So I just went in and fought the scorpion boss. Here are my impressions:
- Yes, it’s not only possible to dodge it, it’s quite easy.
- As someone else explained, the new dodge is meant to negate an attack instead of disengaging. As a result, you cannot dodge out of the King Scorpion’s range, but you can dodge his attacks.
- The key to dodging is timing your dodges properly. An unfortunate side effect is that any lag will affect you worse than before.
- A properly timed dodge will completely negate the tail sweep, which is a tremendous improvement from what we had before.
- It seems that even an imperfectly timed dodge can decrease the damage taken, but I can’t be sure without more testing.
For completeness’ sake, my attributes for this test were 34/10/34/0/20/21/4 and my gear was Executioner’s Hood, Godbreaker Grips and the rest is Flawless Epic Yamatai Warlord.
I hope the data helps.