love the game hate the boss fights

[mke453h]

boss fights are too difficult especially with mouse and keyboard, no way to use items like potions and food by hitting 1 to 6 on keyboard and instantly using a heal potion. keep dying before a potion can be used. if you want to have tough bosses then give us weapons and armour to help defeat them, i am not interested at fighting a boss for 5 to 10 minutes just to die because he needs to be hit 50 times while i can die after 3 hits

[mke453h]

also the character should not be limited to 25 for upgrading his skills, i would rather play longer to upgrade my character to have a better chance of beating your bosses

[EvathCebor]

I'm not sure I have the better stuff yet, but I agree bosses are hard. May I recommand you to prepare some food before attacking them ? Cook two carrocks together, you'll have +25 armor for 5 minutes. Also, some other cookings might upgrade your natural healing, speed and so on, which might make things a little bit easier.

[mke453h]

imagine playing call of duty and you need 10 shots to kill an enemy and only 1 to kill you ? a lot of these boss fights in games are just ridiculous , without defeating them you can not progress in the game, i enjoy this game a lot, has a huge area to explore, maybe have an easy level, i have a shattered right hand which i use for my mouse, if the battle rages too long my hand goes numb and frustration sets in on these boss fights, wish developers would realise that and give the tools needed for fighting these bosses, some gamers do not want long boss fights if you do then great you have the hard level you can play, thanks for your suggestion

[CanOfBeans]

If your mouse has a scroll wheel, use that to cycle through your items, it's much faster. I do think most of the bosses suck though, but for different reasons. Omoroth the Sea Titan is complete and utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Bobucles]

On normal difficulty, armor rating is king. Max out your armor, wear armor accessories, boost crafting skill, and cook carrock food for another buff. You should be able to just barely hit the defense cap before facing each boss. Defense has linear damage reduction, which results in a non linear boost to surviving attacks. Every point towards the defense cap (75%) is worth more effective health than the last, so it pays to top off.

Health recovery meals are good, but there's no crime in stockpiling dozens of healing potions. When things get nasty just spam the heals and power through. It pays to set up a farm early on to start gathering healing mats.

Max HP can be farmed by starting fresh worlds and hunting down the giant mushrooms. The HP boost is preserved from cooking, so cook them for the chance of double rewards.

The starter vitality talent turns every skill point into more HP cap. Tackle the low hanging fruit and build up all your skills for a hefty chunk of max HP.

[Neirgara]

Boss fights are difficult, as long as you try them unprepared. Otherwise they are very doable, sometimes even easy.

Like most games, each region and boss is designed with minimum requirements and preparation in mind. If you have problems with a region or a boss, then you probably need to get better equipment and level up your skill. Taking 10 minutes for a fight is a good indicator that you are not ready for that boss yet.

If you are not playing on the lowest difficulty, change it.

When skilling and equipping, choose a strategy first. Do you want to tank or dodge? Use close combat or ranged combat? Go for increased damage or increased crits? Choose your equipment and skills for that strategy to max out the synergy (ranged combat for example works very good with crits and dodge)

There ARE armor and weapons to fight bosses. But you must actively craft or find them. They won't be thrown into your face.

You also should use food and potions. Those can make a huge difference. It should be enough to eat the food and drink the potions just before engaging the boss. They have at least a minute duration, and that should be enough to get most out of the bonus.

Normally there is no need to refresh buffs during the fight. All you need after using all food and buff potions is your weapon on shortkey 1, healing potions on shortkey 2 and your off-hand item on space. Switching between 1 and 2 is not very difficult, though based on how good your finger coordination is, you may need a bit training first (was the case for me).

Also, you can try to manipulate the environment to your advantage. Remove slime ground before combat as good as possible, remove any walls and holes that restrict your movement, use spike traps. For two bosses digging trenches can render them completely helpless against you.

All bosses have repeating patterns, and especially for slimes it is easy to get used to them with repeated training. If you can take Glurch, the first of all bosses, then you can get used to the timing and range of stomp attacks, as all other stronger slime bosses have the same stomp pattern. Go into fights with minimum stuff in your bag (so you won't loose anything when getting killed) and focus on evading and getting used to their movements and reactions. It doesn't matter if you die, you won't lose anything. Put a bed somewhere near them, so you respawn there instead of the core.

Don't give up, you can do it!

[zanlai riltram accepting donos]

skill issue

[Bueno Stainz]

Man idk, when I was playing the game, the bosses were the best part. It can be....unfulfilling when bosses are too easy. Maybe try thinking outside the box a little, one of the bosses I didnt even have to touch. I just lured it into a bomb trap.

[Steve]

Just found this but I'll be honest, this post has scared me off it. but if there's ever a 'peaceful' mode added like minecraft I'll certainly buy it. I don't mind normal combat but hate boss battles in any game. Each to their own I guess.

[maestro]

I haven't fought the outer 3 bosses yet, just the first 3.

The huge slime? He's a pushover if you do some progression before you fight him. You can get Iron Armor and Iron sword and get them reinforced, he can barely touch you and he goes down before he can kill you. Of course this means that the sword you can craft from his statue will be useless, as the iron sword is better than it in most situations.

The worm? I've heard people can fight him normally but I just don't see how without a ton of grinding and/or lucky drops (mainly those jewelry pieces that let you ignore slime) that I frankly never got. I wound up having to do the ole spike trap exploit to get him down to half health so I could actually fight him. Once you do that, he's not too bad, you just gotta dodge him as he tries to ram you while putting out damage.

The Hive Mother? This screams "MULTIPLAYER!" to me. You're expected to deal with the pods that release deadly explosive enemies (and/or lots of very hardy swarming bugs), damage the boss, AND shovel the goop up off the ground. Encouraging multiplayer is nice and all, but not everybody has the luxury of recruiting people to help with a boss, it shouldn't feel "required" to do multiplayer just to kill a progression-blocking boss. The game is otherwise designed to allow Single Player play, and the boss fights need to be reasonable with Single Player in mind. I feel that the Hive Mother simply is not a single-player boss whatsoever.

I've heard you can catch fish to make potions that make you immune to the acid slime, but... said fish are dang near impossible to catch without a lot of fishing grinding so I skipped that part.

In the end, I barely -- and I mean barely, as I died a second after killing it -- beat her by using rage potions and just wailing away as fast as I could while running circles around her, stopping only to kill the explosive enemies before they explode.

I think the Hive Mother could use a small nerf in singleplayer, she felt a bit extraordinarily cheap, it's just too much for 1 player to handle by themselves without lots of grinding. Maybe reduce the health of the bugs some, maybe spawn yellow bugs instead of red ones. Perhaps a few less explosive bugs, or perhaps lower the frequency of the pods, or reduce the pods' health so you have more of a chance of breaking it before it hatches.

[arkkumanu]

Cooking and food buffs is the way to go! Just buff yourself off the charts right before the boss fight, and it will be so much easier. There are always specific ingredients (fish and plants) in each area, that are meant for the bosses of that area. That is how I have solved playing solo while being bad at playing.

Also, there are usually rings and necklaces, that are helpful for the boss fight, in each area. They require some exploring and/or grinding mobs, but it is definitely worth it. Good luck and I hope the bosses get easier for you! :)

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Neirgara:

There ARE armor and weapons to fight bosses. But you must actively craft or find them. They won't be thrown into your face.

You also should use food and potions. Those can make a huge difference. It should be enough to eat the food and drink the potions just before engaging the boss. They have at least a minute duration, and that should be enough to get most out of the bonus.

Yeah, those.

Originally posted by Neirgara:

Also, you can try to manipulate the environment to your advantage. Remove slime ground before combat as good as possible, remove any walls and holes that restrict your movement, use spike traps. For two bosses digging trenches can render them completely helpless against you.

Or, look for the equipment that lets you walk over slime without being hindered.

And consider building a ranged weapon.

Personally, I wouldn't suggest using a lot of traps on Ghorm. They might hurt him, but he will destroy them and ... that's a lot of Tin. Use a ranged weapon, and learn to dodge, he's got a minimum turning radius.

[Stellar Remnant]

I've successfully beaten (first try) all primary bosses up to and including the sea one with mouse and keyboard. It's perfectly doable.

Yes, they do a lot of damage if they hit you. Don't get hit. Learn their patterns. And maybe use the feather and move speed food.

[Nate]

Originally posted by GespenstKAF:

Originally posted by maestro:

The Hive Mother? This screams "MULTIPLAYER!" to me. You're expected to deal with the pods that release deadly explosive enemies (and/or lots of very hardy swarming bugs), damage the boss, AND shovel the goop up off the ground. Encouraging multiplayer is nice and all, but not everybody has the luxury of recruiting people to help with a boss, it shouldn't feel "required" to do multiplayer just to kill a progression-blocking boss. The game is otherwise designed to allow Single Player play, and the boss fights need to be reasonable with Single Player in mind. I feel that the Hive Mother simply is not a single-player boss whatsoever.

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I think the Hive Mother could use a small nerf in singleplayer, she felt a bit extraordinarily cheap, it's just too much for 1 player to handle by themselves without lots of grinding. Maybe reduce the health of the bugs some, maybe spawn yellow bugs instead of red ones. Perhaps a few less explosive bugs, or perhaps lower the frequency of the pods, or reduce the pods' health so you have more of a chance of breaking it before it hatches.

You can surround her with a few layers of the player-crafted spike traps to handle the adds while you focus on the Hive Mother. Also, the higher-tier hoes can cover more squares than shovels and removes the ground slime.

She's not horrifically difficult, just requires a fair amount of preparation.

the hive mother was bad enough when i played months ago that i quit, it went from a fun challenge to being near instakilled in full iron, was an absolute chore of a boss and the mobs were insanely op, no idea if it's been fixed since then

[Stellar Remnant]

Originally posted by Nate:

Originally posted by GespenstKAF:

You can surround her with a few layers of the player-crafted spike traps to handle the adds while you focus on the Hive Mother. Also, the higher-tier hoes can cover more squares than shovels and removes the ground slime.

She's not horrifically difficult, just requires a fair amount of preparation.

the hive mother was bad enough when i played months ago that i quit, it went from a fun challenge to being near instakilled in full iron, was an absolute chore of a boss and the mobs were insanely op, no idea if it's been fixed since then

I just dig out the floor tiles and kill it with ranged while its summons pile up at the chokepoint.