User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Dire Miralis/@comment-3195217-20131009085419

All right,Ii'm gonna have to rant a bit.

Let's start with what I like about him...

Concept: Great. I liked the idea of a dragon living in both land and sea, being a volcano and looking like Fatalis. And having fire as element, because, in fact, I generally like fire monsters.

Aesthethics: Looks pretty badass overall. In looks, it is totally fitting to be an amazing Elder Dragon.

Music: Love it. Enough said.

Armor: Really good, looks pretty Solid (see what I did... ok I'll hide in a corner now.) having AUL and Rock Steady and easy to mix with others both aesthetically and skill-wise, so I just love it.

Weapons: Situational, but having a pretty decent amount of fire-weak monsters, I'd say they're prety good. And the fact that they have natural purple helps greatly.

And we got to the rant section...

The fight: I'm sorry if I spoil to anyone, but IMHO, this guy has the second worst fight in the entire game (first being the Ceadeus brethren). Why? I's boring and aggravating.

Imagine you need 3 Hellwings. And you're playing on 3DS. And you only have one person to fight alongside, who you can meet very rarely(as of now). Add my luck to it and you're in for a 6 hour Miralis marathon with added boredoom, pain, misery and lots and lots and lots and lots of triple pounds. Literally the only way to minimize the aggravation to this fight (to me) is to equip Rath Soul Z, Novagio Demolisher, gem the armor to Destructor and HGE(you'll not be able to remohe Health-10 and you'll loose CE+3, you get +2 instead but don't worry about it...), go in and pound away. The fight is the same. Every. Single. Time. In water: TP shoulders until they break, TP tail until breaks, TP chest (won't break until all other breaks are broken). On land: TP left leg until he falls, TP head until breaks, TP chest until breaks, then TPleg->TP head until death. That's it. 15-20 minutes of perssing X. The great fight ends there. And I didn't mention anything about the aggravation. After the sixth of these bastards you're pretty tired, and you still got no Hellwings. Or if your luck is better, you got one. SoulZ set helps immensely with fire immunity and HGE, Destructor helps with the breks, so you have to specify yourself less with your positioning, Mind's Eye helps with armor mode and helps you pound the legs on the shore, because blue already bounces and you need to get those explosions for the falls. And as I alredy said, Slime helps him fall easily. Without these, you'll be in a long, long and aggravating fight. Good luck.