The Forest Beast is the leader of the Cult of the God Who Screams in the Forest, also known as the Forest Children. It's hard to get to him, and even harder to defeat him. There are a number of things you need to have before you can fight him. You need to have:
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Preparation
These are the items a level 121 player should bring to kill the Forest Beast, on top of the items to clear the Screaming Forest:
If you want to be extra safe, you could also bring:
- 1 complete Forest Strider's set;
- 1 weapon from the list:
- Frenetic's Soultaker;
- Black Strider Machete;
- Turnkey's Axe;
- Hawk's AF-M;
- Bloodlust Rifle.
- 40 Phoenix Stimulators;
- 1 Sorbent;
- 1 Blood Groove;
- 1 Biofilter;
- Booster food;
- 1 Off-Road Wheelset;
- 3 Grease.
If you want to be extra safe, you could also bring:
- 1 (Protective) Heart of Carnifex;
- 1 Triad Bracelets;
- 1 weapon from the list:
- SVD-A Verdict;
- Bloody AK;
- Laceration Shotgun.
- 1 Backpack from the list:
- Black Strider Backpack (1834 armor);
- Black Strider's Knapsack (10% less damage from bosses and elite);
- Undertaker's Big Backpack (1552 armor);
- Hawk's Backpack (20% less weapon durability loss).
- 10 Azure Lazarus.
Walkthrough
This is what you should do (and what not) if you want to defeat the Forest Beast. Note that you can only enter his lair if you destroy all three totems, which spawn by chance.
After you've burned down all three Forest Children's Idols, you can enter the Forest Beast's Lair. You can find the entrance in the top corner. This leads directly to the lair, where you find the Forest Beast waiting for you. Before you battle him, there's something you should know about the arena. It consists of four totems:
- Totem of Shackles (reduces your running speed);
- Totem of Poison (deals toxic poison damage);
- Totem of Healing (restores Forest Beast's health);
- Totem of Power (Forest Beast's attack grow stronger).
Now that you learned about the environment, you can enter the Forest Beast's Lair. The Forest Beast will be waiting for you in the left corner, in the Totem of Power zone. He'll start off with a circular attack. You should definitely run away from the very large red zone, since his circular attack deals a lot of damage. You can only survive that attack if you're wearing a full set of Forest Strider's armor, and even then it deals more than 5000 damage. At this point, the Forest Beast will have 18000 hitpoints, and 2 HP bars. It also has three special effects: immune to slowdown effects, immune to toxic poison damage and vulnerable to deep wounds. Especially the last one is important if you want to defeat him. After you depleted its first health bar, he regains 18000 hitpoints and 5 HP this time. At this point you'll have to make a decision between two strategies:
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If you're planning on kiting the Forest Beast, you should bring a ranged weapon, like Frenetic's Soultaker, Hawk's AF-M (with a Bloody Nanite) or Bloodlust Rifle. Shoot the Beast and quickly run away if he's near, but don't try to outrun him, because his speed is high enough to keep up with you. After you depleted his first health bar, the Forest Beast summons two Forest Children. Kill them first to avoid unnecessary damage. He throws toxic grenades, which you'll also want to avoid. Besides, one of the totems activates every time you deplete one health bar. Make sure to stay out of the Totem of Shackles, because that makes it very hard to run away and possibly dodge his circular attack. He summons another pair of Forest Children when he has only three health bars left, so you have to kill them as well.
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If you're planning on tanking the Forest Beast, you should bring a close range weapon, like Black Strider Machete (with a Bloody Nanite) or Turnkey's Axe. A ranged weapon works fine as well. It is essential that you take the Blood Groove right now, because the whole strategy relies on this item. The Beast's first attack will be a circular attack, so dodge this one first. Next, run to the upper corner (the zone where the Totem of Poison will be activated) or the corner at the bottom (the zone where the Totem of Shackles will be activated). It's easier to kill the Forest Beast in any of these zones, because the left corner (where the Totem of Power will be activated) makes you have to heal yourself too much and the right corner (where the Totem of Healing will be activated) allows the Forest Beast to regenerate, which forces you to do double work. He throws toxic grenades, but don't run away from them, just keep hiting him. The Blood Groove makes sure you don't die as long as you keep hitting, and use Phoenix Stimulators and Mongoose injectors to boost your HP every now and then. Note that he summons Forest Children, but don't get distracted: kill the Forest Beast first, and everyone else later.
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Loot
The Forest Beast drops:
- 2-3 Azure Lazarus;
- 3 Crush Candies;
- 1 Balm Star;
- 2-3 Grease;
- 2-3 Legendary Arms Kits;
- Bogdan's sixth note (only the first time);
- 29-32 Tokens of the Forest;
- 20 Sturdy Locks;
- 3-4 Toxic Grenades.