Palworld Playthrough [Part 12] - Dealing with Panthalus on my way to the World Tree

With all eight tower bosses defeated I was ready to head for the World Tree, but it turned out that I still had one more boss to beat first, and it was one I had been dreading due to it's reputation... Panthalus. I had already run into the Panthalus sidequest earlier in my playthrough, when I assumed it was an optional side-boss, so was planning to come back to it much later, once I had time to properly prepare. I was therefore somewhat concerned to discover that it was needed to enter the World Tree, as I had previously seen a number of people complaining about how difficult it was, due to requiring a special strategy to beat. Fortunately, this had led me to look into the boss fight already, so I already had a rough idea of what it would take in order to beat it and without that knowledge I would certainly have been unable to beat it today. Despite this, it was still a very difficult fight, taking several attempts and a fair amount of additional preparation to take it down, and then when Panthalus finally went down I died before I could actually catch it, so had to do the whole fight all over again. By the time I was actually able to enter the World Tree I didn't have a huge amount of time left for the stream, so passed through the area relatively quickly in order to reach the next story milestone. I will therefore be doing a bit more scouting out of the area before my next stream, so that I can then go round catching some more powerful Pals for my team before taking on the next set of main bosses. The whole ordeal with Panthalus was very frustrating, mainly because of how completely out of place it is to get a boss like this before even reaching the end game area, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being more difficult than the final boss. The difficulty level of this boss is more akin to that of a post-game boss that you would fight once you have eveything at your disposal to come up with a proper strategy, and feels like they've just forced it in here just to that they could make it a part of the story, which I've commented on previously as feeling somewhat crudely pieced together and not properly thought through. I will mostly be continuing to stream every Monday and Wednesday for the time being, until I can find more work, however I may occasionally need to swap a stream to a different day in order fit in online gaming with friends, as it's easier for me to work around their schedules. I will be aiming to start each stream around 2-3pm (UK time) and typically finish around 5-6pm. This could still vary, so if you would like to be notified when I next go live, please drop me a follow at   / dragoneleven