Geonor Feels Awful as Warrior

[Strongii]

Earthquake is just far too slow to bother using in the fight.

I've been doing fine running EQ but I've hit the boss at 17, and simply the ability cannot contend with the mechanics.

The only feasible attack for that boss is basic attack into boneshatter IF and that's a big if you can get stun up that high in phase 2.

There's too much anti-mobility mechanics for how slow warrior is and the intermission where we could feasibly get pot charges you spend the entire time getting body blocked and pushed around by the adds.

Either warrior needs better, fast abilities pre-act 2 or the boss needs fewer slow mechanics because this is genuinely horrid

[Kao]

WariousGaming původně napsal:

GEONOR is a fing retar*** boss to fight as warrior when in wolf form (2nd phase) - UNBEATABLE and I even used orbs to upgrade my gear, add sockets and have freaking 40% cold resistance and it is still unbeatable by me - sitting there stuck at 18 lvl - and I fought him already 5 times -.- never I encountered such stupid boss to fight. GGG should make him spam frost skills ever 1 second - WOULD BE BETTER -.- I dodge - I am pissed as hell rn even thinking about it.

I agree this boss need refactoring or warrior need something else idk what.

Yes it is unbeatable. That’s why many of us are in act3 already.

[Valac]

I'm not trying to be a 'git gud' commenter, I really dislike that. But it seems some of you are doing something wrong. Wrong passives, wrong interactions with weapon, wrong timings, something is up.

I am not a good PoE player, I just started in Settlers.
I was able to beat Geonor at level 17 using totem and molten blast. That was it, nothing fancy. Just circling around him, dropping totem when it dies, and shooting him with my flaming balls. It isn't terribly hard, just takes some timing practice.

Hope you all give it another shot, it is very doable even with mid skills.

[Chimp Strength™]

Area Champion původně napsal:

GodHead původně napsal:

It's a build check and nothing more.

Bro, F that. So there are bosses that REQUIRE you to have a specific build in order to progress? Then what is even the reason to have options? That's pretty poor game design.

im feeling that way. That you have tons of options, but really only a few actually are viable.

[Chimp Strength™]

Valac původně napsal:

I'm not trying to be a 'git gud' commenter, I really dislike that. But it seems some of you are doing something wrong. Wrong passives, wrong interactions with weapon, wrong timings, something is up.

I am not a good PoE player, I just started in Settlers.
I was able to beat Geonor at level 17 using totem and molten blast. That was it, nothing fancy. Just circling around him, dropping totem when it dies, and shooting him with my flaming balls. It isn't terribly hard, just takes some timing practice.

Hope you all give it another shot, it is very doable even with mid skills.

precisely the point. warrior struggle in melee. ranged have an easier time.

[Vandorix]

Got him first go but that's what nearly two decades of tanking does.

[RawMeatDiet]

Guys.

Your normal attack swing does the highest dps. Not the skills. Stop wasting time trying to use skills to dps.

Put support gems on normal swing and dumpster this boss. If you want to beat him you need high dps otherwise he goes crazy below 25% hp.

It's a final boss of an act so it's reasonable for you to farm up a bit. On hardcore, I was lvl19 with 60 cold res, etc. when I beat him and realized that normal swing does the most dps. I used twohanded but you can use what you think is best. One handed is probably easiest but two handed does more dmg.

[5P4RK4]

RawMeatDiet původně napsal:

Guys.

Your normal attack swing does the highest dps. Not the skills. Stop wasting time trying to use skills to dps.

Put support gems on normal swing and dumpster this boss. If you want to beat him you need high dps otherwise he goes crazy below 25% hp.

It's a final boss of an act so it's reasonable for you to farm up a bit. On hardcore, I was lvl19 with 60 cold res, etc. when I beat him and realized that normal swing does the most dps. I used twohanded but you can use what you think is best. One handed is probably easiest but two handed does more dmg.

its a huge thing i think people are ignoring / avoiding. you can see it clearly in the takedown video too. the basic attack DPS is extremely good and a lot of classes should be leaning on it for single target. It does a ton of stun damage and should be your main single target DPS most likely once your totems and aoes and stuff are down.

this like MANY of the bosses in this game are easiest from 0 range because they do attacks and kicks instead of their kill moves. just have to use your things. Use your block, use your auto attack, use your roll. so much easier.

[Poyzo]

Geonor is better than 98% of bosses out there, and he's only Act 1!

[Mettle]

I killed him at level 16 on my second attempt with a 2H weapon build. i like stacking stun power. Stay mobile by hugging the boss and trying to get around him. almost all his damage is telegraphed in advance and can just be walked away from. the only thing that regularly hits me is when he instantly turns and auto attacks after some abilties. sometimes i failed to roll at the exact right moments and got clipped, but it was easy enough to recharge my flask in the add phase. this is harder to do in groups.

if your gear is awful and/or you need more time you can always farm the bosses before him for upgrades. i recommend killing the executioner a few times and starting again and full clearing the manor for exp/maybe a better weapon.

the wolf form is also very vulnerable to armor break.

[Catastrophe]

What in the world are you guys doing to have so much trouble? Why are you trying to build up quakes on a boss that moves around like that? Just hit him iwth the damn hammer and move out of stuff. He's a challenge, but he's faaaaaaar from impossible.

[thestoebz]

Strongii původně napsal:

Grimmsch původně napsal:

Here is a guy doing it without potions. Looks hard tho but maybe it helps.

https://youtu.be/x0efGvWAhPE

Just to put it out there I have beat the guy, but tbh without molten blast just making it a slow ranged fight it's just a bit tedious. Like going pure physical the bugger took what feels like 10 minutes of basic attack spam to get to around 5%

https://youtu.be/mv8OCdXG2CI?si=gwD3q3cE_pUbukEI

IDK what your build is, but I have everything in melee/2H damage. Beat him 3rd try pretty comfortably with almost 0% cold resist at level 17

[Cypher_EnC]

armor break + shield charge with shockwave + boneshatter simple as that (and a bunch of interactions, but mechanically its quite simple)

For mechanics dodge the ice, recharge the flask with the adds

[GetUrAssToMars]

Beat him with warrior just fine. Solo'd him while party of 4 was down for most of the second phase.

Not a flex just saying this is doable.

[Thump]

Magpie původně napsal:

They really should add an Easy Mode for you whiners and remove body block and half boss HP and damage and remove half their attacks. Then will you be happy? If you can just disengage your brain and float through the game on easy mode?

I found this boss hard. I invited a friend to come and help me. We defeated him together, not easily. It was fun. Maybe try playing with friends... if you have any.

Clown

[Elon's Musk]

I've beaten him repeatedly with warriors in hcssf. just put one some cold resist and have a decent mace. Not a hard fight tbh as everything is telegraphed quite a bit.