Viper boss campaign still op

So fought the boss many times...

LOW DAMAGE - she does easy attacks and lets you "hit" her...

main boss combo - all soldiers do poison spears where you must dodgeroll perfectly and she does 10 poison projectile combo on you at the same time!

If you have high DPS - she goes in overdrive mode...
1) she goes in immunity phase where soldies do long poison spears mini cutscene where you must dodge perfectly. she does 10 poison projectile combo and then immediatly into invulnerability phase for a second mini cutscene where soldiers do poison spears and reduce arena size.. and she does 10 poison projectile combo when you dodge roll soldiers insane move.

and then again she does 10 poison projectile combo. does not matter where you stand because arena is already SMALL.

If you survive she will reduce arena size even more.

I want to see anyone fighting her without one shot or even damaging her.. just kill her half HP real fast in beginning to force her into overdrive mode and then try to survive as long as possible without damaging her. How many seconds will you last?

With which class?

p.s. ofc its all "rng" but there is no way to just do her deathless. standing does not matter, i wish i could recorded it. but then people would say "you got low dps - which is not how the boss should be judged by".

The bossfight should be judged by how long you got skills to survive - not to gear yourself to kill boss in 20seconds - WHO DOES THAT IN CAMPAIGN?

obligatory - where are those videos on viper boss kill? with many different builds during campaign? no need to find ben videos, im talking about normal casuals, not streamers who do that 20hours a day with years of experiences.

1. boss overdrive example
https://streamable.com/4zy6eh
got her to half hp real quickly and look how small arena became.

If dealing less damage the arena would stay larger. I noticed this is a trend with all bosses.

questions:

1) should i assume that i was not standing close enough to soldiers?
2) should i assume that ANY soldier from ANY side can hit me?
3) whats the point in showing that soldier does attack from far side if it reaches whole arena width?
4) should i have enough HP and chaos res to tank it? or should i treat it as boss "red attack" which is almost always a one shot and must be dodged.

5) HOW MUCH CROSSBOW BUILD SHOULD HAVE IN THIS ACT3 CAMPAIGN. Was my damage too low? it is not even SSF and my weapon was highest which i bought for ok price. It should never be about "kill boss quick, now 5seconds or 10seconds - thats just beating boss by avoiding all mechanics. This post is about beating boss through its mechanics.

this was done with 23% chaos res.. i highly doubt 50% chaos res would be enough because boss just stays in invulnerability mode way too often.

https://streamable.com/4zy6eh

2. less damage example

I do believe i skipped her soldier poison phase with coincidental stun.

Then she went in invulnerability phase twice in a row!! basically.

https://streamable.com/0je3iz

I switched to another ED CI and she did no such 10 projectile bursts.
3 projectile bursts only. why?? where is back to back insane damage bursts from her? is her ai based on which character class a player has?

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main boss combo - all soldiers do poison spears where you must dodgeroll perfectly and she does 10 poison projectile combo on you at the same time!

Its not that hard to watch which soliders that light up, and they dont shoot across so if you stand on a side where it doesnt light up you dont get hit.

Only one where you need to dodge roll is the one that goes as a wave and it is really forgiving in the hitbox so you can just dodge roll into it...

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liiinder#4917 wrote:

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main boss combo - all soldiers do poison spears where you must dodgeroll perfectly and she does 10 poison projectile combo on you at the same time!

Its not that hard to watch which soliders that light up, and they dont shoot across so if you stand on a side where it doesnt light up you dont get hit.

Only one where you need to dodge roll is the one that goes as a wave and it is really forgiving in the hitbox so you can just dodge roll into it...

Uploaded videos - one higher dmg which i would never have in SSF, and one lower dps. Her ai becomes much more difficult if it registers you doing more dmg quicker.

Nah, she's just one of the harsher gear checks in game.

The solution, unless you play the meta build, is to drastically outlevel her while you grind for half decent gear.

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al_araan#4288 wrote:

Nah, she's just one of the harsher gear checks in game.

The solution, unless you play the meta build, is to drastically outlevel her while you grind for half decent gear.

But the real gear is nothing but chaos resistance. I can kill her with 275es ci if i really try on another character while dealing low or medium damage.

There is nothing to get except gamble rings until getting two amethyst rings. its hard cap on chaos. ~22chaos res is the max anyone can get.

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webas#6820 wrote:

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liiinder#4917 wrote:

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main boss combo - all soldiers do poison spears where you must dodgeroll perfectly and she does 10 poison projectile combo on you at the same time!

Its not that hard to watch which soliders that light up, and they dont shoot across so if you stand on a side where it doesnt light up you dont get hit.

Only one where you need to dodge roll is the one that goes as a wave and it is really forgiving in the hitbox so you can just dodge roll into it...

Uploaded videos - one higher dmg which i would never have in SSF, and one lower dps. Her ai becomes much more difficult if it registers you doing more dmg quicker.

I default attacked and fury slamed her with bear not overleveled, no resists on second try 🤷‍♂️

Feels like she only was a problem the first time when I didn't knew about the soliders lighting up. It just felt random and too quick, now it just feels chill af

Yeah, it's one of the most badly designed boss fights in the game. If you could at least kill the mofos with the spears to open up the arena to a size where you can properly fight, but noooooooo, they just stand there like effing furniture and you're limited to that tiny area being spammed with chaos damage left, right and center.