Talk:Daimon/@comment-5530267-20130528012001/@comment-10152828-20130528221108

I did too at first...using blast arrows like most suggest and running around trying to avoid him all the time (and keep my pawns far away from his vortex). It took forever. But here's what I learned...

Go assassin and just climb to the face on his chest and hundred kiss his azz until he's dead. That's it.

It helps to have the daggerist ring that changes hundred kisses to thousand kisses tho (as well as maxed out framae blades). I never use arrows on him anymore, on both forms I just climb to his face and hack away (first form is very vulnerable right on the front of his face, second form it's the face on the belly). At level 200 I can easily kill both forms without arrows or periphats or boosts of any kind in under 5 minutes tops. Some runs are longer/shorter than others tho because sometimes you just get knocked off of his body more (and lack of good support pawns can make the kill take a little longer too). If you get knocked off, just jump back on. Always stay on him. That should be your only focus when you're on the ground...getting back on him and up to his face. His first form, for me, is more annoying than the second simply because he jumps around so much therefore knocking me off more.

It's imperitive that you stay on his body tho, because if you're caught on the ground when he opens a vortex you're pretty much screwed and have to start over (or wakestone and go solo). But if you're on him while he's opening the vortex and slash him in the face enough, he'll stagger and you won't lose your pawns. It's easily soloable as long as you bring some curatives and pancea. I still like to run with a party tho. If you're lower level, you should bring more curatives, wakestones, strength periphats, stamina boosts, etc.

Also, if you're an assassin it definitely doesn't hurt to use the augment bloodlust and wait until night to fight him therefore your strength will be higher. Before I reached 200 I would just ask Orla to send me back to Cassardis (since she ports you right inside the town) and sleep in the inn until night, then eternal ferrystone back to BBI and use the left entrance...run through all the rooms (you'll learn to run the paths to each door pretty quick) and across the rooftops in the Fallen City and you'll reach Daimon in no time.

And if you're going solo assassin definitely use autonomy. That combined with bloodlust and some decent gear and you should have no problem with either of Daimon's forms unless you're pretty low leveled.