Cult of the Lamb

Cult of the Lamb

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Tips on defeating the Bishops without being hit
By Sul
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Preface
These are some general tips from my experience on the quest of achieving 100% for this game, in regards to the achievements of defeating the bishops Leshy, Heket, Kallamar and Shamura without being hit by them at all, the guide will also include some smaller helpful advice from my quest to attain 100% completion. The One Who Waits has no achievement pertaining this, only the 4 bishops.

  • Leshy; Darkwood
  • Heket; Anura
  • Kallamar; Anchordeep
  • Shamura; Silk Cradle











How do I restart bishop fights?
After killing one of the bishops in their respective realms, you can crusade again in the realm. You have to finish the first portion of the crusade, then you will be able to choose your next dungeon; if you choose the dungeons with enemies (sword symbol) the very first room in the dungeon will have the statues of the bishops that provide divinity; destroy these statues, and you will be presented a portal you can go through, in which the bishops will await.

Note; dungeons can be safely backtracked. You can proceed to the next room, and the ones after it, then come back to the statue. Just make sure you don’t teleport to the next dungeon within the crusade.

Destroy these to re-access the fight;


Most useful and important tools for the Challenge
  • Godly or Merciless weapons
  • Golden fleece
  • Fleece of the glass cannon
  • Demon followers
  • Tarot cards affecting your combat stats

Weapons

The best weapons for this challenge are the ones that hit fast and hard. I generally avoid slower weapons because they have long openings of vulnerability which are not only detrimental to the challenge’s parameter, but as we’ll see later they do not rhyme with another important tool for the challenge (the golden fleece).

The best weapons I’ve had the pleasure of using for this achievement were either godly swords/daggers, which boast fast attack speed and very high damage, and the merciless swords/daggers. These two types of weapons are the best for this challenge. If I would have to consecrate a 3rd place, it’d be for fast weapons that poison enemies (bane swords/daggers). The rest of the lineup is superfluous for the challenge; Zealous weapons are, for example, have a perk useless to the challenge. Generally; avoid slow weapons.

Merciless Dagger & Godly dagger; some of the best weapons for the challenges.





Curses

Another useful way to completely obliterate bosses from a distance is curses, but these require some luck, especially from tarot cards. The best curse in the game overall for annihilating enemies is the hounds of fate (that shoots 5 projectiles that follow enemies). If you get this one, it’s really GG. Each projectile deals insane damage and you can delete a boss if you have the glass cannon fleece and a tarot card that boosts your curse damage. But even notwithstanding these, simply having this curse is enough to deal crazy damage. A close second is Divine Guardian (AOE blast and 2 seconds of invincibility), for obvious reasons. Summon a Vosegus demon if you're planning on doing a curse run.







Tarot Cards

If you’re on good on lady fortune’s side, she will bless you with cards like the one that imbues your weapon swing with a ranged attack, or make you drop a bomb on your roll, or boost your attack speed or attack damage or imbue your weapon with poison. If she scorns you, you’ll have worthless cards to this challenge such as better chests, chance of spawning a fish from an enemy; however that works. For getting better tarot cards, try to visit Clauneck at least twice in a crusade before fighting the local bishop; and offer gold to roll a bonus tarot card. It is presumed that the player will be in the end game and rich when doing this, so spare nothing at your disposal to aid your prospect in completing the challenge; gold offering to Clauneck included.





Golden Fleece

For rather obvious reasons, golden fleece is not superfluous to be had for this challenge. You deal more damage if you don’t get hit. And your damage % bonus multiplies and stacks the more enemies you fell. If you go through a crusade and go through 2 dungeons with enemies without being hit, you’ll have at least 90% damage multiplier. I try to achieve a minimum of 80% before fighting a bishop; at that point the lamb’s damage will be most powerful indeed.



Fleece of the Glass Cannon

An alternative to the golden fleece is the fleece of the glass cannon. This is if you're planning on defeating the bishop with only curses. For this, I recommend rolling the Hounds of Fate curse, and trying to get a tarot card that increases curse damage or lowers fervour consumption. With these, you can easily delete a bishop from a safe distance. Beware; some bishops have situational strengths against curses; enemies in the arena can block projectiles, for example. Heket can spawn huge swarms of flies which will block curse projectiles, notwithstanding curses that penetrate through enemies like tentacles or black ichor.





Demons

Demons are another indispensable asset for this challenge. If you’re in end game and you’re ignoring your cult because you think they’re no longer useful; think again. The maximum level of demon circle lets you summon 3 demons. These demons are very useful and important for crusade runs. The following demons are the only ones useful to the challenge (the rest are superfluous since they give hearts or harvest items etc);




  • Orcus, demon that conducts melee attacks on the closet target with set cooldown; the higher the follower’s level is, the more damage he deals in demon form.









  • Vesta, demon that conducts ranged attacks at nearby enemies with set cooldown; same as above.








  • Fornax; demon that explodes on a random nearby enemies, then returns and repeats; same as above.









  • Vosegus; demon that collects fervour dropped around. The higher level this demon is, the more fervour he will collect. This demon is indispensable if you’re doing a curse run.











Orcus demons are rather rare, so if you find a follower who’s demon form is Orcus; dote on them and gift them a necklace of longevity to retain their services as long as possible. Higher ranking followers make for stronger demons, so do not neglect your cult; give sermons, gifts, feasts, rituals and so on. An effective way to rank up your followers is to conduct the ascension ritual. The demons will have colours either purple or red; this is just their look, it doesn't mean anything in regards to their prowess.


How can I obtain these weapons in my crusades? The weapons given to me are randomized
The moment you enter a crusade, the game autosaves for you. Once you enter the crusade and inspect the weapons the game rolled for you, if you don’t find anything desirable, simply open the menu and click “quit to menu”, then reload your save. You will be spawned in the portal in the state you were *before* you entered your last crusade, so all you have to do is just run back and restart the crusade. Keep reloading as necessary to get viable weapons.



Difficulty of the Bishops – tiered
For this challenge, the most difficult bishop in my opinion was Kallamar. Due to the bullet-helly nature of its fight. The 2nd most difficult is Shimura. Heket can only be difficult if you spend too long fighting her. Leshy is very easy and many players apparently defeat him without being hit while playing casually and not trying to get the achievement.


Leshy


Leshy is perhaps the easiest bishop to beat. He has low HP, slow attacks, and in general is rather readable. Just have at him until he croaks, and try to burst him down before he does the 360 degree tremors.

I casually no-hit Leshy on my first no-hit attempt against him. Was quite easy to do owing to his low HP.

Heket

Heket is another easy bishop; however, she can be a nightmare if you let her live too long, she will spawn hordes and hordes of little toads and frogs of all descriptions, who will swarm the arena, foiling your prospects at every given chance. For this reason, you should try to burst her down as quick as possible. Heket’s most dangerous attack is her explosive rain. I was able to kill Heket before she even managed to do her tongue lash attack by spamming Hounds of Fate and making a spirited attack.

I defeated Heket with no hit on my first attempt to doing it, using the hounds of fate curse.

Kallamar

In my experience, this is the hardest bishop, due to his comet volleys. Tarry not in inflicting damage upon him but beware the volleys he shoots; know that you can roll through them, and have confidence.

Kallamar took me 2 tries to defeat with no-hit, less than Shamura but I'm convinced I defeated Kallamar so quickly was only because it was the last bishop I defeated without getting hit, and at that point I had considerable experience.

Shamura

Shamura is almost in equal difficulty to Kallamar. For the first stage of his bossfight it will have only 3 attacks it'll do on a loop; a melee thrust, bombardment and a pounce from above. You’ll have to be wary for the thrust and the pounce; the thrust is readable but the hitbox for it is very janky and you can sometimes get hit even if you’re behind its model, so steer clear until it finishes the attack animation before resuming your offensive. The pounce, in which it will fly away with its webbing, has no telegraphing; you’ll have to mentally memorise the time he takes until it attacks, though this isn’t hard at all and is rather predictable. After Shamura enrages it will add another attack to its arsenal; a tantrum where it will prance over and over, sometimes each jump will shoot a circle of comets; steer completely clear during this stage, it is the hardest. As with Heket, burst is of the essence here, you have to defeat Shamura before it spawns too many small spiders.

Shamura took me 5 tries to do with no hit.




Smaller useful tips;
  • Followers who are summoned as demons will be exhausted on return to the cult.
  • Clauneck’s gold offering tarot card recharge is constant between different crusades.
  • All rooms within a dungeon in a crusade are traversable; you can reach the final room in a dungeon, and go back to the very first one.
  • If you’re trying to 100% the game, there are several concurrent questlines and achievements you can do while crusading before doing the bishop fights; such as buying tarot cards from NPC’s like Helob (if you buy 5 followers from him, he'll give you his tarot card; this is only applicable to meeting Helob in crusades).
  • Divine curses that convert enemies to allies can also kill those allies, however; they are invincible to your melee weapon (use the curse again on allied enemies to damage them)
  • If you get hit during a fight, simply reload back to menu and run back to the portal and restart your crusade, as explained previously.
  • Critical attacks will have generate a high-pitch metallic noise (one different from the sound of the lamb being hit).

Useful links



12 Comments
saph0704 22 Feb @ 6:55am 
Using the fleece of the cursed crusade I found Kallamari easier than Shamura simply because he spawned more minions (so it was easier to spam divine guardian lol). I used a different fleece für Shamura, idr which one. Actually I think it was the fervour's favour, albeit that wouldn't have helped with the fight itself.
Chiffarius 2 Oct, 2022 @ 12:53pm 
a run took 26 minutes, according to stats, but it really worth it, i was failing no damage even with hounds of fate for past 2 hours. <3 and good luck, damn lamb!
Chiffarius 2 Oct, 2022 @ 12:52pm 
+ or clear the level and return to the guy.
Chiffarius 2 Oct, 2022 @ 12:51pm 
So 2 tips:

1) Bishops don't get stronger from the number of loops you do in the dungeon.
2) there is a small table with another buyable taro card draw near the guy who gives one for free. It does recharge BUT it recharges OVER time and if you look closer you can see small red circle above it. So if you want to draw another card, just wait long enough.
Chiffarius 2 Oct, 2022 @ 12:50pm 
Ok, just killed Kalamar, thank for the tip about reloading run. Was getting hammers for last 20 runs.

So. I had glass cannon fleese, was angry with crappy drops so started my run with god dagger and 3 damage demons and a crappy curse.
Was trying to find that 5 charges homing curse, didn't find it first world so i looped into the second run while farming those taro cards with more curse damage and fevore and found +30% damage at night and after that looped into the third and to my suprice found damage imunnity curse.
Broke Kalamar's idol, waited till the night so get the damage bonus aand..
Well.. 3 frantic casts of imunity and mad clicking and kalamar was no more.
Kiesley 23 Sep, 2022 @ 6:11pm 
If you use Fleece of The Glass Cannon (double curse damage, half fervour cost)
in combination with the Divine Guardian curse (2s of invincibility, deflects projectile damage) and you have a demon that increases fervour, then you just cannot lose. This build is especially helpful against Kallamar, but I think it should allow you to cheese any Bishop you want. All you need is to get invincibility at the beginning of your crusade.
rowanhades 23 Sep, 2022 @ 3:10pm 
Great guide!

Leshy - I did on my first try before realizing there was an achievement.
Heket - First try with no demons or cloak benefits because I had no idea.
Kallamar - Took me about 12 tries. I think my strong desire to get 100% by that point and understanding more about the game made my brain not want to let me get it.
Shamura - Was about 5 tries and oddly I did it on the one where I had 0% damage buff, and crummy cards, but I did have a godly axe.
Sul  [author] 23 Sep, 2022 @ 11:35am 
@NessHex Thanks for the tip, I had forgotten totally that Shamura was genderless.
NessHex 23 Sep, 2022 @ 11:21am 
shamura is genderless, fyi!

but thank you! after accidentally killing kallamar without being hit, I'm motivated to take on the final bosses.
safirah 9 Sep, 2022 @ 8:28pm 
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