So I wanna make a case for bloomreaper to be one of, if not the worst, raid boss in bl history.
Basically, it's a timed fight for the best loot, meaning you have to be perfect else your sol for the best loot .
Phase 1
It starts off with you needing to smash 6 vile crystals, which already are the most annoying thing to actually break, while being attacked by several creeps, who also have vile crystals .
Making it so self revives are practically impossible.
Then you have to destroy the small and hard to see ordanite orb floating around before it replenishes the crystals. All while bloom reaper is attacking you with a very strong attack, that you have to jump at the right time to avoid, else you take a lot of damage and get launched away.
Then it triggers a 10-20 second animation where it is immune to damage .
Then phase 2
Now you have to navigate several platforms above the abyss, while bloomreaper jumps from platform to platform, attacking with a really powerful lazer beam (which pushes the player and can stun lock them) and acid spills the platform hes on.
Not to mention the army of creeps he sends at you
If you deal enough damage he will trigger another immune phase followed by phase 3 in which he cannot take damage and can be locked into his Lazer animation for even longer.
Phase 3.
In phase 3 he fills the arena with a thick sandstorm where the player cannot see anything including the boss and the tiny platforms of safety while still attacking relentlessly and hopping from platform to platform.
That is assuming you at no point got flung into the abyss or worse killed while in the air and fell to your doom .
All for him to fall off the edge and spew the loot directly into the bottomless pit as you watch in actual rage .
The whole fight feels like tiny moments of taking the piss, from the difficult creeps to the use of vile crystals, to the abysmal map and bloomreapers moveset that makes him invincible more often then not
It gets worse if your Rafa or amon melee builds as the shit targeting sends you hurtling into the Stygian darkness you have not felt since listening to mid 00s my chemical romance .
It feels so frustrating to know your either shit out of luck or have to rebuild your character into the carbon copy Harlowe boss melter #29 every youtuber is running.
It just feels like such a shit, piss take of a map
Like am I the only one or do others feel differently about the fight ?
