He's supposed to be fought on Torrent but From don't communicate that. You double jump over his charge and clear both hitboxes.
He's one of my favourites. He's really interesting and I did RL1 just to fight him again without cheese (then cheesed him..)
I actually tried that a few times, and while it's possible to double jump his charge, sometimes you just get hit regardless and I find it's harder to dodge some of his other attacks on horseback as opposed to on foot.
Worst part is that he is an optional boss guarding precisely nothing so beating him gives you basically nothing. I personally cheesed him with scarlet rot and never looked back.
He guards 4 or 5 scat tree blessings near the not lord vessel.
I concur Midra is one of the better bosses in the DLC. He is very well placed in the world, his level foreshadows him properly so you do not just blindly walk into him and unlike most other bosses his design goes half a step beyond "really fast dude who deals 2k damage on each swing".
Which is basically nothing. Bosses like this should be used for optional areas or path to secret ending or you something of significance. A quasi-level up that could have been placed literary anywhere else does not really meet that definition in my book.
I don't know, I somehow doubt most players will buff so much before every boss unless they had been stuck a while and decided to look up a wiki to trivialize the fight. They would probably just pick something that they find fun to use and stick with it instead of going straight for meta weapons and all kind of buffs.
Wasn't really a question but even so IDK why I bothered. Same old same old.
A normal person doesn't stack buffs like this. Only an autist with a wiki does.
Completely correct. People will use a buff if it's built into their kit or they're doing a faith build but in general buffs just aren't used and no one is stacking them.
Please for the love of fuck go back to your own thread and stay out of this one. I have never read such stupidity in all my years on an internet forum and I've read some amazingly stupid stuff. From do not spend hundreds of hours designing multiple boss phases for you to burst them down and never see them. Do you really think From were like "Okay so Lion goes lightning, then the player kills them and we'll animate the ice and wind effects they'll never see"? You're a fucking idiot if this is your argument for why stacking 10 buffs and bursting the boss down was intended gameplay. From let you decide how difficult you want the game to be and YOU always pick baby mode using wikis. Then you talk shit about how easy the games are when you're doing the wiki run every single time. And it's obvious because no natural play through stacks buffs like this. They require very specific builds and stat investments no normal player makes. They pump 1 damage stat, a secondary stat if they need it for a weapon and then the support HP/equip load/stamina stats.
Because you're autistic and refuse to listen to people who tell you you're wrong. You're too busy sucking your own dick to even learn the most basic of social interactions and understand you're completely wrong and an abnormal subhuman with a brain defect.
Then he would have a DPS check like a fucking MMO that kills you if you take too long. An enemy having weaknesses doesn't mean that the boss was designed to be bursted to death. Sometimes a game allowing you to trivialize fights may be by accident or choice, as a way to modulate the difficulty, but rarely bosses are designed around this idea. In fact, I find the idea that an enemy moveset is meant not to be seen ludicrous.
Why? It won't prove anything because doing it harder or easier doesn't change the fight design. Also I would recommend to just enjoy the DLC. I'm pretty sure you will find it great and is better to just play whoever you enjoy.
No offense, but anything of what you had said proves that it isn't the camera, at all. Just because other games also had bad cameras or sometimes, if you are lucky, it doesn't happen doesn't mean is fine. Also, yeah, fights being designed with rote memorization is a big criticism of ER, so you are just further proving critics points. And no, many games had faster, more chaotic combat systems yet managed to make the camera work much better. Bayonetta, God of War, DMC 5, etc. Not perfect, but not so consistently bad like ER can get with some fights. Things like making walls dissapear to let you see, zooming out, changing cameras angles, there are a lot of tools that ER doesn't use that often.
I would actually argue the opposite. Most people I have seen or read online seem to just use at most a few buffs that are related to their build and at most an easy to access consumable. Is when they get fed up with a boss or just doesn't like a fight when they went "fuck it" and look up a build to kill them fast.
Not by much, I was like Scadutree level 2-3 I think when I fought it and you did like triple the damage I did. It was pre patch, mind you, so maybe now it is different, but I'm pretty sure that boss is meant to be fought pretty much at low or zero level Scadutree blessing.
You forget those players would use summons and more often than not have high dps/low surv builds. Also the game didn't set traps with the straightforward builds. You pick up a nice big weapon or some big juicy spells, you're doing damage.
I didn't say anything about the game setting traps, and also I doubt that is the case with those that use summons. If they are trying to take every advantage I would assume they would go high survability and damage if anything. Also, bold of you to assume the tryhards are the only one complaining. This is a strawman. You will find that you have different kind of players complaining about bosses, regardless of if they tryhard or not, and many complaints aren't about difficulty, but just how fun (or unfun) learning some of the fights are. Like is not weird to see comments from more casual players going "Phase 1 of final boss was fine, but phase 2 with all the visual effects was annoying and couldn't bother to learn it. Just equiped Greatshield and poked him to death" through the web. Or complaints about weird hitboxes and such like with Gaius.
Send that to VaatiVidya! I can smell another 2 hour long lore video about this finding!Didn't expect Erdtree.
Not really. I would argue than more often than not is people just not having enough knowledge about things like softcaps, the % of damage increase, how scaling works, what buffs overwrite each other, having loss access to certain Talisman or items due to quest progression or straight up not knowing where to find them, what are the most optimal stats to level first, the effects of poise and weight, how damage reduction works, etc. A lot of the time people with shitty builds are just people that are clueless about how the game actually works, maybe due to being new to the game or RPGs or not bothering to understand the system well. There is a good reason why many veterans have to remind players to level Vigor at the beginning instead of their main stat, because without prior experience a lot of people make the mistake of investing to much on their main stat while weapons still have shit scaling and have a harder early game experience.
But I'm not arguing that it is cheesing the game. In fact I'm of the opposite opinion, it is a fundamental part of the game. People can play the game how they damn well please. Also players will normally try to take every advantage they can. Not saying you are wrong about players going for more offensive builds if they use summons, but I doubt most casual players for example would go for a very optimized high risk high reward build the first time around, instead opting to boost both defense and offense at the same time. That is why most would choose Flame give me Strenght instead of Howl of Sahibri when first going through the game or learning a boss, or if they don't have much confidence in surviving the fight with a defense debuff.
Lyric will absolutely defend anything From do because he abuses wikis to kill bosses in under a minute. Then argues there's no design flaws in souls games because the camera isn't a problem if you're killing a boss in a single combo. He has an ego tied to From games for some reason and will argue for the rest of his life they're not broken because "if it was From would have fixed it". Only a thread ban or death will stop him shitting up the discussion the same way he has for the last 100 pages.
Have you considered maybe your not playing the game right when you completely skip boss phases?
Why are you misrepresenting the discussion? The point was that being able to burst the boss doesn't make it good nor erase its flaws, while the point about the build used was a very secondary one. The build go beyond just buffs, as is a combination of different talismans and weapons that showns knowledge of the game and that is very probable that your casual player won't even use most of the time, because is a specific, high risk high reward build. Somehow for some reason the point has been read as complaining about him using that build and buffs when in reality that was never the point. Is that him using such build and killing the boss before it can use it movesets wouldn't excuse if it was bad, which, by the way, we aren't saying the Lion is bad, on the contrary, most people actually like it despite it flaws.
