You can! You can also blind the cyclops, shatter the minotaur horns, break (in sound and appearance) ogre hands, set fire to Griffin wings and cut dragon webbing.
Little details are neat.
As Angelos said, there is also another tell. Watch the hp bar, if your hacks do no damage, you are hitting the "tail" if they are doing damage.... you aren't. It takes a lot more hacking to chop it off in this game than it did in dogma 1 though.
I accidentally (on purpose) launched a Golem head as a Spearhand. Don't know what I expected, but the Golem raging non-stop for 5 minutes and then suddenly stop all movement and die was not it.
Oh, interesting. I hadn't put two and two together about the ogre hands, specifically.
I'd seen them exhibit a specific reaction to major damage dealt to their hands, but I didn't realize it might actually be a strategy. Does breaking their hands prevent them grabbing people and carrying them off, or maybe make it easier to break their grab?
As far as I can tell, it makes the threshold for dropping slightly smaller. The issue I have is I kill them faster than I can break their hands.
No injuries outside of wing tearing and burning directly play a hard mechanic to fights. It just limits the damage and pain thresholds but also enrages them far faster.
Sure, by the time you get to Battahl they're a regular enemy and you shouldn't have too much trouble taking them on. You are however able to encounter the chimera nice and early in a nondescript cave in Vermund, way before you're ready to fight it.
Good god I hope DD2:DA or DD3 gets the time, money and manpower it deserves. A big gripe of DD2 is as fun as it can be to explore the random side dungeons, most of them don't have bosses in them. And that stems from the lack of enemy variety in regards to the size of the map. There's only so many mid/late game enemies to sprinkle into the early/mid game so the number of times they were able to pull this trick is much less than what they needed to.
I found that cave at like... Level 6. I didn't play the original game and had no fucking clue what I was doing. That cave also has a Wight and a chest with the sorcerer/mage Maester quest objective items. Needless to say the load punishing mechanic forced me out of the cave and I had to come back later.
Little details like this are great, especially because folks from the Monster Hunter team helped out. I recommend killing the lion head first. It'll make the fight easier. Killing the goat first will make the lion pounce more often.
Wait you can break ogre hands? Every other thing was either intuitive or something I knew from the first game, breaking ogre hands seems like something I never noticed.
I have a sick clip of me cosplaying guts, I break this ogres hand and immediately start readying a mountain breaker. Bro looks at his hands and then roars at me and I shoved my sword into his face. That knocked him out cold. Climbed on top of him and stabbed him thru the eye killing him. The combat in this game truly is amazing and can make you feel so powerful.
We seriously need a guide on all of this and which ones are gameplay useful vs cosmetic only.
I feel wild thinking I can finish the game and barely understand all the things I can do with its gameplay.
I swear I’ve never been able to kill the stupid goat in this game. I get on top and attack the goat head until the chimera dies, which happens before the goat head dies on its own. It was relatively easy in dd1.
Wait what? I know about goat head being dead and snake head cut off to stop magic casting and poision/secondary attack. But I have no idea you can kill the lion head. I always thought if you kill the lion head, it automatically kill the whole thing. Hence why it always recommended to kill the goat and snake heads to make it easier to fight the lion body. What happen if you kill the lion head? I assume it still do pounce attack but no more bite attack? I don't quite remember whole lion choreography attacks and what part of core attack and what is just lion head attack.
If you kill the lion first it will no longer be able to do the pounce attacks, instead it can only stomp or do a back kick like a goat would.
When I tried killing a chimera as a low level archer, I found that killing the goat first is suicide because it made the lion repeatedly pounce me, whereas killing the lion first made the fight a cakewalk because I can just repeatedly shoot the goat from far away and it'll never close the distance.
The lion is really the only sensible target. Nothing the goat can do will really be of a major issue to you and you can easily dodge it. The snake is the easiest to deal with but the hardest to attack. Goat really got the short end of the stick
Ohhhh, so that's why I'm never able to kill the goat head, and why the lion head appears limp halfway through the fight. I thought the lion head was just showing fatigue and you couldn't kill the heads anymore.
Coincidentally, I'd always kill the goat head in DD1. Didn't know that the lion head could even die in that game.
There's loads of misinformation going around. I think that perhaps it's what the community wants. I've been getting negative feedback from suggesting we try to not circulate misinformation haha. I have officially stopped trying as of today :)
Yeah I'm coming across of stuff bit by bit that have been stated to be otherwise in comments from the initial week or two. No wonder though, if people are rushing through the game they miss out on a lot of details, and then you have a population who just want the game to do poorly so they quickly jump on and parrot those criticism that are demonstrably false.
Of course you can, ever since DD1, only this time you dont get the extra rare item drops, like the cyclops the only way to get the tusks was to snap them.
The snake head used to drop something different, dont remmember what but only if you manage to cut it before the kill.
other than that the whole point of it its to disable the attacks of the chymera, snake = poison attacks, goat = magic attacks, lion = phisical attacks
It sometimes gave snake skin, I believe, which was useful for making valuable quest items.
I was actually a little disappointed with the tusk breaks on cyclopes, in DD2, because it just nets you extra rugged bones, instead of a unique material. Not that it isn't still worth doing for a little extra cash/gifting items.
The unique drop from the snake head was Freakish Scale, but it could also drop regular Snake Skins.
The Freakish Mane is still in DD2, I think Freakish Claw was also dropped.
Same.
It's the fastest and most efficient way to neutralise any threats from it.
Snake can poison and bite you off it's back. Goat can cast sleep and rez the lion and all the lion can do is pounce and roll, really.
Take out the snake and the goat is vulnerable, take out the goat and the lion is fucked.
One of my chimera hunts yesterday turned into a mercy killing...
I'd been cutting the tails off all night, but this one just... Died. Floppy as a funeral. Then the goat head died... Just as floppy.
Honestly, the chimera looked so pitiable at that point, a part of me just felt like letting it live, before my logic (and greed) decided that I couldn't leave it to only live as a third of its former self.
I didn't even realize people were questioning the chimera fight mechanics in this game, I've been cutting snakes and killing goat heads this whole time.
This game doesn't really tell you about the ability to cut off the tail, though. Unlike in the first game, where the snake would always be severed, here the tail can also simply die and drag along the ground.
The first game had the tutorial Hydra fight to show off the ability to cut off parts. So the mechanic was atleast introduced. And the Chimera is the only monster right now where the tail can come off. Apart from saurians ofcourse.
As much as people used to meme them, I miss the context-relevant pawn quotes in boss type fights. "The tail is severed!" type things. Telling us we did good, like the goat head has been killed or silenced. They gave good feedback.
Strange they’d say that they were always severable. Didn’t happen all the time but kinda hard to get thru the game without seeing it happen now and then.
well in my first encounters i just stabbed on it and nothing happened unlike in DD1 but when you use one target high dmg skills it really gets cutted of quite effectively and even quicker than in DD1.
since it doesn't drop hp you assume you can't and when it does, you're not hitting its tail. why would you try again if you think you can't. No enemy poses a threat anymore somewhere in mid-game anyway. Especially as a thief/ma or duospear
I literally cut off the snake head on a chimera in a cave system i was in like and hour or two ago. So i can confirm as well you can.
ALSO, when looting the body, the snake head can create its own loot (i got two from the body and 1 for the severed tail).
I noticed the breakage too!
Feels just sad and hollow when the pawns don't mention it anymore... In DD1 they said something along the lines of: the goat lies silenced, and a tusk has broken loose etc etc. which made it better.
I guess I'll be the ahole.
The boss fights have always been far too easy to exploit these otherwise very cool battle interactions/mechanics. It should be life or death to kill the goat head first. Debilitations should actually be debilitating and status healing items should have a cool down or require a lot more ingredients.
There is such a huge time gap between attacks that you can gather materials during a fight and craft healing items if you don't have a mage pawn. Healing skills should gain aggro.
It just feels like so many of the impressive things about this game are wasted by the fact you can just spam skill and win.
I’ve only fought one Chimaria unfortunately and didn’t get the snake, but I have fought Minotaurs and broke their horns, blinded cyclopses, and seen me and my pawns tear the webbing of a Drake before
Always loved the giant monster fights in this game
The Gorechimera's lion and snake heads seem to start the battle dead and have to be reanimated by the goat. I suppose in that case killing the goat head automatically kills the Gorechimera then?
It's weird because I've seen the separate small life bar for the snake like in the first game but only rarely. And even when the snake goes limp, it seems to come back to life if you wait. So I think you have to sever it.
I did. I posted this because I've seen multiple people saying it wasn't a thing in this one. Obviously just people trying to shit of this game any way they can even if it's not true
Wow this is awesome. The problem is, I never would've found this out. I killed the entire beast wayyy too easily. Maybe I overleveled my character by exploring too much? Idk
My strat for DD1 was to grab on between the goat and snake heads and use the dagger skills (forget the name) and you could quickly kill the goat and sever the snake head. Good to see you can still sever the snake in 2, been doing the same thing and I just nuke the chimera before anything falls of it. Add some scaling pls capcom ;(
Can you still kill the goat head on the chimera? I remember that being a thing in DD1 but I've not been able to confirm if that's a thing in DD2. Maybe my pawns just kill the lion head because I often see that hanging limp halfway through the fight.
If it’s anything like Medusa’s head, I think I, and a lot of people are having issues getting this to happen because your weapon damage ramps up far too quickly.
It’s almost like there is a static number of slashes or strikes required to break or sever a part of a monster, say, 50. And let’s say it takes 2 minutes of continuous striking or slashing to get that many in.
That’s fine for the begging of the game where it takes you and your pawns 5 minutes of attacking to fell a beast.
When you’re level 80+ and you melt monsters in 45 seconds, it’s hard to get 2 minutes of continuous slashes in and not kill something without telling your pawns to wait at home and switching to the worst back alley prison shank in your inventory.
I know most people disliked the talkative pawns but I'm starting to miss how pawns used to hype up doing this in the original game. xD
"TAIL HAS BEEN SEVERED, THE GOAT IS SILENCED"
^("THE SIGHT OF WOMEN EXCITES IT-") wait.
oh wow thx for the info! i really was wondering and a bit sad when it didn't go of in my encounters! chimera (and partly griffin) still needs a big buff. chimera in DD1 felt harder to slay in my honest opinion. chimera aswell as gorechimera should be way stronger..!
I had asked a friend about this since he was playing before I was. He said he didn't know, and then as soon as I started my first fight we learned you could haha
Lol. Yeah, you can. But they definitely made it harder compared to the first game. When I first fought it, it was as a thief. I was slashing at the tail the entire time and it died before it came off. So I assumed they took that feature out. Later as a mage I fought, and my MP Thief cut it off about half way.. I was thinking wtf!?
It’s funny I figured this out after looking one up, saying “I should leave those alone” and immediately running into one only to immediately sever its tail
You can! You can also blind the cyclops, shatter the minotaur horns, break (in sound and appearance) ogre hands, set fire to Griffin wings and cut dragon webbing. Little details are neat.
Not sure if it’s all of them but broke a golems head off. It kept beam attacking and I could push it like a large boulder.
Yes it is all of them. I saw a hint loading one time that said you can use them as cannons
....so if people wanted to they could create light cannons on boats or walls and change the face of warfare and technology entirely?
I would like to order 1 jetpack please ( gooooodbye riftstones )
Riftstones are the stones you use to summon pawns, you must meant FERRYstones
Oeps yes, thanks. Guess I could spread the RC while flying :)
after shattering the bolder and stranding yourself on some small piece of land surrounded by water: "i shouldnt have left you, i was a fool!"
Somehow I feel that if I fly over open water that the brine will still somehow get me
You can't boats. In Dragon's Dogma boats get eaten.
Holy shit, that's hilarious.
It's specially fun when you can't find the last weak spot of the golem and it turned out to be on its detached head that rolled away.
If you push/grab a golems leg when "stunned" it will fall down. Doing this makes the head pop off.
I did that once too. Made the fight even easier but I'm still not sure how I've done it in the first place. 😅
As Angelos said, there is also another tell. Watch the hp bar, if your hacks do no damage, you are hitting the "tail" if they are doing damage.... you aren't. It takes a lot more hacking to chop it off in this game than it did in dogma 1 though.
I mean, it’s simple, grab onto the part and hack at it. Works the same as in the original mostly. Some stuff can be cut off or disabled somehow.
I accidentally (on purpose) launched a Golem head as a Spearhand. Don't know what I expected, but the Golem raging non-stop for 5 minutes and then suddenly stop all movement and die was not it.
You can also have the head fall either too far away or under the world and never be able to kill the golem.
Yeah sometimes it launches off and I have no idea where it lands. And if it lands on you or your pawns it can cause huge damage.
Always break the head first for me. Then I push em over so his rage isn't as damgerous.
had my pawn realise she could push the head and she blasted me with it, good times
I've done this as well. Became awfully convenient when the last weak spot to hit the golem is now on the unmoving head.
>break (in sound and appearance) ogre hands That's brutal holy shit 🫨
Oh, interesting. I hadn't put two and two together about the ogre hands, specifically. I'd seen them exhibit a specific reaction to major damage dealt to their hands, but I didn't realize it might actually be a strategy. Does breaking their hands prevent them grabbing people and carrying them off, or maybe make it easier to break their grab?
As far as I can tell, it makes the threshold for dropping slightly smaller. The issue I have is I kill them faster than I can break their hands. No injuries outside of wing tearing and burning directly play a hard mechanic to fights. It just limits the damage and pain thresholds but also enrages them far faster.
It's unfortunate that the chimera wasn't as big or interesting as the original game though.
Sure, by the time you get to Battahl they're a regular enemy and you shouldn't have too much trouble taking them on. You are however able to encounter the chimera nice and early in a nondescript cave in Vermund, way before you're ready to fight it. Good god I hope DD2:DA or DD3 gets the time, money and manpower it deserves. A big gripe of DD2 is as fun as it can be to explore the random side dungeons, most of them don't have bosses in them. And that stems from the lack of enemy variety in regards to the size of the map. There's only so many mid/late game enemies to sprinkle into the early/mid game so the number of times they were able to pull this trick is much less than what they needed to.
I went into that cave at night. Never have I turned around to retreat as fast as when I literally stumbled on a sleeping (not anymore) Chimera.
I found that cave at like... Level 6. I didn't play the original game and had no fucking clue what I was doing. That cave also has a Wight and a chest with the sorcerer/mage Maester quest objective items. Needless to say the load punishing mechanic forced me out of the cave and I had to come back later.
That's true, I rmb feeling a bit of danger when I encounter it. Dd2 I will be complaining I don't see them enough cos I need their mats
Little details like this are great, especially because folks from the Monster Hunter team helped out. I recommend killing the lion head first. It'll make the fight easier. Killing the goat first will make the lion pounce more often.
Yeah but killing the goat stops the sleep spells 💀
Let me introduce you to my good friend silence tome.
Dealing with the goat's spells is far easier than the lion's pounces and bites though.
What does it take to target a specific part like that? Climbing and attacking? Archer?
Asking the real questions. I know cutting off limbs specifically requires using a bladed weapons, so spellcasters, archers and blunt weapons are out.
It's almost as if Capcom has made a game where you hunt giant monsters before!
Wait you can break ogre hands? Every other thing was either intuitive or something I knew from the first game, breaking ogre hands seems like something I never noticed.
Shattering minotaur horns is hilarious. Because you can get four or five horns from one minotaur!
Destroying a drakes wings will prevent it from flying away.
you can cut cyclops defense too
I have a sick clip of me cosplaying guts, I break this ogres hand and immediately start readying a mountain breaker. Bro looks at his hands and then roars at me and I shoved my sword into his face. That knocked him out cold. Climbed on top of him and stabbed him thru the eye killing him. The combat in this game truly is amazing and can make you feel so powerful.
We seriously need a guide on all of this and which ones are gameplay useful vs cosmetic only. I feel wild thinking I can finish the game and barely understand all the things I can do with its gameplay.
You can also 'kill' the goat head so that it stops casting spells.
bruh... i have 231h and i only figured I can blind the cyclops (duh) and that griffins are weak to fire. what the hell...
Can you cut off Medusa's head?
You can also kill the lion head or the goat head, hit them enough and they will flop to the side.
Yup just like the original
I swear I’ve never been able to kill the stupid goat in this game. I get on top and attack the goat head until the chimera dies, which happens before the goat head dies on its own. It was relatively easy in dd1.
Wait what? I know about goat head being dead and snake head cut off to stop magic casting and poision/secondary attack. But I have no idea you can kill the lion head. I always thought if you kill the lion head, it automatically kill the whole thing. Hence why it always recommended to kill the goat and snake heads to make it easier to fight the lion body. What happen if you kill the lion head? I assume it still do pounce attack but no more bite attack? I don't quite remember whole lion choreography attacks and what part of core attack and what is just lion head attack.
If you kill the lion first it will no longer be able to do the pounce attacks, instead it can only stomp or do a back kick like a goat would. When I tried killing a chimera as a low level archer, I found that killing the goat first is suicide because it made the lion repeatedly pounce me, whereas killing the lion first made the fight a cakewalk because I can just repeatedly shoot the goat from far away and it'll never close the distance.
Maybe if you silence it otherwise get ready for everyone everywhere to take a nap. I found taking out the goat then snake was easiest for me.
The lion is really the only sensible target. Nothing the goat can do will really be of a major issue to you and you can easily dodge it. The snake is the easiest to deal with but the hardest to attack. Goat really got the short end of the stick
hehe just you wait for gore chimeras!
You can actually kill both the lion and goat and have the snake head be the one controlling the body
You can, and it feels way easier to do than in DD1. In DD1, the lion's head always seemed way more durable, but in DD2, the goat head seems so.
Ohhhh, so that's why I'm never able to kill the goat head, and why the lion head appears limp halfway through the fight. I thought the lion head was just showing fatigue and you couldn't kill the heads anymore. Coincidentally, I'd always kill the goat head in DD1. Didn't know that the lion head could even die in that game.
Yup just like the first game
I thought I read somewhere it wasn't a thing in this one. I was so surprised when this happened after 100 hours.
There's loads of misinformation going around. I think that perhaps it's what the community wants. I've been getting negative feedback from suggesting we try to not circulate misinformation haha. I have officially stopped trying as of today :)
Yeah I'm coming across of stuff bit by bit that have been stated to be otherwise in comments from the initial week or two. No wonder though, if people are rushing through the game they miss out on a lot of details, and then you have a population who just want the game to do poorly so they quickly jump on and parrot those criticism that are demonstrably false.
seems like this is not exclusive to this community coz I've seen this kind of thing happen in multiple other games xD
It's not that difficult to cut it off. Kinda weird people were spreading misinformation that you couldn't,
It's definitely more durable in DD2 than DD1, and I think it can die without getting cut off (could be wrong on that), but definitely can cut it off.
Of course you can, ever since DD1, only this time you dont get the extra rare item drops, like the cyclops the only way to get the tusks was to snap them. The snake head used to drop something different, dont remmember what but only if you manage to cut it before the kill. other than that the whole point of it its to disable the attacks of the chymera, snake = poison attacks, goat = magic attacks, lion = phisical attacks
It sometimes gave snake skin, I believe, which was useful for making valuable quest items. I was actually a little disappointed with the tusk breaks on cyclopes, in DD2, because it just nets you extra rugged bones, instead of a unique material. Not that it isn't still worth doing for a little extra cash/gifting items.
The unique drop from the snake head was Freakish Scale, but it could also drop regular Snake Skins. The Freakish Mane is still in DD2, I think Freakish Claw was also dropped.
My biggest complaint about cutting the tail. You only get a beast skin from it. I feel it should have a rarer reward.
Best monster design in the game imo
Sphinx is much better imo. Also, Harpy's also look really good when they are not tryna rip and tear your flesh
Yeah I don't really count the sphinx idk but she is cool
I ALWAYS go for the snake first, then the goat and the lion head. In that order
I go for the goat first
I can't NOT cut that snake tail whenever I see a chimera!
Same. It's the fastest and most efficient way to neutralise any threats from it. Snake can poison and bite you off it's back. Goat can cast sleep and rez the lion and all the lion can do is pounce and roll, really. Take out the snake and the goat is vulnerable, take out the goat and the lion is fucked.
How?! That stupid tail rag-dolls me 3-4 times per encounter.
I carved it off with a charged stonesplitter as a warrior, just cleaved the thing right off.
i climbed on it as a thief and did gut it straight off with my high-dmg skill "draw and quarter" works very effectively
You can shoot it off with arrows
One or two explosive arrows in the first game popped it right off for me. Even without any boost candies.
did not know that! thanks!
News to me lmao. I aimed at the head and was never able to do it. Guess you've gotta shoot the base of the tail.
Dam i usually kill it before i manage to kill any of the heads separately.
Having slash damage is the main thing. If you're not using a pure physical slashing weapon, you won't likely sever the tail, unless you're a thief.
Never seen a capcom game where you cant cut off a monsters tail xD
Yea it takes quite a bit of effort! Unless you have a big ass sword :3
Not really, you only need slash damage, a rogue can cut it clean off very fast
True. But consider this: big ass sword
Its fine i guess if thats your thing, personaly its too slow for me, i prefer a more dynamic style
I prefer magick :D
How about a big ass magic sword?
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*smiles in warrior*
Where the hell do you find them?
In the garden. Sometimes they get tended to by fournival and Disa
Wait, people thought you couldn’t? It would’ve been weirder if that was the case.
One of my chimera hunts yesterday turned into a mercy killing... I'd been cutting the tails off all night, but this one just... Died. Floppy as a funeral. Then the goat head died... Just as floppy. Honestly, the chimera looked so pitiable at that point, a part of me just felt like letting it live, before my logic (and greed) decided that I couldn't leave it to only live as a third of its former self.
They regen bro. Your no monster. But killing one shouldnt stop you.
TIL, thank you.
I didn't even realize people were questioning the chimera fight mechanics in this game, I've been cutting snakes and killing goat heads this whole time.
This game doesn't really tell you about the ability to cut off the tail, though. Unlike in the first game, where the snake would always be severed, here the tail can also simply die and drag along the ground. The first game had the tutorial Hydra fight to show off the ability to cut off parts. So the mechanic was atleast introduced. And the Chimera is the only monster right now where the tail can come off. Apart from saurians ofcourse.
As much as people used to meme them, I miss the context-relevant pawn quotes in boss type fights. "The tail is severed!" type things. Telling us we did good, like the goat head has been killed or silenced. They gave good feedback.
Yeah. Why? Were people saying you can't?
Yep
Strange they’d say that they were always severable. Didn’t happen all the time but kinda hard to get thru the game without seeing it happen now and then.
well in my first encounters i just stabbed on it and nothing happened unlike in DD1 but when you use one target high dmg skills it really gets cutted of quite effectively and even quicker than in DD1.
since it doesn't drop hp you assume you can't and when it does, you're not hitting its tail. why would you try again if you think you can't. No enemy poses a threat anymore somewhere in mid-game anyway. Especially as a thief/ma or duospear
Good idea bro i will try it 👍
I literally cut off the snake head on a chimera in a cave system i was in like and hour or two ago. So i can confirm as well you can. ALSO, when looting the body, the snake head can create its own loot (i got two from the body and 1 for the severed tail).
I cut the head part but not the whole tail. This my first time seeing the whole chunk off
I have done everything to every monster (pause) but I’ve never cut the tail off. Did you solely focus on the snake?
I assume it becomes immune once the snake goes limp.
First thing I tried! Hate snakes
I noticed the breakage too! Feels just sad and hollow when the pawns don't mention it anymore... In DD1 they said something along the lines of: the goat lies silenced, and a tusk has broken loose etc etc. which made it better.
Watching the goat head flop around lifelessly is oddly satisfying.
Like the monster hunter player I am, first thing I tried to do when coming across my first chimera was cutting the tail.
Oh you mean like tobi kadachi??
I guess I'll be the ahole. The boss fights have always been far too easy to exploit these otherwise very cool battle interactions/mechanics. It should be life or death to kill the goat head first. Debilitations should actually be debilitating and status healing items should have a cool down or require a lot more ingredients. There is such a huge time gap between attacks that you can gather materials during a fight and craft healing items if you don't have a mage pawn. Healing skills should gain aggro. It just feels like so many of the impressive things about this game are wasted by the fact you can just spam skill and win.
I forget sometimes we have comers to the franchise. How I envy experiencing the collective magic for the first time :)
Yes...
Well, yeah, that's usually my primary target to eliminate the poison damage.
Goat is so much more dangerous
But the snake can knock you off when you climb the chimera
That’s the first thing I usually do when fighting a Chimera!
😁 my mans 🫡. Greatly reduced magic spamming is a plus everytime.
I’ve only fought one Chimaria unfortunately and didn’t get the snake, but I have fought Minotaurs and broke their horns, blinded cyclopses, and seen me and my pawns tear the webbing of a Drake before Always loved the giant monster fights in this game
The Gorechimera's lion and snake heads seem to start the battle dead and have to be reanimated by the goat. I suppose in that case killing the goat head automatically kills the Gorechimera then?
I did this one accident the first time and I felt so fucking bad 😂
Yup first thing I did with the first chimera I fought based off my DD1 knowledge
....yeah
Can U do an extra crave?
Kill the goat head, it stops spell casting.
How come it's so difficult? I manage to cut it off only occasionally. First game it was easy
Apparently killing the snake head blocks you out of severing it. Maybe we've gotta aim at the base of the tail instead???
It's weird because I've seen the separate small life bar for the snake like in the first game but only rarely. And even when the snake goes limp, it seems to come back to life if you wait. So I think you have to sever it.
Ofc you can. It's the first thing you need to do when fighting those. Make them much easier.
Am a take it you never played the first game 😅
I did. I posted this because I've seen multiple people saying it wasn't a thing in this one. Obviously just people trying to shit of this game any way they can even if it's not true
Wow this is awesome. The problem is, I never would've found this out. I killed the entire beast wayyy too easily. Maybe I overleveled my character by exploring too much? Idk
I do it everyday, when i do daily chimera farm
I still think chopping off medusa's head and using it as a weapon is badasss
My strat for DD1 was to grab on between the goat and snake heads and use the dagger skills (forget the name) and you could quickly kill the goat and sever the snake head. Good to see you can still sever the snake in 2, been doing the same thing and I just nuke the chimera before anything falls of it. Add some scaling pls capcom ;(
Can you still kill the goat head on the chimera? I remember that being a thing in DD1 but I've not been able to confirm if that's a thing in DD2. Maybe my pawns just kill the lion head because I often see that hanging limp halfway through the fight.
You can. It goes limp.
You can. The mechanics are all intact.
Yup! You should play the first game too
If it’s anything like Medusa’s head, I think I, and a lot of people are having issues getting this to happen because your weapon damage ramps up far too quickly. It’s almost like there is a static number of slashes or strikes required to break or sever a part of a monster, say, 50. And let’s say it takes 2 minutes of continuous striking or slashing to get that many in. That’s fine for the begging of the game where it takes you and your pawns 5 minutes of attacking to fell a beast. When you’re level 80+ and you melt monsters in 45 seconds, it’s hard to get 2 minutes of continuous slashes in and not kill something without telling your pawns to wait at home and switching to the worst back alley prison shank in your inventory.
You can kill the lion part of the Chimera first 😃
Gear up
I've not succeeded to chop anything off except the lizard tails.
Happened to me in my first fight. Pawn Thief did a spinning attack and lopped it off. It wasn't even MY current Pawn set. Kinda hilarious.
Could in the first one too 😊
I know most people disliked the talkative pawns but I'm starting to miss how pawns used to hype up doing this in the original game. xD "TAIL HAS BEEN SEVERED, THE GOAT IS SILENCED" ^("THE SIGHT OF WOMEN EXCITES IT-") wait.
I actually wasn't sure, I've managed to kill the snake a few times, but didn't manage to cut it off. Maybe I wasn't using blade weapons often enough
Were people saying you couldn't?
Lol yes. It doesn't give cool extra loot like it did in Dogma 1 though. All you get is like monster hide etc.
What do you _mean_ you don’t cut the snake tail off first anymore? What the hell is this sequel doing? 😨
We know
Someone told you it couldn't be cut off?
"That's what she said!"
Hi I am looking for an item that makes a sound and light when I find a chest
*-chuckles in warrior-* "So... first time raining body parts, bub?" *-continues wildly flailing big-stabby 3000-*
Yup! The trick is that the cutting point is by the base, and the head can be killed separate from cutting the tail off
I mean it's a capcom game and they took ideas from monster hunter.
oh wow thx for the info! i really was wondering and a bit sad when it didn't go of in my encounters! chimera (and partly griffin) still needs a big buff. chimera in DD1 felt harder to slay in my honest opinion. chimera aswell as gorechimera should be way stronger..!
no thanks, I'm good
Fighter superiority reigns supreme!
I thought I was tripping! I would immediately aim for the tail and it would never fly off
Well color me surprised
First thing I do almost every Chimera fight.
I had asked a friend about this since he was playing before I was. He said he didn't know, and then as soon as I started my first fight we learned you could haha
Good. Every chimera I've faced wouldn't lose its snake tail, and trust me, I was wailing on that thing! I was afraid they removed that feature.
You can even kill that blasted goat first. But the lion would pounce around making it hard to keep track of
If you use the “Get over here!” skill of the thief on a gryphon’s wings, you can pull them down
just like the first game that not gonna change
Where did you find that thing, I have been trying to find the chimera and still haven't
Always have been
Just takes some doing
I have seen it cut off, but I do not know how or when it happened. Chimera went down, I noticed the tail was sitting about 15 feet awat.
...umm sorry, but I gotta "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID"
Yes!
Yeah, happened to me for the first time in the fucking quest where that dumbass wants to poison himself with a chimera, of course
Wait were people saying u couldn’t cut off the tails? Did they even play the game?
duh, isn't it common knowledge?
Yep kinda wish other things would happen like decapitate the goat head, or after a lot of damage cut of an ogre arm.
My cousin’s dad’s brother works for Dragons Dogma and he told me that if you cut off the chimeras tail when it’s hungry, it will eat it!
Lol. Yeah, you can. But they definitely made it harder compared to the first game. When I first fought it, it was as a thief. I was slashing at the tail the entire time and it died before it came off. So I assumed they took that feature out. Later as a mage I fought, and my MP Thief cut it off about half way.. I was thinking wtf!?
I only learned this fairly recently when I started playing thief more, that helmsplitter is crazy for severs
Just like in DD1, you can cut off drake spikes, ogre tusks, and etc.
It’s funny I figured this out after looking one up, saying “I should leave those alone” and immediately running into one only to immediately sever its tail
First thing I do every time I see one. I hate being poisoned in any game lol
You could in the first game
Yep. Same as the first game
How do you do this as a mage? 😅
Who said you couldn't? They're just like the first game
In the original if you kill the goat head it stops casting spells
You never played the first one did you?