Arbiter of Ash is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[duk]

So... today I decided to have a go at 2nd level of difficulty after rather easy 1st fight where I died only once, only to die 4 times in a row to some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bugged mechanics that triggers when you do enough DPS for Arbiter to trigger his phase 2 where he can shoot these wide laser beams, while his exploding bubbles are still appearing.
THIS IS ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Have fun with dying inside the bubbles you HAVE to stay in order to survive cause after losing 40% of my exp at level 90 made me lose pretty much all of my drive to play the game in it's current state.
Feel free to rant about what you hate about current state of the game under this post, maybe someone will eventually read it if it gets enough attention...

[Dr. Rockso]

The devs don't frequent the Steam forums.

[nickwithtea]

Yes the boss was not designed to be one shot and there is bugs in an early access game.

Lower your DPS and try again

[*Gen*HeroCrusher]

You dont fight pinnacle bosses unless you just leveled and have no XP to lose...

[DarK]

They made them like this to counter exactly these kind of high dps glass canon meta builds. Works as intended.

[RawMeatDiet]

where he can shoot these wide laser beams, while his exploding bubbles are still appearing.

Yes, that laser does like 7k dmg, good luck surviving with life build lol. Meanwhile ES can skip this mechanic entirely.

7k dmg? Woah. I only have 10k ES left, that's crazy.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by DarK:

They made them like this to counter exactly these kind of high dps glass canon meta builds. Works as intended.

Very true, they made it to counter glass cannon AND life builds. Because, ♥♥♥♥ life. If you playing life, you are a loser and deserve death. Just play ES, that's what devs are saying.

[DarK]

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

Originally posted by DarK:

They made them like this to counter exactly these kind of high dps glass canon meta builds. Works as intended.

Very true, they made it to counter glass cannon AND life builds. Because, ♥♥♥♥ life. If you playing life, you are a loser and deserve death. Just play ES, that's what devs are saying.

No. What they are saying is to make a balanced build and not just focus on a single thing and expect to beat everything the game throws at you. It's always a balancing act. You need to figure it out yourself.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by DarK:

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

Very true, they made it to counter glass cannon AND life builds. Because, ♥♥♥♥ life. If you playing life, you are a loser and deserve death. Just play ES, that's what devs are saying.

No. What they are saying is to make a balanced build and not just focus on a single thing and expect to beat everything the game throws at you. It's always a balancing act. You need to figure it out yourself.

I agree, with you, make a balanced build and don't play life. Life is for losers who want to die.

[DarK]

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

Originally posted by DarK:

No. What they are saying is to make a balanced build and not just focus on a single thing and expect to beat everything the game throws at you. It's always a balancing act. You need to figure it out yourself.

I agree, with you, make a balanced build and don't play life. Life is for losers who want to die.

No you have to mix life with something else like es or armor or evasion. There are a lot of buffs in the passive tree for a reason, not just life, es or attack damage. Some attacks ignore es and hit life directly. Chaos does double damage to es so you can't rely only on it. Mix it up and win.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by DarK:

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

I agree, with you, make a balanced build and don't play life. Life is for losers who want to die.

No you have to mix life with something else like es or armor or evasion. There are a lot of skills in the passive tree for a reason, not just life, es or attack damage. Some attacks ignore es and hit life directly. Chaos does double damage to es so you can't rely only on it. Mix it up and win.

Umm, you are responding to the wrong thread. This is about arbiter fight. Armour and Evasion will not help against Arbiter's laser beam, not in hardcore.

I agree that there's a lot of skills in passive tree, lots of ES, just build ES and nothing else and game works perfectly fine. Even if chaos does double damage that's still basically a scratch they shake off, and again, this is about Arbiter fight, that laser beam does not do chaos damage.

Also, the only real thing that attacks life directly is poison damage, which does nothing to CI builds, they have poison immunity.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by duk:

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Have fun with dying inside the bubbles you HAVE to stay in order to survive cause after losing 40% of my exp at level 90 made me lose pretty much all of my drive to play the game in it's current state.
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You made silly mistake going into a boss fight you do not know good enough with large amount of experience. That is very bad idea, especially in PoE2 where pinnacle bosses are designed to have many 1-hit KO mechanics.