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Anonymous
9 years ago

Yeti King Boss Hunt too hard?

This Boss Hunt combines several previous challenges from previous Boss Hunts.

First, after the Yeti takes a bit of damage, he starts dancing. While he is dancing, you must destroy several... Popsicle things. They're like the healing burgers from the Sasquatch event. Fail to destroy all of them in time, the team dies.

After that, The king's army arrives, and you must fight them off. Some time later, the king's fool (a champion Imp) spawns. When vanquished he drops a slushie. When a player interacts with it, a glowing circle appears around them. That player and anyone in the circle's radius gets a 50x damage multiplier, similar (but not identical) to the Spooky Squash event.

There are many reasons I say this event is so hard (by far the hardest Boss Hunt yet)...

1. With all the Yeti Imps, Arctic Troopers, AC Perrys, and Goalie Stars running around, it is easy to find yourself frozen every few seconds.

2. Time is very strict, you must destroy the popsicles very quickly, or the entire team dies.

3. The other players have to remain in the circle around the player who drank the slushie to get the great damage boost.

4. The boost only lasts for about 40 seconds, and the cycle to get it set up again takes about 4-5 minutes.

5. It's very difficult to get much damage off on the Yeti King in one go, considering the shorter duration of the boost and the fact that if the player who took the slushie dies early, the boost automatically ends.

There are a few ways I could see this hunt actually being possible...

1. The timer for destroying the popsicles starts with 30 seconds, compared to 20.

2. The slushie's boost lasts for a full minute and the circle other players need to stand in is larger.

3. The slushie's damage multiplier is 100x, compared to 50x.

Don't get me wrong, I've loved all each and every boss hunt so far, including this one. I simply think this one takes the difficulty too far.

43 Replies

  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    8 years ago

    When under the Slurpee effect I often take time to shoot the adds since it one shots most of them with the massive buff it gives. A quick swivel to take down the little zombies can go a long way during this period.

    When under the Slurpee's effect as a sunflower I tend to focus the healing on the person with the buff since if they fall we lose the damage but I also make sure a healing flower is down and try to heal others too. It is very much like raid healing in an MMO.

    While I've beaten it with just one Sunflower I highly recommend using 2 as each can tag along with another player and keep them up. The rainbow healing pot is an enormous help against the frozen effect as it spews so many healing stars and any such healing will cancel the freeze. Note that the Vampire Flower's lifedrain does not break the freeze but I like her ability to be more self-reliant in this hunt over any other although the Stuffy Flower can work as any zombies you defeat with her drop healing stars.

  • I wish Popcap would offer "Rainbow Star" packs again during the boss hunt's. As  a player who have beaten the Yeti King Boss Hunt on all difficulties and have all the "King's Crown's" for Kernal Corn, I'd rather not play this ever again. Especially with randoms.

  • asukojo's avatar
    asukojo
    8 years ago

    I have all the hats for all boss hunts but I still love to play boss hunt, it is still fun.

    For collecting rainbow stars, I simply play a normal level with random, as more and more players know about it. If they don't, I will do my best to communicate the strategy as we go along. If the team works well and nail it, I will play a hard level with them.

    For crazy level, if the random team is really good, why not try with them. Otherwise, I will invite friends to do it.

    Note:  I have a group of friends that love crazy level boss hunt as well, so I will just wait for their invitation.

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