Mega Man X4 All Bosses
Faustina Bartsch
Megabosses are a category of bosses that are vital to the game's progression. These bosses are always accessed via a portal; they never spawn on the main island. Most megabosses are accessed via crafting the respective portal in the Furniture menu, but some are accessed via handheld teleporters. Megabosses typically have high health and give high rewards. However, all megabosses are constrained by a lives counter, so you need to be strong enough to not lose all of your lives.
Mega bosses can be fought at any time, have multiple phases, and are usually required to defeat in order to obtain certain tools. They are found through portals in the Gathering Place (excluding Llin), which players are unable to enter without first reaching specific level thresholds. In these fights, players' lives are tracked independently of each other--when one player runs out of lives, they do not respawn until the other players in the server either defeat the boss or run out of lives as well. If a player manages to stay alive until a mega boss is defeated, they gain an amount of EXP and gold that scales with their level and unlock the ability to purchase new tools from the Human Automaton also located in the Gathering Place.
Mega bosses are unofficially divided into different tiers to denote their difficulty and relevance to gameplay. Tier 0 bosses are considered optional, as they do not lock progression behind them and yield unorthodox rewards.
Seriously what are MMO Bosses doing in Single player RPG. This is un-immersive at best. It ruins the average person's play through because even scale properly to game difficulty. They can even kill your party right through GOD?!. What were you thinking when this to the game. Cheesing out a boss fight by having completely retool your character build IS NOT FUN. Save this garbage Pillars of Eternity online where it really belongs. This content can't be accessed by a casual player looking for a complete play through. Scale the fights to game difficulty you choose to play at. I'm playing the otherwise "Great Game", credit where credit is due, for a good time. Not a gear grind, not smashing my head against the same fight for hours on end. This is in no way fun.
They are a hard fight, but they are meant to be hard. The biggest reward is the ability to make a weapon or armor mythic. Arguably not very useful because you are pretty much at the end of the game when you are strong enough to fight them. I think the point of them is to get you out of your comfort zone when you fight them because what you have done for the whole game will probably not work here. You can beat them, I have, but your strategy needs to be different. And they are entirely optional to the game. Just there for the folks that want an extra challenge.
Here's my answer: Because these games are mainly designed as escapist power fantasy for an incredibly conservative male audience who want precisely that and would get royally angry if it were any other way.
Those boss fights are for people who want to respec, specialize and min-max their characters. The base game suffered from the lack of tough opponents. I would prefer if they were intergrated into the game in the first place, and they were part of the larger quests - fighting Adra Dragon was exciting becuase of the buildup. Fighting just a monster without context isn't as exciting. In addition Adra Dragon or any other challenge boss in PoE worked better as there was always another way to "solve" them.
Unfortunately, due to the complete overhaul of how Deadfire combat works devs had to rething how epic bosses play out - making fight last much much longer was one of the obvious needed changes considering abundancy of resources available to characters.
As it is, those mega-bosses are there for those who want challenge and provide little else beyond satisfaction of beating them. If that's not your cup of tea, really don't worry, and just ignore them. They weren't in the game in the first place, there is nothing that special to be gained by beating them.
I had fun with the first two megabosses, didn't yet try out the other ones.
Because many game rely on positive feedback loop - you do well, you a get reward. Of course, it evntually creates an issue of good players being rewarded for being good and making it easier to be good in the future. What you mention is negative feedback loop, which punishes player (albiet equipping the ring is optional, making it an optional negative feedback loop?) for doing well keeping the challenge more even.
There is loot- Mythical Adra Stone which allows you to make one weapon or armour Mythic quality, and a trinket for each boss. It'd be cool if they dropped rare crafting ingredients too, and the odd pair of boots or gloves or something since the spider and ooze at least have probably eaten a fair few adventurers
They are just there for the challenge and give you nothing special. So that people like OP look a bit silly when ranting about "content [that] can't be accessed by a casual player looking for a complete play through".
I do agree that story mode should make the megabosses easy to smash through, because I want to get the trinkets before doing the DLC but the buggers require optimised parties and equipment even on the easiest mode ;_;
- there are specific optimal party compositions vs megabosses. And these usually do not include hard-cc, and builds that can run out of resources. Moreover megabosses have high enough AR to rule out quite a lot of non-raw spells since their penetration scales slower compared to weapons.
If you're just coming to the game now, you might not realize that the megabosses were a relatively late addition to provide a special challenge - almost apart from the main game - for the more hardcore optimization player base. They're entirely optional, meant for level 20 parties, and are intentionally kept relatively out of the way of the generic vanilla playthrough.
They're also not just HP sponges/meatshields; most have some key weakness that needs to be revealed/capitalized on by a player with thorough knowledge of the combat mechanics. That said, I do agree that they can be a little over the top in terms of difficulty (especially the ooze boss) and wouldn't be opposed to some tweaking to make the fights winnable without a multiple-hour time investment.
The world map should also indicate them with a special icon instead of one used for all other bounties/combat encounters. That or work them into some kind of quest so there's at least some narrative payoff.
What's dumb about it is that liberals also love to indulge power fantasies, hence stuff like "oh hell yeah look at the way I can kill all these Nazis in Wolfenstein". Yeah dogg we all play video games to feel good, have at it
So I finally beat the two mega bosses last weekend and it wasn't a walk in the park even though I had a full party and each character configured for possible Solo Play. (I have a long way to go to figure out how to beat either of them in Solo, Normal Mode, let alone PoTD).
This strategy is for the rest of us who are content with beating the Mega Bosses with a full party without resorting to cheating (using console commands) and/or gung ho on doing PoTD. I apologize for the lack of details about what items I used, step by step skill allocation, etc. This is just to provide the most important general guidelines in taking those two pesky bosses down. I can post up more details if required by the community
All characters are L20, abilities all focused towards getting the highest possible passive defense/deflection/healing. Except for the spell casters, all ability points went to Athletics to have the highest second wind activation. Secondary skills also leverage on items that leverage on them, for example that large shield that optimizes deflection with metaphysics (Cadhu Skalth) I have metaphysics @L20.
Pallegina's chants were all the healing chants + Paladin passive and active healing abilities (I don't think I would have succeeded in killing these two mega bosses if I hadn't configured Pallegina that way.'
Load up your main tank as many miraculous healing potions as possible (at least 5 to be safe). All other characters should have at least 5-10 major healing potions to stay alive until Belranga's defense drops below 70. Stack at least 10 Maelstorm / Meteor Shower on Xoti and Tekehu.
Use your main tank (must have highest possible deflection) to keep Belranga busy with him. Your main tank should be able to stay alive long enough for the rest of the party to kill enough spiders until Belranga's defense drops below 70. Attack Belranga right at the start of the Battle. If main tank is a Paladin, keep activating Sworn Enemy and activate all buffs that increase deflection/defense. Your goal is to stay at full health with minimal potion use.
Use the rest of your party to kill the small spiders coming in from all directions. Use your main damage dealer and backup tank/dps to keep the spiders away from your main tank and protect your spell casters. Spell casters help kill spiders using low level spells if necessary but save the strongest spells for the later part of the battle.
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