History ThatOneBoss / Dauntless

* Sahvyt is a literal LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its [[ThatOneAttack dash attack]]. Said dash attack has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has [[FakeDifficulty ABSOLUTELY NONE WHATSOEVER]]. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

* Sahvyt is a [[LiteralTropes literal]] LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its [[ThatOneAttack dash attack]]. Said dash attack has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has [[FakeDifficulty ABSOLUTELY NONE WHATSOEVER]]. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

* Sahvyt is a literal LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its [[ThatOneAttack dash attack]]. Said dash attack has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has [[FakeDifficulty ABSOLUTELY NONE WHATSOEVER]]. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

* The Riftstalker uses a similar skeleton to the Embermane, but its attack pattern is different enough from it for it to be a standalone boss. That being said, it is most certainly not an easy one. From traveling through portals that it opens up ([[MyRulesAreNotYourRules portals that your player character cannot run through]]) to trapping an entire group of players in a dark spherical dimension and firing shadowy orbs and clones of itself out of multiple portals in that dimension, Riftstalker is a speedy rat that will most likely trip up players on their first play-through. And then there is its LimitBreak attack: once it enters rage mode, it opens up two portals on top of each other and travels through them, building up speed, and then opens up portals next to the player and spins really fast from one portal to the next in an attempt to deal massive damage to the players. The main problem with this is that the time that it spawns in the portal actually varies; it could either spawn very late and a player would mistime an interruption and get hit, or it would spawn much too early and the player would strike too late and get hit. What is worse is that [[HitboxDissonance Riftstalker can hit you if you happen to be standing on the OTHER SIDE of the portal, as its body is wider than the portal and its hitbox is too FAT]].

** The Urska also takes after the Embermane (seeing a pattern?) in that it's a fast, nimble behemoth that is very hard to hit. On top of this, it's an Ice Elemental behemoth with a freezing attack (in later patches, [[{{Nerf}} Frozen status was thankfully replaced with the Chilled status]]), a keystone behemoth (meaning only reachable at the end of a long escalation), and most annoying of all it's Escalation has a unique Fail condition known as Frostbite, which is a meter that slowly builds unless you perform a specific action or find a brazier to warm up. These actions often require you to damage or break bits off of the Urska which, combined with it's buffed stats and evasion (including the ability to just cling onto the ceiling for short periods of time) makes the fight extremely annoying. This is only amplified because the Urska came after Agarus, a completely immobile behemoth that was rather well received.

* The Riftstalker uses a similar skeleton to the Embermane, but its attack pattern is different enough for it to be a standalone boss. That being said, it is most certainly not an easy one. From traveling through portals that it opens up ([[MyRulesAreNotYourRules portals that your player character cannot run through]]) to trapping an entire group of players in a dark spherical dimension and firing shadowy orbs and clones of itself out of multiple portals in that dimension, Riftstalker is a speedy rat that will most likely trip up players on their first play-through. And then there is its LimitBreak attack: once it enters rage mode, it opens up two portals on top of each other and travels through them, building up speed, and then opens up portals next to the player and spins really fast from one portal to the next in an attempt to deal massive damage to the players. The main problem with this is that the time that it spawns in the portal actually varies; it could either spawn very late and a player would mistime an interruption and get hit, or it would spawn much too early and the player would strike too late and get hit. What is worse is that [[HitboxDissonance Riftstalker can hit you if you happen to be standing on the OTHER SIDE of the portal, as its body is wider than the portal and its hitbox is too FAT]].

* The [[MagmaMan Hellion]] is notorious for nearly perpetually dousing the field in magma which sets slayers ablaze by mere contact, compounded by the fact that it hits ''hard''. The Scorchstone variant takes all of that and turns it '''STRAIGHT [[UpToEleven UP TO ELEVEN]]'''.

* Sahvyt is a literal LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its dash attack. Said dash attack has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has [[FakeDifficulty ABSOLUTELY NONE WHATSOEVER]]. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

* Sahvyt is a literal LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its dash attack that has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has [[FakeDifficulty ABSOLUTELY NONE WHATSOEVER]]. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

* Sahvyt is a literal LightningBruiser in that it uses Shock attacks. It is a hard fight for all the wrong reasons. All it loves to do is [[SpamAttack spam]] the ever-living daylights out of its dash attack that has no interrupts and knocks over slayers over and over again. Even when it is not enraged, it spams this attack an awful lot. And when it IS enraged? It just keeps spamming that dash three times in a row, every 20 seconds. Players that fight it are either [[GetBackHereBoss running back and forth trying to catch the wretched bug]], or they are [[CycleOfHurting getting knocked around, left and right, with little to no breathing room]]. What is even worse is that while all other agile behemoths, like Embermane, Shrike, Kharabak, or Nayzaga have an attack that can be interrupted, Sahvyt has absolutely NONE WHATSOEVER. And while other behemoths have gotten some form of nerfs in certain patches, Sahvyt was not nerfed at all.

** In version 1.10.3, Chronovore's encounter requirements are completely reworked, granting it its own Radiant Escalation to put it on par with the other Keystone Legendary Beasts.

* The Riftstalker uses a similar skeleton to the Embermane, but its attack pattern is different enough for it to be a standalone boss. That being said, it is most certainly not an easy one. From traveling through portals that it opens up ([[MyRulesAreNotYourRules portals that your player character cannot run through]]) to trapping an entire group of players in a dark spherical dimension and firing shadowy orbs and clones of itself out of multiple portals in that dimension, Riftstalker is a speedy rat that will most likely trip up players on their first play-through. And then there is its LimitBreak attack: once it enters rage mode, it opens up two portals on top of each other and travels through them, building up speed, and then opens up portals next to the player and spins really fast from one portal to the next in an attempt to deal massive damage to the players. The main problem with this is that the time that it spawns in the portal actually varies; it could either spawn very late and a player would mistime an interruption and get hit, or it would spawn much too early and the player would strike too late and get hit. What is worse is that [[HitboxDissonance Riftstalker can hit you if you happen to be standing on the '''OTHER SIDE''' of the portal, as its body is wider than the portal and its hitbox is too FAT]].

* The Riftstalker uses a similar skeleton to the Embermane, but its attack pattern is different enough for it to be a standalone boss. That being said, it is most certainly not an easy one. From traveling through portals that it opens up ([[MyRulesAreNotYourRules portals that your player character cannot run through]]) to trapping an entire group of players in a dark spherical dimension and firing shadowy orbs and clones of itself out of multiple portals in that dimension, Riftstalker is a speedy rat that will most likely trip up players on their first play-through. And then there is its LimitBreak attack: once it enters rage mode, it opens up two portals on top of each other and travels through them, building up speed, and then opens up portals next to the player and spins really fast from one portal to the next in an attempt to deal massive damage to the players. The main problem with this is that the time that it spawns in the portal actually varies; it could either spawn very late and a player would mistime an interruption and get hit, or it would spawn much too early and the player would strike too late and get hit. What is worse is that Riftstalker can hit you if you happen to be standing on the '''OTHER SIDE''' of the portal, as its body is wider than the portal and its hitbox is too FAT.

* The Riftstalker uses a similar skeleton to the Embermane, but its attack pattern is different enough for it to be a standalone boss. That being said, it is most certainly not an easy one. From traveling through portals that it opens up ([[MyRulesAreNotYourRules portals that your player character cannot run through]]) to trapping an entire group of players in a dark spherical dimension and firing shadowy orbs and clones of itself out of multiple portals in that dimension, Riftstalker is a speedy rat that will most likely trip up players on their first play-through. And then there is its LimitBreak attack: once it enters rage mode, it opens up two portals on top of each other and travels through them, building up speed, and then opens up portals next to the player and spins really fast from one portal to the next in an attempt to deal massive damage to the players.

** The Frostwulf is pretty much Urska-lite, but uses more Embermane-style tactics. Just like the Embermane, it spends almost the entirety of its fight running all over the place to tire out an entire team of players. Unlike the Embermane, however, there are actually ''way'' less opportunities for players to interrupt it, as Frostwulf instead prefers to conjure ice geysers and hurl ice lances in the air that will rain down on the battlefield, both attacks of which inflict the Chilled status. Since there are less opportunities to interrupt it, in the rare circumstances that Frostwulf ''does'' decide to use the trademark "Embermane Head Charge", chances are you will not be prepared to counter. And because it [[GetBackHereBoss runs all over the place]] [[FakeDifficulty with little to no opportunities to interrupt it]], many players will be tired of running back and forth, either in terms of the use of in-game stamina or in terms of patience. Eventually, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they might just]] [[RageQuit call it quits]].

** The Urska also takes after the Embermane (seeing a pattern?) in that it's a fast, nimble behemoth that is very hard to hit. On top of this, it's an Ice Elemental behemoth with a freezing attack, a keystone behemoth (meaning only reachable at the end of a long escalation), and most annoying of all it's Escalation has a unique Fail condition known as Frostbite, which is a meter that slowly builds unless you perform a specific action or find a brazier to warm up. These actions often require you to damage or break bits off of the Urska which, combined with it's buffed stats and evasion (including the ability to just cling onto the ceiling for short periods of time) makes the fight extremely annoying. This is only amplified because the Urska came after Agarus, a completely immobile behemoth that was rather well received.

* The [[BullfightBoss Embermane]] has a nasty reputation of running away from slayers, only to either charge back in or lob fire from a distance. Slayer teams that don't know how to interrupt will find the fight dragging on for longer than is comfortable. But even then, it has an even BIGGER reputation of having many, ''many'' variants and monsters adapting its skeleton and fighting style. Notable examples include:

* The [[ShockAndAwe Nayzaga]] periodically spouts out spines from its back that serve as electrical tuning forks which fire ball lightning to harass hunters on top of its unorthodox direct attacks, too. The fight gets worse when aether-charged, and moreso at higher ranks (the spines gain an electrical shield that shocks on contact).

** And it does not end at its microscopic fin hitboxes. A few times throughout the fight, Chronovore will unleash a [[ThatOneAttack wide-radius area-of-effect attack]] that inflicts '''''OneHitKill damage''''' to every player in the vicinity (or, if you are lucky enough to survive, it just reduces your health by approximately 75-80%). Said blast radius is considerably wider than the ''arena itself'', so evading this is '''nigh-impossible'''.

* The [[BullfightBoss Embermane]] has a nasty reputation of running away from slayers, only to either charge back in or lob fire from a distance. Slayer teams that don't know how to interrupt will find the fight dragging on for longer than is comfortable.

* The Stormclaw is similar to the Embermane above (being of the same type, just shock) but it has the additional ability to set up electric fences which prevents ''all'' movement through them even if you try to tank the damage or jump over it. And a lot of its physical attacks either have short windups, or have ''no windup at all''. It becomes immensely easier to fight if you know how to reflect its lightning ball attack back at it (which stuns him and cancels the next series of attacks and abilities) but if you don't, be prepared to play the most annoying game of tag ever.
* The Urska also takes after the Embermane (seeing a pattern?) in that it's a fast, nimble behemoth that is very hard to hit. On top of this, it's an Ice Elemental behemoth with a freezing attack, a keystone behemoth (meaning only reachable at the end of a long escalation), and most annoying of all it's Escalation has a unique Fail condition known as Frostbite, which is a meter that slowly builds unless you perform a specific action or find a brazier to warm up. These actions often require you to damage or break bits off of the Urska which, combined with it's buffed stats and evasion (including the ability to just cling onto the ceiling for short periods of time) makes the fight extremely annoying. This is only amplified because the Urska came after Agarus, a completely immobile behemoth that was rather well received.