The Guardian Gigantus is a Quest in Dragon's Dogma 2 (DD2). This quest has you battling Talos, The Guardian Gigantus, and preventing the giant from reaching The Moonglint Tower. This has not only you and your pawn battling the giant, but also has Soldier NPCs assisting in stopping Gigantus. This quest is started automatically as players complete the quest A New Godsway. This quest is not affected by the passage of time.
General Info
- Previous: A New Godsway
- Next: Legacy
- Location: Flamebearer Palace Spellseal Door
- Bosses: Talos
Quest Rewards
- 19,000 XP
Related NPCs
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The Guardian Gigantus Dragon's Dogma 2 Quest Details
How to Unlock The Guardian Gigantus in Dragon's Dogma 2
This quest unlocks automatically after completing the quest, A New Godsway. [See Dragon's Dogma 2 Map]
The Guardian Gigantus Quest Description
The Guardian Gigantus - Quest Start Description
Ambrosius has instructed you to pass the Godsbane blade he crafted from a relic of the Forgotten Sovran into the hands of Lord Phaesus.
The Guardian Gigantus - Quest End Description
Talos, the stone gigantus, has emerged from the sea and begun to march for Volcanic Island, leaving chaos in its wake. Though Phaesus witnesses this destruction, he does not break stride, leaving you little choice but to follow him to Moonglint Tower if you mean to uncover his plans.
The Guardian Gigantus Quest Objectives
- Take the Godsbane to Phaesus
- You encountered the gigantus.
The Guardian Gigantus Dragon's Dogma 2 Quest Walkthrough
Take the Godsbane to Phaesus
After retrieving the Empowered Godsbane Blade from Ambrosius, make your way outside the Forbidden Magick Research Lab so that you can make your way Phaesus. As you exit the lab, a cutscene will play showing Phaesus and his men opening the Flamebearer Palace Spellseal Door and going through it. You'll now need to head South of Bakbattahl and use the Empowered Godsbane Blade to open those doors.
Once you arrive at the Flamebearer Palace Spellseal Door, press the examine button and your character will immediately raise the sword to unlock the doors. Make your way through the rocky path and once you're nearing the cliff side, a cutscene will play out showing the Guardian Gigantus named Talos rising from the ocean and will approach Volcanic Island. After a while, you'll be able to free roam again and see the Guardian Gigantus walking towards the island. You'll now need to follow the path again before the monster can reach the Moonglint Tower and do whatever means necessary to slow down Talos. Just keep following the quest marker until you keep up with the Guardian Gigantus. Upon reaching the island with the surrounding water, A cutscene will play out showing the Guardian Gigantus staring at Phaesus and his men.
Slowing Down Guardian Gigantus
As Gigantus slowly moves towards Moonglint Tower, you'll need to find a way to stop him. Luckily for you, he moves really slowly. To stop or slow down Gigantus, you'll need to target the glowing spikes which are his weak spots that are sticking all around his body. If you have a melee class, striking them will cause the spikes to fall off and cause a bleeding effect. You can start attacking him from the water if you have ranged attacks equipped to you, but just in case Gigantus gets on land, you'll need to take advantage of the terrain in the area. Take advantage of the high paths so that your character can jump on Gigantus and reach the weak spots. Otherwise, you can utilize the big artillery bows that are being used by Soldiers who are defending Moonglint Tower.
You'll need to capitalize on climbing different points of the body, and make sure that there are pawns on the ground so that if you fall, they can try to catch you. As Gigantus progresses towards the tower, Soldier NPCs will slowly grow in number to try and stop him, this will cause Gigantus to be stunned by the reign of fire that it is receiving, this will give you some time to attack his remaining weak spots. If you manage to knock out all the weak spots, you can start attacking it until Gigantus dies before he reaches Moonglint Tower. Also, if you fail to bring down Gigantus, he will eventually be defeated by the NPC Soldiers who are also trying to stop it just before he gets to the base of the tower. Letting the NPCs handle Gigantus will just refrain you from getting any reward, but if you do actually defeat Gigantus, you will be rewarded with 19,000 XP.
Once done, head over to the Moonglint Tower Entrance and a cutscene will play out. It's important to take note that even if you decide to not battle Gigantus, you'll still be able to go to Moonglint Tower and this quest will eventually be logged as completed.
The Guardian Gigantus Dragon's Dogma 2 Trivia, Notes and Tips
- This quest unlocks the related quest: Legacy
- Unlocking this quest requires the player to complete: A New Godsway
- This quest has no multiple outcomes.
Gigantus, I Hardly Knew Ye: To get this trophy, you must break all the weak spots before it gets to the cutscene where it gets shot with a ballista and loses its arm. - Back Where it all Began: This is a story-related trophy, and can't be missed. During The Guardian Gigantus main quest, you will reach the area in which the game started. As soon as you are there, the trophy will unlock.
- Stopping Talos (Guardian Gigantus) by using a Preserved Medusa Head or Medusa Head item will potentially lock you out of When Wills Collide quest. Therefore, it is recommended that you stop Talos by destroying his weak spots.
AnonymousHi, could you edit this page?
There are 3 ways of ending with Talos:
1 His body is 100% destroyed: he reaches the lava or you petrify him with medusa's head.
2 You defeat him late so he loses his right arm.
3 You defeat him early so his body is 100% intact and you get the achievment.
The reason Im saying this, its because this changed the post game boss fights. I did my best to defeat Talos early (it bugged in my first try, he wouldnt take damage) and I found out that now I have 3 bosses to fight in the post game instead of 5.
Im not specially mad, you just gave me a reason so play the whole NG+. But it's very meaningful to lose 2 big boss fights.
- Anonymous
After it gets onto the beach hit it with Unmaking Arrow (Archer Vocation). 8 Wakestone shards pop out you can collect. Follow it until it smashes a stone bridge. It will then shut down its "motor" and take a knee. You get the Trophy for defeating it and XP.
At this point the Harpies will become hostile again.
In my earlier attempt, the shard on its heel took forever to knock out (which was reason enough to reload the Inn save, switch to Archer and buy the Unmaking Arrow). By then one of its arms had detached, and it also stomped the V I Camp. I don't think you want either of these things to happen.
- Anonymous
Good way to get Wakestone Shards.
Honestly the first time i encountered this boss i wasnt even sure if i had to fight him or not. So i just ran all the way to the end only to find out both gates were locked, so i ran all the way back to kill it.
Once i broke all his weak spots i kept attacking but it didnt seem to be doing anything...eventually he arrived at the bridge and stopped.
Would be nice if after destroying all the weak spots there was some feedback to show that your attacks are actually doing something, because i was really confused at that point.
- Anonymous
completely bugged... The spike on his left leg is impossible to break in my game. I wailed at it while spending 5 fine harspud roborants which pretty much recover all stamina... And still even after that it was nowhere close to breaking. All the other spikes broke easily enough, but this one didn't.
- Anonymous
cant really do **** when i accidently doing this quest while being a trickster
- Anonymous
My party was walking up a wooden ramp on the bridge when he threw his lance and we all immediately clipped through the floor into the ocean. Lost all my pawns and then a cutscene played out, triggering an autosave so I was stuck fighting him solo or going back many hours to the last time i was at an inn. once he was dead and the whole world was out of combat mode i was able to go back to Volcanic Island Camp and get my pawns but I think some stuff ended up bugged; the village never got damaged despite me never touching him, npcs were alarmed but didnt aggro him till the end of his path, quest prompts got buggy and i was unable to use the godsbane to trigger the secret ending. another endgame bug to watch for, highly recommend resting at an inn right before crossing the spell door in bakbatahl!
- Anonymous
In the endgame where he fights the dragon and die is there a way to get to his head??
- Anonymous
So I shot this ******* with the unmaking arrow while he was still in the water. He lost ALL his pegs. But he keeps moving. I don't even know where to attack him now
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Capcom love putting this exact boss fight in games and it sucks every single time.
- Anonymous
This quest is effected by time and the colossus is summoned no matter where you are or what your doing after so long
- Anonymous
I used a magic Archer and the homing frost arrows to ABSOLUTELY easy kill all stakes and the giant itself before he even got close to the village Did not try the maester skill but it wasnt necessary at all.
- Anonymous
So dont listen to anyone else on here. Do save the fortress, you have to have all of the stake destroyed BEFORE the cutscene of Phaseus boarding the fortress lift. If you even have 1 left, Gigantus will crush the fortress.
I kept destroying the last post after that and it would just keep walking.
- Anonymous
So Im guessing, if you DONT break all of the crystals before the fortress gates this thing just auto walks to the end? The last crystal stake is 10x harder to break and when I finally do it keeps walking like it has to finish the script
- Anonymous
A couple maelstroms really make short work of it and the mobs circling it
- Anonymous
Be warned as soon as the cutscene plays you have no time to do anything else so be prepared to be moving as soon as the cutscene plays.
- Anonymous
i didnt realize i was even supposed to fight this monster
so uh
no warfarer for me
- Anonymous
So I defeated it, got the fast achievement. But what's the reward for culling this monster? All I got was xp, surely the makers of this game didn't ignore giving this boss items to drop??
- Anonymous
Used the Unmaking Arrow( the second one) and got both the achievment and saved the village. No softlock so far.
- Anonymous
Killed the Gigantus before it reached the Volanic Island Camp. Did not get the achievement and the entire quest is bugged now. Objective is Moonglint Tower but nothing happens there. Object at the end is not interactable.
- Anonymous
his left arm crystal wont break for me....and he destroyed the valcano village so far...this bug is annoying
- Anonymous
IGNORE WHAT THE STUPID WIKI SAYS, IF YOU IGNORE THE FIGHT WHEN THE CUTSCENES START TO HAPPEN, IT'LL PROCEED WITHOUT YOU AND THE GIANT WILL BE KILLED.
- Anonymous
Softlocked even though I killed the giant, cannot proceed onto legacy... I hope modders or capcom find a solution.
- Anonymous
I choose to ignore this fight and after the cutscene of the giant being killed by the guards i have a infinite black screen every time i reload, making me lose my 54 hours save. Don't ignore the fight -.-
- Anonymous
was wondering what's going to happen if u just ignore the fight and apparently you only miss out on some xp funny af at least the view was nice
I just finished fighting this for the first time, I was climbing up to smash the weakpoints as a Spearhand just by smasking while grabbed.
Was half way to the camp and sure to fail when for some reason my sorcerer main pain finally decided to do something to help(unlike the hires that stood around talking the entire fight). He cast one Maelstrom on the Talos high up the body and broke every weakpoint from the torso up. All I had to do was bust the right foot, the left thigh and the right hand and I was done in time for the achievement. Never taking him for granted again, totally saved this run with one spell
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