So, The Insect Queen...

[Precache]

I understand them wanting to make a hard fight, but just having her stay invulnerable 98% of the time is cheese city.

[Zoid13]

this has never been an issue for me in 100hours of act2 lol...

you talking about the 3 mage guys that channel a shield on her? you know you can kill them super fast right?

[Precache]

Oh... that makes sense. I couldn't see them because my screen is 80% white (I've been specializing light rays).

[Precache]

So, I tried it again making sure to clear out the mage guys. Using near identical builds, the first time she died in less than a second; the second time took more than a minute.

There is a bug. If you kill the mage guys with an instant death effect (like "instant death" or Judgement) their shields don't go away.

[ZeppMan217]

There's a hitbox problem with Bees, especially obvious if you use Light Rays.

[Brown_Town86]

Those adds like to chill outside of the edge of the arena is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ problem. How am I supposed to kill them if they're off-screen? When they decide to come inside it's fine and I can nuke them but then they just run outside the arena again and I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥. No reason the defend this poorly designed fight.

[Cujo]

I've never lost to this fight but yeah it's not very good either. I do like the option to damage check and just ignore the other enemies if you can outdamage the healing, but the attacks she does are just really easy to dodge and the hardest part of the fight is, like the other guy says, the fact that she loves to jump outside the shadow cage.

[Serendipitous]

Originally posted by Brown_Town86:

Those adds like to chill outside of the edge of the arena is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ problem. How am I supposed to kill them if they're off-screen? When they decide to come inside it's fine and I can nuke them but then they just run outside the arena again and I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥. No reason the defend this poorly designed fight.

Move to the middle of the boss box. They will try to follow you if you run away.

[Bone]

It's an annoying fight for sure, especially on high curse. Ultimately though it's a stamina vs kill speed fight - with enough killing power you can destroy the protectors real fast. The lower your killing power, especially at high curse, the more the fight can drag on - in some cases almost to the next boss fight.
Lots of bonus vs shield helps, and I believe they are elites too so bonus vs elites can help kill them fast. If you have a ton of dmg you can sometimes burn the boss, otherwise always kill them first if you can.

It would be nice if they couldn't leave the fire field though on higher difficulties though - they will just run away and on curse 90+ it's such a pain on melee characters.

[den_dobry]

Bees are too fast, queen also is. And the fact that I cant leave the black fire while they can is so annoying. Using carpet just for that is stupid too.