My advice is don't heal.
In the Watcher Knights you can heal easily once or twice in the fight when you kill at least one of the knights. Fragile strength + Desolate Dive + the charm that increases your spell's damage destroys them in a few seconds.
I know you can. I'm saying I chose not to heal, and I think it benefited me a lot in the long run. Especially for stuff like Godhome/Pantheons, purposefully choosing never to heal let me just focus on learning the pattern for attacking instead of trying to find space to heal.
There was really only one instance in the game where I lost a considerable amount of Geo, and it was during the trek back through that cavalcade of teleporting assholes. Yeah, the distance between benches seems to be a sticking point for some people, but that was honestly the only time I felt particularly burdened by it.
Thanks for the tips. I'm finding it hardest when he does the fake stomp. It almost always hits me, as I keep dashing away and back into the attack when he does the second real stomp.
You could always just dash twice to be safe, right? I don't remember if I had Dashmaster equipped when I did that boss battle, but it didn't hit me recently without it equipped (since the DLC has a thing that lets you rechallenge any boss you've fought previously). Actually, at that point in the fight, it's probably safer to just walk and wait.
Yep. I'm in greenpath now, got the map and discovered 2 save points. Accidentally entered the wrong room and got my ass kicked by a mini-boss. Despite this I'm loving the enemy design and general vibe of this new area.
You should be able to explore most of the map now, could you show us your map?
Lost Kin is legitimately bad. If you don't have Quick Focus equipped, you essentially can't heal due to the ghosty spam and the difficulty curve spikes hard for that reason. And a regular ol' boss shouldn't railroad you into a certain charm like that. It's a purely frustrating fight even when it's just a stepping stone in an endgame boss rush.
My first go-around, the boss fell right over when I went back and equipped Quick Focus. But without Quick Focus, running into a fight where you essentially cannot heal is a huge difficulty spike, and the fact that it's accomplished through random mob spam and not an actually interesting boss pattern is obnoxious. I adore the game and I've faced down some of its toughest challenges, but I will gladly declare that Lost Kin is among its worst bosses and that mob spam's an annoying way of making something difficult, even if I've never died to it since.
I remember someone told me to equip the Defender's Crest and I beat Lost Kin on my first try afterwards. That's not well-balanced difficulty when a 1 slot charm can turn a nightmarish boss like that into an utter joke. I tried beating it "legit" this time and it's just not fun.
