Kuva Lich
Kuva Liches Explained
This is how to most effectively farm a Kuva Lich.
Prep Stage
You will need some things sorted out and ready to go, BEFORE you being your Lich. If this is your first Lich and you accidentally started it, don’t worry, we will sort you out.
Do not be worried about having an r5 Lich, they are not a mark of poor performance, they happen for many RNG reasons, they are easy to get. Lucky for us they stop growing at r5.
Things to have prior to starting a Lich:
- A Railjack that can survive Saturn Proxima.
- A strong frame that is the Progenitor of the element you want.
- Resistance mods and/or arcanes vs the element you have selected with your Progenitor.
- Time of about 3 hours for an average full Lich run.
Acquisition Stage
Now that you have your gear set and you do not have a Lich started yet, here are your next steps:
- Take your progenitor frame of choice and do the SATURN/CASSINI mission SOLO.
- In this mission, run straight in to the capture target avoiding everything else and capture the target.
- After the capture, begin to slow walk move towards the exit, killing everything as fast as possible. Go for the larger groups of enemy. 80% of the time you will get a screen flash signal that your kills will start counting to spawn a Lich, if no screen flash keep killing until you exit. The screen flash animation may or may not fire, but a Larvling can still spawn. You have a limited amount of time to get the kill count after the screen flash, then the Lich Larvling will spawn with a red navigation marker.
- You can stop killing at this point, when the Larvling nav marker appears. Now run to the red nav marker.
- Kill the larvling, kill everything around it so you are not bothered, and move close to the Larvling. The weapon it has spawned will be displayed above it’s head.
- If that is the weapon you want or need, press and hold your action button to start that Lich.
- Else leave the larvling alive and go to the exit and complete the mission. Do not abort the mission.
- Run to the exit and complete the mission. Note: Still complete the mission even if you do not activate that larvling Lich, because it is not the weapon you want, you still need to drop it from the rotation of the loot table for your current game session. This will matter more if you wish to valence a Kuva Weapon.
After you exit the mission you will have a cut scene from your Lich and now a red Lich square button will appear in the lower right hand side of your navigation menu screen. You will use that button to check on the things about your Lich.
You want to make note of these things:
- The name of your Lich. This will matter while doing missions with a squad, so that you know when your lich has spawned for you to take action or not.
- The weaknesses or resistances that your Lich might have. These are random and not always present. Mod for them.
- Anger level of your Lich, (“Indifferent → Annoyed → Fuming → Furious → Enraged”) this determines the chance that your Lich will spawn in mission. The more angred your Lich is the higher your chance to get to stab it with your parazon.
Begin To Solve For Your Lich Requiems
Now that you have started your Lich, begin farming murmurs, on planet missions that have a red cloud cover and a Lich mission. You will farm the murmurs in LIch missions to reveal the requiems you need to vanquish your Lich. Killing the murmurs also is how you enrage your Lich’s anger level higher and higher to get them to spawn in mission for you.
If you have any requiem mods already, then put whatever you have on your parazon in any order at the start, because you don’t know what requiem mods you need or the order they will go in. This is just in case you accidentally stab your Lich in an early mission before you were ready to do it for one RNG reason or another.
If you have an Oull requiem mod, put it in slot 1 on the left. You will want to do this to speed up your progress of requiem guesses.
Do Lich missions on Earth, do not stab your Lich until you know what your first requiem mod is. Do Lich missions in this order to learn what your requiem mods are:
Mission Type Priority Order
- Spy
- Capture
- Rescue
- Sabotage
- Exterminate
- Excavation
- Assault
- Defense
- Survival
- Mobile Defense
First Requiem On Earth
After you have learned the identity of your first requiem mod. Modify your of parazon and the place the requiem mod in slot 1 for normal or slot 2 behind the slot 1 Oull. Then you will do a partial stab with this configuration.
- Attack your Lich through the first health bar, it will sit down, parazon stab 1 time to check your first requiem in slot 1 or to check the Oull in slot 1.
- If you are using an Oull, then attack through the second health bar and stab 1 time to test your first requiem in slot 2.
- If this requiem is correct, STOP attacking and walk away! Go complete the mission, ignore your lich, let the team take the lich down if they so desire.
This partial test will check if the first requiem known is correct in the 2nd slot. That is all you want to know without completeing the kill. Continue farming murmurs on Earth to learn your second requiem.
Results:
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Oull is in slot 1. Continue on Earth. Your requiem is in the correct slot, leave that mod in the 2nd slot. Farm murmurs until you learn your second requiem. |
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Oull is in slot 1. Go to Mars. Your requiem is not in the correct slot, move that mod to slot 3. |
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Continue on Earth. Your requiem is in the correct slot, leave that mod in the 1st slot. Farm murmurs until you learn your second requiem. |
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Go to Mars. Your requiem is not in the correct slot, move that mod to slot 2. |
Second Requiem On Earth
If you have a successful first requiem stab. Keep farming murmurs to learn what your second requiem mod is. After you learn what your second requiem mod is, you are ready to setup for a full stab and may the RNG be with you.
Results:
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Oull is in slot 1. RNG is on your side, your done. Go to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation with your r1 Lich. |
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Oull is in slot 1. Go to Mars. Switch your slot 1 and slot 3 mods trading places, then use a Requiem Ultimatum from your gear wheel if you have one. |
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Go to Mars. Move your slot 2 over to slot 3. |
Second Stab On Mars
You have learned your second or third requiem on Mars, or you have an Oull and stabbed your Lich for the second time, here is the requiem outcome and next steps based on the requiem results:
Results:
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Oull is in slot 1. RNG is on your side, your done. Go to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation with your r2 Lich. |
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Oull is in slot 1. Go to Ceres. Switch your slot 1 and slot 3 mods trading places, then use a Requiem Ultimatum from your gear wheel if you have one. |
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Oull is in slot 1. Go to Ceres. Switch your slot 2 and slot 3 mods trading places. |
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Go to Ceres. Switch your slot 2 and slot 3 mods trading places, then use a Requiem Ultimatum from your gear wheel if you have one. |
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Go to Ceres. Move your slot 1 over to slot 3. |
Ultimatum Use
If you have an Ultimatum equipped on your gear wheel, you will do one mission only.
- Set your parazon requiem mods.
- Enter the mission solo.
- Move into the mission a short distance (25m+)
- Be ready, do your prepwork before a fight, you will be attacked by your Lich immediately when it spawns!
- Deploy your Ultimatum, be ready! Stab for a guaranteed kill and your off to Saturn Proxima.
Third Stab On Ceres
You have learned your third requiem on Ceres or you have an Oull and stabbed your Lich for the Third time, here is the requiem outcome and next steps based on the requiem results:
Results:
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Oull is in slot 3. Go to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation with your r3 Lich. |
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Oull is in slot 3. Go to Sedna. Switch your slot 1 and slot 2 mods trading places, then use a Requiem Ultimatum from your gear wheel if you have one. |
Forth Stab On Sedna
You have learned all of your requiems and have stabbed enough to know the order of the requiems. Review all prior and switch the mods to match the last possible combination. After success you will go to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation with your r4 Lich.
Fifth Stab On Kuva Fortress
You have learned all of your requiems and have stabbed enough to know the order of the requiems. Review all prior and switch the mods to match the last possible combination. After success you will go to Saturn Proxima for your final confrontation with your r5 Lich.
Confront Your Lich
- Equip your Omni on your gear wheel. The Omni Gear item is a multipurpose tool mainly used to repair hazards that occur whenever the ship takes damage. It is automatically given after completing The Archwing and can be slotted into the gear wheel, although if the player neglects to equip the Omni it will appear on the first empty slot of the wheel when starting an Empyrean mission.
- Equip resistance mods vs the element of your Lich.
- Equip weapons with damage your Lich is weak against.
Start your railjack mission on Saturn Proxima.
- Kill the fighters, kill the crew ships, fly to the gallion.
- Exit the air lock, then enter the gallion.
- Run straight to fight your Lich, and then Vanquish it for the weapon, or Convert it to be a railjack crewmate or sell it.
If you Vanquish your Lich, you will get a message in your in box with your Kuva weapon, take your time and “walk” in game to your foundry to “claim” your weapon, this avoids a bug in the game where you can lose your weapon if you use the fast travel menu to get to the foundry (personal experience 2 times).