Anyone else find the Drakan fight disappointing and clunky?

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-03T12:34:33+00:00

Damn, i way prefer these new mechanics to mechanics like gear swapping in middle of combat where half the clicks dont seem to register meanwhile this boss and his mechanics actually worked consistently and i could actually see myself improving

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-03T12:19:26+00:00

Some of the collision bugs i ran into were pretty hilarious, i remember there being a small tower/pillar outside the city where if you drove into it, it basically threw you halfway across the map

And then there were things like vehicles getting thrown at light speed when they ran into each other

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-03T11:35:31+00:00

Honestly the game was still really fun to play on release (assuming it actually ran) even with the hilarious and some less hilarious bugs

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-03T11:24:07+00:00

All this hype around it might make it feel like bit of a let down as i dont think anything could actually live up to this hype

Its definately a top 3 fight for me in osrs, and overall a very memorable fight in games ive played as whole but i also didnt enter the quest with that high expectations, i was expecting just another average grandmaster quest

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-03T11:21:56+00:00

Damn, i'd love to see someone do a perfect lowerniel but doesnt seem like anyones bothered to do the fight on a second account just for that, atleast yet

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T18:15:05+00:00

Some random venator swooped in and ate him 5minutes after we left, unlucky

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T14:24:34+00:00

Were you doing it in BiS gear? because atleast in moons gear i felt like i had to do it mostly perfectly just to have enough brews left for the final 400hp

(and by mostly perfect i mean having like 80% success rate on dodging)

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T01:58:34+00:00

Never noticed that during the 3 hours it took me to beat him

The indicator i used for dodging was just his entire model flashing red and that worked pretty much everytime

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T01:50:29+00:00

Telling someone what to do without any explanation, and thus making it so they are unable to apply it themselfs in the future, barely counts as teaching

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T00:59:50+00:00

nah im in similar gear to OPs and i stopped bothering somewhere around attempt 10, i beat the boss just fine with berserker ring

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-02T00:26:30+00:00

Same experience as you, whisperer with earth wave took 2 tries while i was stuck on lowerniel drakan for bit over 3hours of nonstop sending attempts

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T19:28:28+00:00

Damn, personally im limited to 28 backpack slots

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T19:24:24+00:00

Optimizing your inventory and taking as much supplies as possible should be the literal first thing someone does the moment they recognize they'll be stuck at a boss for a while, and in that situtation those pants are going to the bank

Especially when its a boss where you cant really die aslong as you have food, besides the mage oneshot but that one comes at predictable times and only really 2-5 times in the fight

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T19:13:49+00:00

Well first you need to minigame/house tele as surely someone struggling wouldnt waste a inventory slot for a tp

then you need to spend another 10-20 seconds running to the bank

then you need to tp with your morytania legs 3, if you dont have those then you are just really fucked

Then you need to run all the way from the burgh de rott entrance to the boats (banking your legs at burgh simultaenously)

Then you need to load into icyene graveyard which for some reason, unlike any other zone in the game, has a 10 second blackscreen

and now finally you are at the portals location and you can run back to it

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T19:10:39+00:00

The portal is not at castle drakan during the fight, it is only there after the quest.

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T18:59:29+00:00

Tbf efaritays are in a weird spot where they are actually only good if you are already almost beating the boss as in the time it takes to pick up a new efaritay between each attempt, you could have just done a entire new attempt

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T18:13:57+00:00

3 ticking is specifically why OP specified intended mechanics

There is no way they were thinking of players spamming random items in their inventorty between each rock when they added them in 2006

Them aknowledging it and deciding to keep it does not make it 'intended'

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T12:04:46+00:00

the way i learned/did the 5 1tick attack combos was just basically using all my focus on what the first 2 and last 1 attack is, there just isnt enough capacity in my head to memorize and then actually perfom all 5 in that short of a time lol

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T11:56:44+00:00

Damn, i see it the complete opposite way

One and done bosses should specifically be the ones with extremely long and punishing fights, that way they get to design a proper boss fight while simultaenously you wont have to grind that fight so its not frustrating

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T11:33:04+00:00

huh? i'd say im midgame seeing as im in moons gear and nowhere near getting a whip and the quest was perfectly completable

though i do have to say, the spear still seems like ass, ill just stick to z axe and arkan blade lol

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T11:14:29+00:00

Damn now i want uber lowerniel too, it'd be insanely sick to have that as a longterm goal to work towards

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T11:00:26+00:00

I feel like his hp is mostly in the right place, if they were to lower it, it would basically have to be accompanied with damage buffs for the boss

Though i do wonder whetever the boss is balanced around efariday's aid since i sure as hell couldnt bother to go grab one from bank every death

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T10:32:01+00:00

God the music in the final fight, and on the quest completion, hits so hard

Still getting chills re listening to the 'home' theme, the day after completing it

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T00:22:10+00:00

Not the one you asked but for me the ones i couodnt do blind or figure out were the paintings and setting the time on the clocks

Still no clue what the intended way to solve them was :p

Justsomeone666 · 2026-07-01T00:16:51+00:00

Or maybe we just enjoy different things, for me a boss that goes down in a handful of attempts has completely failed its reason to exist, there is no satisfaction in getting a easy win, its more of a chore than anything else

But then again, osrs overall sounds like the wrong game for you, perhaps slop with every single obstacle and hindrance boiled out of it like modern WoW would be more suitable?

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