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You fight her with a 3 level down difference (Unless you kill the shadow priest for the amulet.) and her demon ink bomb hits you for 179+ spawns a demon that hits for 54. Not to mention the possibility of a book. Think tristan is bad? A cake walk in comparison.
Yeah, was about an hour of attempts. I know because my brews ran out lol.
I tend to use the same skill set for every boss.
Ward of the Damned + Power Surge + Veil of Chaos with Chaos Barrage until I get a Soul Shard; then I'll mainly swap between Soul Shard of the Monster/Soul Shard of the Winged Horror. But 90% of the boss fight is just dodging since the attack patterns are easier to learn.
I lug around a Melee weapon (Either Greatsword or Reaper) with a ranged weapon; most likely the Pistol. Rest is a bunch of potions. This makes Brutal ez for me. I enjoy going fast so I focus on gear that provides good movement speed/abilities to help me zoom zoom.
Edit: I love me some Rogue blood.
Hey, so, I've gotten up to here in the posts and just wanted to throw my opinion in the ring.
Lot of toxicity in this particular thread and I've read a few posts from that Mikael guy - not the kind of gamer I personally want to associate with or involve myself with, so I'm probably going to just not respond to them unless I get *really* bored.
As for you, you seem overall chill enough. A bit hostile in your own responses at times but considering the *other* folk in this thread, I can't really blame you. Seriously, why go git gud? We can have a civil discussion about this without resorting to 'haha you suck lol'
Now, onto my opinion. I don't play on brutal (I don't enjoy 'hit my head against a wall until i win' difficulty), but I won't lie I probably use what is considered meta at times. I do try to switch it up in the spell department (I'm currently using spectral wolf and skull, i haven't gotten rid of skull because of how absolutely beloved the dual skeleton mod for the gem is), as well as illusion golem (i play with a friend and that spell has saved us quite a few times against some V-bloods, looking at you Elementalist) and the Ice Veil. I gather that brutal adds a new attack to the enemies? Funny enough, I've seen Tristan use that move in Mortium. It didn't seem bad there, but perhaps in farbane it would be or in Brutal it's faster. I don't know. I do use the crossbow, so I mean..
It's fun to use for me and it's effective, but as to the whole 'this game revolves around one-trick' i agree, but in a different way that would make it seem like I disagree. It isn't that the game *disallows* other builds, it's that in comparison to specific builds (i.e ranged weapons and certain spells like unholy ones that summon minions (shield and skull namely) and possibly illusion spells on top of those), they are.... very tedious. The risk vs reward isn't fully there and often times the movesets of enemies, plus a limited dash making it difficult to souls-dodge them properly, means that you're more often than not outright punished for using melee. But that's not to say it's impossible, my friend only sometimes uses pistols, but is currently maining the sword. He can handle quite a lot of stuff, even if he's using the skull at times, along with ball lightning and illusion dash. It's not *impossible*, it just kinda sucks sometimes.
I don't think you needed to be flamed in order to get this point across, and it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame no one could have civil discourse(am i using that word right? Unsure atm) about it without resorting to 'lol it's suppose to be hard just suck it up and do it if i/others can, u shhould be able too'. It's telling about certain people, but that is what it is. I do agree that the game should balance the melee to be less risky for such a mid reward (most of the melee weapons don't provide much of a power boost over the range weapons, which is TYPICALLY how most games tend to balance them), that way they are a bit more viable and feel less like you are purposely handicapping yourself in order to play differently.
I'm gonna read the rest of the posts now, cheers.
So, wait for a blood moon, find a 99% brute and hope she doesn't use her adds. Mhm, grats on the kill, but maja isn't easy, especially if you've never fought her before (Like I entailed.)
Again not a brutal player but as a user of 100% brute + a leech infused crossbow.. yeah
Yeah, it gets pretty cheesy. I'm not even gonna deny it, it does, and it's fun as ♥♥♥♥ (for me).
Like i said in my other post I do wish there was a bit more tangible incentive to using other weapons. I've tried a chill sword , a leech whip, and I'm going to go try a static infused axes when I can get them to see if i like them.... but man, ranged just makes a lot of ♥♥♥♥ .... not just easier, but less irritating. That's not a good thing, but ranged weapons shouldn't be changed or nerfed in my opinion. They're good for what they are, it's the melee's that kind of lack.
I think the restriction on dodges, as well as what the other two were talking about regarding counters/blocks taking up one of your skill slots, is what really makes this true. I think dodges should be unlimited (or the act of dodging itself with iframes should have an incredibly small cooldown), but you need to wait for the proper cooldown to finish before your dodge has its veil effect. I think this would make using melee combat a lot more strategic and purely skill based because then you KNOW for sure if you got hit, it's either because you weren't paying attention or you got greedy.
Ranged weapons are definitely too strong. The fact a longbow can hit for 80, where as a great sword hits for 35, is just stupid.
Perhaps just my bias for the playstyle and not wanting my toys nerfed.
I won't deny, melee's definitely need to feel stronger. And if i'm being honest, I don't think making them do more damage (or safer to use) would really ruin the difficulty at all. You still have to dodge, you still can die easily if you get greedy or ♥♥♥♥ up, end of story.
My crossbow currently hits for around 40-60ish, depending on crits and buffs like that at my stage (around 64 gear level, no brews used because I just forget I can use them/want to avoid using them for personal ego boost). I haven't really used any other weapons, but i'd definitely feel disappointed if my greatsword didn't do as much or equal damage per hit. Crossbow can definitely be strong because of its firing rate and because like all the other ranged weapons they prevent you from moving, but still.