I wish stun was less important.

[meiam]

I finally finished a run, after struggling to even make it past the first boss I was able to finish the whole thing and take out the final boss on my first attempt. It turn out that what I was missing was just not being aggressive enough, I was trying to find these cool arcane combination with the right range while letting me dodge stay far and dodge attack. But really just rushing boss and hitting them with everything you got while ignoring all damage works so much better. Once you stun a boss you can just spam all your attack for massive amount of damage and that just does the job. Just grabbed whirling tornado and other attack that let me spam ass many attack as quickly as possible works perfectly fine, throw in vampire eyeglass and I'd leave boss with more health than I'd go in.

So yeah, I wish there was a mode where everything deal less damage (you and enemy) and you couldn't stun anything.

[Kae Tokiha]

Against bosses you have to wait until they stop attacking so you hit them for the stun and combo them until they start attacking again. So yes stunning the bosses is important otherwise they will murder you.

I don't understand your complaint. You rather not be able to stun the bosses? You can still hit them while they are still attacking, if you are good enough to dodge their attacks while attacking then you can do that, but going by your post i assume you are not that good since you couldn't that effectively.

Depending on my build and the boss i'm fighting i'll keep attacking them while they are still attacking. I do that only when i think it's worth it and a lot of times it's not.

Dealing less damage just makes the fight longer. I have no idea why you'd want that. Also, not every build and every run you get relics that increase your damage...sometimes it takes ages to kill a boss because you are not doing much damage to them.

I have the impression that you are relatively new to the game and you got a very good run with lots of relics that increased your damage and you finish the game easily and now you think it will always be that easy...which is a wrong assumption on your part (if what i guessed was right that is).

[meiam]

Yeah I think it would be more fun if you couldn't stun the boss and it was more about weaving attack in between dodging rather than just use everything you have at once to stun the boss and then going back to just dodging. You can attack while dodging, but its clearly far less effective which means a lot of arcane aren't much use, ultimately burst is king and everything else is just for the challenge of it, its hard to justify picking some long range arcane when its far easier to just stack a bunch of short range burst and use them all at once to stun boss and get a ton of free shoot.

But just focusing on burst has work just fined, I can reliably reach the end boss with just about any relic combination, I don't really know the boss pattern, but it just doesn't matter since most of them die in about a minute, just burst them for 1/3 of their health, repeat 2 more time. They don't have the dps to burn you during that time even if you eat most of their attack. It really just feel like I stumbled upon an exploit by accident, except its not.

[Tomibouzu]

Originally posted by Kae Tokiha:

Against bosses you have to wait until they stop attacking so you hit them for the stun and combo them until they start attacking again. So yes stunning the bosses is important otherwise they will murder you.

actually. thats just what you should do when you're new. Once you start to understand and get a good grasp on the game it is totally possible to ignore attach phases and just go full attack.