King Bomb What the FFFFF!!!!! warning spoilers.

[silva1234]

Well i went through the thingy woods, can't remember the name, and up pops king bomb and 4 normal bombs so i take the normal bombs pretty quick and get him to half health then he calls for help and suddenly he has full health again i thought wtf and then kileld the normal ones again and got him to half hp again then he does the same!!!!! How th hell do you kill this boss?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

By most accounts--and in my experience--he only casts Renew on himself twice, and after that, you can kill him unimpeded. But Spuuky tells me that, in his case, the King actually cast it nine times and showed no sign of stopping, so the only solution was to resort to Quickenings.

[BustaMo]

Yeah, Kawaii's got it. He'll rejuventate himself a bunch of times if you're not quick enough to finish him off when he hovers close to 50% HP remaining. I got a friend of mine whose stuck at this part fo the game and has been for the last 5 days. master a few quickenings and pray for a great chain; you'll be good to go.

[WarZidane]

Just remember, this is an optional boss so you can get to the Nabreus deadlands and the necrohol of Nabudis. You can continue the story without killing it if you can't beat it yet.
On a sidenote, you can steal from him, leave the area, come back and steal again, and so on. Nice if you're tight on gil.

[BustaMo]

Also nice if he drops the rare Bomb fragments which sell for close to 900 gil each I think; maybe even 1,000.

As for the optional part, what's the other way around him? Isn't he blocking your path to move on out of the woods the first tiem you encounter him? There's only one way forward if I remember correctly.

[WarZidane]

He's only blocking the way to Nabreus and Nabudis, which is northwest. Phon Coast, the next storyline location, is East :p

[skillzboy4]

U have it get really lucky on the Mist Quickenings to beat him.. it took me about two days to beat him i had a 12 hit with MQs to beat him.. i got so lucky.

[Cruise Control]

And you have to beat him to get Chaos, so I reccomend doing it.

[xib]

I was around lvl 45 when I fought him. He renewed twice and then I finish him off with a 8 hit quicky while he had 20-30% health.

[Dell]

I leave him. After I have finished Ridorana event, I come back and kick his ass.

[silva1234]

Ok i forgot about him went and did loads of other stuff then came back at about lev 45 and trashed him easily as you would expect al though he did replenish about 5 times and he called in total 30 smaller bombs in the end.

[Raistlin]

I beat him with one 15-chain quickening at level 37-38.

However, I knew you could steal from him, so I reset to test that out. With the thief's cuffs equipped to Vaan, I could steal bomb shells about 97% of the time, which sell for about 900 gil. Then you can exit the screen (which is right behind you if you just waited for the King Bomb to come to you) and reenter, and do it all again. And there's a teleport crystal right there for healing when needed. I did this 50 times, and I once also got the rare bomb fragments, which sells for almost 2000 gil. This didn't take me long at all, but it got boring, so I stopped at 50. But it nets about 45k, which is more than I've ever made at one time so far in this game (which was like 25k, maybe).

[charliebrown87]

Buyah! jus whooped him yesterday with nothin but shear power baby!
sorry i jus have to brag about the high levels i've achieved, ive gotten everyone at least at level 41 *(and i jus now made it into salikawoods)*
Buyah!!!

[James16]

I bumped into tha prick yesterday.... I thought at first you had to beat him to proceed wit the gamebut then i found the little gate thing. I still want to beat him though cause i dont want to leat the game beat me!:D I tell you though.....that little fawker is tough. I tried 4 times an he kicked my ass. I tried nothing but quikenings but i keep gettin jiped out of a good chain. My game is bien gay!:cry:

[daiyu]

one you've killed all of the small bombs use silence on the king bomb -- he'll be unable to call the small bombs back, though he will continue to recharge his health. This makes things a bit easier.

[Dell]

Cry For Help is a magicks? I always thought it's a Technicks.

[daiyu]

yeah apparently so -- he definitely stops calling in reinforcements. However I don't know how much to trust to the magicks/technicks distinction, because even when silenced the king bomb will continue to use elemental attacks. At the time I just tried it because it seemed logical -- glad that for once my instinct was correct. Not having to continuously defeat those little bombs gave me just enough edge to beat the thing...