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One of the tougher bosses you’ll fight inThe First Descendantis the Devourer. This Colossus shows up partway through the campaign and must be destroyed to progress through the story. While it doesn’t have much health, it can regenerate any lost HP and shields through its enrage mechanic.
Beating this boss will require a good build that enhances your survivability and damage output. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to meet the DPS check with the right modules and weapons. Let’s go over how the Devourer fight works, what it’s weak to, and provide some powerful builds that make this Colossus a complete pushover.
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Resistant
Very Resistant
This boss is weak toPiercedamage, which includes assault rifles, rocket launchers, handguns, and beam rifles.
We highly recommendEternal Willpowerfor this fight.It’s an S-tier assault rifleyou can find in Agna Desert.
The Devourer is armed with aToxin arm cannonthat deals significant damage with a high chance of inflicting a poison DoT effect.You need to spec for Toxin Resistance, HP, and DEFbefore you attempt this fight. We recommend leveling Increased HP, Increased HP, and Toxin Antibody to R5. If you upgrade your sub module (Shock Fist for most), then you should have enough room to socket these modules.
While this boss hits hard, it’s actually the weakest Colossi of the bunch from an HP perspective.The Devourer doesn’t have much HP and shields, but it canregenerateits HP partway through the fight.You’ll need to destroy three canisters when it enrages to end the healing effect. High burst DPS is required here. Bring a shotgun, hand cannon, sniper rifle, or a well-modded Thunder Cage to deal with the canisters. We cover exact builds later in the guide.
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Hard mode Devourer is the same fight in almost every way. The boss has more HP and deals more damage, but the mechanics of the fight remain the same.Bring a weapon specced for critical hits and weakpoint damageto melt through the Devourer’s HP. If you can mod your weapons for electric damage, even better.
Paradoxically, the fight iseasier solosince the Devourer’s HP will be greatly reduced, making it easier to bypass his mechanics with raw damage output. Playing in a group makes this fight much harder.
Devourer Mechanics
The Devourer is similar to the Executioner fight from the last Void Intercept fight.Most of the Devourer’s attacks are ranged projectiles and ground degens.Stay on the move, grapple to cover if the ground gets covered in poison, and you should be safe for most of the fight.
Aim for the Devourer’s knees and shoulders. They take weakpoint damage from all weapons.
How To Stop The Devourer From Regenerating Health
When the Devourer enrages, it willspawn three canisters on the map that will continuously regenerate the Devourer’s HP and shields.If you don’t break these canisters fast enough, the Devourer will fully regenerate its HP, making this fight close to impossible. The good news is the HP regeneration effect is quite slow, so you have some time to break all three canisters without losing much progress.
The canisters will emit a bright green spherethat is impervious to bullets. You mustenter the sphere and shoot the canister within.This canister is quite durable, so don’t be afraid to use abilities or heavy ammo on it. Destroy one canister, grapple to the next one, and repeat the process. The Devourer will recover less HP with each broken canister. With all three destroyed, it will end its enraged phase.
The Devourer will call down toxic barrages while enraged. Strafe out of the barrage markers when you can.
Notable Devourer Attacks
There are three attacks you’ll want to be wary of while fighting the Devourer:
Almost all of these attacks can be mitigated withhigh DEF rating and toxin resistance.For Hard difficulty, you’ll want to rely on your grappling hook to avoid most of these attacks. If you can fight the Devourer from an elevated position, you won’t get hit by most of these attacks.
Recommended Builds
The Devourer is fairly weak to electric damage, so anything that deals electricity will work well here. You’re mostly looking forhigh burst DPSfor this fight. The healing mechanic is a hard DPS check, so if you’re not packing enough firepower, you won’t be able to clear this. Fortunately, you don’t need much to beat the Devourer solo.
Normal Mode Build
For our Normal mode clear, we usedBunny with Eternal Willpower and Subconsciousness.Our Bunny buildfocuses on survivability above all else, opting to use Increased HP, Increased DEF, and Toxic Antibody to tank the Devourer’s attacks. When your HP gets low, play it safe until adds spawn. Your three will make short work of them, spawning HP orbs to refill any lost health.
Eternal Willpower and Subconsciousness both use a fairly straightforward damage build.Rifling Reinforcementscales your base damage, which is then multiplied byFire Enhancement’sbonus damage. You don’t have access to electric damage until after you kill Devourer, so you’ll need to use fire modules instead.Weak Point Sightgreatly improves your damage while shooting the Devourer’s knees, andFire Rate UPbuffs your overall DPS.
Hard Mode Build
We prefer usingGley with Thunder Cage and Vestigial Organfor Hard mode clears.Gley is a powerhouse with a high duration build. We still focus on survivability first, but we use our remaining module capacity on Skill Extension and Maximize Duration. With some cooldown reduction modules equipped, you can cast your third ability most of the time, granting your guns infinite ammo.
You don’t need 7,800 toxic resistance for this fight. A single affix on your processor is more than enough. Just be sure to scale your HP and DEF rating.
This is why we build Vestigial Organ for raw burst DPS.Fire Rate UPis something you usually don’t put on a launcher, but when you have infinite ammo, this is a straight damage buff for us. Raw damage scaling and electric damage should melt through the Devourer quickly. If you need more damage, throw on any modifiers to weakpoint damage.
Thunder Cage is built similarly.Critical damage, fire rate, and base damageare all you need to make this weapon a viable DPS primary. If your Gley can achieve full uptime on her infinite ammo buff, then you might want to consider throwing onMental Focusfor a massive ATK bonus to your Thunder Cage.
