act 3 boss one shotting me on veteran?

[Soulmancer]

The Sigil of Cthon; second form. I have 8000 hp and 30% chaos resistance. Not sure what he is even hitting me with? I am keeping a mid-range distance and the fight is going fine. Then all of a sudden I am instantly dead and the boss heals himself.

[Faust Wither]

the crystal he summon, unless you have 80% is hard to survive.

[amyasleigh]

Yeah Like Faust said, just need to pump your chaos resist to max and I *think* vitality as well? Black Tallow on your amulet and medal and imbued silver on your weapon/offhand should be enough

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

According to the fandom wiki, both forms use chaos and vitality attacks. My friend and I killed him several hours ago on Veteran at level 45. I have 40% vitality resist, 48% chaos resist, and 8100 hp right now. He was a chump. I just auto attacked him until he was dead. Used a health potion once when he was at about 10%.

At the moment, I have 17% physical resist, 492 armor rating, 997/1334 OA/DA, 325 hp regen, and 7% life steal as a druid with a two handed weapon. 13 deaths so far. A pretty average character for someone who has played the game before. My friend is a lot more squishy, he's a pet class (necro + arcanist). Maybe we got lucky with the crystal and we killed it by accident with AoE or pets before it fired off.

[Matthew]

Ah, the infamous chaos crystals. Get the popcorn out, there may be a few interesting individuals stopping by to spice up the thread 🤣

But ye, it is after that point where you really start to notice low resists. Aether resist reduction + aether rain from some enemies around that time. Skelly key dungeons coming up if you side with a certain npc.

One of the easiest fixes for awkard chaos resists is if you side with the necro bros. Clear out the faction hold east of the grove waypoint a few times. They drop these medals which have 30+ INNATE chaos resist. Get a "preserving" or "warding" can really help bump up some of those harder resists to max.

[Matthew]

Oh, by the way, you can kill the crystals before they fire. Another option if you have low resists, just make sure you have the quick AoE dps to do it.

[DirtyMick]

Yeah, in this game 30% is considered really low.

[Faust Wither]

Originally posted by Matthew:

Ah, the infamous chaos crystals. Get the popcorn out, there may be a few interesting individuals stopping by to spice up the thread 🤣

i'm already get over it and move on.

Originally posted by DirtyMick:

Yeah, in this game 30% is considered really low.

yea that area is where the resist check start.

[Mooselager]

Just summon your pets & walk away. Ez win gg no re

[Morton Salt]

Originally posted by Soulmancer:

I have 8000 hp and 30% chaos resistance.

A, craft and drink elixir that gives you chaos resists.

Originally posted by Soulmancer:

Not sure what he is even hitting me with? I am keeping a mid-range distance and the fight is going fine. Then all of a sudden I am instantly dead and the boss heals himself.

Might be a triple chaos pools that he can spawn beneath you.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

aside from chaos dmg, and the aforementioned tickle of vitality dmg by amyasleigh, he'll also do fire dmg and some phys dmg (so armour rating can be a factor too), minions also do some poison dmg

Originally posted by Morton Salt:

Might be a triple chaos pools that he can spawn beneath you.

^👆 in general try to not stand in ground-jizz or puke pools

[Violesta]

You can also turn off vet temp if u want & turn it back on after u kill him. Some peeps dont realize that vet is a toggle & can be turned off & on whenever. it doesnt break your game.