Thanks to help from @Brave his tower of flaming death and his trusty doggo I am now at the fog door of the final boss. We steamed through the last of my regular stuff and then the final area pretty well with only a couple of wipes and took out at least 4 bosses. It was 12:10am by the time we got to the final one though, so we left that for next time.

14 days later

And play through complete! Thanks @Brave and @Gordon for the “little” bit of help on the final boss. Once I had my tactics sorted it was something of a breeze. It turns out it was crucial for me to barely survive the first phase and then play dead for the vast majority of second much more difficult phase. Distracting the boss with my air of pathetic-ness and ineptitude, leaving @Brave and @Gordon to finish him off. 😉

Second phase is clearly well up there with the very top annoying, unnecessarily difficult and frustrating boss fights of all time. Dare I say worse than the butterflies of Remnant 1.

    DrDamn It wouldn’t be so bad if the guns didn’t take about an hour to reload. I kept getting stuck in a loop of “start reload, get hit, fall over”

      I don’t know how you two were surviving that second phase, if I got hit once it was either one shot kill or not enough time to heal before a second hit.

      Summoner helps a lot, you can get a huge amount of passive health regen between the pets and a couple of bits of gear.

      a month later
      5 days later

      Yes. They made the announcement video private for some reason. There’s also this, which I haven’t watched :

      13 days later

      The first DLC (The Awakened King) is up on PSN now

        Gordon yeah I’m in. We going back to this and then once we’re done get back to heretic purging? Their big update with a new zone also dropped just after we finished for the night 🙄

            Brave Sounds good. I had a quick go earlier and it looks good. Seems harder than before, although that may just be me totally forgetting how to play.

                Gordon Seems harder than before,

                Yeah I agree. Gave it a quick go last night and got my ass absolutely handed to me.

                  I unlocked the new class last night. Haven’t had a chance to give it a proper go yet, but it looks like it’s going to be lots of fun 🙂