King of the Mists is awful, right?

[DearFellowTraveler]

I know, I know: Git gud.

But seriously, this boss is so unenjoyable. I love hard fights, but King of the Mists is just tedious and feels unfair. Most of the fight seems to work alright, but his "stop moving" curse is absolutely maddening. I understand I'm supposed to stop moving when he casts that or I get I'll get stuck. The issue is, the moment I stop moving I take a ton of damage ... And it doesn't seem to proc anyway. It's only once I start moving again that it decides to proc and freeze me in place.

Anyway, I just wanted to rant and add another voice to the "this fight is silly" conversation as the devs work on early access. The game's great, but this fight is the first time I felt like I was playing an early access game.

[podge112]

if u think hes bad your in for a BIG SHOCK buddy

[Nauct]

I didn't know that. I just got really far away so when it happened he didn't kill me

[Vampyr]

might have to get better gear also destroy the totems he places

[Kao]

I never figured out I had to stop moving to avoid the curse and I still never had a really hard time on any character.
I just run to the other side of the screen and usually nothing bad happens to me while I’m rooted.

[Subset6]

Lawl, I never did either. I just nuked him while dodging bad and killing totams.

[Random009]

might be time and framing issues , just doesn't propagate as it suppose to

they actually created insane variety of boss fights for EA game , some might just be off and glitch on nefty mechanics .

[Vex Werewolf]

A game that wants to be about movement and positioning having a "don't move" boss is extremely poor design.

[shonuv]

Game is like two different games. Dark Souls if you're melee, typical ARPG if you're ranged.

[GetUrAssToMars]

Oh sweet summer child...

[RodHull]

He's one of the easier ones honestly. Just kill the totems and he doesn't have much going for him. All his damage abilities are slow long wind ups

[DeadBeat]

Try speccing into health regen and attempt to save your health pot for when he goes into phase two.

[we_are_ven0m]

He is also an entirely optional boss. You can skip him and come back later to get the spirit reward when you have a few more levels / gear.

If he's giving you trouble then I HIGHLY recommend you look at ways to increase your damage output, and start stacking cold resistance ASAP because the Act 1 boss is much harder. Ditto lightning resistance for the Act 2 boss.

[Devoras]

Oh.. I didn't even know you could stop him from using his 'look at you' ability. That's a big part of why I had trouble with him, when he used that all I thought I could do was try to get into a safe spot as far away from the boss as possible and hope he doesn't kill me while I was stuck.

What finally worked for me is to just ignore him and do everything else, then come back when at the end of the entire act after gaining a bunch of skill points and gear. I also changed my attack skill from permafrost rounds to high velocity rounds and he was actually pretty easy to take out quickly with those, so he didn't have a chance to hit me with his one shot abilities.

As a general rule I thought freezing him and slowing him was the best strategy, but the permafrost rounds seemingly do maybe 1/10 of the damage of the high velocity rounds, wasn't noticeable on regular minions but definitely was on the boss. I didn't really like how the high velocity rounds can only shoot in a straight line and so aren't good for killing regular minions so I didn't use it, but it's actually a decent attack skill. So try a different attack skill if you don't feel you're doing enough damage.

[DontEatSmurfs]

normally you just kill him, i didnt know he had this mech either, i always just killed him

[[*~MAJA~*] Mandragoron]

I killed him with my warrior just with basic attack first try? Sounds for a dps problem or classes are more unbalanced as i thought?