# attain and defeat the Lifer in Wuthering Waves 2.0 – Destructoid

The Lifer is a troublesome boss to search out and a good tougher one to defeat in Wuthering Wave’s Rinacista, due to his distinctive location and his numerous buffs. Right here’s a walkthrough on how you could find and defeat it.

The place to search out the Lifer in Wuthering Waves

The Lifer is on the middle of the huge maze situated on the coronary heart of the Fagaceae Peninsula zone, inside Oakheart Highcourt. This location makes up a lot of the whole zone in measurement, and it’s troublesome to navigate, particularly since some illusionary trickery is concerned with reaching the middle. Extra on that quickly.

Upon laying eyes on this large maze, your first intuition is likely to be to make use of the Flight Utility instrument to soar over the partitions. Sadly, these illusions I simply talked about will forestall you from doing so: you’ll get to the middle, however attain a lifeless finish each time. As an alternative, it’s important to enter the maze at its designated entrance and comply with the breadcrumb path laid earlier than you to get to the correct middle.

Navigating the maze

Start by heading to the Fagaceae Peninsula, Oakheart Highcourt Resonance Beacon. Teleporting to it places you straight in entrance of the right entrance.

You’ll know you’re in the correct place if you happen to see this ominous-looking statue in entrance of you.

Make your manner via the doorway behind the statue and work together with the stone pill earlier than advancing additional.

The pill talks a bit concerning the lore of the maze, however the essential half is in parenthesis: it’s worthwhile to comply with the trail of tablets littering the maze to succeed in the Lifer within the center.

When you’re achieved trying on the pill, advance previous it, following the pathway. Don’t take the leftmost detour space.

You wish to proceed to move towards the internal part of the maze for now, so make certain the trail you’re taking is doing simply that. You’ll seemingly encounter a number of enemies in your manner, so handle them as they seem. Preserve following the trail till you attain the following stone pill on the bottom, then work together with it.

That is the place issues can get complicated. The trail to comply with now’s minimize off due to three Overflowing Palettes within the space, which you have to resolve to progress. Make a psychological observe of the way you reached the pill earlier than continuing.

Now, the primary Overflowing Palette is on the high of the tree above the maze, within the middle platform it holds up. Climb the tree (or use Flight) till you attain the platform itself.

The final two Overflowing Palettes are situated outdoors the maze fully, within the towers overlooking and surrounding it. Enter the tops of every and resolve the puzzle within the center.

As soon as all three Overflowing Palettes have been solved, you’re going to get a cutscene depicting the return of colour to the realm. Gameplay-wise, golden swirls will encompass your complete space above the maze, permitting you to make use of Flight indefinitely so long as you keep throughout the golden observe. That is the important thing indicator that you just’re able to enter the internal part of the maze and face the Lifer.

Return to the pill you left behind earlier. Head again via the primary entrance and retrace your steps if you happen to’re having bother navigating again to it from above. From the pill, head left and take the primary left flip you come throughout.

The second you’re taking the flip, head proper and comply with the trail round. Don’t proceed left when you’ve cleared the partitions surrounding the flip. Observe the trail round and take the following proper you come throughout, heading towards the innards of the maze.

Ignore the following left flip and stroll previous the maze door in your proper till you attain the second left flip within the space. You’ll know you’re in the correct place once you see one other stone pill close to you.

Work together with the pill, then comply with the trail main away from the middle of the maze. When you hit the again wall, take the following proper.

From right here, comply with the trail all the way in which round till you see the following stone pill you’ll be interacting with. You’ll know you’re in the correct place if the realm is lit with golden gentle.

Observe the trail towards the golden gentle, making your method to the closing stone pill. Past it lies an open doorway main into the guts of the maze’s depths. Step via, and you will discover your self face-to-face with the Lifer.

defeat the Lifer in Wuthering Waves

The Lifer is a particularly highly effective enemy in Wuthering Waves, due to the ridiculous quantity of buffs he can entry at any given time. Nonetheless, earlier than you’ll be able to face it in a combat, you’ll must play its recreation first.

The sport is an odd mixture of Tic-Tac-Toe and chess. The Lifer controls the white items when you management the black ones. Your aim is to line up your items. You may both beat the Lifer at its recreation to reap the rewards—a troublesome activity that can seemingly require a number of makes an attempt—or the tried and true methodology of fight. After just a few rounds of failure enjoying the sport, you’ll be given the choice to combat it out straight as a substitute.

Choosing this selection will provoke direct fight, however earlier than you do, discover that the Lifer has 300% Enemy Energy. Which means that combating it now will end in a really troublesome encounter you’ll seemingly lose. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to weaken him considerably by disabling most of its buffs.

flip off the Lifer’s buffs

Disabling the Lifers’ buffs is straight tied to enjoying its Tic-Tac-Toe recreation, although your aim is to not win this time. In the event you look across the Lifer’s room, you’ll discover a number of doorways, together with one behind it. These doorways all result in totally different beforehand inaccessible areas of the maze. Some additionally result in areas the place you’ll be able to take away a buff from the Lifer. You may decide which doorways result in areas tied to the Lifer’s buffs by utilizing Sensor and following the purple path it reveals.

These doorways might be opened by lining up your black piece with any of them. Doing so will open up the preliminary door and clear a full path to the outer portion of the maze to an space that was not accessible to you earlier than. You are able to do this for any of the doorways on the middle.

When you’ve opened a door, comply with the trail all the way in which to the again and search for a terminal within the space.

Interacting with the terminal will allow you to disable quite a lot of the Lifer’s buffs. It’s possible you’ll must discover a key piece across the space with the terminal earlier than you are able to do so. Every terminal has one, situated in the identical room.

Combating the Lifer

When you’re glad with the variety of buffs faraway from the Lifer, you’ll be able to have interaction him in fight and defeat him fairly simply. Ignoring the buffs, the Lifer is simply an empowered Chop Chop, with a particularly comparable transfer set.

In fact, if you happen to’re in search of a problem, you can even have interaction the Lifer with all of his buffs enabled. It will require a number of firepower and fixed DPS, because the Lifer will heal himself if you happen to take too lengthy to deal harm. He’s additionally extraordinarily sturdy, capable of tank a few of the strongest assaults within the recreation with ease.