Cold Spellbreaker

[Tsel13]

On Normal....
Okay, I humbly bow before you all that encouraged and guided me on how a cold damage type can melt through the mobs and take out a lot of the bosses FAST!

I only play with what drops for my character and I got some seriously good green gear drops.
I got four different cold versions of Spectral Bludgeon weapon drops.
Two I could use at level 24 and the other two when I reached level 32.
They make Olexra's and Trozan's Extra EXTRA deadly.
My first relic was Sanctuary.
Until I got a couple of Devotions setup I had to use the Jelly Balm a few times to survive.
I'm basically Shadow Striking into a mob, Olexra Flash Freezing them, and dropping Trozan's on the tougher ones.
I have Night's Chill maxed to lower enemies cold resistances.
Wail on them with Amarasta's Blade Burst.
I'm using some other skills too that augment my cold / element damage.

At level 35, again on Normal.
None of my characters have ever been able to stand toe-to-toe and take out, let alone do it fast!
Bloodbriar in less than 25 seconds.
Ungoliax in less than 30 seconds.
Bloodfeast in less than a minute.
Mogara in less than a minute.

I am an Ewok doing the bowing homage to you all.
Thank you. 😊

[Selphea]

Good stuff, take my Trozan's Sky Shard award 😆

[sekai]

Tbf some of the bosses' HP is just absurd even if your build is doing quite well and is not even struggling, I've found.

I've had my 1-button-man Shaman build where my entire power budget is essentially on my Savage button procing everything under the sun with every strike. I'm a killing machine that just stand there and stat-check everything to death, most of the time I don't even need to look at my HP even if I'm 1 vs 30 and completely out-leveled sometimes as high as 10 levels, with the zoo including multiple elite/boss enemies, but I live without much caring since I have multiple heal/leech on-attack and has easily over 10k damage per second.

And yet some of these bosses still take forever to kill. That boss in Port Valbury just before the skeleton door take like a full minute of this 8k-10k DPS and just tanks it. This is the normal veteran difficulty but still, it's supposed to be normal and the HP bar is just absurd sometimes.

Regardless of your build, effective or not, some bosses you just can't kill within a min even if you're doing big damage.

[kekkuli]

Originally posted by sekai:

Regardless of your build, effective or not, some bosses you just can't kill within a min even if you're doing big damage.

I would argue against that. While this is true in case of super bosses, most if not all campaign and nemesis bosses are killable in <1min, with many builds.

[Safarel]

I really don't know any normal bosses non superbosses in main campaign of game that you can't kill on ultimate under 30 seconds (if boss have 2 phases then 30 sec on each) with full optimized lvl 100 build

[Wintermute]

I think I saw Zantai talking about designing dedicated endgame Shadow strike/Trozan set in the new expansion. Praised be the lich.

I made my spellbreaker into Nex and Ortus/Mageslayer fire/cold hybrid. it's awesome, and really delivers on the whole mage-assassin concept.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

Originally posted by kekkuli:

Originally posted by sekai:

Regardless of your build, effective or not, some bosses you just can't kill within a min even if you're doing big damage.

I would argue against that. While this is true in case of super bosses, most if not all campaign and nemesis bosses are killable in <1min, with many builds.

ye i'm gonna agree with that, even during levelling you can have such high dmg output build bosses can be killed fast ignoring "phase change wait"animation ofc
I'd be curious which bosses specifically you feel @Sekai that can't be killed, almost seems like one of those decent "self-imposed challenge" opportunities,
X boss is hard; how fast can we kill it
(i'm gonna assume we not talking full endgame build setup just to kill Krieg etc/MC bosses ofc

[madrigal]

Is there a boss timer somewhere in the game? Ignorant boomer here has no idea how you know how long it takes to kill a boss.

[gNuff!~©~gNom3™]

Originally posted by madrigal:

Is there a boss timer somewhere in the game? Ignorant boomer here has no idea how you know how long it takes to kill a boss.

look on clock before you attack boss, look on clock again when boss deded?

[Remnant Melody]

Glad you gave it another go! I'm in Ultimate with mine right now.. I don't think I've had an easier time. I used to think Arcanists were kinda meh. NOT ANYMORE! Good gravy, thats some mighty fine mob clearing.

On my way to Homestead and doing wonderfully. I admit, I did struggle on a Celestial Totem. WOO BOY. That was fun though.

[Tsel13]

At level 40
Took out the Dermapteran Queen in less than a minute (both forms combined).
The Amalgamation in less than a minute.

Also, curious question.
Was there always a Shrine at The Conflagration behind the Herald?
If there always has been, I have missed it being there every single time, until now. LOL 😂