Wuthering Waves (WuWa)

How to Defeat The Lifer and All Debuff Locations

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Wuthering Waves How to Defeat The Lifer and All Debuff Locations
The Lifer is a special Tacet Discord found in Wuthering Waves Version 2.0. See how to find it in Oakheart Highcourt, how to beat it in its special game, and how to debuff and defeat it here!

How to Find The Lifer

Navigate the Maze in Oakheart Highcourt

Wuthering Waves - Oakheart Highcourt Maze Map

The Lifer can be found in the middle of the maze in Oakheart Highcourt. Only one entrance is available upon arriving there, thus you must navigate which one allows entry to their domain.

Fly Over The Maze

Wuthering Waves - Flying to Cheat Oakheart Highcourt Maze

To make it easier, players can simply fly over the maze using the Flight Utility while looking for the entrance.

Aim for the side on the east, where the gigantic tree at the center of the maze has overgrown roots over the top.

How to Win The Lifer's Board Game

Match Three Black Pieces in a Line

Wuthering Waves - Get Three Black Pieces in a Row

The goal of the board game The Life lets you play is to match three pieces of the same color to a line, by moving pieces to an unobstructed space to the side or at the center. You control the black pieces, and The Lifer controls White. The first one to get their pieces in a single line wins.

Step by Step Process

Step Movement
1 Center Black → North
Southeast White → Center
2 South Black → Southwest
Center White → South
3 East Black -> Southeast
South White -> Center
4 Southeast Black → East
Center White → Southeast
5 North Black → Center
Southeast White → South
6 Center Black → Northwest
South White → Southeast
7 Southeast Black → South
Southwest White → Center
8 South Black → Southwest
center White → South
9 Northwest Black → Center
White White → Northwest
10 Southwest Black → West
You win!

Black Pieces at the Edge Open Doors

Wuthering Waves - Doors Open When Black Piece is Moved to Edge

You can leave the board game at any point in time, and the pieces remain where you last moved them. Use this to your advantage, as black pieces being at the edge of the board opens doors to certain parts of the Oakheart Highcourt maze; some of which hides treasure, and others provide a way to debuff The Lifer.

How to Debuff The Lifer

After defeating The Lifer in the board game, Rover must battle against the Tacet Discord afterwards. It comes with extremely strong buffs that make it difficult to defeat.

There are four buffs that can be removed from it by locating certain Terminals to deactivate them:

Buff Name Buff Effect
Growing Loneliness Recovery: Heals 10% HP after taking no damage for 2 seconds
Desire for Escape Inspiration: 100% ATK buff every 20 seconds, scaling infinitely
Impending Stalemate Increases ATK each time it deals damage, stacks up until it does not do any damage
Decay of Time Resonance RES: Damage cut to Attribute DMG received by 200%
Toughness: 25% more HP

Use Sensor to Look for Terminals

Make use of the Sensor Utility to scout out potential locations of the locations where debuffs can be activated against The Lifer.

How to Use the Sensor

Look for Stakes of Imbalance

Wuthering Waves - Stake of Imbalance Needed in Terminals

To inflict debuffs against The Lifer, players must find Stakes of Imbalance that are nearby their respective Terminals. After the first activation, players can choose to re-enable and disable the buffs as they see fit.

Location of Stakes and Terminals

# Location Details
1
Just west of the terminal, hidden under blocks that can be broken by transforming into a Cuddle Wuddle and use its Plushie Punch.
2
Defeat two waves of Tacet Discords to spawn the Stake near the Terminal itself.
3
Defeat the Chest Mimic at the lower right corner of the Terminal location to spawn the Stake.
4
Found at the east side of the Terminal location, sitting on top of a table.

Can The Lifer Be Defeated at Full Strength?

Very Hard to Defeat While Buffed

Wuthering Waves - Defeating The Lifer with Buffs
The Lifer's buffs make taking down this Chop Chop Tacet Discord very hard to do. It will take a lot of time and preparation, but it is not impossible.

What makes The Lifer difficult is the combination of the Growing Loneliness and Decay of Time buffs, which makes it a very tanky enemy. It may be for the best to deactivate these two buffs at least first before attempting to defeat The Lifer.

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