Fix Black Jaw

[Straker]

He's totally broken. The 3 hit abillity he does 1 shots you EVERY time regardless of if you DODGE or hide behind a post. The posts are supposed to be there for you to hide behind but if you have a single pixel outside the post he hits you anyway and 1 shots you! And the dodge roll is useless as his attack is faster than the animation of your roll so the last dodge always takes the hit and 1 taps you! So unless you out level it massively he's totally broken. So GGG is the roll a dodge or not? It's also a complete RNG lottery if the post will stop his flame attacks or not!

I'm in cruel BTW and have 1-3 shotted EVERY boss in cruel before any noob chimes in with the inevitable skill issue lame low IQ response

[Drifter]

They literally just nerfed him. If he is too hard, just come back later, it's not like you need the 10% fire res right away.

[Straker]

Not even close to a nerf. 1-3 attempts on EVERY boss in Cruel. 40-50 and counting on Blackjaw! Something is VERY amiss. He's not too hard. He's a VERY easy boss. But he isn't when the game mechanics don't work. It's literally a lottery. I tested it. Stood behind the post as he chained attacks and the first slam doesn't hit me. The fire breath doesn't hit me the BIG slam hits me and then the 3 hits 1 tap me. I havent moved and neither has the boss lol

[Drifter]

Originally posted by Straker:

Not even close to a nerf. 1-3 attempts on EVERY boss in Cruel. 40-50 and counting on Blackjaw! Something is VERY amiss.

There is a way to beat. I have beaten him on all 4 characters I have played through the campaign with, it's just about timing your dodges and getting behind him. But if you can't beat him right now, that is ok, he is optional, just come back later.

[Straker]

Originally posted by Drifter:

Originally posted by Straker:

Not even close to a nerf. 1-3 attempts on EVERY boss in Cruel. 40-50 and counting on Blackjaw! Something is VERY amiss.

There is a way to beat, I have beaten him on all 4, it's just about timing your dodges and getting behind him. But if you can't beat him right now, that is ok, he is optional, just come back later.

He's a VERY easy boss. But the game is not working as intended. The pillars don't stop hits randomly. EVEN if the boss doesn't move and neither do you. And 3 attacks get blocked and 1 hits you for no reason. If you get me?

[Machin Shin]

its not hard to roll this attack

[Straker]

Originally posted by Machin Shin:

its not hard to roll this attack

Doesn't work. His attack is faster than your roll unless you've specced into movement speed. 90% of the time the 3 slam hits you regardless of rolling or not. It's a total lottery!

[Hi r u High]

still broken!!!!!!!!!!

[Platzetta]

I only struggled against him on my first playthrough in cruel but realized I was doing everything wrong. Now he's a joke.

[Pizzashot]

The problem is that he is a stupid aimbotter that aimbot his third hit on to your character. The way to beat him is to hug him because his attack struggle to hit at his feet, because he as well as other big bosses are developed very poorly. Every big boss is just easier if you hug them and it is stupid since dodge roll was their ''thing'' to get away from big hits. I tried to run to the corner of the map with my warrior when I first fought Black Jaw and his attack sometimes felt as it had an infinite reach, but the animation did not show that. I think his attack is like Sunder for warrior but it does not show the sunder effect, it just hits.

[bashru_sakh]

blackjaw? its one of many oneshots, for example just start too run clockwise then doryani ass-laser and its GG in 1 second, same with fire, same with boat-boss and his hurracane that literaly oneshots you - its NO way out of it since 1st step into.
today was oneshoted by regular archer with 3 hits in 1 second - 1st got my ES to zero, 2-3 shots killed. and every shot was 100% stun. welcome to poe2

[PaperLiger]

Skill issue. I only died to him like 5-6 times until learning how to dodge him

[Mister Fisk]

Originally posted by Straker:

Originally posted by Machin Shin:

its not hard to roll this attack

Doesn't work. His attack is faster than your roll unless you've specced into movement speed. 90% of the time the 3 slam hits you regardless of rolling or not. It's a total lottery!

the 2nd hit in the 3-hit combo is a bait. i would run to the side to get out of the way of the 2nd hit then follow up with a dodge for the 3rd. if youre a melee character at close range, i would suggest dodging into/right past him to get behind him. thats what i did with my monk

[Neithan]

Stack fire resist to 75% - laugh off most of his hits.

The first hit will track you, you gotta dodge at the right moment to get away, the second one is non- or less-tracking in my experience, but the third again will track you, and ontop of that, fire debris in the frontal direction.

So the trick is to dodge-roll the first, then run away from him, you can even run out the range of the third strike, or dodge-roll at the last moment to get out of range. Only don't roll directly away from the boss, because of the flinging debris, instead try to get away to the side.

The first hit was hard but did not kill me, but also taking the second hit was enough, or even when I avoided the first two hits/healed back after the first, the third hit was always killing me.... again, until I went back to town and stacked fire resist (was at 43% then), even traded out a yellow ring and amulet for blue ones, just to get max fire resist. And when I returned with 75% I could even take the third hit and survive with little health.