What do you think about Callagadra?

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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I’ll be referring as “she”, because the name Callagadra sounds like a female name to me.

I personally think that she is weaker than Ravager, but the damn slow that you can only avoid by moving away is such a bullshit that it literally makes me quit fighting her. 37% with this stupid sand she summons and 57% with the tornados, which are only visible if you stare at the screen like a nerd. Pet builds get annihilated by her, unless you’re teleporting back to her and keep on kiting her for minutes, builds that use their skills/weapons are basically fucked because they have to hit her few times when she casts her wing storm. I’d rather have her reduce resistances even more than having a stupid slow that can be only denied by running 15 meters away. Sure, kiting builds can smash her, so do retaliation builds that you can leave in front of her face and go make yourself a tea or coffee. I brought her to ~60% HP with my pet build, then I’ve quit because it was way too boring. Brought her to about ~55% HP today with my retaliation DE and quit because I got bored of 2 seconds of fighting and 10 seconds of running away till you find a fucking spot where are no tornados.

What are your opinions? :stuck_out_tongue:

2

At first I hated her.

Then I found her easy.

Then Birbs were nerfed.

Then I hated her again.

Then ghosts came along.

Now I just kill her with my Warlord and wonder why pets take 3x the time to do it.

Zantai once said that Cally’s dmg against pets will get nerfed a bit, but probably decided against it.

As far as all the bossfights go, Cally and Crate still remains my most hated fights because of the mechanics involved.

3

Because she is. :smiley:

4

Multiple people think she’s a manly man. :stuck_out_tongue:

5

I think it got confirmed during testing. She’s a she. :stuck_out_tongue:

6

It’s an uber boss with a gimmick (kite-able), seems k to me

7

It’s a crap boss that has less lore presence than Kyzogg.

The fight was enjoyable for me personally due to the cool effects but the lack of lore pisses me off cause Superbosses always had a neat bit of lore around them. I wish the devs take some time to add a lore note or two for this one.

8

Disapointing with one word.

Celestials were supposed to be injected with lore and have impactful background instead we get 3 of them with zero any of it - Calagadra, Lokarr and Crate (ok that is an easter egg boss and can close eyes here).

We could have any of the dozens of Forgotten gods in the lore but instead we got a randomly reskinned gargolye seeimingly conjured by the horrors caused by end of Korvan empire`s citizens…very very weak and non-Crate style.

9

This times 10
Only disagree with Lokarr here since he too like Crate and Bourbon is an Easter Egg boss.

Sure he fits into the lore somewhat due to his cryptic statements in the Crucible but mostly he was an easter egg boss.

10

Indeed but lets also note that the whole Dravis/Dalia thing started as an easter egg and look where it went.

Lokarr thanks to his statements in Crucible really has the groundwork done to become a canon piece of the lore :wink:

11

Never felt the initiative to actually find her. I cleared FG with most of story plots not really answered, everyone seems to rush and crush content as much and as high as possible.
I reached SR 5; I don’t think my best toon can reach 15.
All this hussle reminds me of Diablo3 just after greater rifts were introduced. I haven’t played grimdawn in a month and that’s it i think. These 400h during last 3years were fun though.

12

True, let’s see what Crate decides to do with Lokarr’s lore.

13

So I stumbled upoa Callagadra on my elite playthrough with a level 69 toon. Didn’t read any spoilers beforehand, so she hit me out of nowhere. She spawned with level 112 - is this intended, doesn’t she scale to player level?

14

Correct. /10 chars

15

Working as intended as Zantai would say. :stuck_out_tongue:

16

It’s intended, cause she drops endgame loot even on elite. Actually, it’s smarter to farm her on elite, cause your resists are higher. After all, she’s super-endgame boss, like Ravager. She hits really hard - i’m able to kill her with my (quite tanky) Forcewave WB, but only with non-stop kiting using disengage every time she comes close.