Metaphor: ReFantazio – How to beat Glodell (boss guide)

Chief Glodell fights in Metaphor: ReFantazio is level 38 and will happen during the Infiltrate Charadrius Search. This is an interesting fight as there are some restrictions that will make this boss more difficult than it otherwise would be. You will, however, receive a good amount of EXP and money for the fight, as well as a spoil that can be a crafting ingredient to improve the stats of one of your party members.

Defeat a boss in Metaphor: ReFantazio it can take a lot forethought and patiencedepending on which boss it is. It can take a lot of effort, especially if your party could suffer major debuffs to their abilities. However, with Glodell, you will have to think carefully about your Archetype before entering the fight, as players will be limited to a restricted group.

Best Party Combo to Beat Glodell

Limited group and archetype options

You don’t have much choice in this fight. You will be limited in group membership to just the protagonist and Junahwhich turns this fight into a 2v2 against the combination of Glodell and his dog Hector. This means that choosing the right archetypes for your party is even more important than ever since your choices are slim.

For this fight, choose:

• Protagonist – Mage Archetype
• Junah – Masked Dancer Archetype

You can also choose the Mage archetype for the protagonist if you want, but want something that allows you to deal elemental damage, so you can fight Glodell and Hector quite well. You have no choice for Junah, as this is a story where she unlocks the masked dancer archetype for herself.

How to defeat Glodell and Hector

The right damage for each enemy

At the beginning of the game, you will have to choose whether or not to help Glodell in a different fight. While it may seem like this choice will affect this fight, it doesn’t. You are going be forced to involve Glodell in any way as he holds Junah hostage. At first, it will just be you against the bossbut as it is a beaten story you will soon have Junah by your side to help you defeat him.

Once the fight starts, you’ll have to make a different choice about how to use your attacks. Glodell will be constantly buffing Hectorwho will be the main attacker. This can make the fight annoying, as your attacks can get more and more deadly over time and you don’t have the support of the rest of your group. It is recommended that you focus on just one enemy at a timeas spreading your damage around only prolongs the fight.

Glodell is not resistant to a specific element, but is weak to fire damage. About that, Hector is weak to wind damagewhich is where the new Junah Archetype will come into play. After finishing Hector, you’ll want to do as much fire damage as possible to Glodell.

For Hector, you will mainly want use Junah’s Cycle ability against him. The Protagonist should just hit him for as much damage as possible, but the Blizza or Kandera skills can do a lot of damage to Hector if you’re looking for details. However, any type of wind damage will be the most productive and have the greatest impact.

For Glodell, you can use Junah’s Hellfire Dance to make it even weaker against Fire Damage, before hitting it with Botra. Junah also has Infernal Vortex, and any of them will help him finish off Glodell as quickly as possible. If you want to see someone complete this fight, you can check out the YouTuber Brand protector to do this.

You will then get the White Mask of the Magician as one of the spoils from this fight, which is normally worth 25,000 to purchase. You can use it to make several different masks, which makes it quite valuable. After that, you can continue your quest to free the prince from his curse and save the kingdom in Metaphor: ReFantazio.

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