Trial Of The Sekhemas 4th Boss is bad design

[Usikava]

So for anyone who haven't been there before the boss is a time stopping ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that will vanish at certain moment and you can then start a clock to pick up some items from the arena before clock makes a full circle, If you won't boss will one shot you. And how do I find out about what should I do? Watch a youtube video on a boss? Every other thing in the arenas so far was damaging or debuffing me so by this pattern I presumed I should avoid everything on the ground...
If the way to understand the boss is to watch how someone else did it and there is no explanation in the game it is clearly a bad design especially as punishing as it is(you have to start all over again, it takes around 30 min to do so and I'm not even taking in account loosing XP).
So either explain to a player what one should do or change this utterly stupid mechanics.

[Tafka]

Yep we need more yellow paint, arrows and hand-holding in game. We can't think for ourselves

[Usikava]

Originally posted by Tafka:

Yep we need more yellow paint, arrows and hand-holding in game. We can't think for ourselves

Oh... F off... Changing rules at the last encounter isn't something clever. Get your getgud attitude somewhere else, I'm not talking about everything being bad and in need of "yellow paint". I'm talking about specific encounter...

[Ankarin]

You stand in the middle, everything freezes and a bunch of things spawn on the ground and when you move a clock starts turning. What else do you expect to do? Stand around while the clock turns expecting something magical to happen and you pass the mechanic?

[Usikava]

Originally posted by Ankarin:

You stand in the middle, everything freezes and a bunch of things spawn on the ground and when you move a clock starts turning. What else do you expect to do? Stand around while the clock turns expecting something magical to happen and you pass the mechanic?

Given the previous patterns presented I expect I need to avoid everything before clock runs out not the other way around that is just common sense. If i had to pick up some ♥♥♥♥ before, fine that could be a valid point but no. I need to avoid everything in a fear of getting damage which is essential to this trial...
All I'm saying that if you are not familiar with this boss, first try would be very confusing and taking in account the punishment it's just a bad design...

[midnightgreen20]

I wouldn't say that the boss design is bad. It's just that you have to go through so many hoops just to get to it. That doesn't really allow you to learn the fight. You just gotta hope you get it right away or else you risk so much progress.

[tolshortte]

Originally posted by Usikava:

Originally posted by Ankarin:

You stand in the middle, everything freezes and a bunch of things spawn on the ground and when you move a clock starts turning. What else do you expect to do? Stand around while the clock turns expecting something magical to happen and you pass the mechanic?

Given the previous patterns presented I expect I need to avoid everything before clock runs out not the other way around that is just common sense. If i had to pick up some ♥♥♥♥ before, fine that could be a valid point but no. I need to avoid everything in a fear of getting damage which is essential to this trial...
All I'm saying that if you are not familiar with this boss, first try would be very confusing and taking in account the punishment it's just a bad design...

ya without some kind of cue, a red "bad" area to avoid, a timer on a board location, an item with symbols, etc, it is bad design.

i havent been there. sounds like bad design. having to run through an entire trial until you trial and error the right pattern sounds like terrible design.

are people really defending this?

[C+ .NTC]

what about that sand slow in the 3rd one that you cant counter even using charms against slow?

[EAX]

Are you telling me that this miserable trial has more than 3 stages of pain and rng debuff insanity? I just did those 2 stage trials so far and how that is supposed to be any fun is beyond my horizon.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Originally posted by Ankarin:

You stand in the middle, everything freezes and a bunch of things spawn on the ground and when you move a clock starts turning. What else do you expect to do? Stand around while the clock turns expecting something magical to happen and you pass the mechanic?

Avoid everything just like you avoided it thru all 4 floors, cuz touching anything was bad this whole time... Like i went from it as far as possible and was wating for boss move. And then all i get was GAME OVER.

[Dwane Dibbley]

Originally posted by EAX:

Are you telling me that this miserable trial has more than 3 stages of pain and rng debuff insanity? I just did those 2 stage trials so far and how that is supposed to be any fun is beyond my horizon.

You better google last floor. Theres boss mechanic that basicaly give you "you lose" sign if you dont know ahead what to do. Or you can get stuck in gauntles suz solution is actualy triggering trap and if you dont know about it, you will be running around cluelessly.

[Disborusta]

Yeah and the sad thing about all this is that you cant finish it if you weren´t lucky before to get the 40% movement speed... now i have been in this bossfight for 5 or 6 times and the only time i got past the glock was with the 40% movementspeed and i allready have 30% on my boots. Not to mention that you also have to be lucky to not get the 25% movement speed debuff.

And than the Gameover screen with the notification from the game that you commited suicide.... i guess the devs don´t want the players to finish that with this mocking line....

For every try you have to run throught the same ♥♥♥♥ again and at the last stage i went through the same escape map 3 times.... in one run. A well placed copy and paste mechanic because they don´t even care about creating something interesting. Also after EVERY map on the last stage a well for sacred water but no merchants or shrines to spent in on or to restore honour.

[FlamingFury08]

I love the little cucks defending this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If GGG wants to keep losing all their players, definitely keep this garbage in the game. I'm done.

[moody]

What bothers me is having to get through all the damn Floors to get to him. The Trials are so boring.

I don't mind the first Trial or the second but not 3 or 4.

[Hugemoron]

the entire trial is SH!T!