Swamp biome boss impossible as melee parry solo stormy waters

[dapper tendon]

The swamp biome boss is impossible to solo on the stormy waters difficulty.
The fights starts with the boss doing his combos of 4-5 attacks, parrying everything perfectly still damages the player. This is still fine.
After breaking the bosses riposte for 2-3 times, it enters the enrage, and every attack is a onehit kill. Tested with 1000, 1500 and 1800 health.
Parrying any attack kills the player. The only possible tactic is to either apply bleeding or shooting the boss once and then run away in circles for a prolongued amount of time.
I gave up after 20 minutes of running around in a circle not being able to find any window to attack with a greatsword because every attack it does kills no matter how many health I have. If there is any mechanic that ends its enrage, it is either bugged, or absolutely not clear to the player.
Please fix or rework the boss so it is doable solo with melee weapons that is not "Rapier of a thousand cuts" that needs another nerf. But that is a topic for another suggestion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQWl35TiFs

[south ermine]

Thanks for the report! You can lower your world difficulty at any point by going to main menu and "Editing" your world before launching it.

[dapper tendon]

The boss should be beatable on the hardest difficulty, shouldn't it?
I know I could lower it for a free kill, that is not my intention. I want to beat the game on hard, and it should be doable. But right now I suspect it isn't with these specific parameters.

[lean ice]

Not all content requires completion with one set of skills and the player should adapt to the challange of playing on the hardest difficult. Not for a game change to meet a small challange.

[hidden pumice]

It is indeed possible, I have done it with the plague rapier/plague pistol. But two handed weapons I would find hard as you mentioned.

[dapper tendon]

the main issue i have is that parrying as the mechanic that you use throughout the game and is vital is completely unuseable here

[south ermine]

Sorry, I don't really understand what's the issue or a bug here. Boss is beatable on hardest difficulty. I've seen it done with several different weapons and builds. I've even seen it done with shovels and a lot of patience.

[hidden pumice]

This is indeed true, but you also need high dmg (plague rapier 8 stacks), and some kind of continuous way to heal (plague pistol/plague rapier)

[south ermine]

We'll look into rebalancing bosses in the future, but for now the boss seems working as intended.

[lean ice]

Try dodge vs parry and I recommend not just standing there taking all the hits

[dapper tendon]

how am i supposed to parry the boss when it enrages is my question?

[south ermine]

You are not supposed to parry enraged attacks.

[dapper tendon]

ok. i do hate it. and in my opinion it makes no sense. but if that is the mechanic, i have to figure out a way how to beat it without parrying at all then.