False Son laser is infuriating

[Veragoot]

I had 4 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reds as Merc, and a corrupted dio item and it STILL wasn't enough because the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ phase 2 laser is cracked. If you aren't near a pillar when the laser starts firing, you're just dead, period. It does way too much damage initially for a secret boss locked behind 3 full stages to reach. Even with a crapload of items, healing, and damage, laser just absolutely ruined me. I'm not a noob, I 100%'d the game before this patch, beat every boss, all artifacts unlocked. This boss is quite simply just not fair. How much of a god run do I need to beat this guy? Or do I just need to play a ranged carry and make sure I am always 3 inches from a pillar SOLELY to block laser line of sight?

BTW it just goes right through the crystals he spawns so you can't use those. Learned that the hard way.

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE GEARBOX.

[Scaily]

tip try to stack a few of the new moose horns and like 3 bears it helped to beat him was playing cap and was like 110 min in

[Medium B*t]

The DPS of the laser is based on your FPS, try capping your fps to 60 or lower.

If you're running uncapped at 400+ it'll insta melt you

[Knavenformed]

So how many Plates did you stack?
None?
How about Tougher Times?

[Boon: Bong Rip]

Originally posted by Medium B*t:

The DPS of the laser is based on your FPS, try capping your fps to 60 or lower.

If you're running uncapped at 400+ it'll insta melt you

Oh for the love of-

No wonder I was dying like crazy. How did they make everything this absolutely stupid, even at 60 FPS the laser does really stupid damage

[A Terraria Mage]

Wait the boss had a laser?
I just used loader and easily beat him. Granted, I did almost get shredded in the last phase, but Im glad I had the punch charged up before the boss did the disabling

[Bug Guy]

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

So how many Plates did you stack?
None?
How about Tougher Times?

Even with 2 armor plates and 2 bears, it still really destroys you. You cant out Rungus heal it because of the debuff stacks reducing your healing (at least I think they do). Feels like you need to hard counter the laser, have so many drones that he always fires at them instead, or kill him so fast he cant use it

[deothor]

Looks like gerboax decided to keep up the tradition of really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ boss mechanics.

[Malakith`4f]

I find the lightning strikes that spawn right under your feet just as annoying. If you didn't get enough speed items to drop you might as well just quit the run as they'll be blasting you no-stop.

[Richter]

Originally posted by Medium B*t:

The DPS of the laser is based on your FPS, try capping your fps to 60 or lower.

If you're running uncapped at 400+ it'll insta melt you

Why is this a mechanic man
Who thought this up
Is this a buff for nintendo switch users

[lolschrauber]

Originally posted by Medium B*t:

The DPS of the laser is based on your FPS, try capping your fps to 60 or lower.

If you're running uncapped at 400+ it'll insta melt you

That's interesting. I eventually beat him at 140 on a first cycle with some super lucky item but always felt it's a little too strong, pretty frustrating.

Fps based logic shouldn't be a thing unless games are hardcapped for everyone and even then it's dumb

[Sculltex]

im getting absolutely obliterated by the laser even with capped frames. it be fine if i had the ability to use cover but he just knocks you out of it using a melee swing or lightning strikes in the third phase. good lord

[Bug Guy]

I just died to it again with 5 Bears, 4 Armor plates, 2 Rose Bucklers, and over 4000 Health with over 100 Health Regen a second. I was so tanky I could just eat hits from every other enemy in the game up until then. And it killed me faster than I could react to being hit by it when it switched targets. I understand they like to give their bosses something that can handle broken builds, but man, its just so brutal. its not like I havent even beaten him yet, its just that sometimes he just murders me and theres nothing I can seemingly do about it