Maestro raid boss block pen

AwesometimeTv

Maestro and thanos are both stupidly annoying to do because for maestro you need to bait heavy attacks which sometimes means taking hits into block and thanos you are required to take hits into block but they get the pierces and the precisions that allow them to hit you with stupid amounts of damage through your block. I just got hit by a 45k basic attack through my block from maestro, how am I supposed to bait heavies at all with that. I hope kabam removes these stupid extra buffs they get or make them significantly less potent because for some of these fights it’s already annoying enough building charges without having to worry about getting basically 1 shot because you got your block hit by 1 attack

Wong_98

For maestro you can just punish specials and still do the fight efficiently

AwesometimeTv

Wong_98 said:

For maestro you can just punish specials and still do the fight efficiently

I’ve done that but it is so slow building charges because his sp1 can clip you pretty easily and then u basically just die to the degen so I’ve had runs end with only having gained like 3 charges because I’m only able to get like 10 raid fervor per special I punish

Syndicated

Wong_98 said:

For maestro you can just punish specials and still do the fight efficiently

Done

Now lets stop 3 hits from Thanos with 4 Pierce charges lol

Aecyn

Only thing to speed up building charges on maestro is you can safely bait heavies before he gets any pierce buffs and just punish them with a single attack. Often, he'll come out of taking that hit and see you blocking and throw another heavy immediately. Repeat until he has pierce and continue by just punishing specials from there. After that, save your own specials and/or striker to try to push him to the easier to avoid sp2... or get used to dodging his sp1 (I used hulkbuster so I always had something to push him past it so I'm not one to talk on the dodging point lol)

AwesometimeTv

Aecyn said:

Only thing to speed up building charges on maestro is you can safely bait heavies before he gets any pierce buffs and just punish them with a single attack. Often, he'll come out of taking that hit and see you blocking and throw another heavy immediately. Repeat until he has pierce and continue by just punishing specials from there. After that, save your own specials and/or striker to try to push him to the easier to avoid sp2... or get used to dodging his sp1 (I used hulkbuster so I always had something to push him past it so I'm not one to talk on the dodging point lol)

Yeah I just think it’s stupid to be able to be blocking 1 attack and take like more than 20-30% of your Hp especially when there’s certain tactics that are based off of taking blocked hits and thanos makes you take blocked hits and then maestro you have to be super careful to not take blocked hits especially with the fact that he gets his own furies just from his kit. I just feel like them adding the ability to do stupid amounts of damage through block is totally unnecessary and kinda stupid at least with the current function of raids. If they tweaked some of the tactics and the boss challenges I could probably live with it but taking that much damage through block in an already very challenging game mode is slightly bonkers

Samanun

AwesometimeTv said:

Maestro and thanos are both stupidly annoying to do because for maestro you need to bait heavy attacks which sometimes means taking hits into block and thanos you are required to take hits into block but they get the pierces and the precisions that allow them to hit you with stupid amounts of damage through your block. I just got hit by a 45k basic attack through my block from maestro, how am I supposed to bait heavies at all with that. I hope kabam removes these stupid extra buffs they get or make them significantly less potent because for some of these fights it’s already annoying enough building charges without having to worry about getting basically 1 shot because you got your block hit by 1 attack

You can bait heavies without taking blocked hits

PT_99

Samanun said:

AwesometimeTv said:

Maestro and thanos are both stupidly annoying to do because for maestro you need to bait heavy attacks which sometimes means taking hits into block and thanos you are required to take hits into block but they get the pierces and the precisions that allow them to hit you with stupid amounts of damage through your block. I just got hit by a 45k basic attack through my block from maestro, how am I supposed to bait heavies at all with that. I hope kabam removes these stupid extra buffs they get or make them significantly less potent because for some of these fights it’s already annoying enough building charges without having to worry about getting basically 1 shot because you got your block hit by 1 attack

You can bait heavies without taking blocked hits

Yes but that was 6 months ago.

Samanun

PT_99 said:

Samanun said:

AwesometimeTv said:

Maestro and thanos are both stupidly annoying to do because for maestro you need to bait heavy attacks which sometimes means taking hits into block and thanos you are required to take hits into block but they get the pierces and the precisions that allow them to hit you with stupid amounts of damage through your block. I just got hit by a 45k basic attack through my block from maestro, how am I supposed to bait heavies at all with that. I hope kabam removes these stupid extra buffs they get or make them significantly less potent because for some of these fights it’s already annoying enough building charges without having to worry about getting basically 1 shot because you got your block hit by 1 attack

You can bait heavies without taking blocked hits

Yes but that was 6 months ago.

What was 6 months ago?

JT_Supreme

Best thing to do is complete the prompts as quick as possible at the start so you get your damage up. After the 2nd pierce it becomes too much and just play normally and don’t block or parry, and you should hit the cap without a problem.

With maestro at the start I just bait heavy, counter with one hit, then block to bait heavy again. Do that 5-6 times at the start of the fight and the damage adds up quick.

Stantona

Syndicated said:

Wong_98 said:

For maestro you can just punish specials and still do the fight efficiently

Done

Now lets stop 3 hits from Thanos with 4 Pierce charges lol

If it was like one of Mojo's commands to block a hit, and either the attacker or defender blocks an attack then that would be perfect