Dark forest boss is way too strong

Most people kill it without the thing actually going into its wolf form

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Zebedin wrote:

ill give you a better example, Necropolis map boss
i was fresh after killing uber elder and i was pretty shocked when he rekted me in 1 second
guess what, shield charge is bugged and i cant counter(escape) hes prison

now that fucking pissed off since i died on level 94 on tier 12 map
and i didnt even face tanked him. he just off screen killed me
i get fucked by a game bug couple times, thus no more playing HC for me


wolf boss is pretty damn hard i must say, but you can trick hes mechanism
he is invicible in wolf form so you just need to run for your life :P
you can allso force him to cast hes spell in 1 direction and than go to save side

Necropolis: Get Leap Slam (or Lightning Warp if you're caster) on switch weapon for such cases. Shield Charge and Whirling Blades will not work through his prison.

Dark Forest: Boss is tauntable, has obvious phases and all you need is not facetank his million wolves and be quickly on foot. Anti-bleed flask obviously needed too.

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Zebedin wrote:

ill give you a better example, Necropolis map boss
i was fresh after killing uber elder and i was pretty shocked when he rekted me in 1 second
guess what, shield charge is bugged and i cant counter(escape) hes prison

now that fucking pissed off since i died on level 94 on tier 12 map
and i didnt even face tanked him. he just off screen killed me
i get fucked by a game bug couple times, thus no more playing HC for me


wolf boss is pretty damn hard i must say, but you can trick hes mechanism
he is invicible in wolf form so you just need to run for your life :P
you can allso force him to cast hes spell in 1 direction and than go to save side

shield charge isnt supposed to get you out of that situation,all movementskills have somekind of weakness.

warning: incoming pettiness/douchebaggery

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fwd wrote:

Necropolis: ... Shield Charge and Whirling Blades will not work through his prison.

nope.flv

whirling blades works just fine:
https://youtu.be/M3xevUTVvG0?t=3

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Dark Forest: Boss is tauntable, has obvious phases and all you need is not facetank his million wolves and be quickly on foot. Anti-bleed flask obviously needed too.

million wolves used to be threatening when this boss first came out (1 or 2 years ago?) but power creep has simplified matters substantially:

https://youtu.be/OkYLarvlNqc?t=62

(you can check my character RespectableMatters for gem and passive setup. I use a different sword on day to day basis but wanted to see if "a Scaeva is fine too" and it was.)

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I like how people rushed in this thread to leave a "hahaha you suck" comment without even reading.

I have no problem with this boss in general. But when he gets a single damage mod its becoming crazy as shit.

His bleed is si fast that 5k life goes by beyond human reflexes so you cant react fast enough to remove the bleed.

And the wolves festival is so brutal that your char just got deleted in 1 sec on crit mod and it goes on whole screen and he tracks you son fast that he seems to reading your mind.

So yeah, you dont die in one hit. Not even in 2. Maybe 4 to 8 hits are needed to kilo you.
But its done in less than 0.5 sec. Its a joke.

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Domah wrote:

I like how people rushed in this thread to leave a "hahaha you suck" comment without even reading.

I have no problem with this boss in general. But when he gets a single damage mod its becoming crazy as shit.

His bleed is si fast that 5k life goes by beyond human reflexes so you cant react fast enough to remove the bleed.

And the wolves festival is so brutal that your char just got deleted in 1 sec on crit mod and it goes on whole screen and he tracks you son fast that he seems to reading your mind.

So yeah, you dont die in one hit. Not even in 2. Maybe 4 to 8 hits are needed to kilo you.
But its done in less than 0.5 sec. Its a joke.

You sure do have a problem with dying to him LOL HEY HEY GUYS LET ME TRY TO TANK THE WOLVES THEN GO WRITE A THREAD ON THE FORUM.

Lets take it up a notch.

MUH DECOY TOTEM!
MUH TREES WHY CAN'T I MOVE!
MUH TANKING SKILLS

HALPP FORUM I CAN'T TANK SOMETHING THAT YOU AREN'T MEANT TOO TANK.

rly

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Domah wrote:

I like how people rushed in this thread to leave a "hahaha you suck" comment without even reading.

I have no problem with this boss in general. But when he gets a single damage mod its becoming crazy as shit.

His bleed is si fast that 5k life goes by beyond human reflexes so you cant react fast enough to remove the bleed.

And the wolves festival is so brutal that your char just got deleted in 1 sec on crit mod and it goes on whole screen and he tracks you son fast that he seems to reading your mind.

So yeah, you dont die in one hit. Not even in 2. Maybe 4 to 8 hits are needed to kilo you.
But its done in less than 0.5 sec. Its a joke.

most of the times people are super trolls but in this case there is no debate lol. You just a newbie there is no shame in it


Just try a better build or ask for some help in forums

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noheal wrote:

most of the times people are super trolls but in this case there is no debate lol. You just a newbie there is no shame in it


Just try a better build or ask for some help in forums

Indeed, the main trick to killing him is knowing 2 or 3 things:
1. His wolf stream hurts
2. His wolf transform is invincible and inflicts nasty bleeding
Bonus. The different stone circles have different mini challenges in them and some are easier than others

Once you know those facts he's a pretty straightforward boss for any solid character, maybe a bit slower than an ordinary boss since you can't just stand in one place and DPS forever for 100% of the boss fight, but not deadly either. Just bring a bleed flask or two and move your character when he's dangerous and then he's done. He's cooked. Stick a fork in him

Yeah, he's just a copy of Rigwald back as the endgame encounter from Talisman league. (Talisman being the first "unified" challenge league, and the first to shift from 8 complex challenges, to a long list of them, though it was only 32 then, not 40; it was also the first one to center around providing a new endgame encounter)

But to be honest... Even with crit mods, etc., you can still facetank his wolf spray with the right gear. A Brass Dome works wonders, TBH. (or have you maybe tried CWDT+IC for the squishies?)

It's just a matter of learning mechanics. It's like coming in to whine that Shaper is too strong because you can't take a squishy and facetank his beam, let alone his bullet hell.

Now, if the complaint was that Rigwald took too LONG to kill... Yes, that's a valid complaint applicable to most bosses in this game: thanks to their response to the power creep they implemented themselves, GGG has ramped up boss HP into the millions, without actually increasing the rewards, to where your EXP/hr (or cards/exalts/hr) are invariably going to suffer if you actually fight any map bosses, rather than portaling out and rolling a new map once you've cleared everything up to the boss arena... But that's a different issue than dying entirely. (It only instead makes me die a little on the inside)