Forgotten One is stupid hard. Why oh why would you make it THAT hard

[Kilgore Trout]

I seriously want to slap the guys that were in charge of this characters difficulty level.

[Kilgore Trout]

Finally murdered that ibn al-kalb... Just about had an Aneurysm, and now I have to go and apologize to my wife for the language and yelling.

[Kilgore Trout]

Paladin difficulty, of course..

[Steven]

Sounds like I'm trying to show off or something but I'm really not. I don't think he was that hard. I think I had him built up as being the most difficult boss ever because of the comments about him on Paladin difficulty so I was ready. Took 3 attempts and basically required a perfect run. His moves were pretty easy to avoid in my opinion. Definitely the hardest boss though and much harder than Satan.

[Kilgore Trout]

Yeah I really agree with you now. My strategy for the last section, when you need to hit him in the head, was bad. When he does the double sword attack he would get me almost ever time, and I had barely any health.

If you just keep your distance from him and wait for the long attacks it's much easier. I was spammimg him with attacks after ever dodge and also staying pretty close. Not a good idea.

[Kargath]

I've died at least 50 times on normal (Warrior) difficulty so far and I'm on the final head part. This guy is 10 times harder than anything else in the game. Unless you have superhuman reflexes, it's a matter of getting a lucky sequence of attacks that are easier to dodge.

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm with you bro. I had the hardest time ever and just about had a stroke from raging.

Especially when he does the double-sword attack I got raped so bad. If you keep your distance and walk in a backwards diagonal motion you can avoid most attacks surprisingly easy, and then move in for the attack when he's doing the big wind-up style of moves.

Hope that helps a little.

[Matt]

i raged quit after an hour of trying on the last part where you have to hit his head - i keep spawning at the checkpoint with half a bar of health and no magic, its pretty much impossible without at least a half a bar of blue/red

[Kargath]

I finally got through it. I was making it harder for myself. I had wasted all of my magic on the skeletons that didn't even have to be fought. I went back to an early level, filled up my magic, tried again, and saved my magic for the end. The last part only took me two tries with full magic.

Another trick is to sprint up to him right after the checkpoint is loaded. I could get about 8 hits in and get a head start before he did anything. It's a little cheap but I don't care.

One problem with the final battle is the bad hit detection. Some of his attacks do damage when the animations don't even show them hitting me. I'm not talking about collateral damage from the ground shaking, fire, or anything like that. Some of the basic sword/claw attacks "hit" me even when they don't.

It's also annoying when I botch a quick-time/execution/cinematic event and have to redo a section of a battle.

[Kilgore Trout]

Awesome!

[Rocket]

I'm a homeless, divorced alcoholic because of the Forgotten One.

[Kilgore Trout]

Originally posted by Mahvelous:

I'm a homeless, divorced alcoholic because of the Forgotten One.

hahahahahahahah :D

[Lozzle]

I too struggled with him at first then I realized something grand, while he attacks faster and harder as the fight goes on, his moves are repetitive, telegraphed and easilly dodgeable. You get in and hit him once or twice and move the ♥♥♥♥ out. Wait, go back in, once or twice. That's all you can get away with lest you get REALLY lucky like when he does the double sword slam and you can wrack up a quick combo on his head. You gotta play hit and run with this bastard. Once I finally learned that, I won.

I don't know if I have the patience to do it on Paladin but we'll see if I finish the later chapters on that to begin with.