User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Gogmazios/@comment-16331478-20160610150420

Oh boy Gogmazios. This guy is one of my most hated elders in the series, because of a variety of reasons. Firstly, my personal experience. I was planning on soloing my way through this game much like I did with 3 Ultimate. Everything was going fine until I got to this monstrosity. The first main issue with it is the health pool. Not even joking, Gogmazios has the highest HP in the entire game. That's a huge issue because, at the point in the game where you fight it, your weapons will take a minimum of 45 minutes to bring that health down to 0! And that is if you're using a maxed out Stygian Zinogre weapon, don't even think about coming to this fight without a dragon weapon, or else you'll probably time out and fail the quest. So right off the bat your options on taking this monster on are pretty limited. Second, the glitches. I am convinced Capcom did not playtest Gogmazios because I swear, whenever I mount it, two times out of three the mount fails because Gog fell inside the area walls. How did this slip by? It's so fucking common there's no way they didn't notice it, so I take it Capcom just got lazy and thought it was fine as it is, but wait! Mounting Gogmazios is pretty much the best way to damage it, so you either go glaive to make sure you don't mount it near the wall, or you just ignore the mounting strategy entirely. So again, your options are super limited if you wanna beat this guy and NOT time out. The best choice would be a Stygian Zinogre weapon because they're the best Dragon weapons you can get before G crown, but Stygian Zinogre doesn't have a glaive so haha either way it's gonna take forever to kill this thing. Also, make sure you get all the dragonators, bring the garrison ballistas or else it's gonna take forever to break the back, absolutely bring the ammo for the demolisher or you won't kill it in time and just, ugh, such a frustrating, boring and time consuming fight. This is not how you do final boss. I had to more or less cheat and get a maxed Shagaru Magala weapon (I happened to have a guild quest for it, lucky me) to beat this guy solo, and even then it took me some days of trying because I had to go on a perfect run and min/max through the whole fight by bringing all sort of attack buffing items and such. I hate this monster mainly because it's such a huge "Fuck you" to solo players, and not fun to fight in the slightest. Oh yeah also the weapons and armor suck. The only thing Gogmazios materials are good for is trading them for Dire Miralis stuff.