The best thing I learned is to never expect to fight each boss with the same “cookie cutter” build. Be ready to eat a ton of humble pie and mix up spells, armor, weapons, etc. I’ve been realizing that “hybrid” builds (armor for physical build, long bow, but adding chaos volley + aftershock and scholar blood) can be super effective. Kiting bosses that aren’t confined to an arena is effective. But what works for one boss doesn’t mean it’ll be effective for another. Great video. 👍🏼👍🏼
new player here playing in brutal, about to be done with act 2 bosses, I like the challenge and every boss requires different strategies, I swap skills when having a difficult time, the fisherman fight was brutal, once you die a few times, you will memorize the boss movements and kind of predict what they are about to do, this is what gaming used to be back in the days, I'm that old xD
Best advice someone told me. Take your time. Expect to die. Once you learn the boss mechanics most the time you know when to attack and when to dodge back and breathe. Love it.
I fought Goreswine in the bigger cemetery, there she just wrecks the place, giving you plenty of room to dodge her AOEs. But the smaller cemetery? Yeah, I wouldn't recommend that either. Fisherman can actually be damaged by the death effects of his fish, which I discovered when my bouncing illusion spells, well, bounced around and some fish died and he got stunned/frozen. He's also not immune to damage while fishing and as you know, every little bit counts.
Hey ! I finished Act I all in brutal, and imo the bear & Erol are still really easy boss (killed first try). I totally agree for the wolf, remind me the first boss of Dark Souls III. Chaos archere & Polora were still easely managable too, but all the others was quiete the pain in the ass to me xD In fact the levels & damage bonus are nothing compared to the reworked attacks & new abilities. You can't spend a shield or a veil in the void without losing at least the half of your health. I'm currently stuck on 47 levels boss and I don't know how many hours I must spend to keep going x)
Also there were previously 6 levels between Meredith the Bright Archer & the Undead General, fighting each other in the iron mine, but now there is only 3 level between, and now the Undead General just destroy completely the Archer, becoming a free boss but can't use it to low the General's health really
I am liking BRUTAL quite a lot. This is my first ever time playing through VRising. We picked brutal for our server with friends cuz our FFXIV Ultimate Raider egos don't allow anything else. The only bad thing is that pretty much 90% of possible builds fall flat. There is no point in sustain and leech at all. When regular units chew 150-200 hp from you with a single attack and you can only leech about 20 HP from them - the system doesn't work. It is out of the question for bosses. Only bet is crowd control, movement (both speed and dodge), aggro pulling, buying time and plinking away with ranged weapons and spells. Melee builds are problematic. Scythe has it's uses, slashers too. Axes are bad, claymore is bad, sword is bad. Pretty one-dimentional gameplay but still fun.
This has also been my experience. I love the struggle but it does force you into a corner with what you use. Since act 2 I almost exclusively used the same 4-5 spells and the scythe because every time I try something else it just gets me killed. I do think some bosses are just a bit overtuned (solo-wise) like Vincent which personally I had to skip for a while, and also for me Domina was the cheesiest fight possible with me just throwing a spell every minute around building corners while running for my life. I think if the damage increase was around a 30% instead it would be a sweeter spot while not so limiting but hard to say.
It’s funny, all the popular servers pre 1.0 set the difficulty harder than brutal so I bet it’s kinda close to what we are used to minus the extra mechanics if any.
Bosses on brutal is legit very strong, not respecting mechanics or farming for the best blood type and having a real build and respecing builds for certain bosses cant be underestimated now and keybinding stuff is mandatory
From what i understand i cant mess with bosses that im 6-10 levels below like i used to do? I guess brutal mode is really that hard, i cant wait to play it when i got the tiome
I love the unholy approach but i swear everytime im rocking those spells in a boss fight some random person comes out and trys to fight me during my fight with the boss and unholy just isnt reliable enough for pvp, well in my experience anyway 😅
You can look up patrol routes online, Bane is slow as hell in the disguised form, so he can take whole day before he gets into the same patrol area with Vincent. But it is worth the time if you struggle dealing with Vincent on your own.
Brutal is exactly what the best players asked for during all of EA. This mode is actually how the game is supposed to be played once you've understood the basics. During EA, the most popular servers had brutal-like settings. And of course the pinnacle is PvP and hardcore brutal, but I really don't recommend that for anyone but the most sadomasochism players.
Yeah i tried to solo new diff in pvp server; it was brutal Pun intended I ussually fight with whatever blood i found, 36% creature? I can fight behemoth with that, 12% rogue? Can be used to beat the spider. But after stuck in 1 boss even after using 90% blood i start thinking that its needed. Also spoiler, lots of boss have "turf war" against enemy npc, use that as your advantage. And if you play on pvp server, ratting is a valid strategy
The best thing I learned is to never expect to fight each boss with the same “cookie cutter” build. Be ready to eat a ton of humble pie and mix up spells, armor, weapons, etc. I’ve been realizing that “hybrid” builds (armor for physical build, long bow, but adding chaos volley + aftershock and scholar blood) can be super effective. Kiting bosses that aren’t confined to an arena is effective. But what works for one boss doesn’t mean it’ll be effective for another. Great video. 👍🏼👍🏼
Absolutely true!
new player here playing in brutal, about to be done with act 2 bosses, I like the challenge and every boss requires different strategies, I swap skills when having a difficult time, the fisherman fight was brutal, once you die a few times, you will memorize the boss movements and kind of predict what they are about to do, this is what gaming used to be back in the days, I'm that old xD
Best advice someone told me. Take your time. Expect to die. Once you learn the boss mechanics most the time you know when to attack and when to dodge back and breathe. Love it.
WTF Demone is back? i know we are gamers for life we can just leave everything like that, this is our passion! WELCOME BACK
I fought Goreswine in the bigger cemetery, there she just wrecks the place, giving you plenty of room to dodge her AOEs. But the smaller cemetery? Yeah, I wouldn't recommend that either.
Fisherman can actually be damaged by the death effects of his fish, which I discovered when my bouncing illusion spells, well, bounced around and some fish died and he got stunned/frozen. He's also not immune to damage while fishing and as you know, every little bit counts.
Hey ! I finished Act I all in brutal, and imo the bear & Erol are still really easy boss (killed first try). I totally agree for the wolf, remind me the first boss of Dark Souls III. Chaos archere & Polora were still easely managable too, but all the others was quiete the pain in the ass to me xD
In fact the levels & damage bonus are nothing compared to the reworked attacks & new abilities. You can't spend a shield or a veil in the void without losing at least the half of your health.
I'm currently stuck on 47 levels boss and I don't know how many hours I must spend to keep going x)
Also there were previously 6 levels between Meredith the Bright Archer & the Undead General, fighting each other in the iron mine, but now there is only 3 level between, and now the Undead General just destroy completely the Archer, becoming a free boss but can't use it to low the General's health really
I am liking BRUTAL quite a lot. This is my first ever time playing through VRising. We picked brutal for our server with friends cuz our FFXIV Ultimate Raider egos don't allow anything else. The only bad thing is that pretty much 90% of possible builds fall flat. There is no point in sustain and leech at all. When regular units chew 150-200 hp from you with a single attack and you can only leech about 20 HP from them - the system doesn't work. It is out of the question for bosses. Only bet is crowd control, movement (both speed and dodge), aggro pulling, buying time and plinking away with ranged weapons and spells. Melee builds are problematic. Scythe has it's uses, slashers too. Axes are bad, claymore is bad, sword is bad. Pretty one-dimentional gameplay but still fun.
This has also been my experience. I love the struggle but it does force you into a corner with what you use. Since act 2 I almost exclusively used the same 4-5 spells and the scythe because every time I try something else it just gets me killed. I do think some bosses are just a bit overtuned (solo-wise) like Vincent which personally I had to skip for a while, and also for me Domina was the cheesiest fight possible with me just throwing a spell every minute around building corners while running for my life.
I think if the damage increase was around a 30% instead it would be a sweeter spot while not so limiting but hard to say.
Loved the video. Are you gonna stream the new update when it hits?
I'm used to fight VBloods with 2x health and damage into EA, but these new bosses are still more of a challenge.
I gotta see you fight Kriig on brutal. He’s my biggest nightmare right now. I’ve even killed bosses above him, I just can’t beat him.
Back in the day Meredith could fight him relatively on par. Now on brutal he just cuts her fucking head off instantly lol.
It’s funny, all the popular servers pre 1.0 set the difficulty harder than brutal so I bet it’s kinda close to what we are used to minus the extra mechanics if any.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOO !!!
I got my bit kicked by Tristan several times went to sleep and when I fought him again I got hit once by getting clipped by his fire bombs
hell yeah
Bosses on brutal is legit very strong, not respecting mechanics or farming for the best blood type and having a real build and respecing builds for certain bosses cant be underestimated now and keybinding stuff is mandatory
From what i understand i cant mess with bosses that im 6-10 levels below like i used to do? I guess brutal mode is really that hard, i cant wait to play it when i got the tiome
this is one of the few games where "brutal mode" lives up to its name
btw you can bait gore swine into lydia the chaos archer... she will kill him for you outside of the cemetary and will be low herself.
I have been playing brutal solo rn 😭 it's so fucking hard my first playthrough
I love the unholy approach but i swear everytime im rocking those spells in a boss fight some random person comes out and trys to fight me during my fight with the boss and unholy just isnt reliable enough for pvp, well in my experience anyway 😅
How do you actually get bane onto Vincent? they're too far apart for me
You can look up patrol routes online, Bane is slow as hell in the disguised form, so he can take whole day before he gets into the same patrol area with Vincent. But it is worth the time if you struggle dealing with Vincent on your own.
Did they remove the switch weapon from key bindings???
No
@@madden12 where is it under
Simon Belmont is difficult to beat even on normal.
Cool stuff!
Brutal is exactly what the best players asked for during all of EA.
This mode is actually how the game is supposed to be played once you've understood the basics.
During EA, the most popular servers had brutal-like settings.
And of course the pinnacle is PvP and hardcore brutal, but I really don't recommend that for anyone but the most sadomasochism players.
but there is only "one passive femal v boss" in the game.. so u might as well have just named her.. lol. u didnt save a spoiler ;b
Yeah i tried to solo new diff in pvp server; it was brutal
Pun intended
I ussually fight with whatever blood i found, 36% creature? I can fight behemoth with that, 12% rogue? Can be used to beat the spider. But after stuck in 1 boss even after using 90% blood i start thinking that its needed.
Also spoiler, lots of boss have "turf war" against enemy npc, use that as your advantage.
And if you play on pvp server, ratting is a valid strategy