Dragon's Dogma 2 Guardian Gigantus boss fight and trophy guide
Apr. 5, 2024The DD2 “Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye” trophy/achievement comes from quickly slaying the statue
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The Dragon’s Dogma 2 Guardian Gigantus boss fight is one of the game’s biggest challenges - but it’s actually an optional one (though still worth doing). Also known as Talos, the Gigantus is a huge stone statue that drags itself out of the sea to chase down Phaesus just after you open theDragon’s Dogma 2 Flamebearer Palace Spellseal Door, but taking it out isn’t easy. Not only that, but there’s aDragon’s Dogma 2achievement / trophy called “Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye”, for taking it out incredibly quickly. If you’re feeling ambitious, I’ll lay out how to do that below, but otherwise we’ve also just got general advice on how to take out the Guardian Gigantus in DD2.
How to beat the Guardian Gigantus boss fight in Dragon’s Dogma 2
The Guardian Gigantus in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is, as mentioned previously,actually an optional boss fight.If you ignore it, it wanders through the Volcanic Island Region before being killed by NPCs working for Phaesus. However,killing it grants you all sorts of rewards and a lot of experience,not to mention the achievement that’s on the line, as well as your reputation as a monster slayer.
Here’s some things to knowbefore the Gigantus boss fight starts.
Once you go through the Spellseal Door, you’ll see theGigantus emerge from the ocean in the distance.The guardian is not actually chasing you, butPhaesus- and will pursue him for the entire fight. You’ll have to keep up with the Gigantus for the whole encounter.
Eventually,all the spikes will have fallen out, but the battle isn’t over.At this point, it seems as thoughhitting Gigantus anywhere will do damage- keep up the assault in a manner of your choosing, and he should fall within the next minute or so, earning you a lot of XP.
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To do that, you either need to specialise inincredibly powerful magick archer builds,using homing arrows to hit the spikes from the very first opportunity when it passes land for the first time before blowing up the bridge, or use theUnmaking Arrow,the one-shot kill arrows that can only be obtained either by completing theDragon’s Dogma 2 Sphinx riddlesor purchased from the Dragonforged merchant North of Bakbattahl for 8 Wyrmslife Crystals.
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