I’m rarely this salty about a HC death and I’ve play a lot of aRPGs and lost a lot of characters in a lot of games to some real bullshit but this was just unfair. I’ve made about 5 characters the last 2 weeks and I 100% facerolled this boss on even the shittiest of them. Then, I finally theory crafted an actual great build and I ran into the mad queens room on normal, pressed blitz, and when my blitz landed, I was instantly dead. My character was simply deleted with zero prior warning, no sound effect, no visuals, nothing. I get it, she can reflect damage and thats fine. But, at least give her a cooldown or prevent her from having it active at the start of the fight as that is just total bull shit. I’m both upset and disappointed that grim dawn has this mechanic in it seeing as how it is mostly a good game.
She has a very noticeable growl and animation before casting her death aura
She gets a very easily noticeable red aura around her, during this state any projectile that lands on her will cause her aura to retaliate multiple spikes that can shotgun you to death
This ability has a cooldown and the ability is never active at the start of a fight, what happened to you was bad luck and I can’t explain it, but I can say for certain it wasn’t her aura that killed you. Besides her aura she has no other one-shot abilities. Mechanics aren’t to blame, sorry for your loss
Yep, you can listen to her screams: when she does it 3 times in a row it means she’s going to turn on the aura and it’s time to run away like a little girl.
She doesn’t use it right at the beginning, you have at least several seconds before she does.
You probably got hit by her melee attack that hits like a truck and maybe she had a crit on you.