Thoughts On Nol Boss?

I wanna know what some people think about the nol boss. I think it would be my favorite if not for crystallization. Specifically the fact that when you get crystalized you can still get killed by the blood rune and the lightning strikes but cannot heal at all.

 

Crystallization is fine. Blood rune / lightning true damage is annoying.

 

I like it, it’s hella unique!


The chaos it ensues gives it a “final boss” theme

I’m usually armed to the teeth in raids, but DANG that lightning hurts 0.0

 

I agree it’s so fun! But I think that once you understand the boss and have the right gear you should be able to win most times but with this boss it really feels like there is always a chance you could just die bc of the weird mechanics

 

I hate the fact that I usually spend like 70% of fight crystallized because of my luck to this
I would enjoy the boss if I could actually attack it lol
And its super annoying that blood rune damages you when you are crystallized

 

I feel like crystallization is super easy to counter, and the issue is that most people go in guns blazing instead of making a plan. Which I don't blame them, most bosses work like that, even Nest of the Grootslangs. So the big importance of teamworks feels alien to most people who play the game solo.

 

ive killed it once or twice

 

i prefer fighting the cc (tcc boss) than orphion, the amount of shit on screen and the mechanics makes everything bizarre.

 

if not for the inherent buggy mess the fight is I would like it more

 

The only thing I don't like about Orphion is the atrocius lack of frames whenever he spawns 10^12 minions with a mess of particles. Other than that, I love it.

 

The boss is pretty much a checkup on how well your PC can handle hundreds of entities and particles at the same time. I don't like it.

 

Love it. Excluding performance issues and bugs (of which both of these are numerous and harsh), it's by far my favorite boss fight in the game. Each class has their own niche and purpose (excluding maybe assassin, where it's outshined by archer in DPS and shaman in crowd control), and actually requires teamwork through the use of crystallization. It's described as a chaotic mess but I personally feel it requires a lot of skill in managing both minions and Orphion with situational awareness, and I love that it's (usually) almost never the same fight every time. The nature of the fight will naturally force unique situations, and something can go wrong at almost any time. Dislike how the crystal launch is used primarily as an "archer-counter", but I think its great for disrupting gameplay. Almost never a fan of true damage outside of spells designed to punish you for failing (the wretches) so I don't personally like blood rune. The parasite phase is fine; it's meant to be weak in comparison to Orphion, but under no circumstances should the sanitizing void be allowed to deal true damage, let alone to the extent of its firing rate. Sanitizing void respawn rate should also be reduced, because right now it respawns near instantly anyways, significantly reducing the impact of actually killing, especially when you're forced to when a player is sucked in.

Lightning doesn't deal true damage anymore afaik

 

I love NoL.

I think it is great we have content where you can actually die if you fail to understand the mechanics.

Orphion has phases and if you take your time instead of trying to cheese it by trying to kill Orphion ASAP, it is actually pretty easy (clear the adds, etc.). I dislike "true" damage. I'd instead like to have a high "non-true" damage, so people that invest in tanky builds do not get punished as much because defence is their main focus and glass cannons do get punished more heavily if they make a mistake(in my opinion a good build is balanced).

 

what are the parts with huge amounts of particles? i might be able to mitigate that possibly wherever I can

 

Crystalization itself is fine, but hate how crystalization can freeze like 3 out of 4 players if you deal too much damage. This isn't right way to challenge.

Also why do people hate lightning? You can avoid it unless you're literal statue

Also fuck the late phase minion who casts WEB SPELL, I don't know what it is but fuck you

 

And if you're a literal statue (Statue healer), you will probably survive.

Pun intended :P

 

Personally, it's my favourite boss in the game so far. There's just a few changes I would suggest

• Make crystallization not be based on how much damage is dealt but on a timed basis once he reaches a certain amount of health
• Make the minions more relevant to the fight, it just feels like that ''random bullshit, go!'' meme
• Add a hard mode which is pretty much the early beta orphion with no nerfs
• Stop crystallization from occurring when only 1 player is left, it's really stupid