The Maven is ridiculous!

[Scooby Jew]

How the ♥♥♥♥ do you fight the maven?
Also is it just me or does the combat in this game suck ass compared to GOW 2018?

[Calibre]

I just reverted back to an earlier save, and went back to the main quest. I shall return later.

[Scooby Jew]

Messaggio originale di Calibre:

I just reverted back to an earlier save, and went back to the main quest. I shall return later.

does it not feel like the attack and defense stats don't matter at all?

[Calibre]

it just hits so hard, and then if you miss a shield block on the double blue circles you're screwed.

[ReveredWizardBob]

It's much better especially later in the game when you have all the perks, hilt and shields at your disposal not to mention a new weapon.

[Dub U]

Just beat her last night on 2nd highest diff. Armor and weapons are level 4 with Spartan valor. Parry is your friend on this fight. She always throws her swords two times, and at the end of her combo chains there's always an unblockable which you need to dodge to the side for. Also if you have the Hilt of Might (whichever gives you a 10s blessing of strength), that also really helps. I ended up chunking her after getting a blessing of strength buff from one of my gear pieces and just kept it going with the hilt and pretty much knocked her out.

[SoloMan]

yeah its a bit ♥♥♥♥ that you get locked in, you can do it though....♥♥♥♥ thats not much help but hey thats all I've got

[SpectreWulf]

What got me through the fight was... patience!

You can't aggro her, wait for her attacks and react accordingly with proper parries/ blocks.

[ant_sh]

Lunda armor set and then command Freya to poison her

[Dub U]

Messaggio originale di ant_sh:

Lunda armor set and then command Freya to poison her

Lunda is solid. There's some stuff that synergizes really well with it too but I can't remember.

[Octopuses]

She is very easy to parry. There are much much harder fights than this.

[Paranochat]

Messaggio originale di Isildur:

How the ♥♥♥♥ do you fight the maven?
Also is it just me or does the combat in this game suck ass compared to GOW 2018?

I'd say it's "just you" to answer that question, I heavily disagree, the combat is way better than GoW 2018, and bosses are way more interesting to fight.

Messaggio originale di Isildur:

Messaggio originale di Calibre:

I just reverted back to an earlier save, and went back to the main quest. I shall return later.

does it not feel like the attack and defense stats don't matter at all?

They do matter to keep up with the enemies, but the game is more about mechanical skill than stats. Especially in higher difficulties. So you can make a fight more approachable with better gear, but you can't really bypass the mechanical challenge of actually learning/reacting to the attack patterns.

At least it's true for most bosses, there still are builds that can trivialize some encounters though.

[A J]

Parry timing and shield bash when blue rings. Don't let her get too far away from you either.

Pressure with arrows and hand to hand attacks, and use your rune attacks whenever you can.