Well it was bound to happen on a patch thread the fanboys will defend, even thou what i said is 100% fact. Kymon on Ultimate is in my top 3 of worst designed bosses of all time and i am 35 years old so thats alot of bosses to go up against. Rest the game is awesome thou.
Kymon isn’t as hard as I thought myself. To quote myself (this is for Ultimate Hardcore, untwinked - running green items and crappy purples)
Well, that was way easier than I expected.
1st round, I popped the Aether Cluster and DPSed him. At 12th second mark he was at 50% HP.
Then I started to kite. The key thing to remember is that it’s those damn flames that are deadly (getting in the middle of one would reduce my HP by half! from 18k to 9k lol), not Kymon himself. The flames are actually following a set pattern and are fairly easy to dodge, it goes like this: outer circle -> inner circle -> left side -> right side -> “cross” and then it repeats. All you have to do is to remember this while kiting.
My original idea was to kite him until my aether cluster is available again, but when I was about to attack him, he died. Lol! Guess the damage from blade spirits + Rattosh + revenant skeletons was actually big enough to shave his remaining 50% HP during my kiting.
Kymon would hit me occasionally by his jump (annoying during the "outer’ and “cross” phases as you need to run around close to the center and he can jump through the gap in the middle to surprise you) but he didn’t exceed 50% of my HP in damage.
Things to understand are that:
- it’s the FLAMES that is so deadly and if you can’t facetank Kymon (weak build, weak gear or both), you have to learn the pattern and avoid fire at all cost
- many of Kymon’s attacks stun. This opens you up for getting splattered via orbs or flames. Stun resistance of some form is really important.
- Kymon reduces your resistances by 25% with his mere presence. Remember to have 25% overkill on fire rez.
Honestly, I’m not even that good at kiting and what I’m to point out here is that Kymon lost 50% of his ultimate HP to 18/16 Blade Spirit with Rune of Rattosh activated - in 80 seconds. That’s a lot
He’s not the Crate of Entertainment you guys sadly didn’t nerf, which requires stupid, gimmicky builds and tricks and is impossible to beat for many fun builds in the game. Secret boss or not, he shouldn’t be that stupid. You can beat Kymon by “passive damage” like Blade Spirit and kiting.
The Crate of Entertainment uberboss REALLY requires a look at. Because shoehorning peeps into high DPS 60% physical res/4500 armor dudes with 80% CC resistance in a kill-in-3-mins-or-die kind of race (remembering to have as little AOE as possible, possibly none, with War Cry being a mandatory skill so it must be part Soldier) kinda sucks.
EDIT: this forum layout is killing me. 2nd time I edit my own post instead of replying to someone. Sorry for DELS above they shouldn’t be here. I just restored my post thorugh history.