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Boss Battle: Xel – Duelyst

#25

Agreed here. While I still disagree with @divinedevek since I believe the boss should have a clear advantage to be interesting (AI is not going to be clever enough to compete with human on equal terms), I do also believe that each boss should be beatable with a number of ladder decks. It’s not the case for this one. Options are severely limited, and it seems that no ladder deck can beat it, only the ones specifically tailored to deal with it’s effect - and all of them can’t be played on ladder.

Or did anyone beat him with a ladder deck?

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#26

I just killed him with my Midrange Vaath deck on third try. Probably would have gotten him on the first but had a disconnect -.-

Punched him with my General for 52 damage on my 6 mana turn, who cares about lifesteal xD

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#27

I’m genuinely interested in seeing this. Any chance you’d be willing to link a replay?

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#28

Wasn’t anything special, played one Drogon on my 4 Mana turn, he didn’t remove it and tried to race me instead. On 6 Mana i followed it up with second Drogon + BBS + Crypto + BBS for 52 damage in his face.

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#29

I beat him with my ladder deck. Dropped two Shadowdancers, then replaced until I had a Saberspine + Deathfire Crescendo combo. Played a couple of dispel units inbetween to thin out its herd.

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#30

The boss took many tries, but I finally got with Wild Tahr when he uses the Ash Emphty’s (spelled wrong) to attack your general. Ended up killing everyone of his minions with Tahr as well as using Flamewreath for AoE damage and Juxaposition for out of reach minions.

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#31

This boss felt even more painful than the one that cause 2 damage AOE dying wish, finally managed to beat it after plenty tries with dancers, and Kelaino. horror burster helped with getting rid of one of the sarlac. I did notice that the boss stopped sending their minion to attack once I got two dancers and a Kelaino on the field

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#32

Maybe I just got too salty too quickly, but solo Vaath did not work for me. I’d always find myself dying or on the brink right when I wanted to Drogon combo and couldn’t survive the exchange or deal enough damage to win.

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#33

Slightly adjusted healyonar did the trick for me

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#34

I wish we can have an area to replay old bosses. So much better than playing practice mode when trying out new deck strategies. I really liked the boss that teleported a few weeks ago. That was really fun. CPG please…

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#35

I didn’t say the perfect AI needed to give me a run for my money. I did say that idea wouldn’t work any better than this one with all the current bugs, like using Spiral Technique on a healing mystic or the inability to play around sarlac and sinister silhuoette. I don’t think that is asking for perfection of artificial intelligence.

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Boss Battle: Archmagus Vol – Duelyst
#36

Rancour, self heal, buffs and Grove lion did it for me. Ridiculous how easily it dies to its original sprite.

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#37

Basically the reason for my initial rage with boss battles. Since then they have changed a lot (at least they seem to) as I was able to win with my regular SC deck for a couple of months.

This boss took some thinking (and some “screw this”), but I came to conclusion that if I basically have to fight against a Shadowdancer than I have to outdance him. So I went with kinda aggressive Aby heal/steal deck (thankfully now I have cards for it):

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Replay.

Part of the trick, IMO, is that this boss is very passive (which can be seen on the replay when I made a mistake & moved in the range of Shadow Watcher).

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#38

the boss is very passive, it wont even attack with its minions if it isnt important. i beat it with a grow deck, just plopped down a kollosus and marched it over. 2 smacks later it was dead (though i only had 1 hp left and would have died if it used minions that DIDNT have forcefield)

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#39

This is probably the only time Corporal Cadence is good…
https://play.duelyst.com/replay?replayId=-Ktvwf-9XzKskoMnUjLo

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#40

https://play.duelyst.com/replay?replayId=-Ktvyia68ND0_nlx4Dum

i hate this boss…

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#41

here’s a hint, he stands in shadow creep

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#42

Trying the boss out now, and this is the first time I’ve thought about redirecting the input about the boss back to those who designed it:

  • How much did you guys play test this one in it’s final reiteration?
  • What did YOU guys think of your own boss here?
  • What did you intend to accomplish with this boss design?
  • Did you beat your boss? What was the deck archetype you ran with to do so?

I’m gonna keep trying, and will edit or post upon completion. As of now, this isn’t fun. The only current input I have at the moment is something I brought up before in that it feels that no consideration is given to what the real health start is in these matchups. On turn 1 it’s 2/25 vs 1/30, yes, but by turn 2 you have 4 mana to work with and will probably be closer to 2/15 vs 1/30 still.

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#43

Also have a simple question for you : what are you trying to achieve ?

  1. just beat the boss, no matter what and get the orb
  2. beat the boss with a specific deck
  3. beat the boss and have fun

… I think these 3 are different and mutually exclusive :confused:

If your answer is #1, you may need to spend 600 Spirit to craft 3xDarkfire Sacrifice and 3xShadowDancer and go for an easy kill (just dump any decent card around and open with DFS on Sarlac + summon SD). It may seem a waste of Spirit but these are useful if one day you play Abyssian.

Edit : corrected DFS

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#44

Just beat the boss, don’t really want to invest spirit in order to do so

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