Arbiter of ash (from noob player)

So firstly Im not pro, so keep it in mind.

I decided to start farming the Arbiter of Ash.
I never had a gear that allow me to kill the boss in few seconds and always played mechanic.
I think they are multiples problemes with your mechanics.

-The fire falling from the sky (with circle):
Sometime, the next fire pop out of the screen, with limited time to reach the circle, the time Im wasting trying to figure where is the next, Im already dead.

-The fire screen with safe coridor:
Here, the probleme is the colors, the safe zone color is not clear enought!

-The other thing is about the camera, before the fight begin, we have a nice overview camera, but when the fight start, the camera is zooming in ???

All of this with costly fragment and garbage loot...

The arbiter fight is the motherload of badly designed boss fights. Extreme time investment just to access, then you have to deal with poor visibility & perfect reactions to avoid one-shots (or an unavoidable one-shot, where you have to stay in the circle & then they blast everything inside the circle with a wide beam).

If the only reliable way to overcome a fight is not to learn the mechanics, but to DPS so hard that you don't have to engage with the mechanics... that's a tremendous failure of game design.

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SpankyKong#9805 が発言:

The arbiter fight is the motherload of badly designed boss fights. Extreme time investment just to access, then you have to deal with poor visibility & perfect reactions to avoid one-shots (or an unavoidable one-shot, where you have to stay in the circle & then they blast everything inside the circle with a wide beam).

If the only reliable way to overcome a fight is not to learn the mechanics, but to DPS so hard that you don't have to engage with the mechanics... that's a tremendous failure of game design.

There are things in the game that make me think that GGG either doesn't like its player base or are trolling for fun. That move where he blasts the circle cemented that thought.

Neither of those two possibilities respect the player's time.

just did the arbiter first time ever as a noob player aswell and it was the worst boss i have ever encounter ever in a game. first kill it was prob 1 kill 50 deaths (i was lucky), and second one it was 1/100, firebeam inside of circle. was 2 short time between circles, the hallway was was 2 short timing frame and 2 small. second phase was also terrible,not fun at all.
Was so glad when they said on an interview that they was sad that people didnt do the mechanics and just wanted 2 oneshot etc.
its bearly possible doing it with a normal build.
this made me so mad and sad at the same time.
Yes i should get good but that was just a horrible experince.

have you guys checked a guide before going fight it?

My first try was like 3-4 deaths because wanst paying attention

My secound try I just stomped it, like... over dps it

And my third I was stomped because I missed the circles (was using blink, didnt calculated the distance)

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GatoPreto1718#7829 が発言:

have you guys checked a guide before going fight it?

That is such a bad game design, the game (or parts of it) should be able to demonstrate the player what to do and let he/she learns it by itself. Watching a guide should be a time skipper and not a must to do.

The Arbiter and the Sekhemas last boss fight have mechanics so utterly bad that is a waste of time trying it multiple times. Gear up and brute forcing without learn their mechanics is much more satisdfying and time rewarding.

Incredible that they succeed with Trialmaster (the RNG to get the crests are BS, but the fight per se is fine to learn and repeat, the loot is meh). And the campaign bosses are pretty cool to learn as well, but none really introduce mechanics that are helpfull to build skill to Uber endgame bossing.