The Necronomicon
Fight the book from range with daggers or the homing Occult Knife and use a charged Slash when it drops. Avoid melee range in the goat form. Bring Cleansing Flowers for Binding. On the climb, kill the Manticores and save without resting so they stay dead.
How to beat The Necronomicon
- Weak to
- Fan bestiary values list Necrotic Baphomet weak to Impact, Eye of Balor to Slash and Bael to Pierce; the book form has no listed weakness.
- Life
- 3,000 per flesh form
- ATK
- 31
- Steam players
- 40.3% hold Hell Transcribed
Bring
- Occult KnifePhysical
- Throwing DaggerPhysical
- Azure TorchAzure Flame
Homing Occult Knife, daggers and the Azure Torch while the book floats; one main weapon each of Impact, Slash and Pierce for the three flesh forms.
Attacks
- Ranged magic with Sticky and Binding effects, which stop throwing and magic.
- Drops to the floor at intervals, which is the main opening.
- Three flesh forms with their own bestiary entries: Necrotic Baphomet, Necrotic Eye of Balor and Necrotic Bael.
Rewards
- Acid Vial: upgrades the basic throwing daggers and dissolves the screaming flesh walls that block the route to Deimpo Mausoleum.
- Golden Duck Figurine: adds the Vampiric Scimitar, Occult Warhammer and Amethyst Trident Key to Umbada's stock.
How to reach The Necronomicon
Take the Azure Torch from the gargoyle on the tower's eastern approach and light the three exterior Gargoyle beacons. Inside, light numbered statues 3 and 7 (wrong statues spawn Book Bugs), rotate the staircase with the lower switch and ride the lift to Budaen for the Forbidden Archives Key.
- Where
- Tower of Knowledge, beyond the Forbidden Archives
- Story
- Required for the credits
- Bestiary
- No. 48 The Necronomicon
Also in Tower of Knowledge
Weapons: Azure Torch, Wind Rapier, Occult Spear, Skull Rod, Rusted Greatsword, Grave Knife, Occult Knife.
Mini-bosses: Skeletal Executioner (Blocks the Foyer Crystal Monument. Patch 1.01.01 fixed its door sticking).
