Markoth is not ok...

I have been playing hollow knight since the release of grimm troupe and i love everything about this game so i was pretty hyped when godmaster came out. When i first started playing i notice that it was going to be the hardest dlc, but it gave me a lot of motivation to get back playing the game. I went full try hard mode and get radiant mode on all bosses except Markoth and Absolute Radiance (https://imgur.com/a/QUCG00P). To be real i can't even kill him in ascended mode. I have a lot of problems with Markoth. My first problem with him is his randomness, i know there are other bosses in the game that just go wherever they want, but in Markohth's case it is different, since he is constantly throwing spells at you.That makes it super hard to know if you should go for a hit after a dodge, because he can simple thump on you with his shield. That builds the reason why this boss fight is bad, it fells that there is no time and space to hit him. I know that the optimal way to defeat him is to get double hits with spells and to use nail arts, it sure makes the fight easier but it do not get rid of the problem that is when to hit him, especially in his second faze. Therefore i am not saying that it is impossible to beat Markoth, there are a lot of players that manage to beat him in radiance mode. All i am trying to say is that the boss fight is very hard in an unfunny way. For example in my opinion Pure Vessel and Nightmare King are the hardest boss fights in the game. That difficulty does not make them bad, because they have clear hit and dodge times. That is not the case with Markoth, his random movements, lack of space and unclear hit and dodge times makes the fight hard and unfunny in an unfair way , for that reason his nerf does not seen to help because hp was never his problem. With that in mind i suggest three ideias that i think will make boss fight better.

1-Give him the ground back, so the player have a safe place to hit and dodge.

2-Make his shield attack easier to read and dodge, that way he will have a clear hit time.

3-Replace his random movements with platform teleportation, similar to the Radiance. That way it is easier to hit and dodge.

They are supposed to be implemented separately.

I am making this post because i love the game and think Markoth is discouraging to achieve Pantheon V and all bosses Radiante mode.

Submitted December 19, 2018 at 07:01AM by lucasvaz97 https://ift.tt/2GwFk15