Not so tough, eh Edrick?
“Great gears, he’s unstoppable!”
“He has a weakness, but I can’t remember what it is. Keep him busy while I figure this out!”
“When I’m done, he’s gonna have a new weakness : My axes in his face over and over!”
Turns out that the life-steal part of Omnomberry Ghost’s nourishment does damage as well, and can pierce his gimmick invulnerability in the first fight against him. And, it’s possible to flat out kill him this way…except then you can’t finish the instance and gotta restart it. Oops.
It’d be clever if that was intended (since Omnomberry Ghosts do require Candy Corn Glaze as an ingredient, and candy corn is his weakness), but this is probably a glitch/oversight. Still, kinda neat.
That is a neat discovery! And a very entertaining theory. It would be very cool if it turned out going into the instance with candy-corn ingredient food/nourishment would let you damage Edrick, but as you said it’s likely just a bug.
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I should’ve probably tested out the other life-steal food to see if they could do that too, but I didn’t think of it and just finished that instance right afterwards. Then again, I could test it out in the second fight some time, since Tassi has lousy aim with the candy pools.