hi, this is most likely going to be ignored by the developer of the mod but i really want to post my opinions about primal gaia here, and not in the comments so i don't fill that section with my opinions. (also, please ignore my bad english and bad orthography).

i've been trying to beat gaia for like.. two whole days (i have free time for now, don't judge me) and after dying over and over and over because of.. things, i have realized that primal gaia is by far the worst boss i've had the bad luck to fight with. some bosses are bad, but they are meant as jokes, and this one seems 0% joke.

i have played (and complained) about many bosses in my life, but this is the first time i really give up.

gaia has many many problems wich make her a big headache to deal with, this includes mainly:

1.Unreasonable amount of minions with too much health. this makes them go to the point of pushing you with this game's bodyblock and many times make you float in the air because they stay below your legs.

2.Directly killing, dmaging, stunning or dismounting the player. this makes the boss more dangerous in a way that shouldn't be in this game. this is a common issue in dragons evolved 1 and (if i'm not wrong) scp evolved. this is a very big issue because you have to grab your things again among the caos (i can recover my loot with a certain mod i have, but this is still a problem for anyone else). okeanos has this exact same problem.

3.Too much damage resistance. i get it, she is super big and she is made of super hard wood and can regenerate. krono's kaijus are strong because their "unnerfed" damage is really big, but the damage resistance is so big that it almost reaches alpha king titan levels or worse, and since she already has a huge health bar, you don't actually need to make her so resistant to damage. a kaiju with 50k damage but slow hitting can do well because of the big damage, regardless of the speed, but when fighting gaia, the damage gets reduced to 10k, so the kaiju isn't viable anymore.

4.Extreme amounts of damage. i think the big damage for something like that is fine as long as it is reasonable. i had to level the kaiju's health to 4 million or 3 and also add an invisible armor with 200 armor value, and they still get obliterated losing 1 million health with some attacks unridden creatures don't avoid because.. they are unridden. i don't want to think about fighting her without armor like that.

5.This is more like a bug. gaia causes extreme and progressive lag, wich means, the longer the fight, the worse the lag gets. i think the amount of minions affect this too, because she really summons a whole army. still, ignoring the lag like i do does nothing of use, because of the other issues.

6.Can't fight gaia unmounted. maybe a good method is to fight alongside other kaijus from krono's mods, riding one of them to maximize the damage, but no, as i mentioned before, she kills you off of your mount or dismounts you and kills you. so i tried making the kaiju's fight her by themselves, and it wasn't a good idea because of the damage they do and recieve, and since she has massive AOE attacks you won't be able to stay close in singleplayer for them to load and she will insta-kill you ( i have like 10k armor and still die in one hit). in servers, this doesn't matter because the unridden creatures won't be able to do the job regardless.

7.Healing. this is unnecesary in my opinion, mostly because you can't avoid this (maybe you can, but you need damage output like the boss itself). this only makes the fight stretch longer for no reason and make it much more tedious and time consuming. okeanos, by the way, also has this problem, in a lower scale, but the healing of her is still too much, letting her negate a lot of damage.

these things make the boss feel like it wasn't meant to be defeated, while also losing the feeling of quality and even care. a boss like that isn't pleasant do defeat, and these kind of bosses only make you don't want to experience them anymore. gaia is such an epic boss with the music and the design and the texts on the top of the screen... she hyped me up a lot, until i started feeling sick of her because of these issues above.

i really like your mods but they always have these pebbles (or boulders). i still like them and that's why i still use dragons evolved and other mods of yours, basically from when i started playing ark on pc, i have like 2k hours put into this hellish game mostly thanks to your fun mods. so please don't take this critic as destructive and more like constructive, even though i might seem irritated.