Bahlak, the Sky Seer feels incredibly unfair

Easily the hardest boss I've encountered so far. Just because of the tornado and if you get a lag spike you're gone in 0.1 seconds. Not fun.
I would love to know who allowed this to get put into the game. This is one of the few things that the " it's a beta" excuse can't explain. This has nothing to do with a beta, this has to do with ggg not drug testing it's employees. Absolutely unacceptable in every way. This needs to be addressed immediately. Your in game economy is crashing because no one can do this themselves and is forced to pay a weeks worth of grinding for some top tier player to one shot him.
In my opinion, this boss is badly designed. There is far too much reliance on one-hit mechanics. There is far too much reliance on move speed.

If I don't die to the tornado, I die to whatever is shooting across the arena. It happens so quickly it feels like there's no fair chance to escape it. I currently have 35% move speed boots and I still die - because not only is what I assume to be winds moving across the arena poorly telegraphed, it's also hard to discern on its own, let alone with multiple trial modifier mechanic visuals filling the arena.

Do a roll at the wrong moment and you're now caught in something that will kill you in less than a second.

This boss is incredibly disproportional to the difficulty of the rest of the trial. I get the distinct feeling that instead of tuning the whole trial to a reasonable degree, this boss was put there as a door stop. Currently, this trial feels like a waste of time because even if I'm very successful at the rest of the trial, I know there's a 95% chance I'll die on Bahlak to what feels like unfair mechanics.

I would much rather face a trial that is balanced to be consistently challenging, instead of having to face what feels like a complete dice roll at some point (usually at the end, which makes it feel like an even bigger waste of time).

Now, I'm sure that some people can't wait to say that this is a "skill issue", but the truth still is that this is the only boss that feels unfair to me (Zarokh has some similar design issues, but at least that feels somewhat doable). Am I skilled at the rest of the game, but just not this particular boss? No, it's this particular boss design that has skill issues.
Last edited by Aho_Maho#1885 on Jan 29, 2025, 9:35:34 AM
The bird is there to make people fail the trial, he's several levels of magnitude harder than the other bosses (including trialmaster).

I have no problem killing him with a fully geared merc and temporalis, but I remember how frustrating it was before getting mega endgame gear.

I also find it a bit odd how the other two bosses are a joke. Almost feels intended.
Last edited by Tommo26#1554 on Jan 29, 2025, 9:51:32 AM

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