by FruitPunchNinja Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:53 pm
I will admit that the boss has a habit of not using its tail swipe for some reason, i wish it used it a lot more. I do a lot of challenge runs though, so i have a pretty good sense of what is challenging and what isn't. I'm not saying it is the hardest thing to do, in fact i said "fun and difficult".
If you don't heal, i doubt you would kill it on the first attempt with the rules i mentioned. With the channeler shooting soul arrows at you, you cant just stand there and wail on it like you normally would. Cause the soul arrows do a lot of dmg since it buffs itself also. Dodging the soul arrows, and making sure you don't get hit by one of the random/rare tail swipes is what is challenging. Also it has a few other attacks it very rarely uses, which i guess i kind of like cause they surprise you.
You can make any boss difficult by setting rules that make it more challenging. That's one of the only things that has kept PvE still interesting for me. Cause to be honest i don't think any boss in the game is challenging if you just give yourself access to anything(healing,powerful spell/items/weapons ext). If i am just doing a PvE run for fun,and not making a pvp build, i usually set a lot of rules to make it difficult. A normal playthrough at this point sounds incredibly boring.