Am I doing something wrong?

[Sliscus]

I have full merciless gear ( except crossbow) , I have beat every boss up to Quincy and Nicholaus. I can't beat either of them.

For Nicholaus I use the corpse explosion spell to kill the adds and try taking pot-shots from a distance but he will just wear me down with the spell where he shoots the skulls, three times in a circles. Quincy will eventually bounce back a Chaos Volley with his reflect that ends up chewing through my HP.

And running back to these bosses over and over has gotten old.

Based on other threads this looks like a skill issue. It's a shame because I was having a lot of fun prior to these bosses.

If there's anything obvious I may be missing ?

[Sliscus]

beat Nicholaus with corpse explosion

[Tanyon]

Yea who cares about whether the skeletons last long or not the goal is AOE to get rid of the adds as quickly as possible.. glad you beat him too !!

[Reeva!]

Didn't know you beat it, gj! Typed really long guides, but you already got it, didn't see.

[Elymnir]

Originally posted by Sliscus:

Beat Quincy, aftershock was the real MVP

Well played ;)

[Sliscus]

Originally posted by Reeva!:

Didn't know you beat it, gj! Typed really long guides, but you already got it, didn't see.

I still appreciate it!

[Emjay]

Originally posted by Elymnir:

Nice strategy, Suzaku! It's not my type of gameplay, because I'm bad at handling many stuff at once, like strategizing the use of a bounce, then a frost, then shield to pop skellys, all this while keeping positionning and space awareness in mind.
But I can totally see how that plays out. A bit like playing blue at Magic (I've always been a black or artefact kind of guy XD).

I pretty much run it too. I use mainly unholy spells to keep the dps high (via condemn) and also the DoT you get when you hit them with another unholy whilst condemn is active. I'm currently using bone explosion and the bolt thing that summons a minion. It allows me to distract with minions, keep distance and up my dps. I still use the blood dodge so I can heal on each dodge as and when I need to.

I also switch between crossbow and mace/reaper in combat as and where it makes sense.

[Darkest King]

Originally posted by Sliscus:

beat Nicholaus with corpse explosion

I was gonna say, Corpse Explosion is actually not a bad choice for him since killing his skeleton summons after hitting them with it will gaurantee you some allies of your own for a bit and turn some tables for you.

Good job.

[Elymnir]

Originally posted by Emjay:

I still use the blood dodge so I can heal on each dodge as and when I need to.

I've been in love with the storm dodge since I got it. The DPS gain with statics is great, even more so when paired with with reaper's E right after. Right now I'm using the spectral wolf, which does good damage, can sorta AoE and helps me pop up ward of the damned more often.