Zalmarath, The Colossus - hit boxes, bugs, feedback

Couple hours ago I have finished my struggle with Zalmarath on PS5 and I feel need to give my feedback.
Played as a Ranger.

- Hit boxes are inconsistent. Being close to Zalmarath ended up with having greatest survivability but I couldn't hit him with arrows. Character was targeting his hands (more forearms to be specific) and weapon after he left it in the ground. When I kept my distance arrows were flying towards his torso but also weapon when on the ground. I am confident that no matter the distance, rods and lightning arrow were always hitting him.
Targeting with gamepad is hard here also because of losing aim and hitting opposite side of the map or following and shooting at arms moving in the air instead of body.

- Applying mark (Voltaic Mark) is another thing. Mark hitting the ground instead of boss but this is also happening with regular mobs.

- Left arm "swipe the platform" attack - incredibly janky and jerky if character was catch (pushed) by arm. Multiple times I was launched up in the air way higher than boss's head.

- Floor form in later stage can cause character to be launched in the air.


- Floor form in later stage can cause orbs launched by boss to be reflected - I don't know if that's the intention but it's raising the difficulty, haha.


- This one I need to hide ;)

- I had hard time to read boss's intentions mid fight because I felt I need to stay on the opposite side of the platform to hit him consistently. Due to the camera zoom I couldn't see all his moves. I have a very mixed feelings about camera zoom in this fight.


Game is nice and... fun, and those are my two cents.

Does his forearm do damage when he goes across with his knife? Otherwise I have no idea how I die sometimes. I never get hit by the actual knife but i end up dead some how. Can someone please clarify if his forearm does dmg as well when he stabs his knife into the ground and drags it across from top to bottom when he is on the right side of the boss arena?