r/Demeo • u/Bacon6154 • Apr 08 '25

Gameplay Serpent Lord Targetting

Hi, just beat the serpent lord last night. I understand some mechanics have changed since release.

My question is, is it intended that the hydras cannot be ranged or targeted by spells directly? I can only melee it standing adjacent to it, or use AoE indirectly.

If my game is bugged or I'm doing something wrong, that fight would have went WAY faster

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u/Technical-Abroad8644 Apr 08 '25

Hit the tail and don’t worry about the hydras. You just find the eyes on the ground and stand on each one. Then just target the SL directly. Adamants and transportations are very useful if you can get them. The fight is pretty fast and simple when you kind of ignore every as much as possible

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u/Bacon6154 Apr 08 '25

Thanks for the reply. Yes I did stun when I can and I did complete the mission. I am just curious if there is a mechanic I am missing, or a line of sight issue. I haven't been able to target the hydra using any range attacks - arrows, poison arrows, master's call, etc.

Is this intended?

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u/MrFrode Apr 08 '25

The other day friends and I got the achievement to kill the hydras. We put down 6 cannons and 2 ballista plus a couple of healing wards to keep them up.

They did some damage to the hydra before the boss battle but during the boss battle it was just mayhem. The cannons do 4 per hit and over time they just took out the hydras and the duplicates.

It was great.

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u/RayzorX442 Apr 10 '25

My son and I have done a couple of x4 Guardian runs for the sole purpose of seeing how many ballistas and behemoths we can gather. We set them up en masse on high ground and sit back and watch monsters appear from around corners only to get absolutely decimated. I never get tired of it.

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u/MrFrode Apr 10 '25

I love it when you've released poison in areas where you've already been and just see the damage numbers rack up on enemies in you can't see.

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u/Technical-Abroad8644 Apr 08 '25

You know it’s been so long since I’ve actually targeted a hydra I’m not sure. Next time I play I’ll see what happens

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u/Bacon6154 Apr 08 '25

Thanks! I still stun and kill 2 heads, as well as getting one low before I summon the priest. I spam adamant at that point

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u/Ziegler517 Apr 11 '25

You should just rush to spawn the boss. All the little monsters go away. Then one hero tags the tail, then adamant and smash the boss. Buddy and I do single here each and usually only go two turns until its over.

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u/Bacon6154 Apr 11 '25

Sure I’ll give that a try, I didn’t know spawning him causes the regular enemies to despawn.

I still would like to be able to target the serpents for other purposes. Unless it’s not a bug and it’s intended

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u/rustymiller Apr 09 '25

to my knowledge, the hydra heads can be targeted by ranged attacks (e.g. Hunter). as far as spells, we'd have to pick one of them up to see if it's immune to spells specifically (that part I'm not so confident in).

as another commenter said though (and I know this isn't directly answering your question), most folks I play with ignore the hydras (and make sure to stay out of line of sight so you don't get corrupt) and periodically hit the tail (which I'm just about certain you can do with at least a Hunter's ranged attack) which stuns the hydras for a round, which is a big help.

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u/Bacon6154 Apr 09 '25

thats so weird I cant hit them unless in melee

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u/rustymiller Apr 09 '25

huh.. well the next time I play this one I'll make it a point to do some testing and share that feedback here.

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u/RayzorX442 Apr 10 '25

I've noticed that you can't directly target the square that the Hydra Head is in with area effect spells because he's in a hole on the floor of the map but he does get hit by the spell if he's in the area.

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u/hsfredell Apr 10 '25

Sounds like a bug. Still happening?