Viper

This might be the worst boss fight in the game for it's placement, this fight would be fine as a pinnacle type boss, but with all the mechanics and specifics it should not be a mandatory campaign boss in it's current form.

First problem, she does alot of Chaos dmg, and chaos res is even harder to get up good than elemental (still havn't found any rune that gives chaos res) and all the mobs up to this point do elemental dmg, so you are not ready for this fight.

She has a couple of different spear abilities, and those are fine if you are half decent you will avoid most of it, but then she stabs her spear in the ground, it radiates poison in an area (so you can't go here) and starts throwing poison darts at you, first a couple of rapid fire ones, and then in a cone, these can be avoided if you are ready for it it, but she's kinda inconsistant, sometimes she does it 2 times in a row, sometime 5 but no way to know, there is no pattern.

When she goes into the air, that's where the real boring parts begin, first you have to avoid small or huge circles on the ground, no problem so far, after she is done with that she might toss some snakes at you, that move in odd patterns (but not always, you just can't know) and then comes the really bad part, where she activates some guards to stab across the arena, and she keeps doing that a few times, and then every guard stab in a wave, and arena shrinks, and this is where it gets troublesome, cos now you have to avoid all the same stuff, but in a much smaller Arena. And then she does the same later again, and when arena has shrunk 2 times, the huge circles take up 95% of the arena in width, and her spear stuck somewhere will block off a part of the arena, wich makes avoiding any of her attacks almost impossible, and she does quite alot of damage, especially if you get hit by a few rapid fire darts in a row.

(And sometimes when she flies around and land, she lands behind her soldiers and get stuck, and can't be hit by attacks)

Now as i said, i'm fine with this being a pinnacle type boss, but if you have to kill her to move on in the campaign, there should be some limitations, the biggest one and maybe easiest to implement would be that she only shrink arena 1 time during campaign, then you would still have space to move around.

Think i died to this boss about 200 times, and for reference, i did act 3 final boss in 1 try once i got past Viper, this is such a boring fight to be forced, i almost gave up and quit the game cos i could not progress the campaign.

I know big slams and poison cloud areas are dodge or die basically.

Can you at least "raise shield" to block the darts?? Can you set her poison cloud on fire by chance to dissipate it?? [Don't know .. just thinking out loud]

I thought Viper fight was super fun and engaging, it did set me up for disappointment when Doryani was miles easier than her though.

While I've not failed any bosses "endlessly" Viper does sound like a boss that I wouldn't be able to beat [at my skill] .. certainly as I am now.

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sirpotatoII#3195 a écrit :

I thought Viper fight was super fun and engaging, it did set me up for disappointment when Doryani was miles easier than her though.

I did the second time I fought her.

The first time she almost immediately flew out of the arena and bricked the fight, as OP described. Which was hilarious, don't get me wrong, but it kind of ruined the atmosphere.

Not sure about the shield, i play a sorc, so prefer my +3 lightning skill staff.

But as said, i don't mind this fight for a pinnacle, or maybe a optional boss, the problem is that it is mandatory, and maybe it's and easy fight if you play one of the few "meta" builds that are around,

Really hard for sorc, get almost one shotted, and the

Really hard for sorc, get almost one shotted, and she is constantly either doing the AOE spam floating, or the shield guys stabbing, and its really hard to fight her during that. The aoe stuff is almost impossible to avoid and does serious damage.

Is this the least fun boss fight in the history of boss fights? >_>

It's a class balance issue. I watched one person not even see the spear wall attacks because they melted her so fast. Another only saw one spear wall because they again did really good damage. I had to endure 4 spear walls with my build at the time (and unlike most attacks in this game, it doesn't appear there's any way to avoid the final line of spears except a well-timed roll. no outspacing or safespotting this one) and it was one of the harder bosses in the game. Point is, this boss is randomly very easy for people if they stumbled into the right build.
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By the way, I didn't die once in the act 6 version. If you have enough damage and you know the fight, it's actually very easy.

Beat her on first try as Warrior but I died to armor-shredding superfast vaal soldiers before the fight. Then a weird bug happened where I resurrected from a wrong checkpoint from the other end of the fight, so I stepped in the arena from the wrong side, just politely skirting to the arena from behind the boss.