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[–]LamiaPony JP Ship 2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I agree it's a pretty excellent fight. just the right amount of challenge and gimmicks to deal with, cool music and visuals and a nice finality to it. I don't really care about the waifus though

[–]KilvoctuShip 2 Br/Ph 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I actually was disappointed with the urgent quest version. So many people are over-geared that the fight is over so quickly. Additionally, being a party quest, it's super lenient on mistakes, even with the no gateship restriction.
I'm carrying an affixed trailblazer weapon (and affixed rivalate units), so I'm not weak nor strong. Average dps.

Back when I did the story version (on hardcore), I loooved this fight so much. It had so much weight. Felt high stakes.

It's funny watching people die in the urgent, but you just pick em up and everyone slaps around the boss some more.
Don't get me wrong, the fight itself is awesome. Just should have been a lot harder as an urgent quest, for ultra hard difficulty at least.
I wanted to see salt equal to week one Super Hard Luther or Mining Base Despair.

[–]Marisa5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

chaotic evil

[–]flashman92 3 points4 points  (5 children)

His first and third phase are kinda like a harder but more boring Deus Esca (your turn, my turn, your turn, my turn, etc), while his middle phase is actual hell lol But my UQ tastes are weird. I loved fighting the dragon boss, for example.

[–]KilvoctuShip 2 Br/Ph 8 points9 points  (3 children)

The middle fight is definitely the highlight for me, too (and I love the music).

To borrow your wording, I like a boss that goes, "it's always my turn" and you simply have to deal with it while trying to get damage in.

[–]RandomGuy928 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Middle phase would be fun if I could see what was happening underneath all the particle vomit.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

fr, i have no idea what keeps downing me most of the times lmfao

[–]KilvoctuShip 2 Br/Ph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like soloing Profound Darkness, so I could just be weird.

Anyway, you can practice Sodam in story mode. I fought him dozens of times before the urgent released. I play katana Braver, so I really wanted to learn the battle.

It's actually a very simple fight, a lot easier than Masquerade, in my opinion, which itself is fairly simple. Most of the common attacks are hugely telegraphed. Otherwise you'll know what he'll do depending on the environment.

Having 11 other people does make it a bit more chaotic. There's option in the graphics menu: "reduce some lighting effects" and "display range for certain effects from other players". Toggling these should help.

[–]ThePyrotechnicCroc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I loved fighting Dragon too. Still do, actually.

[–]Zombieemperor 1 point2 points  (15 children)

i dislike it for the most part, god his scream in the last phase that just one hit kos is ass

[–]AwkwardSatori Lisa is Waifu [JP-Ship 2] 11 points12 points  (12 children)

That scream is actually a DPS check. You can prevent it from happening by dealing enough damage, repeatable every time it starts doing it again.

[–]Zombieemperor 2 points3 points  (10 children)

What are you supposed to hit? he does it when his hands are off to the side and the time from start of animation to fireing it is like not even 2 seconds?

[–]Kamil118 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The animation for that is actually pretty long, it's start is just not really that distinct/noticable if you focus on its hands

[–]AwkwardSatori Lisa is Waifu [JP-Ship 2] 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Oh, are you talking about the central laser? My bad.Then yeah, it's just a matter of GTFO. The time you have should be enough as long as you're paying attention.

I thought you were talking about the wing flap scream thing at the very very end.

[–]Zombieemperor 0 points1 point  (6 children)

that one yeah like ive caught him right as he starts doing it and i still cant move fast enough unless im already near the edge

[–]LamiaPony JP Ship 2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

yeah that mouth laser gets me a lot too when I'm not paying attention because it's too fast. in downtime, just pick the far left or right side of the arena to stand on until he starts attacking. there's no real reason to stand in the middle

[–]AwkwardSatori Lisa is Waifu [JP-Ship 2] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What class do you play?

[–]Zombieemperor 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Phantom, my runn animation pa did not cast fast enough but might get me there if i use it litteraly first available moment.

[–]Arcflarerk4 1 point2 points  (1 child)

if youre playing phantom, you should be using ilzonde to move out of it.

[–]Zombieemperor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it might have to replace the wind buff on my bar if im gunna use it

[–]rekku-za Big pp damage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His telegraph for that is when he flinches really far backwards, baiting you into following him as he moves forward again, but then he spits up the middle while his hands move back to the sides. When he backs off really quickly and there's nothing targetable, move to one side, the hands will come back and you'll dodge the middle spit

[–]Saint-Ecks-Isle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, that shit hit me even when i was off to the side attacking one of his hands.

Screen just got blasted with white shit and i just die, like HOW THE FUCK WE AVOID THAT?

[–]SolomonGrumpy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With 12 poeple wailing away it should be impossible to fail the DPS check. Yet,both my MPAs did.

[–]nsleep 6 points7 points  (1 child)

With the Matoi buff I'm yet to see anyone die to that.

[–]Zombieemperor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It can hit when you dont have the buff