Mektul, the Forgemaster Overtuned

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theomni#7082 wrote:

How are you supposed to do this guy as melee? He stays in the gold most of the time and you can't even touch him without burning yourself.

As a quarterstaff user, you drop the bell, you hit the bell, and he dies. So same as any other boss.

As a mace user, I didn't find him hard either, simply because while the mace has many issues, an inability to hit hard is not one of them. I simply beat him down with a 2h mace when he wasn't taking a lava bath.

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mrfox123#7595 wrote:

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masskillers#5403 wrote:

Skip em, not worth the reward which is just a skill gem and some gold.

Got to clear the quest to get the ability to merge gear. Which gets useful when climbing maps.

Forgot the reforge but at that point do em when ur way overleveled

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This fight really shows the disparity between classes on normal

I foolishly started 2 as warrior and on normal I decided to skip him after a dozen or so tries, on cruel he was much easier as by that point you have HoTG for when hes in lava

On my new deadeye he was dead on normal in about 1/3 of the arena, on cruel he barely made it a few feet from the lava flow

This, petty much. Had the same experience, on normal as warrior, it was pain, mostly because half the time I couldnt hit him while he did molten gold wave shenanigans. With Gas Arrow Deadeye I had like 4 times the damage and blew him straight out of the, well, gold. With ranger on cruel I stunned him when he started his molten gold phase which kinda broke the entire encounter as he stopped attacking and just slowly followed me which made it easy to pick him off.

with some proper defenses you can survive getting hit by him here and there and even with warrior I was able to kill him, even though I had to kite him a bit more as warrior so I could get in more damage in between molten gold phases. It's a DPS check and it is definetly nothing that needs to fixed as it isnt broken. I have a lot to criticize about the current state of the game, but campaign bosses are not part of that. You have to learn them, that's all.