Trolls are ♥♥♥♥.

[UncleFed]

When the troll makes a running attack, I dodge, but he immediately turns up next to me and hits with a second attack. No animation, no window to dodge, this bastard just teleports in 1 frame and breaks my face.

[InFerNos1]

Don't use the dash dodge and just dodge twice then protego the club. I have the same issues you do but if you use the short dodge you can at least avoid being hit.

[Elysia]

if im correct, depenant on troll type it swings 1, 2 or 3 times in a row, so if you dodge the first swing, it continues with swinging, until i think it slams the ground and has to pull its club out of the ground again

[PsionicDiamond]

Yeah it’s bs and I don’t like it

[Nepnep]

Originally posted by UncleFed:

When the troll makes a running attack, I dodge, but he immediately turns up next to me and hits with a second attack. No animation, no window to dodge, this bastard just teleports in 1 frame and breaks my face.

Long dash is not that great in a fight. (Very useful for skipping crawls though)

Just calmly tap the dodge button for all of the attacks then flipendo after he swings it down.

[B I G Y A C H T Y]

>skill issue

[vaanomega]

The trolls swings lockon your character, the only way to deal with it is to time the dodges correctly, but it's not that hard, the dodge window is pretty forgiving

[Calv]

As mentioned, the long dash will more often than not screw you over with enemy melee attacks as they continue to track you and will slide across the area to reach you.
Tap dodge for each of the troll attacks and you'll be fine.

[Droben]

They’re annoying to deal with but once you learn avada kedavra it becomes a breeze.

[KurO]

If u have Imperius curse skill, use it, aproach him, and Petrify him, easy fight ;)

[cale]

just spam the dodge until he finish 2 attacks. it comes after every charge.
assume its coming

[DarkeoX]

Yeah, it's ridiculous it's a bad gameplay/gameworld mechanic. Enemies in general in the game have a lock-on feature on your character and will hit no matter what/how far they are unless you execute the action the game wants you too: dogde or Protego.

The timing is permissive but If you have trouble, the Zelda/Dark Soul roll strategy can be used here.

[cale]

Originally posted by DarkeoX:

Yeah, it's ridiculous it's a bad gameplay/gameworld mechanic. Enemies in general in the game have a lock-on feature on your character and will hit no matter what/how far they are unless you execute the action the game wants you too: dogde or Protego.

The timing is permissive but If you have trouble, the Zelda/Dark Soul roll strategy can be used here.

unless you can break line of sight on the attacker.. like behind large rock or corner.

[Maelstrom]

If you want to be lazy talented Edurus potion + talented Maxima potion + whatever spell you talented a curse onto will kill trolls really fast and you can just stand there and face tank the entire time. Makes it easy to flip their club too for the dueling feat if it's up.

[Overeagerdragon]

This is one of my major points of critique towards the game... Lockon tracking of enemies...

I've seen it at its most extreme at the first actual boss where he summons the big magic sphere... my spells were on CD so I teleport dodged behind the guy when he launched the sphere and due to my lockon I saw how the sphere did a perfect 180 in midflight to blast me right in the face, flinching me only for an arching bolt to finish me off... that's some BS right there even DS doesn't do and it makes the teleport dodge feel utterly useless in comparison to the normal dodge