It's a pain getting to Echo Knight

[Reapeth]

I haven't beaten the Echo Knight yet but I'm really enjoying the difficulty of the fight.

What I'm not enjoying, however, is having to do 9 floors of boring enemies every single time just to fight him once (they were challenging the first few times, but now it's just not fun). And having to do deal with full inventory between runs.

I just want to fight the boss, man. Just let me fight the boss. I don't care if I have to spend more embers, just don't make me fight those damn trash mobs again. :'(

Edit: As a suggestion, maybe make the crucible not reset until the boss has been successfully defeated/attempted a certain number of times. Can even make each attempt cost more embers. If I spent 20 minutes going through a slog, I feel like I deserve at least a couple tries on the boss before the whole thing resets. The boss fight is great and is the best content in the crucible, and players deserve to have more time to enjoy it.

[IndieFlock]

I also do not like re-running the floors over and over just to try catch a glimpse of the boss.
Enjoyed my time with the game very much up till that point.
The last bit is just so tedious it makes me want to put the game down.
After a certain amount of time doing the same thing over and over is just not fun at all.

[Baron01]

Echo Knight is worst boss currently in the game even if it tries to be more complex and challenging fight, it just tries too hard.
He has way too much health, he has horrible hit-box that is very unpredictable and the fight can be very obnoxious due to how often the boss can chain certain abilities. Cherry on top of this ♥♥♥♥-cake is the fact it is a two-phase fight.

Sure, you can abuse some builds or focus skills that are clearly broken in EA now but fighting him with a slow 2handed weapon is not fun.

[Warsign]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Echo Knight is worst boss currently in the game even if it tries to be more complex and challenging fight, it just tries too hard.
He has way too much health, he has horrible hit-box that is very unpredictable and the fight can be very obnoxious due to how often the boss can chain certain abilities. Cherry on top of this ♥♥♥♥-cake is the fact it is a two-phase fight.

Sure, you can abuse some builds or focus skills that are clearly broken in EA now but fighting him with a slow 2handed weapon is not fun.

I too am speced into 2 hand strength build, really can be difficult to play fast mobs. Probably going to start using a shield once I have 42 strength. lvl20 atm.

[phroZac]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Echo Knight is worst boss currently in the game even if it tries to be more complex and challenging fight, it just tries too hard.
He has way too much health, he has horrible hit-box that is very unpredictable and the fight can be very obnoxious due to how often the boss can chain certain abilities. Cherry on top of this ♥♥♥♥-cake is the fact it is a two-phase fight.

Sure, you can abuse some builds or focus skills that are clearly broken in EA now but fighting him with a slow 2handed weapon is not fun.

I just beat him with a slow 2h Axe. It was a lot of fun. I would switch between it and a sword shield combo to build up Focus, then go to the axe for some big hits and the weapon art. Or rune skill, whatever it's called. Lightning Strike I think.

[ayadori]

I like the Crucible and I like the boss, I do NOT like the combo. Stopped playing.

[Megalithik]

maybe have a respawn wihisper each 2 floors