Storm wizzard? How to beat it?
You use the hand to reflect his projectiles. You can also hit him with sword/slingshot/bomb after a reflect.
When he starts to charge you after each block, your only option AFAIK is to get lucky with dodges/running.
Once he switches to Dragon Form, you kite the lightning bugs in a circle around the floating platforms. I’ve observed that the lightning bugs travel in a middle “path” on the platforms, if you run in a tight circle near the edge you do start to pull away from them.
At some point, the Dragon eats a platform, at which point he then ends up stunned in the center for a bit, where you proceed to whack him as much as possible. He’ll get back up, and the whole process starts over again with the lightning bugs. There’s also RNG lightning blasts, and at times lightning fields on several platforms (notably the center one on the second cycle). I soloed him (in Infantile mode) and it took three cycles, needing only one hit with the stick on the third cycle.
I’m not sure I will even attempt World 2 on normal mode, in Infantile Mode I spent over 50 lives. I’m going to wait until ANet tones it down a bit, or just ignore it, farm up some gold and hopefully be able to buy the skins I want. If you can finish zone 3 on Tribulation mode, more power to you, but by the end of zone 3 on Infantile I was ready to throw my monitor out the window.
Obviously, and counter to any claims made by ANet, the insane difficulty increase from previous SAB is a poorly disguised cash grab with the Infinite Lives Coin in the BLTC. Kinda sad really. But having Infinite Lives, and paying for an in game advantage over other players definitely makes the SAB less stressful because you don’t have to worry about farming up a bunch of continue coins.
(edited by Kaleban.9834)