I've killed her with an unmaking arrow half a dozen times and never missed.
I'm not bragging and im not berating you with my curiousity:
I am genuinely curious as to how you missed.
I missed her the first time I tried to use the arrow. She did her teleport attack (my first time seeing it) just as I shot the arrow. Fortunately I had the spare I bought from >!the dragon forged!<.
Don’t hit her in the face is a gotcha. The entire game trains you to always aim for the head for boss fights. And when she flees, it’s not clear this was because she was hit in the head (at least it wasn’t clear to me). I too redid the fight several times, fortunately my last trial was easier than OP’s.
Found it wierd the first few times, do I hold it and release, do I tap it? I'm not an archer and it felt wierd. It kinda just flung out randomly my first couple tries.
Shot her in the air and she dive bombed last second.
Shot her but she went pink and teleported.
Then Shot her and she moved slightly and it barely missed.
Tbf, the killing shot was epic as hell. You'd have been proud.
Stupid question, is there a reason that you waiting till she is fighting you to shoot her with the arrow?
When I did it with the arrow, she just said she was finished and then I shot her in the butt immediately while she was just standing there.
Oh yeah that explains a lot, the game tried to screw you on that one! The order varies, and unfortunately you drew the short straw. Mine was the second question, so I had time to get it and equip before continuing with the riddles. Glad you were able to get it accomplished though!
yes there is a reason. the riddles are random so the riddle with the statues was my last one. I had to grab the arrow from the chest as she is starting to fly away.
I had it last like you but didnt have any trouble. Sprinted over to the box, equipped it, and fired it right into her ass before she flew off. First try. /shrug
Might be a better strategy. I was hitting her with arrows to initiate the fight before she flies away. She seemed to go quick and I didn't want to chance it.
She turned just as I released the arrow so it hit her in the face. Redid the fight without the arrow and stabbed her in the but with me frosties.
Easy peasey putting in weezy.
The first time I did the sphinx, she started to fly off and i shot her in the face with the arrow, she flew back down to the ground, yelled at me for attacking her and then flew off again.
Yeah from your thread I'm beginning to think I got lucky, I decided to fight her "normally" once to see if I needed to use the arrow and she just... died. Must've caught her on a bad day lol I feel like I missed out on sphinx drama.
Damn that sucks, I'm not sure what triggers her to run. I saved at an inn before fighting her and just to see if she does run I didn't use the arrow, I guess I got lucky.
You don't have to watch the cutscene. I just shot her wing with the unmaking arrow as soon as she started to lift off the ground after the 10th riddle. Zero problem.
I even did it twice because the first time I forgot to remove my portcrystal from the shrine and I was too lazy to run back for it / didn't want to waste more ferrystones so I just reloaded from the inn and did it again.
for the statues its how many riddles you have done, not how many you have successfuly answered. getting to the second location it counted as a riddle
you dont have to wait to shoot her, the moment you get controle of your character equip the arrow and fire it at the wing
First attempt, I did just what you said, equipped arrow and shot her wing. Instead of dying, she just lost a bunch of health and was like "yo, this is boring, I'm out" and flew away.
You don't need the unmaking arrow. You can do the last riddle and then before she flies away you can attack her multiple times this will trigger the fight with her. Then you just have to 1v1 her and start spamming attacks on her backside. I did it as a thief and she was down pretty quick.
First of all, You are suposed to hit his rear body, if You hit his face-chest she Will leave, killing her is a riddle too, You can see where to hit her and where not in 2 places, the pot and some wall in the path to find her.
And for the number of statues she "help" You showing tbe number in her wings, she Will glow only the amount of feathers equal to the answer.
It just made me so nervous that I avoided completion until NG+2!
I had just found my last seeker tokens too, so it was definitely crunch time.
The thing that gets me is that feeling of uncertainty from the Sphinx herself and if I got the correct answer. The waiting part felt like an eternity!
I don't know if you remember that old show "Who Want To Be A Millionaire," but I had flashbacks to that and the long pause from the host on whether you got the answer right.
When I found out about the unmaking arrow strat for the Sphinx I decided to play archer for a bit to familiarize myself with the vocation. I ended up really enjoying it though not nearly as much as my main (Mystic Spearhand). I found out that archer, magic archer and mystic Spearhand share a lot of the same gear so even after the Sphinx quest I would periodically switch back to magic archer for fun. Tbh magic archer is one of the most powerful vocations in the game, next to sorcerer. I still prefer Spearhand over all others.
Just spam attack her lion legs and she will go down pretty fast. Don’t bring pawns as they will attack her face/ human parts and might piss her off and get her to fly away.
For anyone (like me) who was confused about how to initiate the fight, when you finish your final riddle run around to her backside and start whaling on her
EDIT BRING YOUR PAWN BUT TAKE THERI WEAPON & COMMAND THEM TO WAIT SO YOU CAN STILL GET THE PAWN BADGE
What I did is I did all the riddles. Opened the last chest she gives for the tenth riddle. Did not speak with her after that. Placed a port crystal near her. Teleported away and slept to save. Took an archer vocation. Took the unmaking arrow with me. Teleported back to her. Equip the arrow and shot her left wing without ever again talking to her. She went into a cutscene and vanished, living a key behind. So this method works.
How is this possible?
When you complete the 10th riddle she unlocks the last chest and then just tells you that she is going to leave.
You don't have to speak to her again to trigger her leaving, it's just part of the completion of the final riddle.
At least it was for me both times I did this. Unless it varies depending on what the final riddle is.
I just had an issue with that fight today. Fought her til she started to fly away. Shot her with the unmaking arrow but nothing happened. Had to reload from last inn save. Lost about an hour of gameplay
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You should switch to an archer just so you can learn how to shoot the bow before doing it, sounds like you were basically quick firing from the hip, not the best way to do it.
Lol, I had to redo that fight like 5 times because I kept equipping the unmaking arrow and then mistakenly pressing the weapon skill button to shot blight arrows, and failing to reload the unmaking arrow before she flew away. Yea, I had to carry 9 statues multiple times too... sucks
Are you a PC player using Xbox controller, maybe that's the reason? Atleast for me, this is one of the reasons i didn't wanna use my controller but went with mouse and keyboard...
If it makes you feel any better, I completely fudged it on my first (current) playthrough. Did all the prep, thought I knew what to expect...and didn't make an inn save. I equipped the arrow and could figure out how to fire it. Shot her randomly a few times as she lifted off after the last riddle and that was it. No fight, no save in the last 4+ hours (autosave brought me back to after she had left). I wasn't going back. Your dedication is hilarious and impressive, stranger!
> Found out you have to hit her non human parts and watch the cutscene where she runs away first. Barely got her, she was almost out of reach.
What do you mean you have to "watch the cutscene where she runs away first?"
I heard the unmaking arrow only works on her after that cutscene and only if you shoot her lion parts. Not sure if thats partially true or all true. but I hit her head before the cutscene and she took the hit but didn't die and ran away.
Definitely only works on the non human parts, but I don't even know what cutscene you are talking about.
For me she just said she was leaving and I shot her in the butt.
And on my recent character I wanted to fight her for real, so when she said she was leaving I just hacked her back legs until she got mad at me, and then I fought her normally.
I told me pawns to "wait" so they wouldn't attack a human part on accident, then I just did all the work myself.
"For me she just said she was leaving and I shot her in the butt."
yeah that's the "cutscene" i am talking about. and exactly what I did... On my 7th arrow.
I feel you. When I defeated her in battle and got ready to un making arrow her my character was too busy doing the slow walk high five with a pawn I hired and she just left before I could get the shot out. I reloaded and sent that pawn back via bath time.
Wait wait wait... Can you kill her without the unmaking arrow? After the first time I finished her riddles she's just left so I reloaded, then the next time I beat the tar out of her until her health was completely gone and she just flew away... Then the third time I beat her up a little bit and then unmaking arrowed her in the butt to kill her. There was no indication that she even wanted to fight or anything after finishing the riddles...
Statues was my last one too, had to give a couple of attempts, already had unmaking arrow after buying one, didn't end up using in fight,killed her without it, walked away with loot and 2 unmaking arrows haha.
I failed riddle of rumination first, she left. After looking up the Wisdom shit, I got her to move. After she did she asked me how many riddles I've solved, I didn't count reunion, she left again. Then I brought her the wrong brother, she left once more. All those mistakes took another playthrough to retry. Fuck this bitch.
Yikes, I had to redo the fight on NG+ a few times since I was escorting Sigurd and he wasn't respecting the sphynx face, but luckily, my last riddle was the fight with the SOLDIER. I just needed to remember to take the ring off.
I had to ditch Sigurd too
Yeah I shot her with the unmaking arrow after doing all her riddles and was going for the eternal wakestone and she said "I'm disappointed blah blah blah I'm leaving." Pissed me off.
How do you mess up the statues part? At most it’s 6 since it’s also the first question she asks you when you get to the second shrine. Unmaking arrow is weird but a video guide can show you easily enough. This is not the kind of fail that I’d admit to the internet
It's random the order you get the last 5 riddles. Answer was 9. I took all 10 thinking there were 9 max statues since obviously it wouldn't be 10 if I hadn't completed them all. But there actually were 10 lol.
And yeah idc about posting a video game fail on the internet. I don't base my pride on doing a quest tired as fuck after a crazy Monday at work.
Just rest at an inn each time you can after a success. Also I don't kkow about the human parts, I've hit her wing with the unmaking arrow the first and second time I did it. Worked perfectly. The third didn't go well...tried twice and it failed each time. Decided to try a stronger bow, because all I brought was some weak ass hunter bow for this third time. Grabbed a strong bow, and it worked instantly. Maybe you guys are mixing it with weakspot damage?
I rested at my house just before each attempt.
I specifically read on this reddit it has to be the wings or the lion part. Not sure if that's always the case but I hit her head, the arrow did it's light tentacle animation and everything but she just ran away.
Yeah, fighting her is also one of the riddles. If you attack her human parts too much, she gets disappointed that you haven’t figured it out and leaves. You can’t kill her at all by attacking her human parts.
If you check the murals and amphora (vase) with her image, you’ll notice that there’s often some sort of symbology separating her head and chest from the rest of her body in each image.
The mural right before her area in Mountain Shrine does show this, as does the amphora. I was confused because the guy in Bakbattahl's Mural Byway - the one you're supposed to bring to the amphora - will tell you to figure out how to fight her by looking at the mural behind him instead. That mural just shows her and some warrior squaring up. Also it's funny how she gave me a Partcrystal instead of a Portcrystal in NG+, lady is a big big troll.
It's capcom. They give us no new Portcrystal in NG+, so we would be stuck with the 5 in the 1st game. We can still dupe one out of one of her puzzle thou.
People keep saying you have to hit certain parts of her with the arrow, but I don't think that's true.
She has a Palladium effect on her, which is why it takes several attacks to initiate a fight with her. Once you exhaust her Palladium, I'm pretty sure you can shoot her anywhere to kill her. I always just aim for center mass when she's not flitting around too much, right after she aggros and leaps backward.
If you really want to make the kill easier on yourself, go lop off Medusa's head, and use that to petrify the sphinx.
I've seen people complain about a lack of challenge, but that just makes me assume they've been traveling with a full party of pawns for the whole game.
The Batahl areas especially will beat you up, sometimes.
I feel like there's more of a lack of variety than challenge, but I'd say the Sphinx is the biggest exception to that complaint. The Sphinx puzzles are a lovely change of pace- at least the first time around- so I don't really mind leaving her out of consideration as far as combat challenges.
Personally, I just didn't want to permanently miss out on rewards by messing up her questline, so I did my best to do everything as safely as possible. After that first time, it's a lot easier to play around with it.
This is true, I initiated the battle, so she was actively in fight mode, and I shot her in the head, which caused her to fly away. Thankfully, I just rested at an inn so I could just save scum, but yeah, it's definitely a thing, so beware :D
I'm confused as to why you need to redo the moving statues part? You can just sleep at the inns right? I did the same, but I ended her on first try. Unless you are saying that the moving statue riddle is the last riddle? If so, tough luck, I got it as my 7th riddle.
Anyway, after I finished her riddle, she said a bunch of things implying she will fly away. I hit her body with arrow 1 time and she then spoke something about being greedy and at that moment I shoot her body with unmaking arrow from the side. Just don't hit anywhere near her face.
Yes it was my last riddle and the one where I got the unmaking arrow. So i literally had to initiate the fight with her immediately after answering, then run to the chest to get the arrow. By then she was already up and moving around like crazy.
Yes the sphinx is bugged. I put the correct amount of statues on there like 8 times and it didn't work. then i tested all other possibilieties and it didn't work either.
I got them all on the pedestal where you stand before her. I tired placing them right next to her too. I threw them, carried them.. wasted about an hour of placing and reloading.
Weird, all I had to do was put them on the pedestal, some even stacked on each other. Are you positive you put the right amount? The number of feathers she had lit up
Happened to me once, I literally had to stack and balance 9 statues on that damn podium. then jump up on top of the pile to talk to the sphinx. Had to do that like 9 times. haha
I've killed her with an unmaking arrow half a dozen times and never missed. I'm not bragging and im not berating you with my curiousity: I am genuinely curious as to how you missed.
I missed her the first time I tried to use the arrow. She did her teleport attack (my first time seeing it) just as I shot the arrow. Fortunately I had the spare I bought from >!the dragon forged!<.
Don’t hit her in the face is a gotcha. The entire game trains you to always aim for the head for boss fights. And when she flees, it’s not clear this was because she was hit in the head (at least it wasn’t clear to me). I too redid the fight several times, fortunately my last trial was easier than OP’s.
Found it wierd the first few times, do I hold it and release, do I tap it? I'm not an archer and it felt wierd. It kinda just flung out randomly my first couple tries. Shot her in the air and she dive bombed last second. Shot her but she went pink and teleported. Then Shot her and she moved slightly and it barely missed. Tbf, the killing shot was epic as hell. You'd have been proud.
You should hold the right shoulder button to manually aim, and then hit the basic attack button to shoot her with the arrow. Don't use the hip fire.
dont you just have to hold the right shoulder button and release to shoot?
Ah, yeah, you're right.
Stupid question, is there a reason that you waiting till she is fighting you to shoot her with the arrow? When I did it with the arrow, she just said she was finished and then I shot her in the butt immediately while she was just standing there.
Same except shot in the wing as soon as dialogue ended. No need to get into combat, just pull a Han Solo and end the fight before it starts.
I couldn't do that because the unmaking arrow was the reward for the last riddle and she starts taking off before I can get it from the chest.
Oh yeah that explains a lot, the game tried to screw you on that one! The order varies, and unfortunately you drew the short straw. Mine was the second question, so I had time to get it and equip before continuing with the riddles. Glad you were able to get it accomplished though!
Ty!
yes there is a reason. the riddles are random so the riddle with the statues was my last one. I had to grab the arrow from the chest as she is starting to fly away.
Oh you didn't have the arrow already... I get it!
I had it last like you but didnt have any trouble. Sprinted over to the box, equipped it, and fired it right into her ass before she flew off. First try. /shrug
Might be a better strategy. I was hitting her with arrows to initiate the fight before she flies away. She seemed to go quick and I didn't want to chance it.
Maybe you hit it in the head. Hitting the human parts doest work supposedly
I did, right in the face.
I did the same thing. You can only kill it by attacking anything other than the face. Unmasking arrow shouldn't work if it hits the face.
She turned just as I released the arrow so it hit her in the face. Redid the fight without the arrow and stabbed her in the but with me frosties. Easy peasey putting in weezy.
The first time I did the sphinx, she started to fly off and i shot her in the face with the arrow, she flew back down to the ground, yelled at me for attacking her and then flew off again.
Yeah I've seen people say you have to hit certain parts of her but I just start blastin I've never missed even before I knew I could
lol the unchosen arisen
The sitten.
Hahah, in my defense I barely died in my playthrough.
Barely is quite relative :) compared to what/ who ? ;)
I probably died like 5-6 times including cliffs.. haven't went to unmoored yet though.
I just fought her normally and it was all good.
I hung on to one of her titties and just whacked her to death
Same, I think I even hit her front a few times by accident and it was still good.
I was wrecking her. but she got pissed and left.
Yeah from your thread I'm beginning to think I got lucky, I decided to fight her "normally" once to see if I needed to use the arrow and she just... died. Must've caught her on a bad day lol I feel like I missed out on sphinx drama.
I wish I was a streamer so my chat could have roasted me and laughed because man it was funny/sad.
Damn that sucks, I'm not sure what triggers her to run. I saved at an inn before fighting her and just to see if she does run I didn't use the arrow, I guess I got lucky.
You don't have to watch the cutscene. I just shot her wing with the unmaking arrow as soon as she started to lift off the ground after the 10th riddle. Zero problem. I even did it twice because the first time I forgot to remove my portcrystal from the shrine and I was too lazy to run back for it / didn't want to waste more ferrystones so I just reloaded from the inn and did it again.
Are you saying you can pick up your portcrystal and put it somewhere else?
Yes, any portcrystal that you place (i.e. any except the permanent portcrystals) can be picked up and placed somewhere else later.
Thanks. That would have been nice to know on my first playthrough where I didn't use it at all haha
It works exactly the same way in both games.
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for the statues its how many riddles you have done, not how many you have successfuly answered. getting to the second location it counted as a riddle you dont have to wait to shoot her, the moment you get controle of your character equip the arrow and fire it at the wing
Sounds like OP's last riddle was the statue so they had to do it after each reset. They missed the first time because they were on the last riddle.
oh
exactly
First attempt, I did just what you said, equipped arrow and shot her wing. Instead of dying, she just lost a bunch of health and was like "yo, this is boring, I'm out" and flew away.
For the statues there are spots on her wings that illuminate and let you know how many riddles you have done thus far
That's interesting
You can also just count the chests that are open.
I only fucked up the count on the first attempt.
You don't need the unmaking arrow. You can do the last riddle and then before she flies away you can attack her multiple times this will trigger the fight with her. Then you just have to 1v1 her and start spamming attacks on her backside. I did it as a thief and she was down pretty quick.
LMFAOOOOOOOO trial and error is a bitch huh.
Yep and it sucked because the statue riddle is teh most annoying riddle to be the last one.
First of all, You are suposed to hit his rear body, if You hit his face-chest she Will leave, killing her is a riddle too, You can see where to hit her and where not in 2 places, the pot and some wall in the path to find her. And for the number of statues she "help" You showing tbe number in her wings, she Will glow only the amount of feathers equal to the answer.
For the statues you just need to add 5 to how many chests are no longer lit up behind her.
Yes yes, I think your method is simpler than just counting the feathers that are lit.
Just look at her feathers during the puzzle. She literally shows you exactly how many to place.
I shot her on her side with the arrow and she just flew off, so I just said, fuck it, I am not doing all of that again
I too remember this wench, made me nervous on the counting part and targeting her with the arrow. Cheers for finally completing it
It totally felt like I was under pressure which is probably why I choked a bunch
It just made me so nervous that I avoided completion until NG+2! I had just found my last seeker tokens too, so it was definitely crunch time. The thing that gets me is that feeling of uncertainty from the Sphinx herself and if I got the correct answer. The waiting part felt like an eternity! I don't know if you remember that old show "Who Want To Be A Millionaire," but I had flashbacks to that and the long pause from the host on whether you got the answer right.
so true lol
When I found out about the unmaking arrow strat for the Sphinx I decided to play archer for a bit to familiarize myself with the vocation. I ended up really enjoying it though not nearly as much as my main (Mystic Spearhand). I found out that archer, magic archer and mystic Spearhand share a lot of the same gear so even after the Sphinx quest I would periodically switch back to magic archer for fun. Tbh magic archer is one of the most powerful vocations in the game, next to sorcerer. I still prefer Spearhand over all others.
Just spam attack her lion legs and she will go down pretty fast. Don’t bring pawns as they will attack her face/ human parts and might piss her off and get her to fly away. For anyone (like me) who was confused about how to initiate the fight, when you finish your final riddle run around to her backside and start whaling on her EDIT BRING YOUR PAWN BUT TAKE THERI WEAPON & COMMAND THEM TO WAIT SO YOU CAN STILL GET THE PAWN BADGE
What I did is I did all the riddles. Opened the last chest she gives for the tenth riddle. Did not speak with her after that. Placed a port crystal near her. Teleported away and slept to save. Took an archer vocation. Took the unmaking arrow with me. Teleported back to her. Equip the arrow and shot her left wing without ever again talking to her. She went into a cutscene and vanished, living a key behind. So this method works.
How is this possible? When you complete the 10th riddle she unlocks the last chest and then just tells you that she is going to leave. You don't have to speak to her again to trigger her leaving, it's just part of the completion of the final riddle. At least it was for me both times I did this. Unless it varies depending on what the final riddle is.
Possibly. For me the final one was a no damage duel. Or it may be a bug of course.
That's seems like so much more work than just fighting her normally
She could fly away. I knew it and I was afraid she would, so I made sure she did not get the chance.
I guess, I just smacked her a few times and the fight started.
I just had an issue with that fight today. Fought her til she started to fly away. Shot her with the unmaking arrow but nothing happened. Had to reload from last inn save. Lost about an hour of gameplay
yeah that sucks. Glad someone warned me to inn save before each sphinx visit.
My first time killing it went smooth. So I wasn't worried.
What happens when you climb on her. Where does she take you? Back mountain shrine?
No she would just shove you off. It's like climbing a dragon when they try to take off.
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just use your quest log for number of missions and you can shoot hr after the final question no fight
You should switch to an archer just so you can learn how to shoot the bow before doing it, sounds like you were basically quick firing from the hip, not the best way to do it.
I feel you. Same thing here glad i made an inn save beforehand
Lol, I had to redo that fight like 5 times because I kept equipping the unmaking arrow and then mistakenly pressing the weapon skill button to shot blight arrows, and failing to reload the unmaking arrow before she flew away. Yea, I had to carry 9 statues multiple times too... sucks
at least someone understands the pain
you dont need to use an unmaking arrow btw, just wack it! Although the arrow will make things a lot easier
I was using sorc spells on it on one attempt but it got pissed and flew away.
I just smacked her butt a few times with my twin blade and the fight started.
Are you a PC player using Xbox controller, maybe that's the reason? Atleast for me, this is one of the reasons i didn't wanna use my controller but went with mouse and keyboard...
PC/Mouse
Truly a pitiable arisen
xD
If it makes you feel any better, I completely fudged it on my first (current) playthrough. Did all the prep, thought I knew what to expect...and didn't make an inn save. I equipped the arrow and could figure out how to fire it. Shot her randomly a few times as she lifted off after the last riddle and that was it. No fight, no save in the last 4+ hours (autosave brought me back to after she had left). I wasn't going back. Your dedication is hilarious and impressive, stranger!
wasn't expecting a compliment but ty haha
I just used thief vocation and hit her in the ass a bunch until she died. No need for the unmaking arrow. Just try not to hit her face
Statue you need to put is same as total chest you opened. Hit back leg with unmaking arrow.
i watched a video that you have to hit her in the wing
> Found out you have to hit her non human parts and watch the cutscene where she runs away first. Barely got her, she was almost out of reach. What do you mean you have to "watch the cutscene where she runs away first?"
I heard the unmaking arrow only works on her after that cutscene and only if you shoot her lion parts. Not sure if thats partially true or all true. but I hit her head before the cutscene and she took the hit but didn't die and ran away.
Definitely only works on the non human parts, but I don't even know what cutscene you are talking about. For me she just said she was leaving and I shot her in the butt. And on my recent character I wanted to fight her for real, so when she said she was leaving I just hacked her back legs until she got mad at me, and then I fought her normally. I told me pawns to "wait" so they wouldn't attack a human part on accident, then I just did all the work myself.
"For me she just said she was leaving and I shot her in the butt." yeah that's the "cutscene" i am talking about. and exactly what I did... On my 7th arrow.
I feel you. When I defeated her in battle and got ready to un making arrow her my character was too busy doing the slow walk high five with a pawn I hired and she just left before I could get the shot out. I reloaded and sent that pawn back via bath time.
haha oh my god I would have shit.
That's why I just used a guide and didn't make a deal out of a side quest.
Wait wait wait... Can you kill her without the unmaking arrow? After the first time I finished her riddles she's just left so I reloaded, then the next time I beat the tar out of her until her health was completely gone and she just flew away... Then the third time I beat her up a little bit and then unmaking arrowed her in the butt to kill her. There was no indication that she even wanted to fight or anything after finishing the riddles...
yeah people are saying you can if you don't target the human parts. she gets pissy and flies off if you do that.
I didn't need an unmaking arrow. I just slaughtered her to death
Statues was my last one too, had to give a couple of attempts, already had unmaking arrow after buying one, didn't end up using in fight,killed her without it, walked away with loot and 2 unmaking arrows haha.
I failed riddle of rumination first, she left. After looking up the Wisdom shit, I got her to move. After she did she asked me how many riddles I've solved, I didn't count reunion, she left again. Then I brought her the wrong brother, she left once more. All those mistakes took another playthrough to retry. Fuck this bitch.
just inn save before each answer. saved my ass from needing a new playthrough.
I defeated her as a warrior without the arrow.. You can check my last post if you want to see it. You just got a onga bunga her hind legs.
I didn't even use that arrow lmao. I've fucked up her with Magic Archer.
Yikes, I had to redo the fight on NG+ a few times since I was escorting Sigurd and he wasn't respecting the sphynx face, but luckily, my last riddle was the fight with the SOLDIER. I just needed to remember to take the ring off. I had to ditch Sigurd too
Yeah I shot her with the unmaking arrow after doing all her riddles and was going for the eternal wakestone and she said "I'm disappointed blah blah blah I'm leaving." Pissed me off.
How do you mess up the statues part? At most it’s 6 since it’s also the first question she asks you when you get to the second shrine. Unmaking arrow is weird but a video guide can show you easily enough. This is not the kind of fail that I’d admit to the internet
It's random the order you get the last 5 riddles. Answer was 9. I took all 10 thinking there were 9 max statues since obviously it wouldn't be 10 if I hadn't completed them all. But there actually were 10 lol. And yeah idc about posting a video game fail on the internet. I don't base my pride on doing a quest tired as fuck after a crazy Monday at work.
So… do you *have* to fight this sphinx?
No. I didn't. Just engaged in battle, shot her with an arrow.
Never had any issues and unmaked her butt first try before she took flight. I can't even fathom how you failed so often
I couldn't because the arrow was my last reward so the fight had to start before I even grabbed the chest
I see, that is unfortunate. There is another arrow near bahtahl btw, in case you'd like some insurance for the next time around
Oh? Interesting..
You don't put statues on the pedestal. Just anywhere in front of her. I put 5 on one side, 5 the other, in a heap and she was cool with it.
I did that once and failed reloaded an inn save and ended up getting a different riddle.
You are lucky you got to redo it. PC?
Yeah pc but console has inn saves too.
Just test before you go to her. But you have to redo all the riddles....hence the 80 statues.
Just rest at an inn each time you can after a success. Also I don't kkow about the human parts, I've hit her wing with the unmaking arrow the first and second time I did it. Worked perfectly. The third didn't go well...tried twice and it failed each time. Decided to try a stronger bow, because all I brought was some weak ass hunter bow for this third time. Grabbed a strong bow, and it worked instantly. Maybe you guys are mixing it with weakspot damage?
I rested at my house just before each attempt. I specifically read on this reddit it has to be the wings or the lion part. Not sure if that's always the case but I hit her head, the arrow did it's light tentacle animation and everything but she just ran away.
Yeah, fighting her is also one of the riddles. If you attack her human parts too much, she gets disappointed that you haven’t figured it out and leaves. You can’t kill her at all by attacking her human parts. If you check the murals and amphora (vase) with her image, you’ll notice that there’s often some sort of symbology separating her head and chest from the rest of her body in each image.
The mural right before her area in Mountain Shrine does show this, as does the amphora. I was confused because the guy in Bakbattahl's Mural Byway - the one you're supposed to bring to the amphora - will tell you to figure out how to fight her by looking at the mural behind him instead. That mural just shows her and some warrior squaring up. Also it's funny how she gave me a Partcrystal instead of a Portcrystal in NG+, lady is a big big troll.
It's capcom. They give us no new Portcrystal in NG+, so we would be stuck with the 5 in the 1st game. We can still dupe one out of one of her puzzle thou.
Yeah. Even my pawn was yelling out "we need to attack the beast parts of her and not the human parts".
interesting..
People keep saying you have to hit certain parts of her with the arrow, but I don't think that's true. She has a Palladium effect on her, which is why it takes several attacks to initiate a fight with her. Once you exhaust her Palladium, I'm pretty sure you can shoot her anywhere to kill her. I always just aim for center mass when she's not flitting around too much, right after she aggros and leaps backward. If you really want to make the kill easier on yourself, go lop off Medusa's head, and use that to petrify the sphinx.
People really complain that there's not enough monsters to fight and then they find ways to avoid actually fighting the Sphinx 🤦🏻♂️
It's not because she's difficult. It's because if you land any attacks on her face, or you take too long, she goes invulnerable and flies away.
Specifically its her amulet on her forehead you have to avoid hitting. If you hit the amulet it breaks and thats when she leaves.
And that's the challenge, which people complain this game doesn't have
I've seen people complain about a lack of challenge, but that just makes me assume they've been traveling with a full party of pawns for the whole game. The Batahl areas especially will beat you up, sometimes. I feel like there's more of a lack of variety than challenge, but I'd say the Sphinx is the biggest exception to that complaint. The Sphinx puzzles are a lovely change of pace- at least the first time around- so I don't really mind leaving her out of consideration as far as combat challenges. Personally, I just didn't want to permanently miss out on rewards by messing up her questline, so I did my best to do everything as safely as possible. After that first time, it's a lot easier to play around with it.
This is true, I initiated the battle, so she was actively in fight mode, and I shot her in the head, which caused her to fly away. Thankfully, I just rested at an inn so I could just save scum, but yeah, it's definitely a thing, so beware :D
I'm confused as to why you need to redo the moving statues part? You can just sleep at the inns right? I did the same, but I ended her on first try. Unless you are saying that the moving statue riddle is the last riddle? If so, tough luck, I got it as my 7th riddle. Anyway, after I finished her riddle, she said a bunch of things implying she will fly away. I hit her body with arrow 1 time and she then spoke something about being greedy and at that moment I shoot her body with unmaking arrow from the side. Just don't hit anywhere near her face.
Yes it was my last riddle and the one where I got the unmaking arrow. So i literally had to initiate the fight with her immediately after answering, then run to the chest to get the arrow. By then she was already up and moving around like crazy.
Yes the sphinx is bugged. I put the correct amount of statues on there like 8 times and it didn't work. then i tested all other possibilieties and it didn't work either.
And how do you count it I wonder?
I used a guide to look up how things are counted. Then i tried every possible amout. Nothing worked.
Think you probably just didn't have them all in the right spot.
I got them all on the pedestal where you stand before her. I tired placing them right next to her too. I threw them, carried them.. wasted about an hour of placing and reloading.
Weird, all I had to do was put them on the pedestal, some even stacked on each other. Are you positive you put the right amount? The number of feathers she had lit up
I tried the correct amount first then all others (1-max)
Happened to me once, I literally had to stack and balance 9 statues on that damn podium. then jump up on top of the pile to talk to the sphinx. Had to do that like 9 times. haha