Version 0.8 Proselyte Miniboss feedback

[Maebalzurakin]

My current character is a level 10 Pyromancer. I took a quest in Brynn (two skulls) to clear out a crypt.

I had no trouble clearing out most of the rooms. I go head towards the room with the Proselyte with full health/mana. 100% sanity and morale.

It turns out that a Proselyte, which looks a lot like the prologue boss has an ability to summon tentacles with a range of about 15 and a 2 turn cool down, These tentacles will pop out of the ground right next to you and hit you for about 30 health damage. They seem to have about 80% accuracy.

The result is that I was dead long before I even got into casting range of any of my spells. I loaded a backup save and tried 5x more times. Only once I got close enough for a fire barrage. All 3 shots missed! So this guy also has some crazy evasion.

Even if I leveled up to 50 before trying this, I don't see how it is possible.

[brown29knight]

level cap is 30, not 50.

Also, he is immune to damage when tentacles are out. kill the tentacles instead, each tentacle killed does increasing damage to him. 3 or so and he dies.

[jotwebe]

Killed him on the 3rd try with a level 11 electromancer - he can be lured out of the room and daze/stun-locked in the doorway. The I died a net-throwing proselyte, and had do do the fight twice more.

Yeah, once the tentacles are in play, the ♥♥♥♥ has hit the fan.

[Sglatschtglei!]

The devs did it again, another one of those bosses that just says ♥♥♥♥ you to all ranged chars. I actually have no clue how to kill him with my electromncy build and have to let that contract run out. SO frustrating.

[TurntheSlayer]

Originally posted by Sglatschtglei!:

The devs did it again, another one of those bosses that just says ♥♥♥♥ you to all ranged chars. I actually have no clue how to kill him with my electromncy build and have to let that contract run out. SO frustrating.

try learn jump and evade help so much for mages

[Sglatschtglei!]

Originally posted by TurntheSlayer:

Originally posted by Sglatschtglei!:

The devs did it again, another one of those bosses that just says ♥♥♥♥ you to all ranged chars. I actually have no clue how to kill him with my electromncy build and have to let that contract run out. SO frustrating.

try learn jump and evade help so much for mages

What does that even mean? jump and evade? Do you mean Dash? Dash has a cd of 18, it is not gonna help you against this boss.

[Maebalzurakin]

I am guessing mage needs to be strong enough to 1-shot the tentacles.

[Sglatschtglei!]

Originally posted by Maebalzurakin:

I am guessing mage needs to be strong enough to 1-shot the tentacles.

Yeah for my case that is not possible, one shooting things is just not how electromancy works.

[brown29knight]

Originally posted by Sglatschtglei!:

The devs did it again, another one of those bosses that just says ♥♥♥♥ you to all ranged chars. I actually have no clue how to kill him with my electromncy build and have to let that contract run out. SO frustrating.

Ball lightning, use around corners so boss never gets LoS on you. If you have no area to lure the boss where you CAN duck behind corners (constantly), then you have to get lucky with stunning or dazing him, so the tentacles never spawn.

key word there is lucky.

[Sglatschtglei!]

Originally posted by brown29knight:

Originally posted by Sglatschtglei!:

The devs did it again, another one of those bosses that just says ♥♥♥♥ you to all ranged chars. I actually have no clue how to kill him with my electromncy build and have to let that contract run out. SO frustrating.

Ball lightning, use around corners so boss never gets LoS on you. If you have no area to lure the boss where you CAN duck behind corners (constantly), then you have to get lucky with stunning or dazing him, so the tentacles never spawn.

key word there is lucky.

I don't have Ball lightning yet so RIP

[jotwebe]

It's possible to kill him without ball lightning if you can set it up that you can jolt him into a wall as soon as he comes into sight around a corner... doors can work. If successful, he'll be dazed, and will move closer to you so that he'll be next to you diagonally with a wall behind him. Cast impulse next, then static field. Spam jolt, maybe toss some water or booze at him, or a net. The tier 1 Sigils should be up, preferably.

But yeah, Tentacles should be knock-backable and the summon should have a cooldown, imho.

[Wisedude]

Yep... had same issue as a pure pyro I couldn't kill him.

[Lujo]

I did 3 Proselyte contracts in bryn, it was never this guy. I heard he was brutal, but didn't they say they made him not spawn outside of Treasure dungeons?

[Rhapsody]

Originally posted by Lujo:

I did 3 Proselyte contracts in bryn, it was never this guy. I heard he was brutal, but didn't they say they made him not spawn outside of Treasure dungeons?

The fix was not fully retroactive. In my own case I had started new playthrough before the fix. By the time I had even made it to Mannshire, the fix had been deployed, but the first contract I received was still high tier catacombs. The next contract was high tier crypt and high tier deserter captain, which I accidentally (but fortunately) missed. After that the "Brynn newbie catacombs" contract came up with only low tier proselytes and miniboss.

Ultimately I still had zero trouble with Anmarrak once I figured out how to defeat it effectively with AoE attacks, but I can see the encounter being more challenging to mages.