What was his problem?

>>714796689 (OP)
Not letting me kiss him

>tfw just beat Ji yesterday
>most satisfying fight so far, or maybe close second after Jiequan
Damn, things are really getting fatalistic now.

Also fuck that one chest in the grotto way on the left, a bit under the entrance to Ji's hall, accessible only through a teleport door whose other door I cannot find ANYWHERE what the fuck

>>714797040
>most satisfying fight so far, or maybe close second after Jiequan
It gets better

>>714797040
If that's the one I'm thinking of on the right side of the main shaft there's a hidden door in the wall

>>714796689 (OP)
He thought his best friend was dead for 100+ years, and his species was getting wiped out by super covid. Oh, and his other friend is a brain in a jar.

PWNED

>>714797318
>He thought his best friend was dead for 100+ years
I mean, Yi kinda was dead for those 100 years

>>714797318
>>714797617
500+ years

>>714797130
If anything, it gets worse up until the final boss. It might be controversial to say this, but I think Ji himself has a pretty boring fight since it mostly consists of dodging and parrying projectiles and simplistic melee attacks, with long wait times between each cycle. The twins are even worse since the brother has lazy tweened animations that make him difficult to parry and the sister just adds projectile spam and other boring gimmicks to the fight.

>>714797197
I've been there, this one just takes you near the top of the shaft. I'm talking about the far left of that map, where you climb up to reach Ji's level and unlock the elevator to the boss room - at the start of the climb there's a yellow archer guy, and behind him a locked sliding door.

>>714797130
>>714798419
I actually wanted to get Nuxi out of the way first because I think they're ugly, and Ji seems like a fitting second-to-last boss, combined with finding Lear's grave, etc. But I got lost in the empyrean district, decided "let me explore the grotto", accidentally found my way to the boss room and activated the fight, and then leaving would've made me lose like 5000 Jin.

>Ji himself has a pretty boring fight
It's not that hard, true, which is why I'm putting Jiequan still first because it was a lot more fast-paced. Ji feels like an endurance fight because he had what felt like a shitton of health, so it felt like I had to master all his attack patterns, and also make use of every opportunity to hit him with my sword for chip damage rather than just waiting for the designated pause for a full control proc.

The most boring fight to me so far has to be a tie between the sky rending claw and lady ethereal. The claw was easy as fuck except every attack stunlocks you (and I didn't have the rapid rise perk at that time - or still now, for that matter, I dunno why) so the first phase is just utterly boring and a waste of time, and then the second phase is equally boring unless you mess up even once at the wrong time and get stunlocked and knocked back through three lasers and instadie, having to do it all over again.

Ethereal has the same phase problem - the entire first phase is a joke, but you have to go through it every time. And the third phase always starts with a massive nuke attack, which alone took me like five tries to learn the timing to dodge before I could even start figuring out the rest of the third phase's fight, and every time you die it's back to spending like a minute waiting for the first phase to end.

>>714802260
I didn't mind replaying Lady E's fight since her attacks were inherently fun to counter. I also didn't mind it being a cycle-based fight, since replaying her first phase helped me practice her moves and refine my strategy, killing her faster each time until I could eventually get through each phase without getting hit. I felt her fight was the first where I needed to utilise charge parries to win. I also developed an admittedly spastic-looking strategy of mixing in skull kicks between attacks for higher DPS, and I also learned to use the Quick Descent jade to reach the ground faster to get my charge parries out earlier. Both of these strategies came in handy for the final boss, who I also decided to beat without getting hit.

>>714804901
Huh, where do you even use charge parries in Lady E's fight? IIRC she has two red attacks, the down spike and the giant red ball in phase 3, and the down spike felt so fast like there was no way I could unbound parry that.
I get that the first phase is kind of a tutorial but given it usually takes me like 10-20 tries per boss, I don't know if that's normal or a skill issue, but it really just got old given how insanely easy it is. I was doing no-hit first phase on my second or third try, her attacks are insanely slow paced and well telegraphed.
No-hit second phase took a few tries, but because I got frustrated by the giant ball of death on phase 3 I kept failing to dodge, I would then get frustrated, try to rush through phase 2 and get hit out of sloppiness.

>>714796689 (OP)
he wasn't racist, he just didn't like 'em

>>714805320
You charge oarry all of the projectiles she does with her sword for a lot of internal damage. It's how you can kill her quickly

>>714797318
I'm concerned about her facial expression.

>>714806497
Oh interesting. I haven't really considered using the charge to parry normal attacks, for some reason.
>projectiles with her sword
Ethereal doesn't have a sword though

>>714806835
They're confusing Lady Ethereal with Eigong

Stop making Nine Sols threads. Or else.

>>714806803
>Moths.
>Imposing.
Do nips really?!

>>714808150
No. I'm playing the game in 2025 and I WILL have somewhere to post my thoughts

>>714805320
>where do you even use charge parries in Lady E's fight?
Her dash, her claw swipe and her spike. With good timing, you can combo a charge parry into a tai chi kick against her dash attack. Since she does her claw swipe right before her phase 3 spirit bomb, you can't charge parry her nuke unless you have the jade that lets you charge parry sequentially (which I didn't at the time, but I found it super useful for the final boss).
Here's the no-damage fight I was talking about, in case you'd like to see some of the strategies I spoke about in action (I initially tried uploading it as an .mp4, but only the audio made it through for some reason):
https://files.catbox.moe/hi5m9k.mov

>>714811879
>maxxing on all the self-damage jades
Respectable, I'm not good enough to survive this yet though I think. That's pretty cool though.