The Viper Napuatzi Act 3 Fight is Still Overtuned for the Campaign Process

The invulnerability during spears phase makes no sense since they reduced her cooldowns on 0.2 patch when she reaches low life.

If you pick a decent levelling build, you won't have a problem with that as you would kill her fast enough to not having to deal with it. But if you are playing a not-so-good build, when she gets at this stage, she will enter into spear phase (with invulnerability) far too often.

Last week I was "testing things", levelling a new build on SSF with shitty gear, and got there. Probably I got bad RNG but she made a combo with three invulnerable spear phases in a sequence after reaching low life. There was no window of time to kill her and arena becomes too tight, so some side spears ended up hitting me. Flask charges were finally gone and I had to restart the fight. Didn't get bad RNG after that and fight was fine on the second try.

I think that it is a really bad design for new players. If it were only on map version it would be fine, but they shouldn't reduce that much her cooldowns on camapaign version. Or, at least, not allowing her to combo that invulnerability phases in a sequence.

Other than that, I'm fine with that fight.

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Wrecker of Days#8485 が発言:

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 が発言:

I died at least twice. I thought she was the hardest boss since Geonor. (I died a lot more to Geonor before I figured out the fog poetry section.)

OP, once you understand the cues, you can dodge roll and take almost no damage.

Thanks! I've done the boss, I just think for the reason that I've listed it's out of tune with the campaign.

There are a few bosses that I think are quite out of place in the campaign currently, for reasons such as damage or specific skills or whatever. This is one of them. I appreciate your helpfulness! Thank you.

I fought her again today on Cruel. I remembered this thread, and geared with 50% chaos resistance and -11% fire resistance to check. I was able to facetank her poison attack, and take a spear hit without dodging. So I think problems with the boss are a gearing problem. There's very little chaos damage in the campaign, so people aren't ready for it.

You can either dodge a lot, or buff chaos res and dodge a little.

She is definitely not overtuned. The only ability that does a lot of damage is the phase-ending arena wide poison spears that you just time a roll through. If you’re dying to anything else I’d suggest learning to move out of bad circles. At worst she is a battle of attrition so if youre dodging and still struggling you must be doing zdps.

The spear wall damage most likely has an extra 0. Who do I know? The biggest, most telegraphed attack of this boss does about a quarter of the damage that the spear wall does.