If you’re unsure of how find and to defeat the Director boss in Vampire Survivors, this guide will tell you everything you need to know.
The Director is a hidden boss in Vampire Survivors that can only be battled in the endgame – and he’s quite a tough enemy to take down. He also has a lot of prerequisites you have to complete in order to reach him.
So, keep reading for our full guide on how to find and defeat The Director in Vampire Survivors.
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Where To Find The Director Boss In Vampire Survivors
You will find The Director boss in the Eudaimonia Machine, aka the special stage, Eudaimonia M. To unlock Eudaimonia Machine you must collect all eleven standard relics in the game, except for Gracia’s Mirror and the Seventh Trumpet, as you get these from Eudaimonia Machine.
Assuming you have unlocked the Eudaimonia Machine in Vampire Survivors, go to the stage selection menu and select and enter the Eudaimonia M.
After that, head toward the large platform and will find a suspicious NPC who asks you, “Tell us thy path. Has thou struggled…or hast walked with ease?” There are two responses that you can choose:
- First response: Too Easy
- Second response: Too Hard
Select “Too Easy” to obtain Gracia’s Mirror Relic. Then head back, load a random stage and quit. Now, enter the Eudaimonia Machine once again; this time around, choose the other dialogue to get the Seventh Trumpet.
Like before, quit, load a random stage, quit that, and then enter the Eudaimonia Machine. You will find that the suspicious NPC is none other than the secret end-game boss, The Director.
To sum things up, here is what you must do to trigger The Director boss battle:
- Unlock and enter Eudaimonia Machine
- Talk to the NPC and obtain Gracia’s Mirror
- Get out of the Eudaimonia Machine stage, load a random stage, and quit
- Re-enter Eudaimonia Machine
- Get the Seventh Trumpet relic
- Get out of the Eudaimonia Machine stage, load a random stage, and quit
- Re-enter Eudaimonia Machine
- Go to the NPC’s location, and you will trigger The Director boss battle
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How To Defeat The Director In Vampire Survivors
The Director is a formidable foe in Vampire Survivors with five phases, and while you cannot directly attack and deal damage to him, surviving through the five stages while dealing with the mobs will let you defeat The Director.
First of all, The Director is resistant to the following:
- Freeze
- Debuff
- Instant kill
With that said, let’s talk about the five phases of The Director boss battle:
The Director Boss Battle Stages
Phase 0: Boss fight triggered
- The Director: Guarded by seven Atlantean heads
- Status: Invulnerable to attacks
- Mobs summoned: 50 Swarm Bats or 16 Yellow Trainees [Random, attacks players every five seconds]
- What you must do: Deal with the Swarm Bats or the Yellow Trainees, do not focus on The Director, and survive for 30 seconds to trigger Phase 1.
- Aim: Upgrading and evolving AoE and high DPS weapons like Song of Mana, Santa Water, and King Bible, obtaining Laurel as soon as possible for defense, getting Revive Power Up, and getting accessories like Spellbinder and Spinach.
Phase 1: 30 seconds survived
- The Director: Guarded by seven Atlantean heads
- Attacks: The Director will now attack the player using Golden Egg bullets
- Status: Invulnerable to attacks
- Mobs summoned: 50 Swarm Bats or 16 Yellow Trainees [Random, attacks players every five seconds]
- Enemy pool increased: New mobs include 24 Dust Elementals, 24 Milk Elementals, and 24 Skullinos [Enemy count increase by one every time they are summoned]
- What you must do: Deal with the general mobs while avoiding the Golden Egg bullets, and survive for 30 seconds to enter Phase 2.
Phase 2: 60 seconds survived
- The Director: Guarded by seven Atlantean heads
- Attacks: The Director will now attack the player using two Golden Egg bullets
- Status: Invulnerable to attacks, loses immune status after sixty seconds into this phase.
- Boss arena changes: In this phase, the boss arena will switch to all five stages one by one.
- Mad Forest mobs: 50 Swarm Bats and 24 Zombies
- Inlaid Library mobs: 12 Mummies and 12 Ghosts
- Dairy Plant mobs: 12 Lizard Pawns and 24 Mermans
- Gallo Tower mobs: 24 Skulorossos and 12 Testa di Manos
- Cappella Magna: 16 Yellow Trainees and 24 Skeletons
- Note: During the stage change, the enemy count increase by one every time they get summoned
- What you must do: Deal with the general mobs while avoiding the Golden Egg bullets, and survive for 60 seconds. After that, destroy the seven Atlantean heads to enter Phase 3
Phase 3: Atlantean heads destroyed, Skulls and Eyeballs summoned
- The Director: Guarded by five Skulls and two Eyeballs
- Status: Invulnerable to attacks, loses immune status after sixty seconds into this phase with no revives left.
- Mobs summoned: 12 weak Eyes that create explosive damaging zones or shoot explosive eyes.
- What you must do: Survive the attacks for 60 seconds and ensure you have no revives left. If you have revives, attacking The Director will summon the White Hand enemy that will instantly kill you.
- That said, after the said 60 seconds, you can attack the Skulls and Eyeball and break them to move to Phase 4.
Phase 4: Cluster of coins
- The Director: Guarded by a cluster of coins
- XP and Coins farming time: attacking the cluster will reward you with 0.5 Gold or 3 XP
- Mobs summoned: Weak Reapers
- What you must do: Keep attacking the cluster, do not worry about dying, as you will automatically get revived, and farm as many Coins and XP as you can for 45 seconds.
- After that, you can break the cluster and end the boss battle
So, that concludes our guide on how to beat The Director in Vampire Survivors. For more on Vampire Survivors, keep reading The Games Cabin, or check out how to evolve Garlic in the game.