Sun Temple Boss

[Lambchops]

I may well have figured it out by the time I get back here but in case I haven't, I'm having trouble with this boss.

My current tactic is to use the energy form and a spicy roll, blast the heck out of it and try and jump out of the water whenever he's trying to manipulate it.

When I get to a certain stage he starts going nuts and blasting lots of glowing balls at me and smashing me about into those damned spikes. I have gone on for a fair while after this blasting him but he doesn't seem to die.

Do I just need to persevere or is there some sort of neat tactic of trick that I'm missing?

The only way I've survived so far is be accidentally boosting myself out of an exit in the top of the arena when I had spped boost on! (I presume that's a bug and you're only meant to be able to exit when you've beaten the boss).

[Shadow]

That's pretty much it ... there's another form you can use when he's draining the water that will make him not drag you in. Other than that, there's nothing else to the boss.

[Lambchops]

Ah well, perseverance it is then.

[Alec]

Well there's one other trick at least...

[dhakkel]

I found a very easy movement-limitation-exploit on this boss.

Where you come into the room, there's an area free of urchins. It's literally just the boss-side of the door.
Sit in there, switch to energy mode and keep right clicking. The boss cannot get to you there, the only thing you can be hit by is the energy blasts he emits when he gets pissed off. You don't even move when he sucks/blows the water because you are in a little dip.

I used like two eye cake things to replenish my health, and didn't have to move around at all ! Try if if all else fails, this guy was seriously hard when I tried to fight him normally.

[Lambchops]

I managed it eventually.

Guess it's time for a trip to the abyss now.

[broknecho]

Like dhakkel, I found that as soon as the door closed, I just attached to the door and started firing....only got hit by 2 wild energy shots.  The boss can't get that close to the door and can't pull you off.

[dhakkel]

I managed it eventually.

Guess it's time for a trip to the abyss now.

Ugh, good luck, I had to stop my 14 hour play session on the boss there because it's too damn hard to do when you are this tired .

[Ixis]

I beat him on the first try using speed postions and mashing the energy attack button, occasionally jumping out of the water when he was sucking...

And... If the Kelp forest isn't where the Abyss is... Then I've just beaten a dungeon out of order! ^_^ b

[smjjames]

I found a very easy movement-limitation-exploit on this boss.

Where you come into the room, there's an area free of urchins. It's literally just the boss-side of the door.
Sit in there, switch to energy mode and keep right clicking. The boss cannot get to you there, the only thing you can be hit by is the energy blasts he emits when he gets pissed off. You don't even move when he sucks/blows the water because you are in a little dip.

I used like two eye cake things to replenish my health, and didn't have to move around at all ! Try if if all else fails, this guy was seriously hard when I tried to fight him normally.

just where exactly is this spot? I've tried the spot right near the door but the giant worm keeps sucking me off and I don't have a whole lot of time to look for it since he sucks water in very fast.

[King]

Oioioioi a topic like this after I finally beat him normally? >;|

[smjjames]

I'm just wondering because  I have no idea how to beat him normally.

[Zeno]

I used Nature Form, to great effect.

Go down in the very bottom of the room, and shoot a tree onto an urchin so that it closes off that area.  Keep regrowing the tree, and throw some other trees nearby.  The boss will just keep running into them, and won't be able to suck you in because you're blocked off.  Sometimes, though, he'll manage to suck you through the tree; use Beast Form to swim away, then go back down and use Nature again.  Be sure not to kill yourself on your own thorns if you're in another form.

As an added bonus, Nature form keeps the urchins from hurting you.

This is why I love Nature form the best, it's got so many tactical applications.

[blackzeroflame]

I beat him twice, i think i died before a save point the first time.  Both times i killed him the same way, if you can get him to jump out of the water, he'll get stuck on the spikes up near the ceiling.  I don't know if that actually damages him, but he can't move and his energy attack is easy to dodge, so then i just lobbed a few trees up there and started spraying him with energy blasts

[smjjames]

I used Nature Form, to great effect.

Go down in the very bottom of the room, and shoot a tree onto an urchin so that it closes off that area.  Keep regrowing the tree, and throw some other trees nearby.  The boss will just keep running into them, and won't be able to suck you in because you're blocked off.  Sometimes, though, he'll manage to suck you through the tree; use Beast Form to swim away, then go back down and use Nature again.  Be sure not to kill yourself on your own thorns if you're in another form.

As an added bonus, Nature form keeps the urchins from hurting you.

This is why I love Nature form the best, it's got so many tactical applications.

hmm, I could try that tactic I can also deploy my blaster pet to let it take potshots at it, or maybe the pirana? not sure which one is more effective. Although the pirana does make enemies that it's attacking spin in circles like it's yelling 'GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF ME! OWOWOWOW!!'

its especially effective against those one eyed starfish things.

Edit: I hit on a slow strategy which I jumped up to the (sea urchin?) ledge and used nature form to spam those briar thorns down below where the worm guy would impale itself on them. It took a while and several tries because I kept accidentially jumping off the ledge. Eventually at the last try I got him to really low health and he was going nuts, but it was taking quite a while, so I sort of jumped in (accidentially or on purpose, I don't know, lol), but I decided what the hell and switched to energy form and went into energy bolt machine gun mode . It didn't take very long from that point where I jumped in, maybe 10 seconds when he was defeated.

You would need a good deal of patience for this method. I also had to constantly make sure I stayed in that spot on the ledge.