Mangler optional?

[deadliftdead]

My dynamically-generated game has spawned an invisible elite outside of the boss arena who can shoot into the arena. Out of all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up possible spawns, it's the the guy who summons fart explosions out of thin air and needs no line of sight to target you.

This means my Mangler boss fight is spiced up with a barrage of three rot explosions every 2 seconds and I get sick and/or stun-locked to death every time I reload or use a consumable.

I have already beaten the ent and progressed to the next world. My question is do I need to fight the mangler?

I don't really want to reroll the world and start over again. Please spoil for me the result of the mangler fight....

[Murakumo]

I haventseen that before. Thats odd. You dont need to i assume. very few bosses are mandatory.

[deadliftdead]

Thanks for the reply. Good to know. I guess I'll just ignore the fight for now.
I have searched for videos of this battle and no one else seems to have run into this problem.

STill I hope the devs are aware the ♥♥♥♥ like this can happen and fix it.

[Fremen]

Jesus ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ christ. So it's been an elite that did those explosions? I thought I'm the only one who got this. After sigmar-knows-how-many attempts at this ♥♥♥♥, I kind of wanted to skip him. I guess I'll try more

[Sttyx svk]

Its no elite. The boss mobs in game are RNG along with it bonus. Look at the boss name, it will said something like Hearthy, Vicious, Enchanter or something along the way. Its the way the boss is "spect" ? I have the same Mangler, with the fart bombs....the little fu**ers are worst tho. 4 of them, and even when I kill them they pop up in one second. Annoying fight. Beat the game, and no boss put up a challange like this before. Also its on hard difficulty.

[DEVILDICE]

Yeah, are you sure it was an invisible elite? I had those explosions too. Pretty sure its part of the fight. Seems like everyone had them.

[LoboFH]

It's not an invisible enemy, just hell on earth.

Right before I have beaten him on Hard, after tons of fails. I enjoyed the challenge tho, I tried all kind of weapons and mods with hilarious failures.

I recommend the cleanising jewel, you will heal and remove corruption at the same time, and always on the run, I used the hunting rifle with fire mod and defiler, insane flicks all the fight.

[deadliftdead]

I beat him later after some levelling.
The fart explosions were not from mobs. I had the standard cleaver-wealding critters (hollows).

If the explosions were intentional, then it's just terrible boss design. There is no pattern to learn, no warning except a half-second swirl in the air and no cover, just LOUD NOISES. I've watched several Mangler fights from streamers and youtubers. They all had exactly the same fight (mangler+melee spawns) without the explosions, so I figured it was a shaman or rot witch projecting explosions into the arena.

Like I said if the explosions are intentional, then it's just bad design. I mean why should a select few players get an environmental hazard that overshadows everything else on top of the normal boss fight. And I repeat, thee were no exploding adds (rot warts?) in the arena.

[NF_Crenos]

Originally posted by deadliftdead:

I beat him later after some levelling.
The fart explosions were not from mobs. I had the standard cleaver-wealding critters (hollows).

If the explosions were intentional, then it's just terrible boss design. There is no pattern to learn, no warning except a half-second swirl in the air and no cover, just LOUD NOISES. I've watched several Mangler fights from streamers and youtubers. They all had exactly the same fight (mangler+melee spawns) without the explosions, so I figured it was a shaman or rot witch projecting explosions into the arena.

Like I said if the explosions are intentional, then it's just bad design. I mean why should a select few players get an environmental hazard that overshadows everything else on top of the normal boss fight. And I repeat, thee were no exploding adds (rot warts?) in the arena.

They are unfortunately intentional. They happen all over the arena in seemingly random places every 3-4 seconds or so.
If only the boss had been doing like a cast animation or something for them, but no it's like it's just some environmental hazard...

[ContinuumX]

Originally posted by Murakumo:

I haventseen that before. Thats odd. You dont need to i assume. very few bosses are mandatory.

Not sure why you said most bosses aren’t mandatory. I’ve beaten the game twice and most worlds have one maybe 2 optional. The rest have to be beaten to get out the exit on the other side of their area and/or get a key item.