First impressions

[jotwebe]

The Horned Horror has a 75% chance of spawning with those gauntlets.
He was badass before the Brawler rework, so it is no surprise he's OP now.

Yeah I think there is a point here that the Horned Horror could stand to be tuned down a bit. I think he should either loose at least one of his mobility talents (Spinning Backhand and Tentacle Grab - or does he have Rush, too?) or get the 2nd Grappling Talent capped at 2, so he can't silence anymore. Could get something that makes him a touch nastier in melee, like Takedown. That would also own against pet classes, which would be an interesting twist.

[0player]

Whenever I encounter alt maze, I'm usually like "oh well, might as well return here after Urkis".
In my experience, the only ways to deal with him is either to have more than one way to remove grapple effects, to perma-stun him, or to constantly scout for him and snipe him from out of spinning backhand range.

[edge2054]

The Horned Horror has a 75% chance of spawning with those gauntlets.
He was badass before the Brawler rework, so it is no surprise he's OP now.

25%? I thought the 75 was chance to replace.

The worst thing about HH IMO is the lightning rune.

[Razakai]

I agree that HH is disproportionately deadly among the low level bosses. Compare him to the regular Minotaur boss, Wrathroot, post-nerf Shardskin or Sandworm Queen. Even Weirdling Beast doesn't quite match him. I think he could stand to lose a couple of talents.

[Elhazzared]

I hate wrathroot. Bastard murdered my escort. Not even a fair fight, he was in a small area, hiding behind a corner and the circle to leave was there too. He froze me and then took his time with the escort... I'd really wish that escort exit portals were not left at least near end area bosses nor go in the direction they are supposed to be.

On other news i'm about to fight the horror again but I just found the wanderer's rest boots which make me pin immune. At least that's a bonus. Let's see how it goes.

[StarKeep]

Just my opinion here but, I've always found the most annoying thing about lil'horny is that you can very rarely ever burst him down, since he has a 100% chance to spawn with a Lightning Rune.

[edge2054]

Just my opinion here but, I've always found the most annoying thing about lil'horny is that you can very rarely ever burst him down, since he has a 100% chance to spawn with a Lightning Rune.

Not to mention the damage spikes it causes which can be really hard to cope with at that point in the game.

[Elhazzared]

Well, the HH just BSed me... Didn't killed me, but he BSed me hard. I was killing him pretty effectively, got him down by quite a bit. He even went invisible but the all seeying eye cares not for invisibillity.... then he aparently died, at least he completly disapeared and then he was beating on me.

I was like. Who the hell is hitting me? There is no one in sight! No one on the map, no one I can see and I have the eye which automaticly see through invisibillity and stealth. Still couldn't see him. Was forced to teleport at 100 health, droped in the middle of 4 enemies but not close enough to mellee. Survived, made my way back to the guy and he was there visible again and with 36% health. Proceeded to kill him and get the strombringer's gauntlets. How nice, I'm going for a storm mage!

[jotwebe]

Just my opinion here but, I've always found the most annoying thing about lil'horny is that you can very rarely ever burst him down, since he has a 100% chance to spawn with a Lightning Rune.

That's a plus in my book, though.

[FrumpyMomoi]

As a new comer to ToME 4 (1st post evaaar on this forum!), reading this thread has been amazing to help me understand how to approach the game. The fact that several veterans took the time to share experiences and went to great length to explain their points (e.g. going thought the log) while staying respectful to OP is really something I appreciate. Sounds like a great community to me