I guess i'll leave some information about the encounter, just incase.

Lord Soulfirius currently employs 5 pseudo-abilities; 4 are in his AI rotation from the start, and the 5th is added when he drops below 50% health.

Soulfirius is airborne and launches several barrages of Infernal Fireballs (30 damage on impact) from above, which leave a patch of burning ground (30 damage per tick) on the floor for a short ammount of time and explode into a wave of fire (30 damage) if they hit a wall.

Soulfirius places himself into the center of the room, and starts to shoot Infernal Fireballs to his sides, slowly correcting his aim to the center, until he basically shoots right below himself.
After that Soulfirius takes a brief delay to charge up and unleash a wave of Infernal Fireballs right below him.

Soulfirius places himself to the right side of the room and unleashes a Nova of Fireballs (each fireball does 1 damage) while simultaneously nuking the ground he is standing on with Infernal Fireballs. After some time, he stops to use the Nova and following a brief delay, he attempts to snipe the players with 5 direct Infernal Fireballs (each does about 80 impact damage).
He repeats the process another 2 times, each time the duration of the Nova is decreased and the speed of the sniping Infernal Fireballs is increased.

Soulfirius places himself to the left side of the room, engulfs himself into a deadly Heat Aura and sweeps the ground beneath him with a wave of deadly Infernal Fireballs (200 damage). After the sweep he locks down the players with 2 lines of Meteors (250 damage on impact) and attempts to annihilate the players by shooting triples of Fireballs directly at them (1 impact damage).

(Chance to be executed when Soulfirius is below 50% health).
Soulfirius ascends to the top center of the room, and unleashes a Nova of Meteors (1 impact damage) alternating between direct Fan and missing Fan.

Direct Fan is when the centric Meteor is on a straight collision course with your character (assuming you are not moving).
Missing Fan is when the 2 centric Meteors will pass right by your character without hitting it (assuming you are not moving).

In singleplayer, to safely avoid this, is just to run straight ahead until you get to a wall, then turn around and run back. The Nova Fans will align in a passage where your character should be safe.

This mechanic is not optimized for Multiplayer yet.



These are the 5 pseudo-abilities you will see him using. They are all fairly easy to dodge, if you understand what is happening.

Actually your boss is difficult, however with protection abilities it's very easy, he can't do damage. I just spam fire immunity, i can cast it 1,7K, and i just attack him with my sword. You should add some different damage.

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Actually your boss is difficult, however with protection abilities it's very easy, he can't do damage. I just spam fire immunity, i can cast it 1,7K, and i just attack him with my sword. You should add some different damage.

It's fine, i designed him with this in mind. If people put the effort to utilize Protection Magic and cheese him completely with Fire Immunity, that's ok. It's a part of the game.
Originally he was intended for a LV5-7 dungeon though (which is why i didn't even care in first place about protection spells used in his fight).
But it was insisted on forums that the difficulty of that boss is too high for LV5-7 (to which i partially disagree).

You won't be able to use Protection Spells anyway when you will fight his Heroic Difficulty Version (which is coming up as soon as i get the problem with the workshop resolved), which will be a true challenge.

I'm open to any feedback on how to improve things though, i just not seem to be getting any.

If it's lvl 5-7 dungeon, it would be very difficult, without fire protection he can one shoot me. I'm level 16 in the game. I can't imagine if a have a low level, and with low hp.

I don't know if you want experienced player to play with a low level game or beginners. For beginners it would be impossible. as an experienced player, i think it too much difficult.

For the difficulty, spells can be dodge, if you are too close, he would one shoot you, you haven't the time to react. And if you cast spells, you can dodge his spells. If he touch you, he will be punished heavily.

He is intentionally one-shotting or nearly one-shotting you. Reason to that is that his mechanics are mostly transparent and easy to learn.
You dodge a sequence of attacks, you get time to hit his face afterwards.
And before he does anything he lights up with a Projectile Reflection Aura (because there wasn't anything better).

For the sake of balance I'm willing to argue it would be a good idea to increase the duration of the warning segment, so that players would have more time to retreat. It is mostly about reflex however.

At some point you routinize the encounter so much, you will think the boss is easy and could be more difficult.

With that in mind i keep a middle-way balance for this boss. You won't be able to kill him on the first try, because you don't know what he does, so you have to die a couple of times before you learn his mechanics. And since dying cheap deaths apparently is fine (seeing how it is occuring so often in other people's maps), this map intentionally has less cheap deaths integrated by itself, but you make up for it by dying to the boss.

As for difficulty, from my expectation all players that play multiplayer have atleast played single-player because you learn alot of valuable things from it. So my first thought was that LV5-7 is fine, since you atleast get through the first 2-3 Official Maps which have alot of cheap deaths integrated, before you get to face this.

As a Side-Note: I totally should put a bunch of Improve Scrolls at the end of the map, so people can fix their equipment. I hate how you lose equipment efficiency every time you die in Multiplayer.