*Spoilers* Bonemass was one of the least fun boss battles I've ever had in my life

"Yes! Yet another post whining about Bonemass!" I hear you thinking aloud. But hear me out...

Here's my take on fighting Bonemass for over an hour in a 2 player game:

**Only vulnerable to blunt? That's kinda neat.** I'm lazy and have only been using axes, but after we got our asses kicked the first time, my brother literally said "Maybe we need to try another weapon type, like maces. Kinda wish we hadn't looked this up, as I think it would have been really rewarding to find out we guessed correctly.

**Pukes out AOE of poison? That's cool.** I like the fights that force you to maneuver. Plus there's kind of a progression gate of needing poison resist potions that I enjoy too. I like having to purposefully prepare for a fight.

**Regen? SO UNFAIR. Just kidding.** It's very slow. If I had a million wooden arrows and all the time in the world I bet I could kill Bonemass even with the regen and damage resist. It actually did put some frantic pressure on the fight when we were kiting a dozen swamp critters around wondering how much he would regain before we could get back to him.

**Aggroing the multitude of swamp denizens while trying to fight him? Annoying.** But that's more of an issue with how many damn spawns are in the swamps. It has to be like 3x-4x the black forest.

**Spawning 3-5 blob/skeletons every 30 seconds. This is where the fight falls apart.** It's not the spawns, it's the rapidity of them that kills the fight. Of that hour fighting Bonemass, I would wager we spent maybe 5-10 minutes actually fighting him and not his spawns. That's no good. Perhaps there is some trick to forcing him to puke or swing at you instead of throw blobs, but in an hour of maneuvering in one of the most un-maneuverable terrains in the game, I couldn't figure it out.

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So, if I were a king for a day, basically I would nerf that last part and keep everything else. Maybe spawn less adds? Maybe scale it better for MP? Maybe a minimum cooldown? IDK, but boss fights should be you fighting the boss, not murdering hundreds (LITERALLY) of blobs and skeletons.

Glad that fight is over with. 1/10, would never do again. Thanks for listening to me whine.

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TL;DR - Players must spend too much time fighting adds instead of the boss. Please nerf BM and buff elder bc he's a little bitch compared to BM.