This mod is awesome! I appreciate all the hard work you put into it. Ive been looking into getting back into the modding gig and would appreciate a few tidbits of info on the divinity engine? I added you.

Your work here is a masterpiece in *optional* boss encounter design. You know those obscenely difficult optional bosses you find in JRPGs that usually require highly specific strategies? This is that implemented extremely well into D:OS2's combat. My party's modlist is a highly broken and unbalanced one, and I love that they finally had to think a little deeper and can't brute force their way through everything. We actually had to sleep mid-fight because it was already late at night and continue the Divine Ascendant battle the next day. My only criticism is that it can be a bit of a slog when the AI decides not to summon certain counters, and instead only wastes rounds with filler enemies.

Still, the first moment we saw that Orphan of Kos looking thing on the beach gazing towards the ocean with dead leviathan-class voidwoken around it? Unforgettable.
Thanks for the experience. There are not many mods like this that add encounters in a creative way.

I install this mod at ACT 2 so I didn't met the first Epitome. I will read the description carefully, but I'm not good at English, sometime I'm not sure if I misunderstand something, haha. Anyway, thanks a lot.

@2290892069
The missing statuses is something that I can't change, sadly. As far as I know, there is a limit to how many instances of the same status are retained when the game is reloaded.

1. Yes, it will revive them again. The skill has a short cooldown, but a very high priority, so it will use it again.

2. Remember how it worked for the first Epitome? If not, try reading the phantasms' status descriptions.
The other summons work differently, but they don't interact with the recovery status. Again, try reading status descriptions. :)

Thanks! Status 8!r7h 0f a God works rightly now, but status !mp3rfxxxxxxxx still have a problem, if ASCENDENT suffered many of !mp3rfxxxxxxxx and I load the save at the middle of the battle, some of them were missing (not all of them).
About the battle I still have some questions:
1. Will ASCENDENT revive Epitomes again and again? Since one have to kill Epitomes to lower ASCENDENT's resistance.
2. Can you provide detailed conditions of ending the recover of ASCENDENT? I have killed PH4N745M41 and another summons(I forgot the name, It looks like a deer), but nothing happened to ASCENDENT, he still recovered all armor and health every turn, it that normal?

@2290892069
I've looked into the statuses changing on reload, and I think I found what may have cause the issue. One of the Ascendant's scripts was missing a secondary "IF" condition. If it keeps happening, please tell me. Uploading the patch now.

As for killing it:
The Divine Ascendant has a combination of many of the mechanics of the other Epitomes. Counter the allies it revives and the phantasms it summons to lower its resistances and reduce its recovery.
These mechanics only work while it has the "8!r7h 0f a God" status.
It is an especially difficult encounter, and it is meant as a severe challenge. :)

How to defeat DVINITY ASCENDENT? 8!r7h 0f a God add 160% all resistance to him, even I killed the other four Epitomes, he still have 100% all resistance. Phantasm Shell recovers all armor and health every turn, it that mean that I have to kill him in one turn?
When I load a save from the middle of this battle, 8!r7h 0f a God and !mp3rf disappeared and status Ascendent showed up again, I don't know if it is a bug or it conflicts with other mods.

@2290892069
There is another chance at their skills, but you cannot gain their runes again.
Alongside its unique loot, the 5th Epitome drops all four Source Skillbooks again.

The bosses are all carefully designed around the areas they appear in. Facing the 1st superboss with more skill options than in act 1 would be a very different fight.
Additionally, editing the campaign maps hasn't been possible since the "Relics of Rivellon" released. Unused spaces in the game are very rare. I wouldn't even know where to place them for repeat encounters.

I have tested and have found the reason. An old version (Language translated version) of Unique Loot Drop causes this problem, when I uses the newest version, all the drops are right.
I am so upset now, it feels like I have lost too much...Is there any chance to battle with them again, in Arx, with higher level of them and more challenging, just like GraveWalker Class did. Also it gives the second chance to those who have missed the boss in the first three Act, I think I may be a good idea. Thanks very much.

All of them, including Paradigms did not drops unique skill book from their own mod, but they drop their weapons, which is said can be obtained only by modder, i don't know why this happened.

One of my other mod (Gravity Magic beta 1.0) have the similar situation, boss in this mod drops the weapen that they should not drop, but they also drop their unqiue skill books, so I can ignore it.
Bosses in my another mod GraveWalker can drop all things correctly.

I have installed over 30 mods, but I have played most of them before, so they should be right.
But one mod is an exception, Unique Loot Drops, I suspect this mod is the reason for all this, I guess it changes the drop rules, and I haven't used it before, this is the first time.

No, that is not normal.
The "Scorched Anodyne" in act 2 should drop a "Badaboom Skillbook".
The "Pursuant of Divinity" in act 3 should drop a "Let Fly Skillbook".
I have never encountered this bug.
What did they drop?
Did they drop their unique runes that grant their skills?
May I ask for your mod list, so I can try to replicate this?
Also, are you sure it was these two enemies, and not the "Paradigms" from my other enemy mod?

I have kill the boss in act 2 and act 3, but both of them didn't drop any unique or new skill book, is this normal?

Ok, thanks! I will give it a try. That seems mostly what I thought I understood, but I may have to change what order my party to make sure I can cc and do lots of dmg at the end.

@gregfromthepeg
Yeah, sure!

The first Epitome has a status that heals it by a ludicrous amount each time it takes a turn.
Removing its summons via the listed statuses will lower this recovery for each summon destroyed this way.
You can repeat this process to either lower its recovery to the point where you can inflict meaningful damage, or disable it completely by using the removal mechanic often enough.
Be wary that the weaker the recovery, the stronger the Source skills the boss has access to.
A brief warning: should the boss exit combat, its recovery is reset.

There are ways to apply some of the statuses that counter the summons via blessed surfaces, and adding to the outer edge of a blesses surface will reset its duration to the default maximum.

If you choose to completely disable its recovery, then you can use certain CC statuses to keep the boss controlled without triggering its Perseverance.

I hope this helps! :)

I love your mod for the classes for this, but I cannot figure out the first fight at all. I let two of the summons die from a status, and kill the third to make the boss appear. But I can only do a tiny amount of damage and then he heals and disappears again. I am at level 9 (I already beat Alexander), and have good gear. So not sure how much more damage I could do even if I found the perfect weapons. Once I fgured out the status vs kill mechanics of the summons, I went through 4 full rounds, and had barely done any damage to the boss. Any hints would be great.