WTF is Laxasia?

[Cynical]

Seriously, was this boss even playtested? There's absolutely no way. I've blown through half of my star fragments, and I've only seen the phase transition twice.

[awanderingswordsman]

What she is, is the second best fight in the game.

First phase isn't anything special. Dodge if you don't feel confident on your parries. Second phase is rough but deflecting the lightning orbs causes them to go back and damage her a lot. You could probably win just kiting and reflecting orbs if you were patient.

[Cynical]

How are you supposed to dodge her in the first form? She just homes in on you perfectly with every single attack. I'm about to be just completely softlocked because of the absolutely idiotic "lol you need limited resources to even attempt a boss for real" system, and I see the second form on maybe one in 10 attempts.

[Lynfinity]

Cynical a écrit :

How are you supposed to dodge her in the first form? She just homes in on you perfectly with every single attack.

You're making it sound like her hitboxes linger for the longest time and it's impossible to i-frame through them.

If you're referring to her upward swipe/overhead combos, it's better to just run away and keep your distance if you can't parry to save your life.

[awanderingswordsman]

Just dodge through the attacks. Like, how did you get this far if the first phase is walling you? The second phase is legit quite difficult but you've already beat stuff tougher than that first phase. How did you deal with those fights?

Also all the bosses are balanced around not having a specter. In fact, maybe you should conserve them for a bit and go in solo to better learn her attacks.

[Cynical]

awanderingswordsman a écrit :

Just dodge through the attacks. Like, how did you get this far if the first phase is walling you? The second phase is legit quite difficult but you've already beat stuff tougher than that first phase. How did you deal with those fights?

Also all the bosses are balanced around not having a specter. In fact, maybe you should conserve them for a bit and go in solo to better learn her attacks.

I'm curious as to what you think is tougher than Laxasia's first phase. After *finally* making it through the fight (protip: acid grindstone works wonders), there's nothing else in the game that comes close to that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Her attacks are nearly impossible to dodge between the weird hitboxes behind her, AOE lightning follow-ups, and her insane homing movement towards you during them, and she resists attacks from the back, so you can't even punish her if you dodge an attack. And one mistake is a forced pulse, since each attack does nearly a full lifebar of damage; eat two hits in a combo, and it's just death.

The second form is nowhere near as bad once you've seen it more than three times.

As for bosses being balanced around not having a specter, I don't believe that for a second. When Hotel Krat gets attacked, there's a run of bosses where you have no specter, and the difficulty curve there makes sense if you've been playing with specters, but if you've been playing without, there's a sudden huge drop in difficulty on bosses Gemini is hyping up, and it makes no sense.

[awanderingswordsman]

Tougher than laxasia first phase is most of the fights. Definitely the 2 brotherhood fights, swamp monster, viktor, romeo, manus, nameless. Nameless is straight up harder than laxasia period and is also the best fight in the game.

You must have a very skewed view of the difficulty because of using a specter, thats all I can surmise.

[Poyzo]

Run away when she does her overhead slashes and two arch swings at the end. You can get a good two to three hits it if you just run to the other side of the bridge.

When she tries to impale you with her sword, again, run away. She'll try to do it three times in a row and all you have to do is stay away. After the third attempt, attack her for hits.

[Lady Maria]

I agree ♥♥♥♥ LAXASIA. Not a fair fight at all. She has too many long combos, very few openings to get a hit, can't dodge and too quick to parry, then in her second phase impossible to get hits because she always puts distance between you or does a long string of combo where you can't get a hit in

[peterstevens]

You can also space her in phase one and stay out of range when she does multiple attacks. You don't have to parry/dodge all of them. With proper spacing only the last two or three hits.

Remember running out of range is an option.

[Galewin]

I didn't get the ending to get the true final boss, so I can't talk about that, but laxasia second phase is definitely the hardest thing I've done on the game.

I could consistently beat phase one without using healing, or just one, but I feel like I just got lucky and I didn't learn phase 2.

It feels too fast, to random, to much delays, you really are overwhelmed, I didn't like it at all

[BlackOdyssey95]

100% the hardest boss was & is archbishop

[Xznotel]

Imma be real with you chief, if you cant get to second phase you're trash the first part is so easy, second can get preeeeeeetty dicey but doable. For the constant upward sweeping attacks either block or just dodge to the right and she wont hit you. The overheads you have to block, and for the other attacks its just basic blocking.

[Cynical]

Welp, now I'm definitely softlocked. Ran out of urgent repair tools on Nameless Puppet. GG Devs, nice job making the game so that you only have a limited number of tries on the endgame bosses or your 25+ hour run is screwed.

[Zogtar]

I'm on this fight, too. I can get through her first phase without a specter, but gott damm phase 2 I'm really bad at deflecting her lighting.

[awanderingswordsman]

Cynical a écrit :

Welp, now I'm definitely softlocked. Ran out of urgent repair tools on Nameless Puppet. GG Devs, nice job making the game so that you only have a limited number of tries on the endgame bosses or your 25+ hour run is screwed.

You don't need any consumables to beat the bosses. Use your grindstone to sharpen like intended.