OMG....Lady Ethereal is a masterpiece

[kukukachu]

This is like if you took the mantis lords and turned it up to 11. Simply amazing! This whole game is such a masterpiece.

[Pliny The Welder]

I hated it. Pointlessly long. I find 10 minute fights where i hit the boss once every 15 seconds extremely frustrating.

[kukukachu]

Originally posted by Pimpollo:

Loving the boss fights. Red Candle did a great job. I loved this fight. Very fun!

The game is a masterpiece.

[Scorpix]

This is the fight I recorded actually. :)

[Mandragore]

Originally posted by Puru:

I feel the second phase should also highlight when it's the real one, this is ultimatly my only issue with this boss fight. Yeah you can one top them just to check but it's still needless tedium. I feel that it overstays it's welcome though, although it's not nearly as bad as the mantis lords in this aspect.
It is certainly one of the best with Ji, Jiequan and the final boss. Likely the best visually.

It could use a bit more feedback for sure, for now the only tell is her staying a bit longer than her clones.

In case someone reads this: just Qi Blast through her, for two reasons: 1. with all the parrying you have all the energy in the world, it's not really wasted if it was a clone 2. Talismans freeze her, unlike sword attacks, letting you charge a full Qi Blast AND loose an arrow if you're quick.

I used the Water Blast for most of the game, but I like the standard Qi Blast a lot more for this fight. You have all the time in the world once she's marked by a Talisman and all the energy you want, so the reduced Water Flow damage isn't worth it, and the Full Control stance is a trap imho because there is no feedback for when it's fully charged, often letting her escape before you detonate.

Other than that, I think a MAJOR trick that makes the fight a thousand times easier is to always be in the air. Not only does it allow you to parry in every direction (a must in this fight), but it also sets you up perfectly for Tai-chi kicking the Crimsons attacks and bouncing off the purple balls.

[Scorpix]

Originally posted by Mandragore:

Originally posted by Puru:

I feel the second phase should also highlight when it's the real one, this is ultimatly my only issue with this boss fight. Yeah you can one top them just to check but it's still needless tedium. I feel that it overstays it's welcome though, although it's not nearly as bad as the mantis lords in this aspect.
It is certainly one of the best with Ji, Jiequan and the final boss. Likely the best visually.

It could use a bit more feedback for sure, for now the only tell is her staying a bit longer than her clones.

In case someone reads this: just Qi Blast through her, for two reasons: 1. with all the parrying you have all the energy in the world, it's not really wasted if it was a clone 2. Talismans freeze her, unlike sword attacks, letting you charge a full Qi Blast AND loose an arrow if you're quick.

I used the Water Blast for most of the game, but I like the standard Qi Blast a lot more for this fight. You have all the time in the world once she's marked by a Talisman and all the energy you want, so the reduced Water Flow damage isn't worth it, and the Full Control stance is a trap imho because there is no feedback for when it's fully charged, often letting her escape before you detonate.

Other than that, I think a MAJOR trick that makes the fight a thousand times easier is to always be in the air. Not only does it allow you to parry in every direction (a must in this fight), but it also sets you up perfectly for Tai-chi kicking the Crimsons attacks and bouncing off the purple balls.

Actually I think Full control Talisman is far superior and after some training you can see and feel when it is fully charged. For Lady Ethereal is is also the best talisman in my opinion, because it stuns her for 3 seconds, so you have enough time to charge all 5 Qi energy and cause explosion which deals a lot of damage.

Also after putting talisman on her, all her clones dissapear, so you dont have to be afraid of getting damaged. If she will teleport with talisman she will still receive damage if you will start explosion.

[Skater901]

Gotta say, I'm starting to get the hype around Ji. The amount of time you spend in the air is crazy, from bouncing off all the knives you parry, plus hitting him with talismans and basic attacks, then double jumping and continuing to hit him, so much fun.

[Seisachtheia]

I'm finding Lady Ethereal particularly tough. My main problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to damage her in the third phase. She only shows up to drop a spirit bomb on me and at that point she's too high up for me to reach. The rest of the time I'm being attacked by her clones.

Do you have to survive a particular amount of time in the fight before you can fight back? Like she has to spirit bomb you 3 or 4 times before you can actually start attacking her again?

[kukukachu]

Originally posted by Seisachtheia:

I'm finding Lady Ethereal particularly tough. My main problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to damage her in the third phase. She only shows up to drop a spirit bomb on me and at that point she's too high up for me to reach. The rest of the time I'm being attacked by her clones.

Do you have to survive a particular amount of time in the fight before you can fight back? Like she has to spirit bomb you 3 or 4 times before you can actually start attacking her again?

Oh, you just got slightly stuck, like I did. Basically, what you do is parry off the two phantoms under her and then dash either left or right while in the air before she throws the bomb down. The floor breaks and you free fall, and while you do, you have a major chance of doing massive damage to her, before falling back to the ground.

[lazyd00d]

Originally posted by Seisachtheia:

I'm finding Lady Ethereal particularly tough. My main problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to damage her in the third phase. She only shows up to drop a spirit bomb on me and at that point she's too high up for me to reach. The rest of the time I'm being attacked by her clones.

Do you have to survive a particular amount of time in the fight before you can fight back? Like she has to spirit bomb you 3 or 4 times before you can actually start attacking her again?

You dodge the spirit bomb and after she breaks the floor you can tag her midair with a talisman, which will allow you to get some good hits in. Afterwards you just continue to parry all the shadows and wait till she shows her face again so you can tag her with a talisman to do dmg.

[Seisachtheia]

Thanks you guys. Hitting her while falling allowed me to easily beat the third phase. Don't know why I didn't think of that, I kept waiting for her to show up and attack me like in the first two phases!

[TurboTired]

Masochism is not healthy.

[kukukachu]

Originally posted by TurboTired:

Masochism is not healthy.

not pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone is unhealthy.

[SoreyKhun]

The boss is literally a masterpiece indeed, and don't get me started on the ost, i wanna buy the entire soundtrack just to listen to it everytime (althought the entire soundtrack of the game is actually goated)

[Skater901]

Originally posted by Seisachtheia:

Thanks you guys. Hitting her while falling allowed me to easily beat the third phase. Don't know why I didn't think of that, I kept waiting for her to show up and attack me like in the first two phases!

Don't forget that in the third phase she will also be one of the ones attacking you. You gotta watch out for her because she doesn't have the shadow face like the clones do.

[egoBorder]

Originally posted by Bunny:

The clone thing doens't feels that great, you want to qi burst? tough luck kid it's a clone
Mantis on hollow knigh let's you fight back all the time, this boss doesn't.

EXACTLY! There should be a way to tell which is the real one, just slashing at random doesn't give you nearly enough time to take advantage of finding her