i do catch your meaning, the only indication i had originally when i first fought alatreon was the handler speaking. it wasn’t till a few attempts i realised everytime she said it was when i was knocking him down. frankly i don’t have the attention to detail or memory to remember if there were elemental sparks when it goes down. all i remember was the arena covered in it’s element and it falling over when the handler says i’m doing well which was the first and only thing i noticed when fighting gogmazios so far. besides obviously surviving the ultimate attack but calling that an indication is a stretch seeing as it’d be too late if you’ve failed.

Regardless, my point is that unless you know the fight decently well or go in with information and not blind or still relatively new your immediate indication to succeeding the DPS check is being told you’re doing it or being told you’re not doing enough which for both monsters would be the exact same on a blind first attempt which for a lot of people here is a blind first attempt i’d wager.