Dracula nerf rant

[Sharethepain]

Just wanted to give my two cents about this, as I feel more than slightly let down by the pandering to the casual playerbase once again.

Brutal Dracula was an apex, an eons old existence, the final boss of the journey, everything over the years of development of the game led us to that timeless throne room.

It was appropriate for the fight to be hard, very hard even. People generally enjoy challenge, it feels much better to overcome trials after many errors and the process of improving yourself.

Now people are robbed of that final climax, as the fight is pitiful, probably even easier than Adam.

If you did not kill Dracula in about 40-50 seconds on brutal in phase 4, you got instant killed by any single attack after that time due to the % damage increase (that was the thrill), now after 50 seconds you only take 10% more damage (40% damage reduction on the dracula blood).

Additionally perfect clearing the adds in phase 3 was almost essential and also felt superb - you were cornered, so was the dracula, you had to reduce his health as much as possible, both of you were fighting for survival for the follow up phase. So what if you had to change spells to achieve that? Are we not we supposed to be master vampires at that point, capable of any and all sorcery to begin with if we are to challenge a monster of such caliber?

Lastly, this must have been a great letdown for people who spent hours, days even learning the fight only for dracula to be nerfed moments before they could finally beat him, that must leave a bad aftertaste for sure.

It would be nice if the achievement or something could be split into OG dracula kill and the post nerf one or something alike, but I do understand that it is not feasible. The trophy just now feels very bland and not worth commemorating unfortunately (I do realize there were ways to cheat the trophy to begin with, but hardly anyone probably did).

[Gaming Lax]

I think only a few people care as much, I honestly tried fighting him a few times and ended up finding the most optimal strategy on youtube, most people trying to beat this on brutal will probably just youtube the best strategy. So the nerf rant is sorta pointless imo as the answer pre nerf was still to just youtube the solution

[Firecam]

Good nerfs overall if you were pushed into specific spells or weapons to do a DPS check.

[Chaos]

Eh, the pre-nerf phase 3 and phase 4 was some braindead dps check.
Can't believe anyone would missed that.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Eh, the pre-nerf phase 3 and phase 4 was some braindead dps check.
Can't believe anyone would missed that.

People can find a way to justify anything, especially if they think it makes them look better than others. Requiring a cookie cutter build and perfect execution is not a well-designed fight, which is why it got changed.

@OP - You aren't getting it. You can continue asking if you like, but you aren't getting it.