Dominus is badly implemented

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Malice wrote:

My problems with dominus:


Sometimes he will spawn a totem right underneath you, which prevents you from moving. I don't mean you get slowed by the beam, I mean the totem itself comes out of the ground and right up your arse. If at that point you don't have a movement skill ready, you're screwed.


The blood rain is really poorly introduced. It's a completely new mechanic introduced out of nowhere, which is trivial to counter (stand in the bubble) once you know wtf is going on, but there is no attempt made to inform the player what to do. In fact it's the opposite. Throughout the whole sceptre of god, you are trained to avoid patches of ground that have glowing yellow runes on them (evangelists). Then fighting dominus' first form, his touch of god creates similar glowing runes in its death zone. So everything up to that point has trained you to stay the hell away from ground runes. Then the blood rain does the opposite, and now the ground runes are indicating a safe zone? I think it's pretty silly to reverse visual cues like that only for one ability in a boss fight, it doesn't increase difficulty, all it does is catch new players out. To be consistent with the rest of the game the glowy ground patterns should be everywhere except the safe zone.


I have a similar gripe with the torture chamber boss's death ray.
"Hi, here's a completely new mechanic. It is unlike any other mechanic anywhere in the last 72 levels of this game, that you have played three times over to get to this point. You have 1.5 seconds to evaluate the correct move and execute it, failure means death."
Now, once you know to interrupt the beam with an obstacle, it's game on. But there is no attempt made to introduce this death ray at all, and it has no resemblance to any player-usable skill. I feel like there should be baby sea witches with a weak version of the ray scattered about the rest of the level. Then you would at least have a chance of knowing the correct move the first time you face the boss.

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reboticon wrote:

SECOND PHASE IS EASY.

Hear my words! Walk down the steps! He follows! Minions CAN NOT HIT YOU THERE!

Exploding minions in first phase suck ass, though.

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mazul wrote:

Dominus is a gear check, has never been anything else.

Vaal is the best boss they've designed. Lunaris and Shrine Piety on 2nd place

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Malice wrote:

It's obviously a red lightning hose charan!


Despite my gripes about visual cues, there's a lot to like about the sceptre of god. The music is great, the environment obviously had a lot of work put into it, with the miscreations getting delivered via capsule, rather than just getting magically summoned etc.

Oh, obviously, brother in arms. But you know what was fucking awesome about the lightning hose of death? it was half physical. Bone Armour could absorb it.

I think you could even BLOCK some of it.

Also, it didn't have a chance to put you into a state where you take 90% extra damage.

also, the lightning hose didn't extend for several screens. It was a very specific attack: you're trying to tank/melee the big D, you're going to get a faceful of the red stuff.

Dominus' version is less that and more 'don't even think about getting close to me', and when you factor in the ice totems (which further cripple you), the whole thing's a bit crap, really.

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reboticon wrote:

Dominus beam is half physical as well, there just isn't absorption here.

quick edit, no the beam is not half physical I don't know what the hell i'm saying. Aegis syndrome.