Correct_Carlo
Arcane
Isn't Toshimitsu that guy with the odachi who constantly spams spells? The one you fight in the Tatarimokke (the giant bird with three eyes) arena? He is not a DLC boss, but he still is pretty tough.FUCKING TOSHIMITSU FFS!! WAS ONE HIT AWAY AND THE FUCKER GRABS ME AND KILLS ME FROM 3/4 HP!! *sobs* I hate this fucker worse than Hino-Enma.
And now I read he's a DLC boss and I'm probably underleveled, despite the bullshit mission suggesting level 63. Time to git gud or come back later. I think I'll....
Yeah, that's him. No, not DLC but apparently he was put in after release to give players waiting for DLC an extra challenge or something? Dunno, just what I read when I was searching for other people feeling my pain.
The annoying thing was, I knew what I was doing. I was too cautious when I got him down low and I didn't press enough because I was too scared of losing. Pressing was what got him down in the first place, backing off and waiting for an opening was fatal.
He's a fucker, but he'll go down in the end.
He's the hardest boss in the game so far. In fact, he's the only hard boss in the game so far. I had to level some more before I could finally beat him. He throws up projectile guard, which negates ninjitsu spam, and he constantly buffs, which makes it difficult to wear down his Ki. I ended up beating him by being cautious and throwing the high Kusarigama ranged attack to interupt him when he would try to spam his flame magic attacks. He does this everytime you get a certain distance from him, so it's not difficult to bait him into it. I'd only engage him in melee if his Ki was already low from a series of his attacks.
The problem is watching for his red/rage projectile which can one-shot you at lower levels. That shit killed me so many times when he was low that it was frustrating, so I eventually just increased my constitution 5 levels (from 10 to 15) and came back to beat him later, after which point it would no longer 1 shot me.
Beyond him, however, I haven't died on the first run of a boss since the Snake Boss on level 3. Maybe I'm just over-leveled, but I've been beating all the bosses first try. I am built for maximum Ninjitsu, though (including full armor from the "Flying whats his face" dude from the Veteran Ninja Dojo Mission, which has insane ninjitsu buffs), so my build is super spammy and requires next to no skill. Only strategy is survive long enough to throw all my ninjitsu, then transform to spirit mode to finish the boss.
The Dojo missions are great fun, though. I love when this game gives you limited resources, outside of what you typically use, and forces you to beat bosses with constraints. It took me a great deal of time to figure out how to beat the Veteran Ninja dude (hint: secret to success is tonfa spam. I went from slowly and deliberately killing him in 10 minutes with the kusigama, to killing him in 3 minutes with tonfa spam, making it easier to get his smithing texts).
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