Lydusa in Boss Rush

[jjj0309]

I've challenged this lady with various teammates, with various builds that focused on DPS and cannot passed the DPS check a single time. Especially with thick skin, 3 teammates with over 4,000 DPS for each players couldn't get pass the DPS check.

Is there any tips for this stone girl for boss rush, or are we just gotta pray for this lady wouldn't show up in the boss rush?

[Sono]

weapons with long ideal range and fast reload, maybe pop engie as secondary and have it set to vulcan, and plop it down for dps check for added fire. Pump skill damage

[ViperClaw]

Her DPS-check is slightly overtuned, especially for co-op.


If you don't get through the DPS check by a close call with just that tiny bit of health left:

Everything able to increase damage output helps, including damage-increasing AoE, when working in a team (Alchemist or Archon f.e.) There is also the attack Dog from Handler and its buff.

Corrupted Rune Pistol (Mod) adds +10% more damage from all sources. Same goes for Brightstone Grenades.

I'm sure there is more. Hunter skills, Ritualists Deathwish (also a skill) and what not.


If you still do not manage to pass, there is only left to do one thing:

Switching to a build with more oomph.


I hope these are the kind of tips, you are looking for.

[Fat Cat]

If you have someone with wrecking ball and anguish, you'll be able to clear it.

[Noop]

If you actually have 4k DPS you can easily do it. I NEVER died to it, even in suboptimal builds. Although yea there are some builds that just cant do it cuz they cant reach her.
Unfortunately one of the poor design decisions. They added a ton of melee or close range stuff like explosions but then made a bunch of bosses it cant reach.
I'd love to yell at the person who came up with this insanely stupid idea, but here we are.

I don't like DPS checks either though cuz it limits build diversity. If she would hover near the ground it would be a MUCH more enjoyable experience too cuz then all of a sudden like 30% of builds in the game can reach it again.

Another thing to note: Lydusa is bugged in the boss rush, which is only really noticeable on apoc. But it makes her have a ton more HP and take like 5 times the time of any other boss. Huge issue, huge waste of time to get her, but yea devs ignored that in the first patch.
Just to point it out one of the issues is that boss rush gives WAY too little XP, especially on apoc. The best way to farm XP is AoE farming in other places, so afk farming is a better option than actually playing the game. Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought that's smart to do.
And yea Lydusa plays into this cuz it's super frustrating to be stuck in a boring fight cuz the wall phase takes forever.

But yea not the first time the devs focus on the totally wrong things and do some insanely questionable stuff. I think they are completly unaware of the negative psychological effects their design and balance decisions have on players and thus dont know how many players that made stop playing.

[Kappa]

Originally posted by Noop:

If you actually have 4k DPS you can easily do it. I NEVER died to it

That's my assumption too.

Me and my friends have around 2/3k dps each ( non meta builds ), and were always doing fine with lydusa ( though the moving walls phase length is way longer than intended, but that's no issue in terms of difficulty. Just an annoying time sink ).

I second the "long range weapons with fast recharge" suggestion though.

[Poptartsicles]

Originally posted by Noop:

If you actually have 4k DPS you can easily do it. I NEVER died to it, even in suboptimal builds. Although yea there are some builds that just cant do it cuz they cant reach her.
Unfortunately one of the poor design decisions. They added a ton of melee or close range stuff like explosions but then made a bunch of bosses it cant reach.
I'd love to yell at the person who came up with this insanely stupid idea, but here we are.

I don't like DPS checks either though cuz it limits build diversity. If she would hover near the ground it would be a MUCH more enjoyable experience too cuz then all of a sudden like 30% of builds in the game can reach it again.

Another thing to note: Lydusa is bugged in the boss rush, which is only really noticeable on apoc. But it makes her have a ton more HP and take like 5 times the time of any other boss. Huge issue, huge waste of time to get her, but yea devs ignored that in the first patch.
Just to point it out one of the issues is that boss rush gives WAY too little XP, especially on apoc. The best way to farm XP is AoE farming in other places, so afk farming is a better option than actually playing the game. Who the ♥♥♥♥ thought that's smart to do.
And yea Lydusa plays into this cuz it's super frustrating to be stuck in a boring fight cuz the wall phase takes forever.

But yea not the first time the devs focus on the totally wrong things and do some insanely questionable stuff. I think they are completly unaware of the negative psychological effects their design and balance decisions have on players and thus dont know how many players that made stop playing.

Lydusa's HP being bugged to be massive on Apoc explains so much... I thought I was going crazy when even my best builds that are putting out 4K DPS weren't even CLOSE to getting by her DPS phase... I'd die and she'd have loads of health left despite me popping every skill and mod I had at once on my highest DPS build.

I don't understand why more people aren't talking about this. Her existence (or this bug rather) makes this entire new mode a borderline pointless addition to the game.

[Noop]

A very small minority of people actually play apoc eventhough it's not exactly difficult.

[LaughingMute]

She just needs removed from Boss Rush period. She ends so many of my runs by simply making many builds obsolete in her wall phase and dps check phase. I can demolish every other boss and then she pops up and its game over, colossal waste of time, no exp (until they fix that). Makes boss rush unfun and pointless forcing brain dead asylum farm if I want to level prisms.

Oh and when you die to her, her ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ musics continues to play, even when backing out to the main menu and character select.

[jjj0309]

Seems she's little got easier after the recent update. I couldn't beat her DPS check with Thick Skin, all 3 players had around 3000~4000 DPS; now can beat her with total 2 players around 3000-ish DPS. Still insanely tight and feels unfair but as long as she doesn't have Thick Skin or Hearty you can beat her with just over 2000 DPS I think.

[jjj0309]

Originally posted by jjj0309:

Seems she's little got easier after the recent update. I couldn't beat her DPS check with Thick Skin, all 3 players had around 3000~4000 DPS; now can beat her with total 2 players around 3000-ish DPS. Still insanely tight and feels unfair but as long as she doesn't have Thick Skin or Hearty you can beat her with just over 2000 DPS I think.

And of course all this I talk about is in the Boss Rush Apocalypse.

[jjj0309]

And in the hindsight, the incident where 3 players with over 4000 DPS couldn't beat the DPS check of her might have to do with Anguish. I saw the patch note that fixed the bug Anguish weren't dealing explosive damage to Lydusa, I was using Anguish all the time. The other 2 were using Corrupted Arbalest if I remember correctly.

[Luno]

4k on weakspots or regular hits? There is a night and day difference there.

[jjj0309]

Originally posted by Mini Magi:

4k on weakspots or regular hits? There is a night and day difference there.

Weakspots, if it was regular hits on the dummies the DPS would have halved at least.