Rattlecage

[Saito]

What level should you be for this guy? I'm 24 and my mercenary just gets walled hard by him. I'd rather not have to respec just because one boss is an unfortunate perfect counter to my build.

[Ghaleon]

each zone says the suggested level in the map screen.

[GeforceJoe]

Honestly you could even surpass the lvl recommended but if you don’t dodge well or have bad skills/mana/health reg/ set up things can still be very hard.
Where at the same time if your lower the recommended lvl but have a good skill set up or gear your good

[Dethesius]

Same here - I'm lvl 30 - Done just about everything I can do with the gear and the stuff I'm able to pick up and use. My skill tree so far seems to be on par but I just can't kill this guy. 30 min of dodging and hitting, I can never get him lower than 1/3 life. It just keeps going and going until you eventually run out of honor. I walked in with just under 500 and all that does is give me more time to do nothing to him.

Why is this so painfully long?! The events leading up to him is long enough - more than long enough. The fight with him shouldn't reset all the way back to the beginning. This is insanity. I just keep turning the damn thing off.

[RedShirt]

This is a simple one. Level does nothing. The skilltree isn't overly powerful. You are in act 3 and this is the stage where you need to craft a weapon that synergizes with your skills. It's not that hard. Check some guides with similar builds to yours and what weapon stats they recommend. Then you might have to farm a little bit. It's not to bad as the item pool is still very small.
For mercenary that's normally a crossbow with:
+50%+ phys damage,
+added phys damage,
+elemental damage with attacks.
Once you have that add two sockets and add iron runes for another +40% phys damage. Then up the quality to 20.

At that point everything up to maps becomes a joke.

[qsnoopyjr]

Very easy fight for warrior.
Pop totems by him run away.
Run back pop totems by him and run away again
Run back pop totems by him and run away again
Rinse and repeat until he is dead.
If dps is an issue, put the poison orb in, so its getting poisoned which is always decent dps.

Playing a warrior and I'm not even using my weapon, how about that that game design?
Armor break, does next to nothing, garbage. Those other skills I can get smacked while leaping, I'm vulnerable using them. Totems though, doable. Very easy.

[Dethesius]

Originally posted by RedShirt:

This is a simple one. Level does nothing. The skilltree isn't overly powerful. You are in act 3 and this is the stage where you need to craft a weapon that synergizes with your skills. It's not that hard. Check some guides with similar builds to yours and what weapon stats they recommend. Then you might have to farm a little bit. It's not to bad as the item pool is still very small.
For mercenary that's normally a crossbow with:
+50%+ phys damage,
+added phys damage,
+elemental damage with attacks.
Once you have that add two sockets and add iron runes for another +40% phys damage. Then up the quality to 20.

At that point everything up to maps becomes a joke.

It's not act 3. It starts at the beginning of act 2,

[RedShirt]

Originally posted by Dethesius:

Originally posted by RedShirt:

This is a simple one. Level does nothing. The skilltree isn't overly powerful. You are in act 3 and this is the stage where you need to craft a weapon that synergizes with your skills. It's not that hard. Check some guides with similar builds to yours and what weapon stats they recommend. Then you might have to farm a little bit. It's not to bad as the item pool is still very small.
For mercenary that's normally a crossbow with:
+50%+ phys damage,
+added phys damage,
+elemental damage with attacks.
Once you have that add two sockets and add iron runes for another +40% phys damage. Then up the quality to 20.

At that point everything up to maps becomes a joke.

It's not act 3. It starts at the beginning of act 2,

Ah you are right. Sorry. It's the chaos temple that's in act 3.
Still, update your weapon, use some runes. It makes things so much easier. It's the single strongest upgrade you can make.

[Kao]

Don’t overlevel your challenges in general. If you struggle at the recommended level, it means your build or your gear (in rarer cases, your skill) is the problem.

[Dethesius]

Originally posted by Kao:

Don’t overlevel your challenges in general. If you struggle at the recommended level, it means your build or your gear (in rarer cases, your skill) is the problem.

Then that would be a malfunction of the game if that were the case. In my case, I've been attempting this since it was available. lvl 30 now and it's stayed the same.