I've seen some people having trouble killing this boss, so I thought I'd do a short write-up on its attack patterns and how to evade them.
Some people might think that these kind of things are spoilers to them, so I'll wrap them all up in a spoiler tag.
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When you go in the boss stage, it will start to spawn some minions. These are easy to kill. After killing off the minions, you will enter a short cutscene, and Belial himself will start to attack you.
Basically, the boss is very easy to kill in this form. No need to dodge or anything. Just keep doing damage to it. After it reaches around 1/5 health, it will transform into a huge "crab". That's when you need to be careful.
Boss Attack Patterns
HULK SMASH
The boss pounds its pincer on the ground three times. First on the left, Second on the right, and the third in the middle. The boss will start out with this attack. The pounded area will be signaled with a green circle. After this attack, the boss will either follow up with the 'Guillotine' attack or the 'Smelly Breath' attack.
How to evade
If you see the boss use this attack, immediately walk to the left side. Sometimes you might not be able to dodge the first one, but it will ensure that the following two attacks will miss.
Guillotine
The boss pierces its pincer into the ground. Pierced area will be signaled with a green circle.
How to evade
Just pay attention to the animation. This is the easiest attack to dodge.
"100 Years No Wash Mouth" Breath
The boss breaths out fumes that damages almost the whole area.
How to evade
There's two round platforms beside the boss, one on left and one on right. just stay on them and it will not hit you.
Explosion Blast
This is the most deadly attack and the hardest to dodge. This attack will be followed up after the second Guillotine/Breath. The boss pierces both of its pincers into the ground. After that, a series of explosions will happen. The area of explosion will be signaled with a green circle, and explode after 2-3 seconds (roughly, did not count).
How to evade
Once you get hit by 3-4 explosions, it would mean death for most cases. To dodge the explosion, keep your movement to a triangle.
A B
C
When explosion starts, keep track with the timing of the green circle.
Case 1: Explosions ping point A --> C
run to B.
Case 2: Explosions ping point A --> B --> C
run to C, after A explodes run back to A again.
Case 3: Explosions ping point A --> B --> C --> A --> C --> x --> y --> z
after dodging the initial explosion, just run back to the place that has just exploded and repeat.
Just use these simple cases as a reference.
Protip : Don't rush to kill the boss. Try to be patient and slowly grind it to death. Play like you're playing hardcore mode (If not someday you go hardcore mode die then suay siao liaw). Try to get more VIT.
I think that's all la. hope this can help some newbies or people having trouble with this boss
This post has been edited by Xenn: May 18 2012, 07:22 AM