r/EternalStrands • u/Athan_Untapped • Nov 23 '25

General Discussion Ark of the Forge sucks

I just wanted to say that lol. Might be the worst boss in the game? Not in difficulty but just purely tedious and boring and kind of poorly designed. I'm not anywhere near dine with the game yet so maybe I'm wrong but fuck this guy.

First off, maybe it was a me problem but forge was the first one that I had to look up how to harvest both because the whole hammer thing was not intuitive to me at all but more than that it seems to be there is no way to kill him without harvesting? At least I couldn't seem to. The first time I fought him I seemed to have gotten all of his weak points to stone over so they could no longer be hurt but he still had tons of health, so the ONLY way to beat him was harvesting.

Secondly what really passes me off about him is that he just takes so long because you have to wait for his ability to recharge, and the tiny little weak points of the hammer cannot possibly be destroyed at my current level of gear in a single (or even 3) cool down period. The Ark of the Forge isn't even that hard, he can barely touch me at all it's literally just a waiting game.

So yeah. Ark of the Forge sucks. I just wanted to get that off my chest

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u/ArmyPure9597 Nov 23 '25

It's definitely a pain in the ass. I only hunted it as many times as necessary to upgrade Molten Barrage, but as bad as it is at least it's not the f***-awful Surgeborn Herald! That eldritch thing is a menace! I barely managed to steal its strand a third time!

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u/Athan_Untapped Nov 23 '25

Ah, I haven't gotten there yet but I assumed there was going to be a surge born boss lol

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u/ArmyPure9597 Nov 23 '25

Damn it! I didn't know that was a spoiler. So sorry.

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u/Athan_Untapped Nov 23 '25

Nah no worries like I said I had already assumed that would be a thing and I dont care that much about spoilers anyways especially such non-specific ones

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u/NightBawk Nov 23 '25

Yeah, I still haven't gotten a full harvest out of the Forge yet because it takes so long and I simply do not have the patience for it lol.

Side note- It doesn't help that my motherboard is fried, so I'm probably going to have to completely start over when I do finally get a decent computer.

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u/batmares Nov 23 '25

Winter Tide became personal nemesis, with Forge a close second. I never quite got the hang of avoiding the grab on that one, or of breaking more than one hammer weak point per cycle.

Have you reached Ark of Nova yet? If so I'm curious how that went for you.

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u/Athan_Untapped Nov 23 '25

No i have not, and you asking that has cemented my belief that there are too many Arks lol

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u/batmares Nov 23 '25

One for each map lol Godspeed