Best Arah bosses
1. Double Dragon.
2. Single Dragon
3. Mouth of Zhaitan
I think if they removed phase 1 (Gathering/3 bosses)/dragon fight and had you start with the Mouth of Zhaitan as the first warm up boss then rip the dragon phase out and replace it with more Zhaitan specific stuff it would have been better. I would have liked to actually fight against him personally more.
I’m actually quite happy we didn’t fight him on foot. Quite simply trying to kill a monster that huge on foot would be, in a word, stupid. He’s not gonna go down because we stab him in the foot over and over again. If you’ve ever seen the damage a battleship’s guns can do to a target, let alone with shots specifically designed to rip you apart with magic, shooting him with the airship’s guns makes the most sense.
Uh Vasham, it is that way though? Or didn’t you just spam “2” until the denouement?
Denying the events of the fight doesn’t change the fact that they happened. Also it’s “spamming 2 and killing tentacles” last I checked. :P
Personally I have yet to run this dungeon with someone who didn’t like the fight, and I’ve run it many times. Granted I admit the fight was stupid before the phase 3 and music fix. Afterwards though it was a pretty solid 5-man encounter.
Considering by that point Zhaitan was…
a) Blind to the world around him
b) Starving since his sources of magic where cut off
c) Running out of troops
…then it makes a bit of sense it brought him down to a point where he could be fought. On top of all this you also:
1) Sawed off his lower body with a wave motion gun
2) Tore huge chunks out of him with the tractor beams on the ship
3) Broadsided him with 18" guns that hurt him on a metaphysical level
Taking all that into consideration the fact you where able to kill him that way makes a lot of sense. That and you didn’t do something stupid like walk up and poke him in the toenail until he died like some other draconic demi-god I know about. *cough*Deathwing*cough*
There’s a subtle difference here though that you’re not realizing, OP. Guild Wars 2 is a good game. Diablo 3 is not.