a mine or trap weapon with a skill like that actually sounds kinda cool
carina dropkick ahh
the best way to beat maria is to run a weapon build with tempered 1 hand axe, claws, and something with vertical mobility, then just spam on her you’ll kill her in <1 min even if she pulls out the iframes weapons have the highest close quarters dps in a small arena like her’s
as a warrior you can even pull out sunken staff and just wallpen her
just spam siren bow/plund m1s or double 20% drill 
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you are an insane monster
THIS, LITERALLY THIS
people will tell you “oh she’s really easy to predict just read her tiny micro movements that appear for a split second before shooting you” as if like every human being is some kind of innate AO try hard 
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I don’t think there is any canon/official method to beating AO bosses it’s just whatever works best
(like blowing up iris with a TNT barrel)
Not to mention half the time you can’t even SEE her due to her massive clouds of particles. It’s frankly ridiculous
i’m an ao tryhard and i can’t react to her attacks
i just damage trade her to death without even trying to block
atp i feel like ppl telling u to parry her attacks are sniffing their own arses
ngl Maria honestly might be more BS of a boss than Calvus
at least calvus is an actually readable bossfight with predictable and fair moves
(okay to be fair the little javelin things he summons that float on his back are pretty blatantly unfair but for the most part calvus has pretty reasonable moves)
shes ridiculously weak and slow but since shes invincible half the time it makes her take way longer than the other bosses
“invincibility while doing an attack you have to dodge” is pretty common in boss fights but when dodging is easy or even effortless in the case of maria it makes it feel like waiting, especially when with maria the intended method of dodging is literally standing in place
-spam projectiles into maria’s ship
-she goes invincible
-wait for like a 20 seconds
-she starts dodging everywhere like she has ADHD
-try to hit her, take a bullshit 360 damage from her plunderers because her gun m1s are literally not readable
-she goes invincible again
-rinse and repeat…
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It sets her apart in a very bad way, I hope future bosses aren’t just annoying iframe fests
Wait, people actually died to Marina?
it was obviously rushed to not delay the update thats why it sucks
No but we did read the coffee table magazines on top of her boat while she was busy attacking us with her “special japanese anime water technique”
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no official method, but there is an intended one
great to see im not entirely mentally ill 
there is a pretty good strategy:
wait until she uses a chargeable attack then counter it, otherwise just keep moving around and holding block
guns can be dodged if you stand inside the ship on those curved sides, perfectly evades them
expect a gunshot followup after every attack
the boss is BS, a lot more unfair than calvus, that guy at least has pretty much everything memorisable and reactable (for back summons you quite literally just count down time in your head), maria even after i learned what to do, still feels unfair because of her 0.1 second gunshots, even if i know they are coming.
invicibility move also annoying but its just artificial difficulty to make the boss on “calvus level” without making it into a gear check since we are post-awakening and ~lvl 120
Contrary to seemingly everyone else, I really liked the fight.
The theming? Colours? Amazing. Soundtrack, visuals a the giant tentacles just dramatic. A few things are annoying (iframes) but I really liked it.
11/10 better than Carina