QuoroK wrote:I managed to kill an epic with spit 5 and running.Its meal was very tasty
Here is my victory pic:

gothsheep wrote:I've killed an epic in every single phase.

In tribal phase, use spearmen and try and micro them, backing off when the creature attacks one. Keep your others fanned out and try not to let too many people die.

In civ phase..I won't lie..You're going to lose a lot of vehicles. No way around it. Just make sure you have a good, steady income, and roll in your military ground vehicles, and replace them as they go down.

In creature phase, it's a bit trickier. As I'm sure you've noticed, an epic can one-shot you, every time. It will one-shot your rouges too, so if you're fond of them, dismiss them before you go epic hunting. You ARE going to want a pack, though.

First, tailor your evolution. You're going to want rank 5 spit, and 4-5 in strike and bite, and high speed. Why do you want melee attacks? I'll explain later. You're also going to want rank 4-5 in glide, and either a good rank in jump, or sneak. Both if you really want. Sprint is also useful.

Next, choose your epic. Epic creatures aren't like their normal counterparts. A lot of their stats don't matter. For example, an epic never uses spit (At least it didn't when I killed one with 5 ranks in it) and it will kill you instantly with an attack, so its ranks in bite or strike don't matter. It also always has 1000 health no matter what. What does matter is if it has graspers. You want that, because if it has hands, it will do this attack where it grabs someone and shakes them around for a while, then throws them. The whole time its doing this, it is NOT stomping your pack to death, and they're mauling its legs off. So you get a lot of free hits in if it has graspers. Wings are important, too. Epics can and will fly, and you do not want that. I would suggest only hunting epics that don't fly.

Now the actual fighting. First, summon flock if you can, have a full pack, and wave a fond farewell to them all because they're dead creatures walking. Target the epic, and use spit, and watch them all run off to their doom. Under no circumstances should you get close to the epic, because it will always go after you if it can. You stay at range and use spit, and hope your pack does decent damage. Soon enough they'll die, and this is when you'll want to run. If it gets too close, jump and fly. If you're lucky, you'll jump higher than it can attack, and you'll be able to get away. Try flying over trees and rocks that it has to run around in order to keep distance between you two, and whenever you get ahead far enough, stop and poison it. What you're aiming for is to bring it to one of your nests.

You might have noticed that if an epic gets near a nest of creatures, they'll run in terror. Your nests are an exception. If it gets around your people, they'll attack. This is why you want a high level of bite and strike. It isn't for you, it's for the others of your species that will close in. When you get to one of your nests, kite it around in a circle. If your speed is high enough, you should be able to stay ahead of it, and use sprint when it does get too close. Whenever its attention leaves you, shoot it again to get it back. You want it attacking you, not killing your nest mates. If it does kill them all off, you may need drag it off to give them a chance to respawn. If you're lucky, your nest mates should be doing pretty good damage (Along with your flock whenever you can resummon them) and before too long, it should be down to about 40 or so. At that point, you want to drag it away from your nest again. See, if another creature lands the killing blow, you don't get the achievement. So what you want is to drag it away from your nest and to some trees or rocks that you can run around. If you're lucky it'll get stuck in them. If not, just make sure you're on the opposite side of whatever you can put between you and it, and keep your poison up on it. Soon enough, it'll drop, and you'll have a tasty epic meal.

MaxSkyl wrote:Epics are tough i cant say you are wrong , but sometimes , you will get a chance where the epic just comes to your nest and some sort of bug prevents it from attacking .

ricehopper wrote:I did a search and came up with nothing. But can we kill epic creatures. I'll put rogues in my group and they still die. Is it even possible>?

hedjeroo wrote: Otherwise, just have any level of Spit (higher the better) and keep kiting it

ianmantis wrote:Space: Antimatter bomb, laser, planet buster, and so forth-anything goes.
"Hey epic, feel the wrath of my deadly happy ray!"
...well almost anything.

ianmantis wrote:This is kinda redundant, but....

Cell: Epics have white health bars and just sit there. They have individual weaknesses;
Stabber=spike
Puffish=electric
snorf=proboscos
and so forth.