Your journey across the Living Lands inAvowedleads you to a final showdown againstLodwyn. She isstronger than the first time your fought her in Galawain’s Tusks, and this is far more of a boss battle withspecific stages, so you’ll want to be ready. Fighting Lodwyn is about adjusting to how she reacts, meaning changing for each phase.
There are three distinct phases to Lodwyn, but they all stay in the open arena where you meet her, meaning there are few distractions besides the one Lodwyn brings with her. You’ll wantspells, healing, and both melee and ranged attacksto end her tyranny once and for all.
Lodwyn’s First Phase
The start of the battle is pretty standard.Lodwyn slashes at you with her sword, and while you may whittle her down from a distance, this is agood time to rush in close, using blocks or parries, to hit her hard. Atwo-handed weapon with high damagecan get you through this phase quickly, which is what you’ll want. This isthe easiest phase, so youdon’t want to waste potions heretoo much.
Rush inclose to Lodwyn, thendodge away as she swingsher sword back. She isa slow fighter here, but very powerful, so play conservatively enough to avoid being hit. Once she drops tohalf health,she willfall to her knees and fully heal. She cannot be harmed during this animation, but it’s also free time for you to heal or cooldown your abilities.
When she misses, she slams her sword into the ground, leaving herself vulnerable.
Lodwyn’s Second Phase
After healing, Lodwyn approaches the battle completely differently. Shenow attacks from range, shootingfireballsanddropping rockson you. Because the stream of fireballs can eviscerate you,getting close makes them impossible to dodgeand is thereforea death sentence. For this phase, you shouldswitch to ranged weapons, with an emphasis onStun. She will use her full health bar this time, so you have more time to stack Stun and lead to major damage.
Just after she shoots her fireballs, it ispossible to dodge in and melee attack while she prepares her next attack, but it’smuch riskierthan it was in the first phase.
She alsosummons Shadow Summons in battle. When these are defeated, she justsummons more, meaningdefeating them is not the priority. However, they canswarmyou, sodon’t ignorethem - they can also be hit from range, butswitching back to melee as they rush youis important. Therefore,a wand or pistol as your ranged weapon, to keep your offhand free, is the ideal build, butbows and arquebuses deal way more damage, so if you want to go all out for Lodwyn, those work too.
Lodwyn alsotakes a break from attacks to summon more, giving you awindow to attack, so it is worth taking them out, but it’s not something you should focus on entirely. WhenLodwyn drops to zero health, she fully healsagain, and your tactics change once more.
Lodwyn’s Third Phase
This time,Lodwyn summons two Pristine Maegfolc. It seems as though she summonsone initiallyandone after she loses a third of health, but playing this battle a few timesher behaviour was a little inconsistent- sometimes she summons both at the start. While shecan summon more if these are defeated, in our experience this wasrareas she tends towait a long time after their defeat to add more. Therefore, you should target them whilestill chipping down Lodwyn’s health.
You’ll be well versed by now, having just fought several in the garden.Dash awaywhen they draw their arms back,keep moving when they lower their headswith the blue lasers, andfreeze in place or stun from a distancebeforerushing with heavy melee attacks. When these are gone, go after Lodwyn aggressively, asher third phase is just her first and second phases again.
She’s back on theslow yet powerful melee attacks, sowatch your staminaandhit her hard before dodging away. She will still use some spells here, dropping rocks from above, but shetends to take you on toe to toe, which is where she’s least effective.Block, parry, dodge, and swing at heruntil she falls tozero health. This time, she’s down for good, so just watch the cutscene play out and see where your decisions left you and your journey as Envoy.
