Arch Tempered Vaal Hazak can be very difficult if you don’t know how to counter it, especially the miasma. But there’s actually a strategy that will make this monster like a joke to everyone. It is highly recommended to solo this monster instead, unless you want to help others, because its damage will increase when fought in multiplayer.

Well, if you simply want to get Arch Tempered Vaal’s Gamma y, then your best bet would be to solo it and here is a guide on how to do so.

BUILD

The key is to use any weapon which has good lifesteal value when augmented with health augmentation.

Melee:

One good weapon I could recommend for melee is Longsword. You don’t need to be good at playing longsword, but instead you just need to apply some important skills into your build so the monster would become easy as cake.

The most important part of the build here as mentioned above is to have your sword of choice to be augmented with health or also known as lifesteal. The following swords I would recommend are the Taroth Sword Fire, Divine Slasher, Deviljho’s Longsword, or Kjarr Sword Decay.

The Taroth Sword Fire and Kjarr Sword Decay can be difficult to acquire, but the other two should be easy since they can all be bought from the smithy.

Another important skill to consider is level 3 Miasma resistance, because Vaal’s blights and attacks will cause miasma ailment which is actually the main cause of deaths among hunters when fighting the monster.

The 3rd most important skills are health boost, and probably maintenance jewels if you want to. Though I would prefer boosting up my crit rates and once it reaches 100%, I would go for the damage boost.

Range:

For Range users, bow with lifesteal can be a good choice and cluster bombing is good too. But for my preference, I would like to kill it with LBG. LBG takes time to kill, but you will feel a lot safer with LBG. It has good mobility, sheathes weapon fairly quick when you need to pot, and it also has very decent damage per second.

The two LBGs that I would recommend are Taroth Blitz Support or Karma if you don’t have the blitz support. And just like in the melee build, I also highly recommend getting those skills I mentioned above as a prerequisite. The ammo that will be used here is Normal 2 ammo.

If you are the poorest of the poorest, you can simply wear Nergigante B set or Vaal Hazak B set for this run. It will surely die! It just going to take more time, though you can make it in less than 20 minutes with this poor build like I did before when I first faced this monster, and the only Gamma I had was Kirin y.

STRATEGY

Melee:

Make sure to start your quest on camp 11 and then drop off the ledge to meet Odoragon. Ignore Odo! And go for the girros instead and hit it to gain initial red spirit level on your longsword. You can still hit the monster even if it’s dead for the sake of getting spirit levels. Sharpen your sword and you can now meet Vaal just north of where these Girroses spawns.

Wear your temporal mantle and just hit like crazy, if you can’t do foresight slash to counter its attacks especially the roars, then don’t mind it. You will need to hit like crazy so you can life steal back the blight damage it causes you.

Once your temporal expires, you can choose to wear rocksteady mantle or evasion mantle. For me I want the evasion mantle.

After wearing your 2nd mantle, you will do the same strat but with less aggression. Vaal’s movesets are VERY easy to familiarize, because its specialty is not actually its attacks, but its status ailments which we just negated by wearing miasma resistance. So just try to be a bit aggressive, but still take note of what attacks he will perform and dodge it. He still HURTS! That’s without a doubt. But you can easily dodge his attacks and simply take back the hp you lost by hitting.

Range:

For range users, we will also start of course at camp 11 and will also ignore Odoragon. Then we will simply go straight ahead to start shooting Vaal, wear the necessary mantles same as mentioned above, and just life steal back whatever blight damage you receive from Vaal. You can also throw Torch Pods on the floor to negate the effluvia in the surroundings, but this is very optional as you will just get the hp back when you shoot the monster.

You can choose to shoot some ailment ammos like sleep to sleep bomb it, but I didn’t do it on this run because I simply just want to shoot at it head on, though I recommend using your ailment ammos if you prefer.

REMARKS

To top it all, this monster is REALLY easy if you simply know how to counter its ailment debuffs and blights which I of course mentioned above. This is the only AT monster I believe that from being scary will simply become a joke when you have these few skills in your build.

If you want to watch a full run, then you can check it out in the video below.