Defeat Viper Act 3

[Palestir]

After many attempts I can say that devs went too far with her or rather didn't saw that she can spam her invulnerable spearmen attacks twice or even thrice in a row between her spams of AoEs while clipping our of the spearmens formation during it's the narrowest phase.
Pls fix it.

TL"DR
Boss having strong attacks is one thing but spamming and getting out of fight area is too much.
Chimera from Act 2 had similar spamming problem. She just wouldn't stand on ground for more that 2 seconds during some runs... for 3-5 minutes straight.

[Jonny Sparta]

want me to nuke her for you?

[Mapk]

She killed me about 50-75 times.

It took me that long to learn...

Phase 1? just dodge her spear thing and spam attack her.

Phase 2?
When she starts channeling the fire circle things, they're pretty easy to dodge while you keep attacking. I was able to navigate around them while still holding down attack. When the purple circles form, run the perimeter, and run to where 1 of them just blew up. Keep running to the ones that have just blown up.

Phase 3?
When she shoots out the yellow things to activate the spear men, again go right around the perimeter and just wait for the ones you're standing next to to flash yellow... then get ready to barrel roll away... Either carefully step to the non-flashing ones, or barrel roll just as they throw their spears. In the final spear throw when they all do it, roll INTO the direction that just threw the spears.

Do that all again and again until she's dead.

God help you if she spits that machine gun poison dart stuff. I have no idea how to save yourself from that. Some times she doesn't use it at all. I had many times when she opened up with that and spammed it 3 times in a row as her first 3 phases.

Anyway, I'm not very good, so I'm probably giving crud advice. But if I can kill her, you can.

[martymon]

When I was playing my mercenary with a crossbow, I carried a shield on my second weapon slot to help me block the poison darts.

[Jk]

I beat her first try with a poison ranger. Evasion I'm sure did a lot of the heavy lifting. But her abilities shoot straight out. Don't attack when the circles on the ground start and just focus on getting out of them. And the spears on the guys on the side turn green before they thrust. I can see how being a mage here would be rough

[Palestir]

Originally posted by Jonny Sparta:

want me to nuke her for you?

Thx but after getting stress out of my system I managed to kill her.

Mapk - belive me when I say that I was doing similar strategy, but as a monk I had to equip crossbow to have any chance against her.
Don't even mention spiting poison, that one attack she also spammed when I tried to keep distance from her.
But as I said before - getting spearmen and Fire/Chaos AoE combo back to back 3 times almost killed my soul.

[Meya]

First time I met her she was easy but I used armor break with my minions so kinda makes bosses a bit easier. in cruel she was harder but still doable same build just more fleshed out. There's no shame in asking for help, some bosses feel impossible for me too and some are super easy.

I think bosses are a way to check for your weak spots and you improve on them. My issue with Viper was the speed at which the spears go at when they flash green to actually hitting you. gotta memorize dodge depending on the direction they are going. Viper herself isn't that hard.

[Octopuses]

Just put couple chaos resistance rings on.