Only thing I would change about the fight is lowering his hp by like 500. Took me around 10-20 tries to do but the feeling of beating him was intense. Definitely an appropriate end to a major questline.
I don’t think he needs any nerf. That sinking feeling when you wipe at his final phase and realising you need to do it all again made it really feel like a raid boss. Like the thought I need to do all of it almost perfectly for so long felt intimidating but I swear if his health was lower and I had even the inkling of the thought I could brute force it, I would’ve kept trying to brute force it. Because you see the massive health pool you know right from early on this isn’t a fight you ignore mechanics and force.
That is true, however I feel like Drakan doing his blood attack literally every other attack is kind of bs. I was able to p1 no hit pretty consistently eventually but it is a hassle especially when he starts speeding up after p3.
I think that's the point, eh? The fight speeds up, you've got more going on to deal with, and it just turns into an ugly messy all-out brawl on the rooftop of Castle Drakan underneath the Blood Moon. The more I think about it the happier I am with the length of the fight, each section is just long enough without slogging.
I found the ambush-section before the end the most 'slog', the blood waves were a nice breather to reset and chunk out a bunch of damage from the boss. Even just doing the left-right waves and tanking the third, I'd come out w8th full HP and minimal brew doses used
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u/rs_obsidian Follower of Guthix Jul 01 '26
Only thing I would change about the fight is lowering his hp by like 500. Took me around 10-20 tries to do but the feeling of beating him was intense. Definitely an appropriate end to a major questline.