Fixed Celestial Scion’s ground attack failing at the edge of the arena.

[Cruvimaster]

I don't know how to defeat this boss anymore. It was impossible to avoid the entire arena being consumed by the boss's attack, as you can clearly see in the video.

I believe that the developers play their games and can make this fight with all the characters, right? Therefore, the devs should be able to defeat Wilson, Wes and Wanda with 65+ age in the internal tests they do, right?

The lower the character's damage, the more attacks the boss will have. That's obvious. And Wanda does more damage than Wilson.

If the only solution is to use a Wolfgang with Volt Goat Chaud-Froid or maybe a Maxwel with a cage, then it gets complicated.

Since I don't know the solution YET, I may be being unfair to the developers, but I ask you:

Has anyone discovered the solution to this boss attack here on the forum, because I couldn't find anything on YouTube.

Edited June 7, 2025 by Cruvimaster

[Edible Coal]

u are suppose to fight it at the edge of the arena and fun under it

[Cruvimaster]

1 minute ago, Edible Coal said:

u are suppose to fight it at the edge of the arena and fun under it

Do you have a solution or do you just want to make jokes? What is your contribution to the development of a beta version?

[Edible Coal]

18 minutes ago, Cruvimaster said:

Do you have a solution or do you just want to make jokes? What is your contribution to the development of a beta version?

here, i saw jakey does that

Just now, Edible Coal said:

here, i saw jakey does that

7:00

[Cruvimaster]

27 minutes ago, Edible Coal said:

here, i saw jakey does that

7:00

I didn't see a solution, not even at 7 minutes. I watched the video several times to try to understand what you want to show me, but I didn't see it.

At 7 minutes he plays with Willow and we can't see the end and at 7:04 he's already with Wolfgang (and this fight isn't under the boss's conditions - without his legs and the arena is disabled).

What I saw was him taking a lot of damage with Wolfgang and using a mod to recover health (200 health). A single hit and Wanda dies. Even with 200 health Wolfgang fails. It goes back to what I said about the boss having to be possible (being possible is different from being easy) for all characters.

I saw a moment where he stands on the edge of the arena, but that won't be possible in the final version of the beta either.

I'll watch the video a few more times to try to figure out what you found and what I still haven't.

Edited June 7, 2025 by Cruvimaster

[Evelo]

This is classic MMO Boss fight design. It is a soft timer. Positioning is what matters most. Keep it near the edge facing away from the center of the island, let it do its slam, then go a little left or right. Anyone can do it, hell even wendy/wes can do it with proper positioning. It is all about baiting the dash attack in a proper direction as to avoid it flying towards the center. keep it along the perimeter, once you reach one end it is important to move backwards not stay rotating to minimize space on the outside. Ideally zig zag, not spiral.

[Maxil20]

5 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

u are suppose to fight it at the edge of the arena and fun under it

 

1 hour ago, Evelo said:

Positioning is what matters most. Keep it near the edge facing away from the center of the island,

The recent update changed the boss AI so when it’s about to cast it’s lunar corruption-lava-spam-thing-whatever, it now, specifically, dashes to the center of the arena and uses the move right after, meaning the strat to keep in in the corner to avoid most of the corruption no longer works because it will escape when it’s about to use the move. This is shown in the video OP posted at ~30 seconds, where it specifically dashes torward the center and uses the attack.

[Cruvimaster]

1 hour ago, Evelo said:

This is classic MMO Boss fight design. It is a soft timer. Positioning is what matters most. Keep it near the edge facing away from the center of the island, let it do its slam, then go a little left or right. Anyone can do it, hell even wendy/wes can do it with proper positioning. It is all about baiting the dash attack in a proper direction as to avoid it flying towards the center. keep it along the perimeter, once you reach one end it is important to move backwards not stay rotating to minimize space on the outside. Ideally zig zag, not spiral.

Could you make a video and bring this to us consistently. I say consistently because when our character dies the boss will return 18k health. 

[Swiyss]

1 hour ago, Evelo said:

This is classic MMO Boss fight design. It is a soft timer. Positioning is what matters most. Keep it near the edge facing away from the center of the island, let it do its slam, then go a little left or right. Anyone can do it, hell even wendy/wes can do it with proper positioning. It is all about baiting the dash attack in a proper direction as to avoid it flying towards the center. keep it along the perimeter, once you reach one end it is important to move backwards not stay rotating to minimize space on the outside. Ideally zig zag, not spiral.

Yeah I thought that was common sense the moment I saw the ground attack..

15 minutes ago, Maxil20 said:

The recent update changed the boss AI so when it’s about to cast it’s lunar corruption-lava-spam-thing-whatever, it now, specifically, dashes to the center of the arena and uses the move right after, meaning the strat to keep in in the corner to avoid most of the corruption no longer works because it will escape when it’s about to use the move. This is shown in the video OP posted at ~30 seconds, where it specifically dashes torward the center and uses the attack.

Then there has to be a timing.

Or maybe, tanking the already contaminated area for some seconds just to make him attack at the same place twice could also work.

[Evelo]

1 hour ago, Maxil20 said:

 

The recent update changed the boss AI so when it’s about to cast it’s lunar corruption-lava-spam-thing-whatever, it now, specifically, dashes to the center of the arena and uses the move right after, meaning the strat to keep in in the corner to avoid most of the corruption no longer works because it will escape when it’s about to use the move. This is shown in the video OP posted at ~30 seconds, where it specifically dashes torward the center and uses the attack.

If that is the case then you need to utilize the Lazy Explorer, teleport onto the area of effect, let it start the slam where it is overlapping the previous AoE, then teleport away before the effect lands. Another classic MMO Boss design mechanic. Overlapping the AoE is integral to keeping the area safe.

1 hour ago, Cruvimaster said:

Could you make a video and bring this to us consistently. I say consistently because when our character dies the boss will return 18k health. 

I could but that would require me (a lazy linux user) to find the appropriate software to screen capture, then figure out how said software works, then figure out how to upload it to whatever platform (probably youtube which isn't hard) works for everyone. So no, I will not be doing that because frankly, I am lazy. Apologies.

[Ridley]

6 minutes ago, Evelo said:

I could but that would require me (a lazy linux user) to find the appropriate software to screen capture, then figure out how said software works, then figure out how to upload it to whatever platform (probably youtube which isn't hard) works for everyone. So no, I will not be doing that because frankly, I am lazy. Apologies.

Got DST on Steam? There is a new recording feature that might work for you.

[Cruvimaster]

2 hours ago, Evelo said:

If that is the case then you need to utilize the Lazy Explorer, teleport onto the area of effect, let it start the slam where it is overlapping the previous AoE, then teleport away before the effect lands. Another classic MMO Boss design mechanic. Overlapping the AoE is integral to keeping the area safe.

I could but that would require me (a lazy linux user) to find the appropriate software to screen capture, then figure out how said software works, then figure out how to upload it to whatever platform (probably youtube which isn't hard) works for everyone. So no, I will not be doing that because frankly, I am lazy. Apologies.

Okay. I tried several times and gave up. I would have had more fun spending that time on a souslike boss.

Wanda is clearly a garbage late game character. She can't take shock damage that is instant death and she can't even use her most powerful weapon and has to fight like any other standard character, but without their benefits. On top of that, yesterday the devs also nerfed bone armor, making Wanda die at any time from a dash attack from the boss.

I'm going to take a break from the beta and play something else.

[Evelo]

6 hours ago, Ridley said:

Got DST on Steam? There is a new recording feature that might work for you.

Oh. I did not know this! I will certainly try that out and post if I can figure it out.

[mr. brj]

On 6/7/2025 at 3:18 PM, Cruvimaster said:

Has anyone discovered the solution to this boss attack here on the forum, because I couldn't find anything on YouTube.

Not my video (and a little too late) but here you go:

Spoiler

 

 

Edited June 8, 2025 by mr. brj