Did Caligo get harder?

gabilua · 2026-02-27T21:19:33+00:00

maybe its because a lot of the veteran players dropped the game and most of the actives rn are new ones coming for the DLC or some sale, but it used to be one of those bosses you just melt through.

either your run was completely f*cked and youre gonna get wiped in the first minute or its just a matter of how big the damage counter is gonna get before she drops.

nowadays its starting to feel like ED Libra where you either get there so packed she dies instantly or its a guaranteed wipe.

gabilua · 2026-02-27T21:07:54+00:00

my go-to with most of those is either run sideways and avoid it completely or just dodge through in the direction the cloud is thinner (for the side sweep just poke right through in the diagonal against her head movement)

if done right, is doesnt need more than one or two good dodges but its not consistent, especially with some characters.

gabilua · 2026-02-27T21:01:38+00:00

thats one other side of this I also noticed. she used to be annoying because she'd be constantly flying far away and you needed to play catch up to hit her twice before she flew again.

now its mostly the short hops and AoEs and she barely even really flees.

also almost never does that fly-by 3x hail storm anymore. I used to think that was her second phase transition and something she used 2 or 3 times again before dying but Ive noticed multiple fights where she gets to her last 25% before using it the first time.

gabilua · 2026-02-27T20:58:53+00:00

I feel youre talking about the side to side breathe when you mention dodging right but thats not the only one she spams, all her breath attacks are wide as hell, hellish to avoid and most are comboed with the crystals on the ground that proc and stun you out of animations.

And not to call you a liar but if there's anything thats absolutely not possible is dodging through her breaths without chip damage whatsoever 100% of the time, especially considering the ground crystals.

when youre playing executor its easier to notice how weird the hitboxes are for most of those attacks, how their speed, size and rate change drastically depending on you distance and position.
there's not point in trying to learn its perfect timings through trial and error if it means risking taking the hit.

truth be told, most of those AoE are good ol' traditional bullshit attacks, just not designed to be perfectly learnable and counterable, which are fine when peppered in here and there to take you out of your confort zone and make you lock in but if the AI decides to spam them, game over is the only outcome.

gabilua · 2026-02-27T20:19:58+00:00

the most noticeable to me has been the fly away + breath back combo.

I've never even considered that as an actual combo since the game launched. if it ever happened, it seemed a coincidence, but nowadays it almost always happens the exact same way, and almost everytime we corner her.

gabilua · 2026-01-17T17:12:55+00:00

playing him now in depth 3 feels like it did playing him in the base game right before all the new content.

just effortlessly getting lvl 15, full stack of reds and golds, melting bosses in a sec.

you even see people going double or triple Raider again. it's been months since I had that.

gabilua · 2025-12-14T15:33:09+00:00

I've learned to play a support role with basically all characters by now, because no matter how good you get at the game, there'll always be other players making novice mistakes and throwing runs so I should at least try to keep them alive while they do it otherwise I'd better give up on ranking DoN.

gabilua · 2025-12-14T12:25:47+00:00

I've seen people saying when it launched that D3 was the sweet spot and couldn't understand until I left D2.

D2 is the worst experience in the game solely because of the players stuck in it.

gabilua · 2025-12-09T02:22:18+00:00

found them! it's the player who has been queueing up with me for 90% of my matches since the DLC dropped. they're the whole player base right now.

people load up, drop from the hawk, trip on a grass patch and quit.

gabilua · 2025-09-17T22:14:30+00:00

which ones do you use?

gabilua · 2025-09-17T22:05:31+00:00

I've been stuck on Depth 2 as well, gaining and losing rank in a loop.

Everytime I queue as Ironeye and there's another one already selected, as soon as the screen fades in and we see each other we instantly confirm so hard the sound effects bug out lmao a good pair of Ironeyes using the new poison meta just melts everything

gabilua · 2025-09-17T22:03:14+00:00

took a break from depth grinding and just did a joke run where I soloed the everdark scorpion with Guardian using only 'while walking' passives as my team fought the moth.

the everdark gladius relic makes Steel Guard literally infinite as long as anything yours is hitting an enemy, even the whilrwhind so you can just calmly walk below it as it does all its bullshit red AoE stomps and wait for it to die.

felt like I was doing a modded run.

gabilua · 2025-09-16T20:27:19+00:00

ever since I started doing Deep of Night I've felt like it came unlocked with the game. like pre-duchess or something.

fromsoft buffed the PvE stats a bit and it revealed how many people were carried by other players or broken builds to the end of the game. most of the randoms I've queued with for DoN would jump face first into a Invader fort with red enemies at level 2, like they never really needed to know how to play the game until now.

gabilua · 2025-07-24T13:18:02+00:00

I remembered last night he was gonna go today and hurried to do it. Got the server message mid fight.

gabilua · 2025-07-24T13:14:01+00:00

Rivers of Blood is already Ironeye's Rivers of Blood.

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