most interesting bosses. Unfortunately also most boring thrash fights.

Sinolai wrote: »

most interesting bosses. Unfortunately also most boring thrash fights.

Yea the trash fights drags on..
I like the chains and dragging in the 2nd last boss, so funny.

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Mephala

I like the new one. Interesting and fun, but not obscenely weighed down by mechanics.

I like how Scalecallers Peak actually requires the tank to move to help with mechanics to keep environmental damage from killing the others (Geysers).

CoS is still the best(Disclaimer: I have yet to try Scalecaller Peak, have done all the others). What I like best about vCoS is that even in HM, high DPS is not required to complete it, but teamwork is. I also like the fact that the arenas are smaller, but not claustrophobic small like the last boss in Falkreath Hold(The pillars get in the way of seeing the boss heavy attack, and the quarters are so tight that the ads often block getting a ranged taunt refresh on the boss...its probably the absolute worst fight in the game to tank because your view is constantly blocked and you just cant move freely, a terrible combination for a tank)

I'm surpised scalecaller got so many votes. It's ugly and boring to me except the last boss, she's cool. For me it's at the bottom along with Mazz.

Falkreath is my favorite because I loved that part of Skyrim. I also like Fang lair because the necromancer enemy is cool.

I always liked the mechanics of a few of the WGT fights. The pinion fight was great though it is now poorly scaled after the last nerf as you can skip all the mechanics.

I have liked some of the fights in the newer stuff for their complexity but there is always stuff that is buggy or too rng dependent, that never gets fixed or improved.

For instance:
-In the final fight of RoM hard mode the timing of different mechanics all seems to be synced based on different things. This often leads to mechanics happening at the same time as each other that almost always fatal together. This pretty much just results in the whole thing being a huge dps race to break the mechanics altogether in practice. Also, resource drains may have made sense in the past when people had resources but they don't now. Sorry Wrobel, you Wrobeled that (and yes, it did improve PVP for what that is worth).
- In the last fight of CoS there is a lot of RNG to the doors that basically means you better have mag users that have access to a class major expedition or vampire or you may just get RNG'd. It also has the whole resource drain garbage but it is not real dps dependent so it is a little more tolerable.
- The 1/3rd room poisons in SP vet are a combination of RNG and just very very fast reaction. Hope your pings not over 150 or your just dead. We have a New Zealand and he hasn't a chance. These phases also overlap too closely with the Zaan mechanic (you are dropped and the red is already there) and there is just insufficient time to rez without Templar and kagernacs passives between them. Needing the RNG of having the protection bubble during the ice phase land near a dead guy for a rez time that is genuinely safe is a bit much. The mechanics are great. The timing is just off (also it often glitches and kills you when you are not in the red or solidly behind the pillar during the fire waves.) Right now the fight is pretty much a case of any death runs a 1/3rd chance of a second death and therefore wipe. Also, the mechanics are too easy to dps through. Good dps (not even CE good but just legit good) with ulti drops timed for the ice phases and you potentially face few or even no poison phases.

Bottom line. It is good you are hiring a new content tester. There are some great mechanics in the newer dungeons but they really feel rough around the edges.

It's a tough choice, but probably my favorite one is Cradle of Shadows, closely followed by Bloodroot Forge. But I generally like all the DLC dungeons. Unfortunately hardly anybody wants to run them and I don't do them on normal, because the bosses have too low health and are dead before you can even enjoy any mechanics.