Jamanra holy, what the ♥♥♥♥ is this ♥♥♥♥?

[Boredhawk]

150k hp with damage that can one shot you. What the ♥♥♥♥?

[davidb11]

Yeah, the bosses in this game seem a bit overtuned.
Like, Shaper levels of overtuned.
If you fought him at level 10.

[gachi is manly]

Nothing he does should really be a 1 shot by the point you fight him.

My monk with very, very minimal defenses specced on the skill tree wasn't getting 1 shot even by his giant sword slam.

If my paper thin monk isn't getting 1 shot then beefy boys who actually have some armor shouldn't be either.

[davidb11]

Okay, that is a fair point.
i'm just extremely nervous about playing this game.
Compared to PoE 1.

[Boredhawk]

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

Nothing he does should really be a 1 shot by the point you fight him.

My monk with very, very minimal defenses specced on the skill tree wasn't getting 1 shot even by his giant sword slam.

If my paper thin monk isn't getting 1 shot then beefy boys who actually have some armor shouldn't be either.

Ah I am exaggerating a bit I'm not getting one shot but he eats through my entire health bar with some of his moves in like 0.5s

[Boredhawk]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Okay, that is a fair point.
i'm just extremely nervous about playing this game.
Compared to PoE 1.

Most bosses are fine? This is the first one I have come across that make me think "This is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"

[CyberOni]

I didn't get one shot by him but the damage he does is absolutely absurd for an act 2 mini boss, wonder what crack the GGG devs were smoking while they developed this game.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by Boredhawk:

Originally posted by davidb11:

Okay, that is a fair point.
i'm just extremely nervous about playing this game.
Compared to PoE 1.

Most bosses are fine? This is the first one I have come across that make me think "This is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"

He is super tough, I'll give you that.

Toughest guy I've fought and I'm almost through act 3 now.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by CyberOni:

I didn't get one shot by him but the damage he does is absolutely absurd for an act 2 mini boss, wonder what crack the GGG devs were smoking while they developed this game.

I thought we were talking about the final boss of ACt 2 here?

[Boredhawk]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by CyberOni:

I didn't get one shot by him but the damage he does is absolutely absurd for an act 2 mini boss, wonder what crack the GGG devs were smoking while they developed this game.

I thought we were talking about the final boss of ACt 2 here?

Yeah the final boss of Act 2

[davidb11]

Which is why what CyberOni said threw me through a loop.
He's no miniboss for certain.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Which is why what CyberOni said threw me through a loop.
He's no miniboss for certain.

Well you do fight him earlier in act 2, then he flies away.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

Originally posted by davidb11:

Which is why what CyberOni said threw me through a loop.
He's no miniboss for certain.

Well you do fight him earlier in act 2, then he flies away.

Yeah. True.
And from what I saw of that fight, he's a lot less meaner than the final fight.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by davidb11:

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

Well you do fight him earlier in act 2, then he flies away.

Yeah. True.
And from what I saw of that fight, he's a lot less meaner than the final fight.

oooooh yea. He's gloves off when you fight him in the finale.

[Boredhawk]

For anyone fighting him in the future that finds this i have some tips:

1. Stay close to him and roll around him, yes even mages should. I played a witch.

2. When the duo following pylons show up they predict where you are going to just walk into the wall at an angle and they will bug out and limply follow behind you so you don't need to dodge. Careful though this can fail, but its remarkably consistent across my attempts. I got this to work about 75% of the time across my 8 or so attempts.

3. In the second phase repeat as the first stay close to him and roll around him. If you cant stay close, go around the edge of the arena to heal up his spells seem to only be able to land in a area in a radius around the centre that's smaller than the total arena size.

4. His large sword swing has inconsistent timings on it. The wind up is about 1 second longer than it feels like it should be. The big halberd swing can be inconsistently dodged by rolling towards and to the left or right of him.

5. Don't be scared of the dual sword move it did not hit me once in my 4 attempts on the second phase.

6 (ish). Specifically for those using ice spells DO not sleep on using freezing shards to do this boss the spell is cracked for bossing.

[Witch ~]

Bosses are way overtuned even for PoE standards. When playing Witch your skeletons are basically useless since they're constantly instantly gone