Mesmer is so broken its not even funny

[H 4 Z E]

With how broken he is and how intentional many of the BS things about this fight are, i honestly hope this DLC get even more negative reviews.
If this is what they have in mind for their future games, i will never buy them even on sale, let alone preorder like i did with all of their prior games.

[ordkia]

haha just waste about a half of hour to kill him what a problem bro

[H 4 Z E]

Originally posted by ordkia:

haha just waste about a half of hour to kill him what a problem bro

i've spent an hour trying to kill him and every new attempt i was finding out new broken things about him. For example one of his attacks (a single hit) can actually hit you twice. Well aint that great, right?

[ordkia]

nop its easier than you think. i killed some boss of dlc in less than 10 tries, but i didnt play ER since 2022 and dont have dlc

[Faust Wither]

Blessings LV 15 and fire resistance, inflicted rot by using rot pot.

[TheKrakenFL]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7IWHTvJEKI

[Zogtar]

Yes, some of the bosses are overtuned. There will be patches.

EVERY RELEASE, We get folks complaining about how the games are too hard.

Every...
FROMsoftware...
Release.

*Opaline hardtear, and defense talismans negate a good chunk of the DLC's difficulty.... just saying.

[vamirez]

Originally posted by H 4 Z E:

Originally posted by ordkia:

haha just waste about a half of hour to kill him what a problem bro

i've spent an hour trying to kill him and every new attempt i was finding out new broken things about him. For example one of his attacks (a single hit) can actually hit you twice. Well aint that great, right?

1 hour? You decided to go to the forums and write this after 1 hour on a really hard boss?

Seriously, ppl, this can't be it...

[SilverHaze]

Wait until you see the last boss, I'm stuck on it since forever

[milk]

what are you using to kill him and what is your skadutree blessing level?

[Townhero]

You think the devs actually play Elden Ring?!?!?! HAHAHAAHAHAHA

[H 4 Z E]

Originally posted by Faust Wither:

Blessings LV 15 and fire resistance, inflicted rot by using rot pot.

I'm blessing 8, the problem I'm having is:
1. Hes doing too much damage (i know it will be less if i find the tree upgrades, but i literally cannot find a way to get down to lower parts of the map in top left and bottom right corners, and everything else I'm pretty sure I've collected) for how fast he is
2. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera, half the time i cannot see ♥♥♥♥
3. His hitboxes are broken(his attacks are also broken and some of them will always miss you) and depending on what attack he did you will miss
4. Buggy, same thing about hitting 2 times on a one hit. Plus if he actually lands on the barrier, his AOE can be bigger than it otherwise should be(seems inconsistent)
5. The bloody snake attack is too fast, and not telegraphed at all. He either does it or he doesn't.
6. He's way overtuned in terms of aggro, as long as you are in a specific radius of him, he will ignore any other threat and will exclusively pursue you.
7. ♥♥♥♥ he can literally change trajectory of his charge midair midcharge if he's switching between aggro
8. Grab attack one shots (seems also inconsistent, sometimes it kills me with full hp, sometimes it doesn't) and it is super broken.
9. Aoe on the snake spam attack

Like his first phase is fairly easy and straightforward, but when he switches to second phase i just don't understand what I'm supposed to do, where to dodge etc. all and all, thats not fun at all.

[Little White Goblino From Juno]

Yeah, I can't beat him. I don't understand why Fromsoft likes this anime goofy crap where enemies fly through the air farting out fire. It's corny. Spent an hour on that Tree boss, but loved every minute of it. Messmer(sp) just instantly one shots me with that thrusting spear attack that doesn't' even fully connect with my hit box. You can't even try to use a shield and turtle so your summon can do damage. He blast through it. The only way to beat him is by learning his move set and spamming roll. That's not fun boss design. I need options. It's easier to learn if you can take a few hits to get his pattern down. That's not possible at all. Only got to phase 2 spamming Rivers of blood and having a +10 Tiche. WE both got rekt soon after.

[TimeToBanzai]

I killed him first try. Fingerprint shield + poison cleanrot sword + greatshield talisman + mimic that uses rot pots, warming stones and uplifting aromatics.

[dogged contender]

Messmer is the most balanced boss in the dlc, dunno what to tell you. While critisisms are valid, a lot of people give off the vibe of "I tried to brute force it for 1 hour without trying to learn and it didn't work" I would agree that most of the dlc bosses simply don't have enough windows to actually get hits in. I'm generally not a fan either of the elden ring approach of "difficulty" but I'm not sure what's "broken" about Messmer.

The only thing that ever stood out to me is the very delayed combo-finisher stab from his left which seems to have a very wide and lingering hitbox. Other than that, just learn I guess? Or don't, summons are there for a reason, and they're extremely tanky this time around.

I just learned his openings and used a GS with exclusively heavy charges so ymmv.

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by H 4 Z E:

Originally posted by Faust Wither:

Blessings LV 15 and fire resistance, inflicted rot by using rot pot.

I'm blessing 8, the problem I'm having is:
1. Hes doing too much damage (i know it will be less if i find the tree upgrades, but i literally cannot find a way to get down to lower parts of the map in top left and bottom right corners, and everything else I'm pretty sure I've collected) for how fast he is
2. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera, half the time i cannot see ♥♥♥♥
3. His hitboxes are broken(his attacks are also broken and some of them will always miss you) and depending on what attack he did you will miss
4. Buggy, same thing about hitting 2 times on a one hit. Plus if he actually lands on the barrier, his AOE can be bigger than it otherwise should be(seems inconsistent)
5. The bloody snake attack is too fast, and not telegraphed at all. He either does it or he doesn't.
6. He's way overtuned in terms of aggro, as long as you are in a specific radius of him, he will ignore any other threat and will exclusively pursue you.
7. ♥♥♥♥ he can literally change trajectory of his charge midair midcharge if he's switching between aggro
8. Grab attack one shots (seems also inconsistent, sometimes it kills me with full hp, sometimes it doesn't) and it is super broken.
9. Aoe on the snake spam attack

Like his first phase is fairly easy and straightforward, but when he switches to second phase i just don't understand what I'm supposed to do, where to dodge etc. all and all, thats not fun at all.

Yeah I too noticed it, dodging really hard to do, some Boss can even do roll catch, so what I do just collected alot of blessings in area that no boss in it, till the damage are at least make sense, when he turn to snake it gives a good attack window too, especially if you play ranged.