Text Hints in The Burn Last Boss

[RuleofThree]

The key is not "Be on your guard!" but rather, "The dragon is poised to swoop!" which implies "don't stand in the middle", as many circular arenas have dashes/swoops through the center. The side effect of leaving the middle is that you have roughly a 1/8 chance of finding the dragon without actively searching for it or being told to, and after two runs, most people should have had an epiphany and discovered the implied instruction, "find the dragon". As you said,



so it appears that after two runs you had this same epiphany, so I don't find the text problematic at all. Mechanics don't need to be obvious the first time. It's okay for them to take two runs to figure out.

What he said, and the fact that this mechanic isn't new. The bird in Neverreap has the exact same mechanic. In order to avoid its AoE blast, the party has to split up and find the bird in the fog. Once it is found, you run to them to avoid attack. Same thing here. Split up, run around. If you see one of your party members suddenly stop advancing, that means they are standing next to the AoE line, so align yourself to not be in its attack. Doesn't need to be obvious, because you've already done this mechanic.

[Maeka]

What he said, and the fact that this mechanic isn't new. The bird in Neverreap has the exact same mechanic. In order to avoid its AoE blast, the party has to split up and find the bird in the fog. Once it is found, you run to them to avoid attack. Same thing here. Split up, run around. If you see one of your party members suddenly stop advancing, that means they are standing next to the AoE line, so align yourself to not be in its attack. Doesn't need to be obvious, because you've already done this mechanic.

I have never seen the dragon, and I always zoom out for that fight, I can see the whole arena, and the outsides of most of it, and not once have I ever seen it before it dives and I don't think I've ever seen anybody else go 'here' or stop or what not, we just strafe around the edge and pray we're near the edge of the AoE or out of it entirely.

That, and one thing I do hear, is lots of people complaining about framerate drops during the heavy fog/dive phase and even my computer stutters even though I get 60+ FPS everywhere else.

[TWOxACROSS]

What he said, and the fact that this mechanic isn't new. The bird in Neverreap has the exact same mechanic. In order to avoid its AoE blast, the party has to split up and find the bird in the fog. Once it is found, you run to them to avoid attack. Same thing here. Split up, run around. If you see one of your party members suddenly stop advancing, that means they are standing next to the AoE line, so align yourself to not be in its attack. Doesn't need to be obvious, because you've already done this mechanic.

Yeah see, it's not the same. Obviously once you know what you need to do, you can see a similiarity to Neverreap, but it's an explicitly different configuration than what happens in Neverreap. In Neverreap you find the boss so you can kill it, but in this, you don't even know you have to find it, the onscreen text that tells you what to do, doesn't tell you about finding it at all, it just says to "be on your guard."

And for the love of god, I know what to do, people can stop posting that it's easy and telling me what to do. My problem is legitimately that the help text just doesn't help you figure out what you need to do, and it leads to a lot of wipes because even when you do stumble upon the correct way to do that phase, it can be confusing that what you did was even right.