Normal too easy, brutal too hard. What do?

[rotkudnoK]

Basically the title. On brutal, bosses such as Errol, Goreswine, Grayson, Quincey feel too, well, brutal. I'm playing with a friend and we managed to kill all of these but Quincey.

The main issue for us was that there is simply too much going on: constant aoe and zone controlling, summoning the most tanky and annoying to deal with mobs such as archers and spear-guys, projectiles flying everywhere, and all we have is ONE single dodge. Every 8 seconds. Well, technically, we also have a counter, but it's useless against aoe and it feels like bosses use aoe for every 3 out of 4 attacks. Add to all this the fact that some attacks deal damage equal to half of our total hp, or even more, while we deal barely anything, and the combat becomes simply not fun.

After a dozen or so tries on Quincey we decided it isn't worth it and changed the difficulty to normal. And, you guessed it, the guy got utterly destroyed on our next try. Like, we weren't even trying to dodge all that hard, because he barely dealt any damage. Half of his aoe attacks are gone, instead of spear-guys he summons regular weak as hell goons... now it's just too easy.

Either way, the combat is, again, not fun. What do we do?

[NiflRav]

Originally posted by rotkudnoK:

Originally posted by Suhu:

What you mean underleveled? You can build ancestral forge, then grind a little bit portals or small bosses or some npc - get shattered ancestral weapons - reforge them - get a high end weapon. Regular bloodmoon set opening with tier 3 research. Or you can get everything of that from traders in moor with gold coins. And yes in 5 hours. Plus minus.

Well, I guess that makes sense, if you know where to go and what to do beforehand. Just seems a bit ridiculous to me, as a first time player

You don't need to craft everything in game. Half resourses you can get from chests-npc's. Half you can get from traders. Like recipes, drinks, schemes of weapons or armor. Coins you can farm from npc's in crazy ammount. So there is no problem.

For fast travel you can use portals without resources. Or you can use bat form to fly across entire map in huge speed.

Best way is to farm resources - bat form and just fly around. Against different debuffs there is elixirs. To buff yourself you can use same elixirs or craft or drop from npc's some shards. t3 shards often drops in moor or gloom or silverlight. If you need 100% blood npc, roam a little around silverlight zone.

Best spot for base - right in the middle of dunley farms. There is huge area with lake. So you can create giant base or smaller one with gardens and free access to fishing.

[Keith Preston]

Just uninstalled the game since im too dumb and too bad to beat styx on brutal. tried for 2 days and died like 40 times. Im done

[Korintheblack]

Originally posted by Keith Preston:

Just uninstalled the game since im too dumb and too bad to beat styx on brutal. tried for 2 days and died like 40 times. Im done

Kite him around the big blood crystal

[nYu]

i listenned to this topic. I play only official servers and pve.
I gave up my Brutal save, becuase yes, its very hard.
I tryed normal mode and yes, it was too easy ( ive been to Quincey after few hours without any death .. )
FInally im back on brutal, and yes, you have to try hard, yes its hard.... but i think its balanced , maybye the Farbane is little too hard because you dont have any buff...

[Chaos]

Just stick to brutal.
It will be easier with some practice.

[ホロ]

Originally posted by Keith Preston:

Just uninstalled the game since im too dumb and too bad to beat styx on brutal. tried for 2 days and died like 40 times. Im done

here's how i beat styx on brutal

Skill Use : Frost Barrier + Blood Rite

Utilize long-range weapons , these will significantly ease your gameplay.

Optionally, Equip A Full Set Movement Boost (Shadow Moon Set + 100% Rogue Blood + Unyielding Charger accessory).

He will randomly hurl two orbs in different directions towards you. Avoid them by either walking or dodging.

When he taunts and his body begins to glow, he is about to unleash a 360-degree projectile; deploy the frost barrier to deal insane amount of damage to boss

When he dashes forward toward you, move from side direction to avoid his attack ( dont panic or get jebaited to use your dodge always stay at mid-range. after that he will automatic initiate a jumping attack, requiring you to utilize your dodge or defensive skill. if you get hit get ready either time the dodge or use bloodrite to avoid the after effect explosion

Upon reaching 50% HP, he will summon two gargoyles. Dispatch them swiftly using the special skill Lightning Typhoon , this will easily eliminate the minions.

When his HP drops to around 30%, he will unleash his special skill, causing the environment to dim. Retreat and seek cover from the large blood crystal.


hence and repeat.
for me he is the most balance & manageble like octavian. there's a rhythm to his attack and you can memorize it by retrying many times , unlike other bosses that has ridiculous spamming aoe's on ground ( i hate the spider boss )

[Laurent MEKKA]

Originally posted by Chucky:

Originally posted by Laurent MEKKA:

My Setting for Brutal Solo :
V Bloods have +2 Levels
V Bloods deal 25% more damage
V Bloods have 100% maximum health

Still harder than normal, but not too much, and all the interesting patterns from brutal bosses. Solo is harder as all attacks targets you.
I could change these settings to 50% more damage but 75% health instead of 100% for shorter and more brutal battles.

Please tell me where to change this? Ingame or INI?

C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\LocalLow\Stunlock Studios\VRising\CloudSaves\[number]\v3\[number]\ServerGameSettings.json

[soh]

Originally posted by Tanyon:

My friends and I were literally face rolling the bosses.. which was crazy.. I remember this game being a lot harder.. finally we fought the dancer and 2 of us died.. third killed her with like 10% health..

The game does seem a lot easier. I remember wiping multiple times on like Nicholous, Ferocious Bear, Maja and Octavian.. we beat them all first try.. not even using special bloods or even really trying.

The bosses were a lot harder during early access, more players would cause the bosses to gain a mass of hp and the bosses mechanics would go wild, it was brutal, 4+ players would make the bosses practically invincible and players would be dying left and right. I actually enjoyed the game a lot more back then, when the game was less refined.

Now it's much easier playing with more players, we can just mow down the bosses. Playing solo is actually much harder.