How To Get & Use Preserved Medusa Head

Medusa is among the more difficult monsters to face in Dragon’s Dogma 2 and it’s not due to how troublesome she is to kill. No, the true challenge lies in the truth that the Medusa drops an implement known as the Preserved Medusa Head, however solely when very particular situations are fulfilled.

Gamers will wish to receive this merchandise from the Medusa and use it to petrify massive bosses, rendering an in any other case arduous struggle right into a cakewalk. Right here is how one can get it.

How To Get Preserved Medusa Head

Getting a Preserved Medusa Head requires very particular preparation. Getting her head is far tougher than merely killing her, which is only a query of injury. Right here’s what you’ll want to know.

Step 1: Change Vocation

Change your Vocation to Thief or Warfarer. Thieves deal slashing injury, which is the kind of injury you need for reducing issues off. On this case, it’s Medusa’s head. Fighters and Warriors additionally deal Slashing injury with the fitting weapon nevertheless, they’ve a a lot tougher time getting near the Medusa’s head in the identical method Thieves can. In case your Thief vocation shouldn’t be leveled up, that’s even higher. We don’t wish to kill Medusa earlier than we take off her head. And you’ll solely get her head by reducing it off earlier than her well being bars deplete.

Step 2: Imbue Lightning Injury

Lightning injury permits your assaults to construct up the enemy stagger meter quicker and will increase total injury. Staggering the Medusa will will let you get the proper angle on her head to swing as a lot as potential. There are two methods to deal Lightning injury as a thief, you possibly can both discover the Bolts from the Blue dagger which is of course enchanted with Lightning or choose any random dagger and have a mage with Lightning Boon or Lightning Affinity buff you weapon.

Step 3: Take Off Her Head

Climb on prime of the Medusa, wait on your Mage to make use of Lightning buff, and begin swinging. Don’t use any abilities, simply the common assault ought to do the trick. The purpose is to get the top to fall off mid-fight. The Medusa has 4 well being bars, if the top doesn’t fall off by the point she’s all the way down to her final well being bar, reload from an earlier save. The largest problem stopping gamers from getting the Preserved Medusa Head is that they don’t hit the fitting spots.

In the event you’re going through the issue of killing her too rapidly, take into account dismissing all employed pawns and solely protecting your Foremost Pawn for the struggle. Going a step additional, you possibly can even take away all unrelated abilities out of your Pawn’s hotbar and solely give them buff abilities like Halildom, Celestial Peaen, and the like. This can will let you keep away from worrying about unintentionally killing the Medusa on the incorrect time. Moreover, should you’re over-leveled (stage 50+), you may find yourself killing the Medusa even with none assist from Pawns. On this case, take into account switching your weapon out from an unenhanced dagger purchased from Borderwatch Outpost or Melve, nerfing your injury output as a lot as potential.

How To Use Preserved Medusa Head

Here’s what you’ll want to do to make use of the Preserved Medusa Head.

1. Open your stock, choose the Preserved Medusa Head, and choose Equip. The Medusa Head’s mannequin ought to now seem in your physique like a lantern.
2. Discover a monster you’d like to make use of the top on.
3. Going through the monster, choose ‘Brandish’, both by means of the keybind (CTRL + R) or out of your stock. Your character will take out the top and purpose it in the direction of the closest monster, freezing it in place.

The first use for the Preserved Medusa Head is to petrify a monster in the course of the struggle. The obvious use for this merchandise is throughout the A Case of Sculptor’s Block the place Fulvio asks you to struggle a Griffin for him lengthy sufficient for him to finish the sketch. Utilizing the Medusa’s head to petrify the Griffin will permit Fulvio on a regular basis on the planet to get the job accomplished. After all, you possibly can full this quest even with out the top, but it surely’ll make it simpler.

Equally, it can be used throughout The Guardian Gigantus quest to petrify the stone behemoth in its tracks for a time. That is very helpful for ensuring you get the ‘Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye’ achievement.

Preserving The Medusa Head

The Preserved Medusa Head deteriorates with time, similar to an Apple or a chunk of Scrag Meat. Which means that letting it sit fairly in your stock should you’re not planning on utilizing it quickly is a really unhealthy thought. Fortunately, there’s a approach to protect the preserved head: placing it in storage. There are two methods to do that.

1. Put the Medusa’s Head in a employed Pawn stock and dismiss them. This can mechanically deposit all gadgets belonging to your character within the employed Pawn’s stock into storage. As the primary Pawn can’t be dismissed, this doesn’t work with them (sure, even should you throw them in Brine).
2. Quick journey to a Portcrystal utilizing a Ferrystone and rush to the inn (or home) to deposit it your self.