Combat interaction, Abyssal.

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Abyssal is pretty good, but it needs some more variety. Its pretty much two boss mobs, the girl and the octopus. Every once in a while the arm octopus guy and rarely the weird tree thing.

The girls are cool. They can be slightly annoying, but overall its a clean interaction and the beams are really cool. They try to slow freeze and then unleash the cannon. It makes sense.

The octopus are quote annoying. Mostly due to repetition, attack speed. They just spit a lot of shit, and usually have regen. So its always the same- get em in the open, run in circles. They often attack so quick its hard to get an opening- they are also too automated. Its like fighting a clock. The big balls do shitloads of damage and are a little strong.

Oh yeah, the horse things too. Those are fine except when they are super fast, then they are as annoying as their speed. They often hit very hard and stun. Their lightning often aimbots.

Anything over and over and over on a timer is lame.

Thats why the exiles are so cool. They just do all sorts of cool shit. The only negative is that they often have wild regen. Easily the best. They also play ranges and talk too, which is super awesome.


The main reason I came to post, is I just fought an octopus that was super super annoying. Autoattack was a 5ish wide spread, really quick, heavy dmg- like heavy heavy damge- super hard to avoid. The only way I could dodge the damage, and only that damage mind you, was to run in circles around the mob as close as possible. lol

If I ran anywhere further out I'd get clipped by the super wide auto and be dead in about three-five hits.

Then of course you're often fighting multiple of these at once. Three is always fun........ easily more threatening than bosses. Like WAY WAY more threatening than bosses. It doesn't really make sense.

Bosses have good mechanics and they are fun to fight. These abyssal rares have annoying mechanics and are not fun to fight.

Its gotten to the point where everytime I hear the pit noise- I'm dreading the rare coming in at mach 5 to spam me to annoyance. Bleh.