) the overhead slam; blocking it drains your stamina and leaves you open. No healing pressure here, so use it to rehearse the parry timing you'll lean on all game.

Male boars who owe their prodigious size to a long lifespan. They are known as Snowcaps due to the large graying humps on their backs, which bring to mind snowy mountain peaks.

A solitary, cunning charger. It rushes in straight lines — side-dodge the charge, let it overshoot, then punish the flank while it turns. Repeat; it has no answer to a clean strafe-and-punish loop. Keep your stamina bar above empty so you always have a dodge banked for the next rush.

Grizzlies cannot see, searching for prey using only their sense of smell. That is why they often take lurching, wide swings with their arms when hunting; however, the Glenspore Grizzly is slightly different.

An aggressive bruiser that scatters explosive fire spores — don't stand in the lingering clouds. Parries are the key: time the parry on its lunge, then follow with charged heavy attacks while it's staggered. Avoid trading blows; its damage spikes are high, and a later, fiercer fire version turns up, so bank the pattern now.

Hunter Wolves never become pack leaders, but their outstanding physical prowess can sometimes make them stronger than their Roaring Wolf counterparts.

Fast and combo-happy, with lightning-charged lunges. Keep your lock-on, dodge into its lunges rather than away to stay inside its turn radius, and answer the short windows with quick sword skills instead of slow charged hits. Punish only one skill per opening — it recovers fast.

The warrior class of the shrewman species, distinguished by their larger frames. Unlike their smaller thieving kinfolk, these brutes serve as shrewman predators.

The shrewmen's warrior caste — agile, clawed, and smart enough to bait you. Its attack timing is deliberately erratic to draw out early dodges. Wait for the actual swing, parry it, and punish. Patience beats aggression here; the moment you panic-dodge, its follow-up lands.

A higher species of Mama Boar. Over the years, countless headbutts have thickened their scalps into a material akin to high-grade armor.

The prologue's hardest field boss — a frenzied charger that keeps its momentum where the Snowcap Boar loses it. Bait and side-dodge the rushes as before, but resist the urge to chain a full combo; it recovers and re-charges faster than you expect, so land one punish and reset your spacing. Come in at level, healing items topped up.