"Hey let's do a practice run of Irukul. How bad could it be?"
Dropping down into the hallway escape scene, I took over a thousand damage because I didn't land on the steps down. Then Irukul actually appeared and I was like "haha Irukul joke's on you I know the secret speed technique of sliding along walls". Turns out you have to keep yourself from just running straight into a wall and not going anywhere, which I failed to do. Irukul caught up, and beat me to death.
I used a free resurrection because it was practice mode, but by that time, Irukul was blocking the hall so I couldn't get past. He then proceeded to beat me to death a few more times until I was finally able to get around his fat butt.
When we got to the actual arena, I was like "okay we have to practice dropping stuff on him" and I climbed up to the ice ledges to drop boulders on him. Pushing boulders off cliffs is kinda hard, but accidentally slipping off to your death is easy.
So then we gave up dropping stuff because we kept falling off. We started to battle head-on. Turns out his way of turning around is to whip his whole body to the side, doing massive damage extremely quickly. Since there were just 2 of us, he kept doing that between us so we pretty quickly died from that. Large shields are able to block everything he can do, but not when the game decides "shift + W to use Heavy Stander and guard that deadly attack? nah, i'll make you go W + shift so that you roll right into it ha ha filthy human". Monster Hunter this ain't, so rolling into stuff basically equals death. This struggle went on for another 20 minutes or so.
By the end, my total deaths: 18. My friend's: 30. Bullshit levels: extreme.
Vindictus