Rathalos EX

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This fight is perfectly manageable if you have are able to remember at most 5 different tells.

He has a tell where he whips around and fireballs a random person very quickly. It catches a lot of people off guard, especially in melee range, and if its the healer or squishy dps, it can be nasty. It's also a thing that it's random. Like if you aren't good at reflexes, the normal fights have a scripted pattern where you can just anticipate rather than react. You prepare for that. Here, you need to watch the boss constantly and be in motion as soon as the tell starts; if you aren't moving to the side as he roars, you're going to get hit.

Also the tank thing is about HP, not dps. They just don't get punished harshly if they screw up. That's really why it's so hard, most of the time dps and healers die when they screw up but tanks can absorb many mistakes. I've had tanks eat every attack from rath on the first run, and they never were in danger at all. Even stun + tail swipe just brought them to 30% ish HP.

I did it enough to where the fight really isn't fun any more. Then again, I think a lot of the complaints are from healers. The random nature of the fight means everyone has to be at full health, where good healers tend to use HoT instead for scripted fights so they can dps in between attacks. If it's roar, i cant just slap on a medica 2; i'm medica + assize + the add on heal because if the dps is at 30k hp and they mess up a rush attack, its a death. I can't use c3 because people are all over the place. A lot of times if a dps eats a charge, they can be at 7k HP with a 2k poison tic on them and stunned.