Having trouble finding a good farming spot for Act 4 Merciless gear

[Brown_Town86]

So I just got to Act 4 in Merciless (Dominus is such a ♥♥♥♥ in Merciless, lol) and I'm getting one-shotted by the boss in the lake zone. Even with my armor flask up (21k armor.) I'm in dire need of better gloves, boots and a chest but just cant find a good enough base to craft and been having relatively ♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck with drops so I'm also pretty currency poor. What's the best place to prep for the rest of the game? Most maps seem to cream me as well. Are certain map zones harder than others? The map mods seem competely random.

My elemental resistences are capped and my chaos is at 30% with almost 7k armor. I do only have 2.5k health with no energy shield/evasion, though. Should I respec some of my armor points to health? Thanks for any info you can provide.

[Ravenstaver]

Dried lake is by far and away the best place to be for farming outside maps! Just skip voll if you cannot fight him, if you're wanting to buy gear use the website poe.trade and you can buy gear there! Although if you're self found then just cheezing dried lake is best, but if you really cannot manage that then docks is not a bad 2nd choice, although it is a lot lower level. Best of luck to you!

[Brown_Town86]

Alright, sounds good. Everything else there is cake and he's pretty easy to avoid. Thank you.

[K0rkki]

Doing Piety runs is also a pretty nice way to get drops. She should be more elemental damage based if that's something you can deal with more easily. Voll on the other hand is purely physical and attacks so slowly that you can dodge the biggest attack with any mobility skills (dodge to his back side since the center of his AoE is actually in front of him). It's also possible to rig Immortal call + Inc duration + Enduring cry. If you maintain atleast one endurance charge you can become immune to physical damage for 1-2 seconds when you cast IC.

Some maps are definately more difficult than others. Usually on maps the Act IV monster variants tend to hit hader than others. There is also alot of differences in map boss difficulties some being just fodder among fodder while a few being pretty much impossible to beat without some special preparations (eg. stacking one elemental resistance cap to far beyond 75% or simply knowing which attacks are pretty much meant to be dodged). I suggest you take a look at poe wiki maps section whenever you stumble across a map you are not familiar with. There you can find a nice list of maps with difficulty estimations.

About your health, more would certainly help. Not quite sure what's currently concidered a nice total +% of max health for a character. Gonna say something like a total of +160% from the tree on level 70-80 is pretty safe. Other than that try to find/craft gear with some flat +hp (atleast 60 per piece of armour/jewelry piece). That should be your top priority roll alongside resistance rolls and necessary stat rolls. If you can get your total HP close to 4k you can pretty safely even drop 30-50% of your chaos resistance. Just save the pieces with C.Res incase you want to run chaos damage maps/bosses (like Dominus 2nd phase or a Quarry map boss).

[Brown_Town86]

I have IC rigged to CWDT(which is awesome for large mobs) and WM+Blasphemy for auto endurances charges. Looks like I should use them both manually whenever I fight anyone like him. It sounds like it would be a lot easier. Thanks for the tip. I'll give Piety a try as well. I absolutely destroyed her so I should be able to farm her pretty quickly. Thanks again for the info. You've both been very helpful. I'll also make sure to check out the map wiki page before I experiment too much more with them.

[Lagwin1980]

How can you get one shotted by the boss in the lake zone?, it has a massive telegraphed attack that is easy to dodge my weekest characters have managed to do him without dying(dominus kicked their arses)

[Altaria]

I never got one shotted by voll, unless I didnt care about dying and pushing contents in standard with horrible life pool like 3k or so.

But when I have like 4k-5k (which is recommended by most of community by the time you get to voll in act 4 dried lake) its impossible for him to 1 shot me lol.

Its prolly has more to do with flaw of the build.

[Brown_Town86]

Originally posted by Lagwin1980:

How can you get one shotted by the boss in the lake zone?, it has a massive telegraphed attack that is easy to dodge my weekest characters have managed to do him without dying(dominus kicked their arses)

I am a melee build using a Marohi Erqi with Multistike. My attack animation takes forever. It's very easy to start up an attack and have him start up that telegraph attack immediately afterward right next to me, not giving me enough time to escape. This is also my first encounter with him in Merciless and the first character I've played since the expansion.

I beat him very easily with Immortal Call and Enduring Cry set to manual, though. Thanks, K0rkki. I would just cast Enduring Cry on the adds to get my 6 charges and would cast Immortal Call and beat on him. I also put Increased Duration on Immortal Cry so I had almost 5 seconds of invincibilty. Only took me about 2 minutes and he didn't touch me once with anything. This is my first melee build so I'm still learning, which is why I'm still playing in softcore