Am I the only one who sees her second phase as completely, blatantly unbalanced?
Like, I get it, if she is a Jugg, the HP regen makes sense. What doesn’t make sense, to me at least, is that she’s constantly strafing and blocking/parrying, on top of the HP regen. Honestly, the two issues aren’t much of a problem on their own. But she’s doing both.
Before you slap me with a “Skill issue, get better”, imagine playing as a Mage. Imagine having to constantly spam your S key (because you have no real close quarters options) and firing at her from a distance, all the while she is sidestepping everything. And if you do, somehow, hit her, she blocks/parries pretty much all the time, even if you catch her while she’s in the middle of using a Technique.
Maybe I’m coping. Maybe not. But even if I am coping, something here needs to change.
So stay within the aggressive close quarters-bound boss’s optimal range, and try and outlast her, as she’s regenerating 7 HP a second and doing significantly more damage to your hp than you are to hers. Got it.
what are you talking about, Carina has the damage output of wet toilet paper.
If you aren’t beating her in a damage race, you must be atleast half the expected level for that fight lol.
This is honestly a huge issue with her second phase. The regen is fine, but there’s definitely an issue with her sheer capacity to block and parry. By far, the biggest issue is that bosses almost always have an inherent advantage while blocking, as it’s server-sided and is automatically done in reaction to a player’s attacks.
Frankly, it seems like Carina blocks way more than ever before, and it just becomes an artificial difficulty increase - a very artificial one that doesn’t make her harder; it makes her way fucking slower and more annoying.
This, right here, is exactly what I’m getting at. You can catch her in the middle of endlag from a Technique she just used with a Beam or well-timed Blast/Explosion or somesuch, and then when it lands while she’s still in endlag she’ll block/parry it. I get it, aight, I do, this is just Video Game Enemies 101, they can do things we can’t do because yes. Doesn’t make it any less BS.
This slot is level 83, I believe 9 levels below the expected.
This woman has 2500 HP. Doesn’t matter what build you are, at my level, trying to duke it out with her head-to-head to out DPS her is a death sentence, you will die before she does.
The second point is further exacerbated by the fact that she regenerates 7 HP per second. Sure, we’re regenning, too, and probably even faster than her if we have a fish meal effect. But she will still beat us in a damage race, because her pool of HP is just that much higher.
If I can beat Carina at 2k ping surely you can do it at 200
Her damage isnt the issue anyway since you can outregen the damage with fish meals, just stay around 1 dash distance away from her for free hits with blast.
How on Earth does she outdamage you anyway? Her most damaging attacks barely do 200 damage…
As for the blocking and parry bullshittery… vetex is adamant that this stays in the game so
Honestly, the real thing that drives me insane is that I have farmed her on my main slot. And it did not take this much struggle to kill her the first time.
And Vetex, if ever you read this, for whatever reason: If you’re going to insist the bosses block/parry, at least make it make sense. They shouldn’t be able to do it during moves and endlag from moves, that just punishes us for trying to punish their bad aim.
Honestly, the only thing that makes Carina annoying to deal with is her bs parrying (getting all of my rapid fire shots parried as I try to punish Carina’s smash attack is stupid.) She’s an absolute cakewalk otherwise with her really low DPS compared to other bosses.
honestly if anybody’s having trouble with Carina, they need to step back and get some better gear and level up because Calvus is going to kick the shit out of them if they don’t lol.
(as an aside, when doing my super low level run, I got someone to help me for carina because at level 60 some I was not outdpsing her, but I soloed calvus at level 79 with level 0-10 gear, branch bow, pistol, and shield)
