I'm on action difficulty but this is the first soulsborne or non type game I've played and the difficulty spike from the chimera to tiamat is ridiculous. Thanks for the video and advice!
@@fireteardrops I'm doing this fight on normal. If I wanted a really.tough fight, I'd bring up the difficulty. Developers just need to better differentiate what easy, normal, hard is
For anyone wondering the big fire swipe he's doing is Spiritual Sword a weapon ability some Greatswords have. Aura Edge is another Greatsword ability that can get in two slashes long range.
Cool thing about Breath for anyone that doesn't know, that attack has a blindspot inside of tiamat, so you can dash up to her inside of Breath and hit her during that move.
After more attempts than I'd care to admit I finally searched the fight and loaded your video. Soon as I saw you shielding alllll of her attacks I face palmed and killed it. Thank you.
There is an awful quirk with the Tiamat jump where the camera tracking + the boss's tracking will cause you to dodge into it. I am getting so tired of this boss.
Very much appreciate it. I was guarding and not absorbing attacks. Definitely a walk for me and I’m on action difficulty. I went from elden ring to this and I was getting destroyed. I think I need to look at gear more as well. The recommended gear thing doesn’t seem to really always be best
happy to help! it's easy to get caught up guarding, it's more natural after playing most other games that offer the opportunity. you're also right about the recommended gear. it defaults to highest stats, and leaves behind the idea of building up job affinity to help unlock new potential. good luck out there JumboWizard!
I was playing on the 2nd difficulty but man if you're not prepared for her regeneration this fight is annoying lol, best strat for me was lightbringer and use swordfighter interception then soul block every attack, feels great
You can counter the Regenerate with any spell from what I kept testing. I do believe it stops the regen. The easiest class to fight with most bosses is Safe. You can heal and also deal DPS. Sage also has a nuke spell if you using any 3 White & Dark spells. It tears the break gauge and hp. Have fun :D
I just started playing this (action mode) yesterday, and man, I'm loving the game, but this boss is getting on my nerves. I have taken a break to come see how TH-camrs are beating her, and though I've not yet gotten to phase 2 with Tiamat, I appreciate knowing what to go for when I get there. I have to say that I love using Thief Steal to grab the instant Tiamat uses, and shoot it right back...it always hits the necks! However, I have not been absorbing, and that seems pretty critical!!
The comment about making sure to absorb and play the long game is what got me through. I used war cry, regen, absorbing and timed dodges for awhile but I got em. Thanks for the tips!
The problem is soul shield flat out doesn't work. I hit it for about 1/4 a second, and unless I have the timing PERFECT, then my shield out, and I end up winded and unable to move before getting one-shot.
Mages are broken in the game, especially in this fight. You can cheese it and kill Tiamat with no effort at all by using Blizzaga, and the second phase is even easier. Just stay away, use Blizzaga one time to break all heads, and dodge until it uses it's heal. Immediately charge another Blizzaga and break the heads again and rinse and repeat. Will have to soul shield a few moves to regain mp.
This boss fight has me really excited to see what bosses are still to come in the future, it was tough to take down on hard difficulty and I loved working my way through it.
Issue is and I know this is a year old the design revolves around parrying and the game literally never emphasizes this at any point so when it's forced people can't adapt this is one of the many reason this game sucks compared to previous and new team ninja games
This definitely helped a ton cause I wasnt even thinking about its break gauge, or absorbing its attacks, except the ones that show up in purple. Im playing on Action mode.
I'm glad that I could help! I feel like this games bosses are throwing things at people that they weren't expecting (which I think is a good thing). I have fun figuring stuff out and sharing with others. thanks for watching!
Dude if you absorb the tri-disaster with the Void Knight’s Runic you will one shot him. That’s how i killed him and then i did it again to make sure it wasn’t luck.
@@theJOSHfeed I fought tiamat, the earth and fire bosses and tiamat was the most challenging one. But we all know who the real boss is: MASTER TONBERRY
The key to this fight is to use Lightbringer, while that ability is active, it reduces Tiamat's maximum break gauge. Once you get her pattern down, absorb MP and retaliate with Lightbringer, you can bring her down.
you can use your abilities to hit them, you can also not use target lock to manually aim many abilities in the game. most melee attacks will also work well as I do in this video.
For those of you having trouble with the break gage in phase 2. Thundaga is your friend. I'm a paladin main.... tanked sword n shield until I got mana then changed sage and nuke. Rinse...repeat.
the fire sword is actually the sword itself - some weapons come with their own special abilities. as far as the armor, I just collected it in the level itself.
@@ryandelapine4199 it's called dragon armour, purples have a higher drop rate on hard but I've seen blue green and yellow version of it deop from the lvl this boss is on
Was dark knight used for any reason or just because? Also thanks for the tip on the heads this boss been kicking my ass on hard started abandoning the mission when i got to the boss to farm loot just to try and help
I was a warrior using a katana and I used the Garo attack with just r1> r2 and the attack shreds the break gauge even reducing its maximum quite a bit. Garo has a large hit area that reaches to the necks of tiamat. Otherwise, this boss fight is a slug of a fight, gotta focus on soul shielding the attacks and in the second phase, I always wait for tiamat to use that large beam attack, I dodge it and run for it's heads
I had the ability Ultima by the time I got to this fight lol, I just killed him after I was able to charge it up with the 3 spheres for black and white, had to get him a bit down on hp first before he regened again and time it right but managed to lower his break gauge fast enough, I never thought to wear him down lol
I was nukin him with ultima when im using my sage and got pissed with tiamats regen, now i know its the break gage i need to concentrate, thank you much appreciated 👍🤘
That fight is very bad. I spend a ton of time trying to understand what the hell is going on on the second phase. I tried everything. You cannot target individual heads. And cutting all of them was a hustle. Real hustle. The bosses in this game are not good in my opinion. But the combat system is what holding the game together for me. Playing on PC with awful optimization they made.
Tiamat made easy: Use black mage. Absorb every attack you can for mana. Cast Blizzaga as much as you can. Watch Blizzaga destroy heads as the break gauge gets deleted. You win. I figured this out way later than I should have. I failed over and over trying to use melee. You can use Paladin or White Mage as alt if you need the heals, but by the time I figured out to get a black mage, I learned the fight completely and never got hit.
I think you suggestion was wrong for second phase to just cut off her heads. It'd work but still too slow if you hadn't have strong gear/job yet. This level is still early on game journey. Just use your lightbringer to destroy her break meter fast like game want you to do.
Wanna easy mode this boss? Run lancer and just spear throw manual aim to make it hit as many of the necks as possible easiest phase 2 of my life took me like 3 tries to kill tiamat with that method on hard EDIT: spear throw one hit the necks for me turns out dragoons are good against dragons who'da thunk
I'm BAD with sword in these game, and also never played a game of this kind but I refuse to go any lower than "Action" 😂 You think another job with blades might work? I like the fast ones like Duelist :p So far I've had good results with a Monk and White Mage but it's obviously not the right way to go
couldnt get this sucker untill i got brave, starfall is op af, i think i did 3 starfalls at her feet and the whole fight was done, one for phase 1 2 for phase 2, no joke one regeneration in phase 2 and then dead, promose it was cheesey, hope this helps, starfall is an axe ability in marauder or breaker nott 100% on where to get it
There’s nothing more annoying than bosses that regen health with no clues given as to how to counter it. Unbelievably annoying. I can slap him even through the second phase but then he instantly heals back to half health. So dumb.
My method was using lancer and throwing the spear whenever he had his necks extended. Did almost a quarter of his break gauge if timed correct. Also helped me keep my distance and conserve potions. Good shout absorbing his attacks instead of blocking. The thought never would have crossed my mind. Thanks.
I’m doing this on hard without any TH-cam and I practically ended up doing the same kind of strata, feels proud. Coming from elden ring to this only felt playable going to hard mode if I wanted the dark souls experience, if ur not playing on hard it’s almost a different game to me. If you came from elden ring and beat the story without cheesing I would recommend playing this on hard, it’s not too shabby but it is CHALLENGING.
Man I was struggling until I used Tyrant & Lancer. Enchanted with Enthunder II and threw that spear no more than 10 times. Easy af in the end, finished with 6 potions. (Action difficulty btw) Don't forget to parry to get back your MP. I was charging that spear to at least level 2 each time.
I knew it was going to be a tough fight once I heard the name. They made Tiamat look a tad different but the badassery is all the same! Thanks for the video!!!
After a few tries, I (on CASUAL Difficulty, I might add) finally beat Tiamat, despite NOT absorbing any attacks, or using Mage power. During the second half of the fight, I let Jed & the one called Neon do most of the fighting, & pretty much ONLY attacked Tiamat whenever she (Yes, Tiamat turned out to be a FEMALE character, by the way.) got staggered. I know it sounds rather cowardly, & all, but it's still the short & simple explanation of my Tiamat-beating "strategy," if you want to call it that.
my mistake - I didn't recall it mentioned in the game at all. I know Tiamat is a goddess of an ancient religion but didn't know if that applied here or not. thanks for watching. :)
"Only do things that make sense." Gee thanks for the non-answer. I was trying to figure out WHAT makes sense given how Tiamat seems to command-read by interrupting every single action I take. Also, CHOPPING OFF THE HEADS DOES NOT WORK SHE CAN REGENERATE THOSE TOO
I get that you're frustrated, but taking it out on me isn't going to change anything. I discussed the tactics that worked for me in the video and there's plenty of comments with others explaining how they did it. Good luck.
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I'm on action difficulty but this is the first soulsborne or non type game I've played and the difficulty spike from the chimera to tiamat is ridiculous. Thanks for the video and advice!
You probably shouldn't play those games if you don't like bad boss design
So I got killed by this thing like 5 times on easy difficult and the game suggested that I lower difficulty lmao
@@fireteardrops I'm doing this fight on normal. If I wanted a really.tough fight, I'd bring up the difficulty. Developers just need to better differentiate what easy, normal, hard is
For anyone wondering the big fire swipe he's doing is Spiritual Sword a weapon ability some Greatswords have. Aura Edge is another Greatsword ability that can get in two slashes long range.
And what you press to appear the flame or aura?
@@TolisPiperas82 whichever combo you set it to.
Cool thing about Breath for anyone that doesn't know, that attack has a blindspot inside of tiamat, so you can dash up to her inside of Breath and hit her during that move.
Thanks a lot! Your tips helped me and I could get him right the next fight after seeing your video
After more attempts than I'd care to admit I finally searched the fight and loaded your video. Soon as I saw you shielding alllll of her attacks I face palmed and killed it. Thank you.
Don't be sleeping on Lightbringer, that 2nd phase goes much faster if you activate that whenever possible to whittle down the break gauge even faster.
There is an awful quirk with the Tiamat jump where the camera tracking + the boss's tracking will cause you to dodge into it. I am getting so tired of this boss.
Very much appreciate it. I was guarding and not absorbing attacks. Definitely a walk for me and I’m on action difficulty. I went from elden ring to this and I was getting destroyed. I think I need to look at gear more as well. The recommended gear thing doesn’t seem to really always be best
happy to help! it's easy to get caught up guarding, it's more natural after playing most other games that offer the opportunity. you're also right about the recommended gear. it defaults to highest stats, and leaves behind the idea of building up job affinity to help unlock new potential. good luck out there JumboWizard!
I was playing on the 2nd difficulty but man if you're not prepared for her regeneration this fight is annoying lol, best strat for me was lightbringer and use swordfighter interception then soul block every attack, feels great
You can counter the Regenerate with any spell from what I kept testing. I do believe it stops the regen. The easiest class to fight with most bosses is Safe. You can heal and also deal DPS. Sage also has a nuke spell if you using any 3 White & Dark spells. It tears the break gauge and hp. Have fun :D
Sage was what did it for me. I just played defensively and threw out heals.
@@YawnBlue easiest class to beat it with no lie 🤣
I just sed black magic only attacked when did big attacks that left him open
I just started playing this (action mode) yesterday, and man, I'm loving the game, but this boss is getting on my nerves. I have taken a break to come see how TH-camrs are beating her, and though I've not yet gotten to phase 2 with Tiamat, I appreciate knowing what to go for when I get there. I have to say that I love using Thief Steal to grab the instant Tiamat uses, and shoot it right back...it always hits the necks! However, I have not been absorbing, and that seems pretty critical!!
The comment about making sure to absorb and play the long game is what got me through. I used war cry, regen, absorbing and timed dodges for awhile but I got em. Thanks for the tips!
The problem is soul shield flat out doesn't work. I hit it for about 1/4 a second, and unless I have the timing PERFECT, then my shield out, and I end up winded and unable to move before getting one-shot.
Dude I spent over 5 hrs trying to figure out how to beat this boss! I’m a parrying god now though so I guess it worked out for the best
Yea, this boss 100% teaches you how to parry
I used void knight to absorb his magic attacks with Runic and if you send back the attack instead of absorbing for mp it does massive damage.
Mages are broken in the game, especially in this fight. You can cheese it and kill Tiamat with no effort at all by using Blizzaga, and the second phase is even easier. Just stay away, use Blizzaga one time to break all heads, and dodge until it uses it's heal. Immediately charge another Blizzaga and break the heads again and rinse and repeat. Will have to soul shield a few moves to regain mp.
Yup, used black mage and wrecked her
This boss fight has me really excited to see what bosses are still to come in the future, it was tough to take down on hard difficulty and I loved working my way through it.
Issue is and I know this is a year old the design revolves around parrying and the game literally never emphasizes this at any point so when it's forced people can't adapt this is one of the many reason this game sucks compared to previous and new team ninja games
how can you put the soul eater skill pls ?
This definitely helped a ton cause I wasnt even thinking about its break gauge, or absorbing its attacks, except the ones that show up in purple. Im playing on Action mode.
I'm glad that I could help! I feel like this games bosses are throwing things at people that they weren't expecting (which I think is a good thing). I have fun figuring stuff out and sharing with others. thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tips! This battle is difficult on Action...and you did it on Hard. Damn good job!
no problem Chris! happy to be able to help. I love challenging myself in video games, hard mode is my go to :D
Dude if you absorb the tri-disaster with the Void Knight’s Runic you will one shot him. That’s how i killed him and then i did it again to make sure it wasn’t luck.
I have no idea how I've managed to get this far in the game without defending and only parrying attacks to get enemies magicks.
This was the 1st wall I the game for me and I hope this helps me get over it
I hope so too! it's definitely challenging. good luck ErgoProxy.
@@theJOSHfeed it helped me get it done...I just needed something to get my focus on the 2nd phase
@@iamergoproxy3476 good job! :D
@@theJOSHfeed I fought tiamat, the earth and fire bosses and tiamat was the most challenging one. But we all know who the real boss is: MASTER TONBERRY
The key to this fight is to use Lightbringer, while that ability is active, it reduces Tiamat's maximum break gauge. Once you get her pattern down, absorb MP and retaliate with Lightbringer, you can bring her down.
If im not mistaken this is the paladins ability? Thank you for the heads up 👍
@@hellbent2835 Lightbringer is permanently set to L2+O, every class has it no matter what.
Bullshit, that thing does NOTHING.
My question is how tf can u get that sword/ move the giant fire sword
but how do you aim at the neck. cant change where the target lock is
you can use your abilities to hit them, you can also not use target lock to manually aim many abilities in the game. most melee attacks will also work well as I do in this video.
For those of you having trouble with the break gage in phase 2. Thundaga is your friend. I'm a paladin main.... tanked sword n shield until I got mana then changed sage and nuke. Rinse...repeat.
Two questions. What class is that amazing fire sword ability and where did you get that armor? :)
the fire sword is actually the sword itself - some weapons come with their own special abilities. as far as the armor, I just collected it in the level itself.
Interesting. That armor probably only drops when playing Hard mode. Thank you though!
@@ryandelapine4199 erm no that armor drops for that level regardless of the difficulty
@@ryandelapine4199 it's called dragon armour, purples have a higher drop rate on hard but I've seen blue green and yellow version of it deop from the lvl this boss is on
Was dark knight used for any reason or just because? Also thanks for the tip on the heads this boss been kicking my ass on hard started abandoning the mission when i got to the boss to farm loot just to try and help
I was a warrior using a katana and I used the Garo attack with just r1> r2 and the attack shreds the break gauge even reducing its maximum quite a bit. Garo has a large hit area that reaches to the necks of tiamat. Otherwise, this boss fight is a slug of a fight, gotta focus on soul shielding the attacks and in the second phase, I always wait for tiamat to use that large beam attack, I dodge it and run for it's heads
Lich compared to Tiamat is a cakewalk
I had the ability Ultima by the time I got to this fight lol, I just killed him after I was able to charge it up with the 3 spheres for black and white, had to get him a bit down on hp first before he regened again and time it right but managed to lower his break gauge fast enough, I never thought to wear him down lol
I was nukin him with ultima when im using my sage and got pissed with tiamats regen, now i know its the break gage i need to concentrate, thank you much appreciated 👍🤘
For me it just felt easy to go all in during the first phase and play defence during the second.
That fight is very bad. I spend a ton of time trying to understand what the hell is going on on the second phase. I tried everything. You cannot target individual heads. And cutting all of them was a hustle. Real hustle. The bosses in this game are not good in my opinion. But the combat system is what holding the game together for me. Playing on PC with awful optimization they made.
Sure . .. the fight is bad
I absolutely have the hardest of time with this boss. Even in the tutorials.
Man I haven't used absorb at all thank you
Tiamat made easy: Use black mage. Absorb every attack you can for mana. Cast Blizzaga as much as you can. Watch Blizzaga destroy heads as the break gauge gets deleted. You win.
I figured this out way later than I should have. I failed over and over trying to use melee. You can use Paladin or White Mage as alt if you need the heals, but by the time I figured out to get a black mage, I learned the fight completely and never got hit.
I just did this tonight on Hard. I was stubborn and did it either pure Dragoon. Took awhile.
I think you suggestion was wrong for second phase to just cut off her heads. It'd work but still too slow if you hadn't have strong gear/job yet. This level is still early on game journey.
Just use your lightbringer to destroy her break meter fast like game want you to do.
it took me like 20 tries to do this.
For my Tyrant/Pugilist players, spam Whirlwind in the second phase.
Thanks bro for your effort and nice explaining. I play on easy...yes,yes,i know,i am nub :) and could not beat it :(
no problem John! there's no shame in playing your way :)
I figured it had to do something with the break gauge….i was raging everytime he regenerated
I just maxed out lancer and threw like 8 lancets at his neck and he went down. Seriously cheeseable fight.
thank you very much, it helped a lot
Yeah I was thinking Lancer or Dragoon and Black Mage. Having a tough time with this fight
Thanks M8
Worked like a charm
TIL you can absorb attacks to get MP.
Man this boss is a beast. Was able to take her out with Samurai class once I learned her moves
Thanks bro, that really helped a lot! 👌
I'm happy it helped you! thanks for watching star dust.
Wanna easy mode this boss? Run lancer and just spear throw manual aim to make it hit as many of the necks as possible easiest phase 2 of my life took me like 3 tries to kill tiamat with that method on hard EDIT: spear throw one hit the necks for me turns out dragoons are good against dragons who'da thunk
Is there a holy knight?
I'm BAD with sword in these game, and also never played a game of this kind but I refuse to go any lower than "Action" 😂
You think another job with blades might work? I like the fast ones like Duelist :p
So far I've had good results with a Monk and White Mage but it's obviously not the right way to go
couldnt get this sucker untill i got brave, starfall is op af, i think i did 3 starfalls at her feet and the whole fight was done, one for phase 1 2 for phase 2, no joke one regeneration in phase 2 and then dead, promose it was cheesey, hope this helps, starfall is an axe ability in marauder or breaker nott 100% on where to get it
let me know if that works for anyone
There’s nothing more annoying than bosses that regen health with no clues given as to how to counter it. Unbelievably annoying. I can slap him even through the second phase but then he instantly heals back to half health. So dumb.
I have been on this boss for 5 hours and have waited for other players. No such luck however
Very helpful!!
We were almost five-head for figuring out this fight but I guess just being a helpful sixer works too. 🎲🎲
My method was using lancer and throwing the spear whenever he had his necks extended. Did almost a quarter of his break gauge if timed correct. Also helped me keep my distance and conserve potions. Good shout absorbing his attacks instead of blocking. The thought never would have crossed my mind. Thanks.
Black mage make it easier even in 2nd stage, u can kill it using thundaga
I used lightning magic and I killed it faster than slashing the heads..
I’m doing this on hard without any TH-cam and I practically ended up doing the same kind of strata, feels proud. Coming from elden ring to this only felt playable going to hard mode if I wanted the dark souls experience, if ur not playing on hard it’s almost a different game to me. If you came from elden ring and beat the story without cheesing I would recommend playing this on hard, it’s not too shabby but it is CHALLENGING.
Found it much easier to go black mage + lightning
Man I was struggling until I used Tyrant & Lancer. Enchanted with Enthunder II and threw that spear no more than 10 times. Easy af in the end, finished with 6 potions. (Action difficulty btw)
Don't forget to parry to get back your MP. I was charging that spear to at least level 2 each time.
I knew it was going to be a tough fight once I heard the name. They made Tiamat look a tad different but the badassery is all the same! Thanks for the video!!!
Use Thundga spam destroy heads
Playing this right now and let me say bosses who heal themsleves should not be a thing its so fucking stupid
I use mage
This boss is an A$$$$… thanks for the video mate
I found the game super easy so far, the combat feels like artificial difficulty, it's rubbish.
After a few tries, I (on CASUAL Difficulty, I might add) finally beat Tiamat, despite NOT absorbing any attacks, or using Mage power. During the second half of the fight, I let Jed & the one called Neon do most of the fighting, & pretty much ONLY attacked Tiamat whenever she (Yes, Tiamat turned out to be a FEMALE character, by the way.) got staggered. I know it sounds rather cowardly, & all, but it's still the short & simple explanation of my Tiamat-beating "strategy," if you want to call it that.
tiamat is a female bro, good job tho👍
my mistake - I didn't recall it mentioned in the game at all. I know Tiamat is a goddess of an ancient religion but didn't know if that applied here or not. thanks for watching. :)
Tiamat is actually female :P
"Only do things that make sense."
Gee thanks for the non-answer. I was trying to figure out WHAT makes sense given how Tiamat seems to command-read by interrupting every single action I take.
Also, CHOPPING OFF THE HEADS DOES NOT WORK SHE CAN REGENERATE THOSE TOO
I get that you're frustrated, but taking it out on me isn't going to change anything. I discussed the tactics that worked for me in the video and there's plenty of comments with others explaining how they did it.
Good luck.
How I beat this boss in one word Ultima.
Hmm...why your Strangers of Paradies Looks so good? I got it on ps5 and the graphic Looks so boring
Don't put it on the performance mode
Go for quality
tiamat is a she btw
This boss is kind of bs
This is ruining the game for me
It's a she not a him
Lol
He is a she haha.