is the witch overpowered? because it feels like she is

[lilysrest]

she ends most of the runs she shows up in unless I have like every bomb relic. she feels too hypercapable. and her minions are overwhelming

[Zekiran]

I hadn't noticed that (if we're talking about the one with the portraits?) now they deal bleed damage? Don't recall whether that was a feature before the update or not. Oddly enough the very first time I saw her in the game I defeated her very quickly without any fuss.

Has always been a scramble and barely make it when I do beat her which is. Yeah. Rarely now.

[vindicar]

If you're talking about the Painter boss, then yes, the portraits inflict Spinfection status effect on you when you kill them. Spinfection deals damage over time, but it seems to me that it deals a lot less damage than the same status you can inflict on enemies. Specfically, you receive flat 10 damage per turn, while enemies receive "number of Spinfection stacks x 10" per turn.

The trick is to either have bomb synergy (Recombombulator or Powder Collector), or to have an "attack all enemies" orb in your deck, or to have Grabby Hand relic and piercing orbs. Then you can simply keep blasting the boss, while whittling down the minions without having to target them specifically.

[srn347]

Pigment of imagination is definitely the boss I least want to see of the 3 act 2 bosses. That said, the best advice I can give is to wait a few turns before killing the paintings. The dull pegs aren't a big deal and can actually help a lot of the time, but eventually you do have to kill them or they'll start attacking (or you hit a bomb and accidentally kill them too early).

[Bashin]

she has too much HP for the gimmick of her battle and im so cursed i get her every single run
i got the ballista and the wall only once out of some 20 runs (act 1 also feels rigged towards the mole its wack)

[ParanormalChicken]

Yeah she’s not a great boss. If I could improve her I’d make it so that the paintings only deal 1 spinfection instead of 2, and make it so she can only spawn 1 painting at a time

[Zekiran]

Does she lose health like other 'spawns this other thing' bosses, when she puts the paintings up? If she does, that's good, but probably not *enough*... The spinfection is a one to one rather than a 10 to 1 like the player gets but still when you start this boss with anything less than 100% health it's versus (at cruciball 10 where I'm trying for the last 3 months to reach?) an enemy with literally ten times your health.

[Princess Luna]

Painter has too much health. You often cant deal enough damage to kill her faster then poison kills you.

[Jaeus]

Utter trash boss.
Insanely overtuned, punishes you for bombs existing, punishes you for building bombs at all.
Ballista isn't much better. Opposite extreme. Functionally invulnerable boss to many Orbs and build paths.

Neither of these bosses do anything to challenge or reward player decision making. I was worried when I bought this game it would be something stupid like that. Sad.

[Zekiran]

The ballista is definitely fine with virtually any build, not sure what you've been trying to do but you can do it from most standpoints.

[Oblique Musique]

the fact that spinfection damage goes through any ballwark you have is the coup de grace for my thoughts about this game's design choices.

[Zekiran]

I'm still not clear as to when they added spinfection to the paintings attack, I don't recall it being there with the first iteration of this boss. But also there is ZERO visual indication that they're doing it at all. Not that seeing it on the screen like a green or splattered haze would HELP because. It's still there for no apparent reason...

[srn347]

The attack doesn't cause spinfection, them dying does. That's been there since the first iteration (but yes it does lack visual indication).

[RNGsmiles]

The boss literally punishes you for having any kind of aoe or bomb usage. It's a very good example of a unfun boss design. One of the most annoying parts is that the poison ignores damage armor so you don't just get punished for having any aoe, but it also ignores another build completely.