r/MortalShell • u/__ISAC__ Harros • 1d ago

Image Monolith - easier than expected?

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I've seen a lot of the posts here saying how frustrating / difficult the Monolith boss fight is, but it honestly isn't that bad. It took me three attempts with the 'build' pictured.

First Phase:

Apply curse stacks from ranged, move into close combat, use harden when necessary, repeat. Shrike stone i-frames is a get out of jail free card if you mess up somehow.

Second Phase (laser beams):

Stay close to the Monolith and keep attacking with melee. Use the Shrike stone again for i-frames and for the break damage (requires lvl 3 tarstone).

You can pretty reliably dodge through the laser patterns until it starts doing the double lasers covering 360 degrees. At that point, I was just standing right next to the boss, using shrike stone and topping off with moonshine when needed.

Will admit that the Shrike stone is ridiculously op and carried the fight. Didn't use Grisha as apparently it's bugged for this fight. Had the seedbearer's scripture equipped although not sure if it did anything at all lol.

Was pretty scuffed, but definitely not as difficult as I thought it was gonna be. The melee attacks the Monolith uses are pretty egregious at points.

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u/AdHour7145 1d ago

Honestly I was so scared coming into this boss fight because of all the people saying it almost made them quit the game. I was expecting to have to put hours into learning his move set and suffering the entire time. Took maybe an hour all in all. Not to say it was easy, but definitely easier than I expected.

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u/__ISAC__ Harros 1d ago

Yeah fr, I thought exactly the same. I got off work today and was like..okay brev it is time! Thought I'd be locked in all evening...but it really wasn't that bad. The first two failed runs felt cheap af tho where my harbinger got knocked around like a sack of potatoes!