Klaus Boss Battle Guide in a Youtube Video

[Electroely]

So I decided to practice fighting this new boss that has been given the name "Klaus". I've found a number of things about this battle worth mentioning. So I decided to make this abomination of a first video and post it here for anyone who wants to learn how to fight this moderately easy boss with only 3 wathgrithrhats... I mean battle helms, a hambat and 6 healing salves. I hope you guys enjoy my first video.

 

Oh God, the spelling mistakes. I probably should've rewatched the video before uploading.

EDIT: Turns out I was wrong about the Klaus sack. It respawns every 20 days after spawning on days 21-24. Plus his sack also spawn in the biomes deer would spawn, so that's something else that needs to be mentioned...

I also wanted to state some alternate strategies (given you have the items for them) since the one I was doing was just using cheap armor...)

If you have a spare Scalemail and some extra healing items, you can tank his red gem fire attack to make the fight go a little faster.

Jellybeans could be used instead of healing items if you have spare. They make the fight go a little easier if you get hit too much.

 

[VarsoZergy]

I guess using the dark sword is faster, right?

[MrDeepDarkmind]

Just now, VarsoZergy said:

I guess using the dark sword is faster, right?

basically

[Electroely]

5 hours ago, VarsoZergy said:

I guess using the dark sword is faster, right?

Yup. It deals more damage. Although you will need a few dark swords if you're planning on using them throughout the whole battle. I'm using a hambat because it's cheap, relatively strong and doesn't have durability. If you have spare living wood you can use a dark sword I guess.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Sinister_Fang]

24 minutes ago, VarsoZergy said:

I guess using the dark sword is faster, right?

Better stock up on taffy or cooked green caps if you're gonna use dark swords. It will be a little faster, but it's still gonna be a long fight when going at it solo.

[Sinister_Fang]

So I decided to go into a test world to try out a solo Klaus fight myself. It wasn't all that difficult (although I was terrible at kiting in the 2nd phase) and I was taunted oh so much by the RNG gods. In the middle of the fight, a krampus dropped a sack. And when I eventually killed Klaus I got yet another krampus sack. Why couldn't this have happened in my legitimate world? I'm tired of trying to farm krampus there...

Oh well. Guess it's time to go look for the loot stash and prepare to fight it properly. I just hope my luck can be just as good next time (doubt it).

[Rellimarual]

Great video. One tip: leave the text onscreen longer so viewers have enough time to read it, especially given that they're going to be constantly distracted by the action.

[Electroely]

51 minutes ago, Rellimarual said:

Great video. One tip: leave the text onscreen longer so viewers have enough time to read it, especially given that they're going to be constantly distracted by the action.

Alright, thanks. This is the first video I've ever made so I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

[CaptainFun]

Will the boss leave if you don't keep his aggro? 

[Electroely]

24 minutes ago, CaptainFun said:

Will the boss leave if you don't keep his aggro? 

He stays near the sack for as long as he's loaded.

[AnonymousKoala]

5 hours ago, Electroely said:

Yup. It deals for damage. Although you will need a few dark swords if you're planning on using them throughout the whole battle. I'm using a hambat because it's cheap, relatively strong and doesn't have durability. If you have spare living wood you can use a dark sword I guess.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2 or 3 is what I usually use. Given I didn't solo him but considering how in a 2 people fight I only used up nearly 1 full Dark Sword, I'd assume 3 would be about enough at max.

4 hours ago, Sinister_Fang said:

Better stock up on taffy or cooked green caps if you're gonna use dark swords. It will be a little faster, but it's still gonna be a long fight when going at it solo.

Luckily, unlike Queen Bee, Klaus actually gives you breathing room to do it. At best you can do the minimal until he "dies" and then take time from his revival to fully patch up.

[Mday]

So far the easiest method I've seen, come from this smart Taiwan girl.

Lets give her a round of applause.

Edit: Skip to around  1:45 to see how Chi deal with the deers.

[Electroely]

10 minutes ago, Mday said:

So far the easiest method I've seen, come from this smart Taiwan girl.

Lets give her a round of applause.

All I saw was waiting for the magic attack, hitting, getting hit, deaggro and repeat. Seems that battle would take an awful lot of time to actually finish. Or is there something I'm missing?

[Mday]

Just now, Electroely said:

All I saw was waiting for the magic attack, hitting, getting hit, deaggro and repeat. Seems that battle would take an awful lot of time to actually finish. Or is there something I'm missing?

you missing the end of the video. The two deer get stuck at the signs

[Electroely]

42 minutes ago, Mday said:

you missing the end of the video. The two deer get stuck at the signs

I don't see the point in that. The deers can still do their magic attacks while stuck. And aren't the walls going to break in phase 2 of the fight? The lunge is an AoE attack, and going too far will just make him lose aggro on you, returning to his sack.

[Mday]

4 minutes ago, Electroely said:

I don't see the point in that. The deers can still do their magic attacks while stuck. And aren't the walls going to break in phase 2 of the fight? The lunge is an AoE attack, and going too far will just make him lose aggro on you, returning to his sack.

Deers can't do their magic attacks. They have limited range.

Phase 2 of the fight dont have issue either. The trick is to always stay at the side where chi is standing at. That way Klaus' aren't leaping toward the walls and signs, hence no problem.

Now that I have seen chi's smart idea. I am thinking I can actually use klaus' sack + signs and walls to block the deers, making the fight more centered to the sack hence have more room to kite the klaus.

[Electroely]

49 minutes ago, Mday said:

Deers can't do their magic attacks. They have limited range.

Phase 2 of the fight dont have issue either. The trick is to always stay at the side where chi is standing at. That way Klaus' aren't leaping toward the walls and signs, hence no problem.

Now that I have seen chi's smart idea. I am thinking I can actually use klaus' sack + signs and walls to block the deers, making the fight more centered to the sack hence have more room to kite the klaus.

Just remember that Klaus destroys anything he steps on, and that he wanders around his sack when he loses aggro. Good luck with Klaus, I guess.

[Electroely]

2 hours ago, AnonymousKoala said:

Luckily, unlike Queen Bee, Klaus actually gives you breathing room to do it. At best you can do the minimal until he "dies" and then take time from his revival to fully patch up.

You can always do it right after he uses a fire attack. Seems to me like the best time to restore your stats midbattle.

[Rellimarual]

Anything he steps on, like, say, Bearger? I assume this is how another player got treeguards to kill him? Or does he only wreck things when he lunges?

[Electroely]

12 minutes ago, Rellimarual said:

Anything he steps on, like, say, Bearger? I assume this is how another player got treeguards to kill him? Or does he only wreck things when he lunges?

Just like the Bearger. I mentioned the lunge because it has a lot of range and the whole destroy-whatever-he-steps-on thing still applies while he does this attack.

[Mday]

Took me some time to figure out why chi didn't place the wall by the sack the first place. Reason has to do with the deers relative distance with klaus. If the deers are stuck at the sack , klaus at its maximum distance measured from the sack, can be too far away form the deers. Hence will cause klaus to enrage. Other than that, the kiting just feels like any other method that choose to separate the deers from klaus.

[isthisworkingnow]

In the video you said he spawns to Krampi (or Krampuses) for each player fighting him. Is this the actual number of people fighting him or the number of people in the server?

Also what software did you use to record this?

[Electroely]

19 minutes ago, isthisworkingnow said:

In the video you said he spawns to Krampi (or Krampuses) for each player fighting him. Is this the actual number of people fighting him or the number of people in the server?

Also what software did you use to record this?

It's the number of people fighting him. People that aren't hearing his music won't be getting any Krampi.

For recording software, I just used Windows 10's built-in software (accessible through the keyboard shortcut Windows Logo + G ingame)

[TemporaryMan]

@8:34 did that catcoon... try to kill-steal?

[Prakhar]

22 hours ago, Sinister_Fang said:

So I decided to go into a test world to try out a solo Klaus fight myself. It wasn't all that difficult (although I was terrible at kiting in the 2nd phase) and I was taunted oh so much by the RNG gods. In the middle of the fight, a krampus dropped a sack. And when I eventually killed Klaus I got yet another krampus sack. Why couldn't this have happened in my legitimate world? I'm tired of trying to farm krampus there...

Oh well. Guess it's time to go look for the loot stash and prepare to fight it properly. I just hope my luck can be just as good next time (doubt it).

Please be my mentor! I need to solo it! I want the randomized gifts around my tree!!!!! Where is the sack anyways?