Thoughts on Divine Beast Dancing Lion and Rellana.

[Bizarre Lad]

The Beast boss was pretty fun ngl and took me 29 tries, got lucky because he didn't activate his random elemental attack thing and stuck to the wind stage. I love the design and it was refreshing that the boss had actual openings compared to some other bosses in the base game (looking at you Maliketh and Godfrey). Overall, I like this boss even if it had some really aggressive attacks, but atleast it didn't have 5-7 hit combo.

I was scared of Rellana because of people saying she's basically Malenia 2.0 and to that I say "partially true". She chains many hits together and are really hard to dodge just in time. One thing is that Rellana doesn't easily stagger like Malenia and requires multiple charged attacks to get her to be staggered. Rellana does have a couple of tough moves, but nothing like Malenia's waterfowl attack except for maybe the twin moons attack where she flies up in the air and pounds two moons to the ground and herself to create arena-sized shockwaves that deal insane damage and if you don't time the jumps right you will most likely die. I still haven't beat Malenia yet because of phase 2 and that's also another reason why Rellana is easier, she doesn't have a second healthbar! It took me 19 tries to beat Rellana, but my god was she aggressive! Maybe if I played a build that wasn't strength based then I assume it'd be harder.

What are your thoughts on these two bosses?

[Dollmaker]

When it comes to Divine Beast I only have two issues.

The camera is atrocious, and the lightning phase is kinda annoying with the lighting giving no room to attack cause you’ll get knocked down constantly.


When it comes to Rellana, I think she might just be too early into the DLC for how hard she is, arguably the second hardest boss behind the final one, I do think her magic waves projectiles are kinda dumb though, it seems to require way too strict timing to dodge all the waves.

[Sonnenbank]

Divine Lion
visuals : 9/10
actual gameplay when fighting him 3/10 camera all over the place

Rellana
visuals: 7/10
actual gameplay when fighting her 9.5/10

i like bosses where i can actually see what they do
simple as that
Rellana has plenty of openings and can also be parried
combine that with clean visuals <3

[Bizarre Lad]

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

When it comes to Divine Beast I only have two issues.

The camera is atrocious, and the lightning phase is kinda annoying with the lighting giving no room to attack cause you’ll get knocked down constantly.


When it comes to Rellana, I think she might just be too early into the DLC for how hard she is, arguably the second hardest boss behind the final one, I do think her magic waves projectiles are kinda dumb though, it seems to require way too strict timing to dodge all the waves.

Yeah the camera was pretty bad and I just panic rolled when the beast was right up my face and covering the entire camera. I do agree that Rellana is too early, she is incredibly aggressive and has big combos that ultimately results in spam rolling which usually works 60% of the time. She could've been put maybe towards midgame or endgame

[BingusDingus]

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

When it comes to Divine Beast I only have two issues.

The camera is atrocious, and the lightning phase is kinda annoying with the lighting giving no room to attack cause you’ll get knocked down constantly.


When it comes to Rellana, I think she might just be too early into the DLC for how hard she is, arguably the second hardest boss behind the final one, I do think her magic waves projectiles are kinda dumb though, it seems to require way too strict timing to dodge all the waves.

My other problem with the Divine Beast is that his attacks can be hard to read as you pretty much can only go off of timings as he pretty much just barrels at you with no readable motions.

[Bizarre Lad]

Originally posted by Sonnenbank:

Divine Lion
visuals : 9/10
actual gameplay when fighting him 3/10 camera all over the place

Rellana
visuals: 7/10
actual gameplay when fighting her 9.5/10

i like bosses where i can actually see what they do
simple as that
Rellana has plenty of openings and can also be parried
combine that with clean visuals <3

For me, the gameplay is more like a 7/10, the camera can be really distracting and wonky sometimes, but it doesn't happen frequently, well, atleast for me it didn't. But I wish there was a mod that zoomed out the camera depending on the boss' size, that would be a really great QoL mod!

[Nifty]

Originally posted by FoundCrab (75% Moist):

The Beast boss was pretty fun ngl and took me 29 tries, got lucky because he didn't activate his random elemental attack thing and stuck to the wind stage. I love the design and it was refreshing that the boss had actual openings compared to some other bosses in the base game (looking at you Maliketh and Godfrey). Overall, I like this boss even if it had some really aggressive attacks, but atleast it didn't have 5-7 hit combo.

I was scared of Rellana because of people saying she's basically Malenia 2.0 and to that I say "partially true". She chains many hits together and are really hard to dodge just in time. One thing is that Rellana doesn't easily stagger like Malenia and requires multiple charged attacks to get her to be staggered. Rellana does have a couple of tough moves, but nothing like Malenia's waterfowl attack except for maybe the twin moons attack where she flies up in the air and pounds two moons to the ground and herself to create arena-sized shockwaves that deal insane damage and if you don't time the jumps right you will most likely die. I still haven't beat Malenia yet because of phase 2 and that's also another reason why Rellana is easier, she doesn't have a second healthbar! It took me 19 tries to beat Rellana, but my god was she aggressive! Maybe if I played a build that wasn't strength based then I assume it'd be harder.

What are your thoughts on these two bosses?

All the DLC bosses are immaculately constructed.

Don't really have much to negative to say about mechanical perfection that demands the same.

[Lucci]

Divine Lion was really good, when he started the lightning i was spam rolling when he swapped to wind i was panic running and then frost i got stomped like a bug and 1 shotted you couldnt help but laugh 8/10

Rellana immediately brought back my pontiff ptsd, i had to get out my shield and learn to parry again. when she hit the stance w the the blue and flaming sword i thought she was gonna do the clone move to but she had moon nukes instead solid 9/10

[.: DBM :.]

i found Divine Beast to be very easy on my dex+faith @lv150 build, buffs and drake-talisman stacking neuters its damage & makes it very easy to stay out of its threshold for a killing-blow. very cool design but I wish it was closer to Rellana in difficulty (which took me about around forty minutes to beat)

[BingusDingus]

Divine Beast is a boss that looks great, but is terrible to fight. Flies around like an Air Bender, has attacks that are hard to read because it just whips it's entire body at you as an attack, Lightning phase gives no openings due to constantly spawning lightning in random patterns and it's lightning and air phase causing too many particle effect on screen. The only phase where I could safely deal some damage was the Ice Phase.

Rellana is actually a pretty great boss IMO, just does too much damage for being the second boss you'll encounter, she feels tuned in terms of damage around blessing level 8, but you'll be around half of that when you fight her.
Maybe the only other complaint i can think of is her moon attack, get caught in one and you get caught in the rest.

[Bizarre Lad]

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

Divine Beast is a boss that looks great, but is terrible to fight. Flies around like an Air Bender, has attacks that are hard to read because it just whips it's entire body at you as an attack, Lightning phase gives no openings due to constantly spawning lightning in random patterns and it's lightning and air phase causing too many particle effect on screen. The only phase where I could safely deal some damage was the Ice Phase.

Rellana is actually a pretty great boss IMO, just does too much damage for being the second boss you'll encounter, she feels tuned in terms of damage around blessing level 8, but you'll be around half of that when you fight her.
Maybe the only other complaint i can think of is her moon attack, get caught in one and you get caught in the rest.

Rellana easily could 2 shot my ass because I had blessing lv 3 only, had nothing to negate that magic damage

[BingusDingus]

Originally posted by FoundCrab (75% Moist):

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

Divine Beast is a boss that looks great, but is terrible to fight. Flies around like an Air Bender, has attacks that are hard to read because it just whips it's entire body at you as an attack, Lightning phase gives no openings due to constantly spawning lightning in random patterns and it's lightning and air phase causing too many particle effect on screen. The only phase where I could safely deal some damage was the Ice Phase.

Rellana is actually a pretty great boss IMO, just does too much damage for being the second boss you'll encounter, she feels tuned in terms of damage around blessing level 8, but you'll be around half of that when you fight her.
Maybe the only other complaint i can think of is her moon attack, get caught in one and you get caught in the rest.

Rellana easily could 2 shot my ass because I had blessing lv 3 only, had nothing to negate that magic damage

I know that feeling, i was using the solitude armor with 60 vigor, the works. and i could just barely survive 2 hits when i fought her, 2 hits would leave me with about a 20th of my health bar lmao. Every time I'd get hit i'd have to break off to heal.

[AlmaDarkSpell]

Regarding the beast, I really liked the artistic design. I killed that one on the first try. A pretty unique boss. I appreciate when you come out with unique and fun ideas like this one.

I just found this yesterday. Is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV2fzuneIDI&t=2s&ab_channel=BonfireVN

About Rellana. Yes, she is quite aggressive, but far from being compared to Malenia. I killed Rellana after 4 or 5 tries in solo. I could never defeat Malenia alone. It's not that I ever felt like trying it either. No aspect of Malenia mechanics seemed fun or worth the effort to me.

The camera can sometimes make the fights in this game much worse. So far the worst camera I have found was in the battle with Bayle.

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Grumbal:

There is no beast just 2 dudes in a costume.
https://youtu.be/dO8vEHspEdE?si=2KuKaWznRMJP_lxZ

I mean… it’s obvious?

I doubt anyone thought it was actually an animal.

[RuleofTwo]

I enjoyed killing these overtuned streamer cringe bosses in one try with the goat mimic tear. I laughed and laughed.

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Grumbal:

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

I mean… it’s obvious?

I doubt anyone thought it was actually an animal.

Was it? Maybe i just wasn't paying attention.

The introduction cinematic very clearly shows the guys managing the construct.