First Pinnacle Boss in endgame

[Anurid]

Hey Everyone, I don't usually post much on forums i prefer to read posts instead.
However in this situation I feel like I should express my disappointment and frustration.

I love this game, I am a little obsessed actually to be honest.
So I completed the campaign and got to end game. It took me forever and many many maps, probably over 100 to find the 3 citadels and complete them. I finally did and was so happy and excited! Then I get to the pinnacle boss, and he killed me. So I said ok let's try again.
But guess what? You only get the one attempt. To try again you have to find 3 more citadels and do that all over again. I find that was very disappointing and a let down. I didn't even feel like or have the energy to start again. So I am going to level another character instead.
I think that people should have a number of attempts at the final boss at least not just the one. There is no explanation anywhere of what the mechanics are so it is quite easy for anyone to die on this boss even you if you have good gear. Some people may tell me, I should have read up on the boss fight or watched you tube videos on it. I agree that would have helped me but I don't believe that should be the solution. And how did the first guy do it? How many maps and citadels did he/she have to find before killing him?

I hope GGG reads this and corrects it for the majority of people who have not yet arrived at this stage.

Thank You,

[TyresTyco]

They surely won't read this but they are still aware since this criticism is everywhere.. everyone complains about it and they will surely do something about that.

Not a fan of this too. Still didnt find one single citadel after 80~h playing endgame.

Only did the breach boss, died.. logged off for the day.,. farmed another 300 splnters again.. did it with other character and beat him.

I like the bosses but I hate the one attempt design coupled with how rare citadels are and how long it can take to get to the other pinnacles.

[Odyss]

Apart from act bosses, it's the same with every boss (trial of sekhema, trial of chaos, mapping) but I can see how one could be frustrated that they have to repeat parts of the process.

Maybe they should add some form of currency payment to retry so that it still sort of keeps the design the devs had in mind but also make each attempt costly.

[TyresTyco]

Originally posted by Odyss:

Apart from act bosses, it's the same with every boss (trial of sekhema, trial of chaos, mapping) but I can see how one could be frustrated that they have to repeat parts of the process.

Maybe they should add some form of currency payment to retry so that it still sort of keeps the design the devs had in mind but also make each attempt costly.

To be blunt. The 6 portal system they have in poe1 would fix every single complaint there is in regards to bosses.

Jonathan Rogers should stop having his face in his ass and stop thinking about player punishing so much and start thinking about fun.

His design philosphy has to much punishment in it. I can live with exp loss on death.. map loss on to many deaths.. node being blocked on to many deaths.. but 1 try boss fight attempts the way how broken defenses are and how easy bosses can oneshot.

No. Thats a line I can not cross.

[Cairn.L]

Originally posted by Anurid:

But guess what? You only get the one attempt. To try again you have to find 3 more citadels and do that all over again. I find that was very disappointing and a let down. I didn't even feel like or have the energy to start again. So I am going to level another character instead.

If you don't want to find the Citadels to get the fragments, there is another option you can actually buy it for about 4 Divine orbs in total at the moment.

[Lumifel]

Originally posted by A.K. Rowling:

Still haven't found a citadel I'm approaching 300 hours

I've found one but I swear I can't get to it. Every path are blocked because I can't access the tower, the unlocked fog of the closet tower is just a bit short each time 😆

I just can see the ⛺ at the edge of the fog

[instant]

Originally posted by A.K. Rowling:

Still haven't found a citadel I'm approaching 300 hours

kinda impossible, 300h in endgame or 300h leveling chars in campaign,

i leveled a new char in ssf and found after like 12 hours like 10 citadels.
from time to time citadels will also be hidden under mountains and stuff on the map, so you have to mouse hover over the waypoint on the map to see if its a citadel.

[Anurid]

I wonder if anyone else failed at the pinnacle boss and feels the same way ?

[Operation40]

they said they wanted new players, but seem to be doing everything possible to repel them.

the end game seems designed for the top ~10% of players.. and streamers of course - failing on a pinnacle boss after spending 100h looking for citadels is great content, I'm sure chatters love it

[Critical]

I agree that 1 attempt is pretty stupid considering the time/currency investment required to even get to that stage in the first place. They are basically forcing everyone to watch a detailed YT video explaining all of the mechanics in the boss fight before going in there because if you fail it is back to grinding for another dozen hours at the minimum

[warlock]

The hardest part is not killing the boss but finding citadels is the real endgame

[Cairn.L]

Perhaps they can make it like the first two Ascension trials, fragments will not spent when fail until completed.

[Yamatai]

I love this game but 200+ h in endgame and nothing, no end game bosses, nothing. Can do both trials and thats it. endgame none existing. I understand its early access but with all respect hope they will soon fix this.

[Vortexdr]

Originally posted by instant:

Originally posted by A.K. Rowling:

Still haven't found a citadel I'm approaching 300 hours

kinda impossible, 300h in endgame or 300h leveling chars in campaign,

i leveled a new char in ssf and found after like 12 hours like 10 citadels.
from time to time citadels will also be hidden under mountains and stuff on the map, so you have to mouse hover over the waypoint on the map to see if its a citadel.

It's not, I'm at like lvl 94, tons of maps cleared and also travelled significant distance on atlas and have yet to even see 1 citadel. Good for you that you found 10... i haven't found any in well over for sure 150 hrs endgame mapping.