Boss discussion: Spooky squash
Spooky Squash Bfn description: THE BEAST FROM THE AUTUMNAL FEAST! Used to be "Up to no Gourd". An orange squash with a carved out face with a candle inside to make him look like a jack o lante...
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I still remember the first time my friend and I (me as Toxic Brainz and him as Astronaut) almost had this done on Ccccrraaazzzyyy!!!! difficulty and on what would have almost certainly been the last candy run to finish it, the foot soldier got impatient as I didn't grab it right away since I was in bad health and my friend was healing me up, and he almost immediately got wrecked and we lost. Had to go back with a new time and try again to beat this one eventually. I wanted to shout; "I'm waiting to avoid exactly what just happened!" We finally won it on crazy with us both being astronauts and both using the mega heal ball, teamed with a random party imp and random toxic brainz.
Fun fact; if you take the mega heal ball as a scientist and you are one of the grave anchors for the champion, you can run just out of your circle to get the ball momentum to heal the other anchor! As long as you get back in quickly, you won't lose the anchor, but you gotta be fast! I've mentioned this before, but it's one of those tactics that really helps out.
Great boss hunt even if it's super difficult once that difficultly slider is moved past normal. If the wrong person grabs the candy, it's really bad. That wasn't explained well at first, and caused a lot of issues when the fight was new, or newer players experienced the fight. When he wanders up top where the anchors are with his healing friends, it can easily vanquish an anchor holder so having at least one of them being a scientist really helps.
I'm glad it's still here in BfN. My biggest complaint about the elite boss version is that the Chomper runs away all the time, so you waste a lot of time trying to take it out which reminds me of the yeti boss hunt in GW2, in a bad way, as having to chase down the yeti king when you finally have that buff could see you losing a LOT of damage you need. This guy and the yeti king are far and away the most difficult elite bosses in BfN Ops.
I have all these hats but so many folks don't, especially newer people, so they really should bring these back. Boss hunts are a nice challenge and you can always turn it down to practice if you find crazy to be hard to beat, and it is!
- @Iron_Guard8 Yeah the candy section was the worst part as it's very poorly explained that only the bucket holder can eat it.
Boy I sure do love getting paired with three imps or deadbeards who just installed the game. Atleast the zmechs can shred squash during the sugar rush sections which is the only thing keeping imps from easily being the worst class in boss hunt.
They really need to bring boss hunt back. For all its flaws it was one of the best modes in gw2 as it was nice to actually have a very difficult mode for veterans of the series.
