How To Defeat The Tottering Old Man In Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent
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- Where to find the swaying old man
After beating the main story of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, you might be itching to find the best gear for your party to prepare for the Tourny Cups or other difficult Super Bosses. Right now, the best weapons to grind for are the Battle Tested series, which can be equipped at level 60.
The Battleworn Bow can be obtained by defeating the Tottering Old Man in Emberglow. Let’s take a look at where to find this NPC, some suggestions for forming your party, and a general battle strategy to defeat him.
Where to find the swaying old man
The stuttering old man can be found in Emberglow: Eastern District. Follow the path to the left and then go down towards the trio of children. When they block your way inquire further with them to move them, then further south. The boss is to to the right of this path.
battle strategy
The dying old man is weak against fan and light attacks. He has a few attacks that he will use during the fight, such as attack hits all units in the first rowor an attack on it hits random targets. The main thing to watch out for is fulmawhich deals high damage two goals and has the opportunity to do so inflict paralysis upon them, giving them a chance to be incapacitated.
We recommend bringing your own for this fight a couple of dancersbest with Multi-hit attacks from fans like Lynette or Iris. Other good dancers for this fight include but are not limited to Meena, due to her access to light attacksand Mabel, for her strong passive backline this increases the duration of the buffs on all party members. with that one strong elemental or physical damage buffer like Lynette or Fabio will greatly increase the damage of your attacks when the boss is broken.
A sample group for fighting the Tottering Old Man.
Next likes a strong cleric Millard, who can also use light attacks will be enough to heal from the Tottering Old Man’s frontline and random attacks. Bring a strong one to reduce the overall damage your party takes Aggro tanks like Gilderoy or Tressasince they can distract the boss’s attacks from the rest of the group.
Finally bring yours strongest damage dealing characterpreferably one who can hit the boss’s weak points, although this is not necessary. Fiore can deal extremely high damage when fully empowering her single target attacksbut Lynette, Sofia and Millard are also good choices for this role.
Your main goal during this fight is Keep the Tottering Old Man in the broken state as much as possible. This not only helps protect your party from his attacks, but also allows you to deal the most damage with your strong unit’s boosted attacks.
Use Multi-hit attacks to break shield pointsthen Boost your dancer’s normal attacks to break the boss.
As you break the boss’s shield, Save the boost points on your main damage dealers. Then, when the boss is broken, boost your strongest attacks to destroy his health. be sure to Keep aggro-drawing abilities, buffs, and debuffs active as often as possible. Repeat this process a few times and the boss should go down within a few cycles.
Reward
After defeating the Tottering Old Man you have a chance to get the Battleworn Bowand by arguing with the boss you get a historical materialwhich can later be exchanged for any battle-hardened weapon.
While you can only fight the boss once a day, fight through it Impress path action will allow you challenge the battle as many times as you like. The drop rate for the Battle Hardened Bow isn’t the highest, so you might have to fight the Tottering Old Man a few times before you can get it.