User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Dire Miralis/@comment-5178018-20131007230454

Well, all I've got to really do here is tip my hat, as soon as I put my hat on.

This guy, even though his deaths are the most annoying (out of area carves), is probably one of the craziest when alive. And I clearly remember watching Japanese gameplay of people tackling this guy with insane armour sets and weapons I can hardly pronounce. I wasn't disappointed with this fight in the slightest. I mean, he is an Elder Dragon and endgame boss.

What I WAS disappointed by was how fast he dies when you farm him. Once you've killed him once you can never get the same first battle experience, and I really do mean that quite literally. First run takes almost all the time you got, second run takes 25 minutes, third is 20, then a run with a full team takes 10 or less. If you want to tackle Miralis, you got to make sure the fight is going to worth fighting, otherwise you won't get much sense of accomplishment killing him. Well, other than having just killed a mountain tall lava spewing dragon that summons meteors from the skies, also threatening the environment around him, you can take pridew in that much, but maybe nothing else.

My one piece of advice to make Miralis fights all the more interesting; don't use slime.