Talk:Trial of the Fool/@comment-38401460-20190203060121

There are 3 keys to beating this, or at least what worked for me and made this seem not overly daunting. You want to equip Dream Wielder and Nailmaster's Glory. I would also recommend Grubsong, Unbreakable Strength, Spell Twister, and Shaman Stone.

1. Dream Nail - You are given a lot of opportunities to dream nail opponents to totally refill soul and health. You can do this every time you encounter not just Shielded Fools (as mentioned by others) but also Winged Fools (except Wave 14), and Mistakes. Leave these and kill all other enemies. Now you can dream nail and fully heal before killing and moving on. Dream Wielder is required to be able to swing fast enough for some of these enemies. You can also totally refill soul during the vertical Garpedes using the dream nail.

2. Wave 14 - you need to learn how to climb the walls and move with ease while charging your nail. This is why I like nailmaster's glory to decrease charging time as you will charging your nail and one hit great slash killing many of these enemies (ideally as soon as they spawn). Use Shade Soul to kill Battle Obbles and Armoured Squit from wave 15. Now you just need to survive until you can refill your health and soul on the shielded fool in wave 17.

3. Boss - Since you have full health and soul thanks to the dream nail just repeatedly spam Decending Dark on the beast. With the extra damage from Shaman Stone the beast will die and the battle will end before you run out of health.

Some of these ideas I got from Verulean's youtube guide on how to beat this battle.