The first group, level 6, died.
On the second attempt, I assembled the most balanced party in my life.
But they retreated.

On the third attempt, I was prepared.
Bandages and antivenom, a rest stop with buffs before the boss.
But three consecutive turns of spam targeting a single character is harsh—plus bleeding and poison dealing 5 damage each.

I took away 3 of his souls and half his HP, but still lost 2 characters. However, I managed to retreat.

Esse boss é absurdamente difícil, mas é um desafio interessantíssimo.

海湾BOSS

Encountered this thing for the first time as a roaming boss, and it absolutely trashed one of my level 6 characters, bringing them from full health to death's door in the 3(???) turns it got to do in the first round, and then killed them in the next round. Barely even got to understand how the boss works and had to retreat, because I'd hardly even done anything to it by that point.

Gonna uninstall for now. Definitely not a good first impression. DD is supposed to be hard, I know, but that was kinda ridiculous.

a roaming boss should be balanced, at max like thing from the star.

Bruh this boss is broken, absolutely no way to win unless you know exactly what it can do and have well-prepared specifically to fight it.

Do not download unless you have some very powerful custom classes install, as fighting it with vanilla heroes is nigh-impossible.

This boss is very poorly designed. It has decent art but there is no balance whatsoever.

If you insist on using this mod, either edit the stats yourself or wait for a third party rebalance patch. It's not worth installing otherwise

Wtf is this boss for real? It is not possible to beat him unless you have a stun to prevent him from spawning his familiar, which he strictly does every turn on his 1st action. This guy alone has practically screwed up my bloodmoon run before I figured out the things above.

Works on existing save files?

Order ?

as quest boss is strong but you still can manage with specialized party, but as roaming boss is a big no no
im with one of the comment, you should tone down this mod yourself (coz the creator is nowhere to be found) with:
1. reduce action per turn to the boss
2. halved the summoned hp
those tune make this boss sorta manageable as roaming mob

I'd suggest clearing the map first before trying to do the boss, its a fixed map with a bunch of combat rooms and the boss room is the middle room of the 3 at the top. Also, this boss surprises your party when encountered, so swap their positions beforehand.

As for other users having crashes with this mod, I'd suggest bumping up its load order and reading other mods descriptions(they could create conflicts with this one), as I had no problems with it and I have 100+ mods in my save.

Nice mod, boss is a bit too much for having it roam the Cove, but the quest itself is fun.

For people having problems with it, keep in mind that while it has 3 actions per round, 1 of them is spent spawning 1 dude (which should not be much of a problem to kill quickly, bring shieldbreaker or someone that can debuff prot, it has almost no debuff resist), and it has very low stun resistance (for its difficulty), so any class with a +stun chance trinket should keep it at 2 actions per turn(as the stun resistance goes away on its third action).
Its stress attack inflicts horror, so having laudanum buff your -%stress given is good.
If you manage to kill both dudes (it spawns another if you kill the first one), it will waste another action healing itself, and if you do this quickly, it will have a +20% damage recieved debuff, so it should fall easily.
Bring a man at arms to protect your party because it likes to target 1 character with its maw attack(big damage).
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Tried facing this boss 5 times, all times being forced to retreat without bringing it to half health even. Boss is harder than most champion level bosses in base game. Overtuned, don't download since it will only lead to pain.

The boss is broken, don't download.

I think this is the first time seen people fault out say dont download a mod

It's crashing my game, help :c
I don't want to lose my save

İ beat it without any losses but i somehow got two virtues so i cant really judge if its too hard or not.

Congrats, you're the only person to say that. We've tried strategies, we're not stupid, it's horribly unbalanced

I don't get why people say this is so hard...
I just beat it without a single character reaching death's door. You just need a bit of strategy, specifically an Eldritch-killing team (Two occultists, a human-abom for stun, and a Highwayman for DPS was super good)
Not to brag but a Shambler and Collector spawned

I can attest to what the others are saying. Do not download this mod. He isn't fair at all. I repeat: STAY. THE FUCK. AWAY.

Lost three heroes and 9 trinkets the first go round. Went back to try and fight it again with a shuffling party. All 4 became afflicted all I had to show for it was one trinket. Before any of you say, 'That's just how DD is, git gud loser' tell me this boss isn't excruciatingly difficult even by DD standards before doing so.
It can hit your entire party for a minimum of 25 stress with one of it's moves, it get three turns a round, it summons a monster that heals and guards it and not to mention this thing can blight AND bleed!
Also the trinkets you get? Sure I can see their usefulness, they are pretty damn good. But for the bullshit you have to go through just to get one? FUCK NO!!!
I'm never touching mod again it can rot in hell for all I care.

Spelt Anomaly wrong in the town Crier page

If it is, it's way too similar. The coloration, details, eye color and aquatic theme. If it is inspiration, there's too much of the OG monster and not enough to give it its own identity

Was the design based on the Nemesis of Reason?

Barto over here providing the help Seal will never give us. Thank you, mein comrade

Alright guys, I found it. He is referred to in the files as ,,soul swallower". Edit his stats with notepad++.

It's funny that this'll be the first mod that I comment on. I didn't read the warnings, and I thought I could take this boss since I have some OP modded heroes(Minstrel, etc.). Even the modded heroes died. Don't do it

Where he is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\262060?

It is Ok as normal boss, but not as roaming one.

Really cool and unsettling creature design overshadowed by it being nearly impossible to kill because the geniuses who created this mod made it ridiculously overpowered. (only ever download if they nerf) At least make the Unformed have reduced health (50 health creature with guard that respawns every time it dies is insane)

No, no and no, don't download this please.

anyone want to make a nerf version? This is very very hard, no way to defeat

Plus I crashed after finishing the quest

Overpowered and stupid as fuck

Ran into it in a random quest without ever seeing a so called plot quest to start it wandering. It finds me halfway through the quest with an unprepared party, and by turn 2 I know I'm not winning. I retreat, take stock of things, and decide there's no way I'm killing it (didn't know it vanishes if you retreat from combat) so I abandon... And all four of my heroes get 'devoured'. No rhyme or reason, no warning in the mod listing or encounter that I could see, just 'oops all your people tripped and died on the way home'. Never putting this mod on again.
Edit: Apparently the heroes did not die, even though the quest log is seemingly claiming they "Departed this realm" and "were devoured" on two consecutive weeks. While I'm glad for this apparent mistake, still a horribly overpowered boss that I'd never want as a wandering mob.

This boss is quite autistic
Having 3 actions and criting for 20 dmg plus blight constantly is one thing, spawning 50 health meatshield with guard and 20 point heal EVERY TURN other.

You literally cannot beat this boss unless you spam guard bypass characters
And even then its still hard af

Played on stygian

The boss is way too hard for a miniboss, with 3 actions and high damage/stress attacks on top of the minion it spawns to guard and heal it and with the fact it can be anywhere in the dungeon it spawns and killing it means you still need to do the rest of the battles is an almost impossible mission. On top of that the game bugged in my game and after I killed it, losing three heroes in the process, I couldn't loot the trinkets and the reward

Why I can't trigger the event?
I have many 5 levels heroes.
I don't know whether I need wait for 12 weeks after I set up the mod?

Good luck having this mod balanced, it's too old and they don't care about it right now. Just wait for a fan patch if that ever happens

way to powerful to fit into this game, i will until this is balanced till i play this again

could never have completed the quest otherwise tbh. sick mod tho looking cool

hey so if you retreat from the battle and then enter the room again the boss will be gone and replaced with a normal fight, yet i still finish the quest. not sure if intentional.

I think the loading screen just says "missing"

As a 1 fight super hard actual boss with a proper quest that I can take a specialized team to? Maybe...
As a roaming mini boss? Nah fam. Not even close to being fair.

I already have some powerful class combo trinkets etc that can deal with this hard boss. My problem is the quest for the boss is a 100% room battle. Which means the quest doesnt end after you kill the boss.

Yeah the comments are right, I thought I just had a bad party but I see other people have the same problem as well, three turns are way too much, the boss can summon a stronger version of Raptorous Cultist, both bleeding and blight, massive damage, hard to beat even with abusing mark with Arbalest and Bounty hunter, sadly I dont think the creators read the comments and seeing as this mod was made almost a year ago, we wont be getting a nerf.

I like the art, although you can tell its fanmade, it doesnt stick out and feel out of place, would love some more lore as it fits in with the abbysal theme of the game.

Too stronk I'm afraid :(

You say mini-boss but this thing hurts more than any enemy in the game,

Personally, I'm adjusting the files to lower his actions per turn to two and halving his summon's health. That should make him more manageable.