>fight the Inferno Rider to grind for materials to allow Chixia to ascend
>enjoy the fight and have no problem after fighting him a few times
>do a questline that begins with me checking a wanted poster that has Inferno Rider as my target
>think to myself, "Oh, this should be easy. I've beaten him like 6-7 times already, I should get this on my first try!"
>fight Inferno Rider as part of the quest
>starts off well enough
>get his health a bit down
>suddenly the game gives him full invincibility
>and a few seconds later the game forces me to lose consciousness
>the game tells me that I lost because of the petal spores (even though the petal spores literally have ZERO effect in Inferno Rider's arena)
>now I have to do a lame questline
I hate when games do this.