geonor might be easy for poe 1 veterans...but not for people who are new to poe..

[Geschnetzeltes]

First of all.. i played poe1.but only until act 3 or so ( its been a while cant remember) and none of the bosses in these acts was as terrible as geonor in poe act1.

This boss is absolutely atrocious.
Im playing frost sorc. i also upgraded to 70% cold resistance just for this boss. but the frigging fog phase is the worst. cant dodge becuz getting blocked by the adds..cant get ennough spells casted to get rid of them, because im permanently forced to smash the space bar to dodgeroll ( yes i went with cast time reduction/ cast speed, doesnt help much),also no indicator which direction the boss will jump out of the fog.

im pretty sure hes much easier with other classes and builds ..but i am not one of those classes..and im not respeccing a complete build for one ♥♥♥♥ boss, just to respecc back after it.

this is probably the most annoying boss i had in a game in ages.

i googled it for the last hour..and a LOT of people having issues witht he boss..while some other people be like " lol git gud scrub, killed him first try not even using potions"...i have no idea what crazy builds those people came up with..feels like they play a whole different game/ different boss here. hence me stating in the title, that some nerd with 2k hours in poe2 prolly has a very very easy time to cheese that boss with some build specifically for him...but keep forgettting that not everyone who started poe2 yesterday..is a poe1 veteran.

thx for coming to my ted talk.

[Master Pef]

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Seriously bosses before him were often more difficult. Why are people having so much trouble with him?

Some people are just allergic to learning anything

^^^

The sad truth.
"Casuals" cry foul the moment something isn't face roll easy.
You die a few times?
Try something new.
Use a different skill now and then.
Change it up.
Go really far afield if you have to.
Try just not doing damage for awhile and see if you notice something new about enemy behavior.

If you aren't capable of experimentation and independent thought, go find a build or guide to solve it for you.
Not because it is required to beat anything.
Because you just aren't capable of solving it yourself. (which is fine, but stop b****ing)

[SrDone]

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I've died to many bosses the first time I fought them and quite a few even with the next char I made to fight them. This wasn't one of them. Not sure why people have a problem with him to be honest. He doesn't have a very hard attack to get away from that one shots you like many other bosses. He doesn't have a HUGE army of adds that are constantly joining in. He has adds, but they are not overwhelming or not to me (I do usually have good AoE/group attacks on any character by that point). He can be frozen and other than the mist part he doesn't have invulnerablity frames, all things that make other bosses far harder (to me at least).

He doesn't even hit hard enough to one shot you in general if you make a mistake, even as a sorc/witch. Yeah if you don't heal after that...you might be in trouble, but he doesn't really freeze/stun/trap you either.

Seriously bosses before him were often more difficult. Why are people having so much trouble with him?

My experience, I started with witch with minion focus, had nightmare difficulty, switched to ranger had walk in a park. Now I am going for warrior.
I do understand why people who say he is hard say it, because I understand what difference good dps makes, it is not about survivability, this game is about how fast can you kill and what you need to do to kill.
It might be easy to survive boss that can 2 shoot you for 1 min , but it gets exponentially harder if you can not do the damage.
Not even that, you need damage to not get stuck between mobs.
I have died only to 1 boss so far on my ranger and it was only because I played on peak hours where I had latency spikes that had me blind for 10+ sec, funny enough it was like third boss at the start and I melted rest of them before I had to even really worry about any mechanics.

Guess you didnt use srs? friend of mine killed him in less than 2 mins, that thing is op

[Foras]

In fact, in the fog phase, Geonor always jumps out of it immediately after saying one of the pretentious phrases. So there is an indication. It's just that you're too busy making excuses to notice it.
And I had about three fog phases, so I didn't just outdamage all.
Learn to play issue clearly.

[sethndavid]

This Boss is too hard for noobs - i've hit a wall on it, 30 tries so far approx, can't even get to last last stage with red ice, so Game Over, but the Bird in this thread is a Toxic bottom feeder so there is no discussion

[ClAyMoRe*]

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In fact, in the fog phase, Geonor always jumps out of it immediately after saying one of the pretentious phrases. So there is an indication. It's just that you're too busy making excuses to notice it.
And I had about three fog phases, so I didn't just outdamage all.
Learn to play issue clearly.

that is impressive, how did you survive his jumps, I could not outpace his area of damage no matter how much I tried, radius is insane.

[Panthaz89]

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In fact, in the fog phase, Geonor always jumps out of it immediately after saying one of the pretentious phrases. So there is an indication. It's just that you're too busy making excuses to notice it.
And I had about three fog phases, so I didn't just outdamage all.
Learn to play issue clearly.

i don't think he's quite what an act I boss was supposed to be if the developers were trying to bring more people in....sure it only took me 2 tries but I knew when I beat him he was going to crush most of the newer players.

[Poyzo]

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In fact, in the fog phase, Geonor always jumps out of it immediately after saying one of the pretentious phrases. So there is an indication. It's just that you're too busy making excuses to notice it.
And I had about three fog phases, so I didn't just outdamage all.
Learn to play issue clearly.

that is impressive, how did you survive his jumps, I could not outpace his area of damage no matter how much I tried, radius is insane.

Dodge roll when he comes, you'll avoid damage.

During the fog phase you have two tasks:
-Kill adds
-Dodge roll when Geonor jumps at you

[ClAyMoRe*]

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that is impressive, how did you survive his jumps, I could not outpace his area of damage no matter how much I tried, radius is insane.

Dodge roll when he comes, you'll avoid damage.

During the fog phase you have two tasks:
-Kill adds
-Dodge roll when Geonor jumps at you

I mean if you have vision of future , or as some say skills of tune of rythme idk how you can roll out of it, it is just rng, well I guess staying more to the 2/3 of the screen helps as he does come more out of the middle part.
But then again his spawned minions can make it difficult and his mist phase is not as hard as getting out of his jumps
Idk if you have seen his area of effect after mist phase jumps, you can not doge roll them really.

[Caz]

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Not really. I'm adapting and learning. Just like I do with any game that doesn't put me in a stroller.

I meant this thread! But OP doesn't seem to be responding anymore
You clearly are a reasonable individual, I have no doubt you can overcome difficult things by yourelf c:

I'm going to assume that's not sarcasm. Too much sniping and biting at each other on this forum can make everything seem like sarcasm eventually. heh

[Silent Knight]

First time playing POE here. Geonor was easy. I washed him with my ice monk. Hit him til he froze then dropped the bell and bang it which built up his stun gauge. When he unfroze he was stunned bang on him some more. Same in wolf form. Fight lasted less than 3 mins.

[Legioona]

If someone bothers to read this far.

Just beat Geonor on HC, third attempt. My poison ranger and chaos witch were sent to the beach, but arc sorceress had no issues on lvl 17.

I did play POE1 quite a lot, and this fight is similar to Siren in POE 1, but in cruel (= round 2).

This means, that you really should invest to 50%+ cold resistance, or preferably, go all in with it.

You most likely have slots in your gear, use those glacial runes.

And if you haven't found a cold resistance ring (30%ish), farm it or spend that money on a random ring until you get one -> also keep an eye out for for sale when you level up & buy it if it appears.

And for the toxic "git gud" boys in the thread, compared to anything on normal difficulty in POE1, Geonor is more difficult. I'd expect GGG to nerf it a bit, so that you have a fair chance of beating it on your first attempt on lvl 15 without preparing for it (cold resistance).

[Sprocket]

Let me start by saying I do think ACT 1 is overturned. I want to try and help, so don't take this the wrong way.

I did this as Sorc (mix of Fire and Lightning).

During that phase, you do not have to roll constantly - the voice lines clue you in on when to roll.. its like voice line -> one second, then roll.

I have seen you said u can't roll cause of body blocking. Use the time in between rolls to chip away at the wolf health and circle around the edge of the mist to always have space.

I had to deal with 2 mist phases and the part after where he jumps a lot.. sure the pressure is on, but you CAN do it.. took me 7 wipes total.

I wish you luck. Feels good once its done :)