Well since traps does insane amount of damage that wouldn't make much sense. Instead i suggest making Golem arena bigger since we cannot dig it pre-Golem
I thought this was about making the fight more difficult? In what way does this not make sense?
Since you rely on RNG to set up either difficult or easy traps in that room, I don't think it would be much more difficult so much as much more irritating.
Having more projectiles on the screen is always going to make a situation more difficult in my book. Not sure I understand the difference between "irritating" and "difficult" in this case. I also don't think the traps in the altar room are so bad that they could make the fight unwinnable. Besides, you only need to beat him once, after which you can clean up the temple as you please.
If you add too many projectiles it becomes near-impossible to avoid them. That isn't difficult, it's just painful and forces you to stock up on regenerative items, which is why I'm not a huge fan of the Moons.
In my opinion, it's simply a matter of using different counterplay--since the floor is off-limits, it becomes necessary to hug the ceiling and use your grappling hook more often. Yes, the traps are there, but they'll still only be triggered if you step on them. It's a lot more fair than the Solar Pillar, which forbids you from flying and also sends enemies flying at you horizontally from offscreen at supersonic speeds.
Traps in golem arena are not regular traps i remind you they are just many spiky balls and does damage more then golem itself. They aren't easy to dodge in fact if you trigger enough impossible to dodge. Golem already has lasers now considered that much laser on the screen and traps that does huge damage fight doesn't makes sense anymore. I mean i use those traps for event arena and i am sure as hell they cover all the screen and impossible to avoid when enough are triggered. Instead make golem doesn't spawn in the wall add some new moves to its moveset increase body impact damages and you got yourself harder golem.
People mostly say Golem is easy because he's the easiest boss to cheese. In other words, Golem's strategy for killing you falls apart completely when the player can modify the playing field to his/her advantage. If you think Golem is too easy, then why not let him have the home field advantage for the first match?
I agree, however I can easily defeat the Golem without taking any significant damage, its all about developing a dodging rhythm, once you do, he's extremely easy to take care of.
Sad truth, I never go anywhere in the Temple without my Grand Design, you know how much money in wires you get there?! The Temple seems like a sad excuse for a dungeon, a gimmick that was a feeble attempt at making something close to the Dungeon but much less intrusive and more illusive. While holding the Grand Design, its a boring zig-zag descent with the same two enemies who I admit are very fun to kill in big groups, and they drop nothing of importance besides the Cell. The only real hazard are the Wooden Spikes which for some reason do more damage than the Steel spikes in the Dungeon.
Tru dat. But then theres also the issue with the Alter spawning in a nearby hallway and getting clipped into the ceiling preventing it from moving/firing fireballs at you, for me its happened more often than it should've...
Very few Terraria enemies have employed bullet-hell style projectile dodging- I can only think of Santa-NK1. I'd like to keep it that way. It just doesn't feel like a good fit for the continuity, and employ's the player's quick-thinking instead of typical gear and skill checks.
I'm sure it would be a nice addition because Something like a bullet-hell fits this boss perfectly: he's in his temple with traps and he activates all of them to kill you in certain pattern. it would be original. Calamity bosses have such types of attacks and they fit in terraria quite easely. Such an original boss fight can only be benificial because it would force player to think a lot about what's happening, instead of the DPS race this boss is all about.
I think the problem with implementing such a bullet hell thing kind of makes the boss a little bit too un-braindead, all things considered. More projectiles might make the fight harder, but bullet hells may be taking it a little bit far. Besides, calamity's bullet hells really don't count- they're restricted, for the most part, to the post Moon Lord bosses (PBG aside, but PBG's nuke barrage can be countered by building a ceiling) so it's a bit of a different level of hardness.
Ah, so you're talking bullet hell as in Perf Hive? Personally I wouldn't call that a bullet hell, per se, because its just a wave of projectiles that are easily dodgeable. If the golem fight adds something like that, I'd support that since it isn't really bullet-hell-y while also not being too stupidly easy. Now the problem is finding a unique pattern of projectiles that the golem spawns, and where they could spawn from, since directly from the traps doesn't work. Maybe the head drops a bunch of them once it's been detached or something, like the Hive in the Perforator fight?
