Mana draining mobs

[blndr]

So, let's talk about this ♥♥♥♥. How I supposed to fight it? Each time rare mobes with mana drain and movement speed attacking me, I'm having a heart attack. If I can't apply shock and deal a lot of damage insta from distance - 100% dead.

Okay, I've learnt how to deal with them, but actually what the ♥♥♥♥ with this one? Are you serious? Like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ truck chasing me without any hesitation. And I'm not quite sure what I need to do here - he is eating my mana, shield and hp at the same time. I can't deal damage (because of mana), I can't outpace him (because of m/s boost if there is one) and I can't survive obviously.

GGG please do something with this - cause this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke. I prefer to get one-shotted with bosses and accept my fail, but this one ridiculous..

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[RawMeatDiet]

You will get your mana drained and be happy.

[Wutever]

The mana drain is only the blue ring. You either stand outside of it or inside of it. If you're Mind Over Matter then this is your natural counter. Enjoy.

[tenchu400]

It's designed to be a anti mage mechanic. Yes they are a pain. But movement speed on boots help (30%+). On my stomweaver I drop curses and such on the ground while running away and fire of a couple spells here and there while retreating to already cleared area. The best outcome is usually to off screen them as soon as you see the blue ring or get them stuck on the environment and mow them down from a distance.

[blndr]

I uploaded wrong link. I got a boss with this suffix.

I'm over 270 hours intro game, and have 93lvl char, so let me be straight about it:

- Ofc i'm not standing in the circle - I just can't outrun the mob (or in that particular case because of map modifiers)
- For your knowledge - this blue hemisphere not only draining mana but also dealing lightning dps
- I have my 30% ms boots from 30-40 lvl into the game
- Unfortunately I don't have enough spirit to use blink so I can maneuver better
- My built not using this passive thing, but I have one friend of mine with this ♥♥♥♥ - 90% of his deaths in this game due to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Saying that "you've met your counter" seems too much ignorant thing to say. Cause I don't even have a change to do anything (in this particular case with this boss) and other times with rare mobs all depends on the modifiers - if it will stack mana drain with this "shadowwalking" stuff (which mean I need to be in hand-to hand combat to kill it - I'm dead.

Seems pretty broken and unfair isn't it?

And again crying over deaths as itself - game is hard, rough and I like it. Except that one thing (and that we still don't have maps stash, lol)

https://ibb.co/JzfpKB8 - here is the screen of what I saw first time in almost 300 hours in this game. That boss have the same ♥♥♥♥ as rares do (don't forget about map modifiers for a/s, m/s, c/s, etc.)

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by blndr:

Saying that "you've met your counter" seems too much ignorant thing to say.

But you have, in fact, met your counter.

Every character with mana meets their counter vs this.

Characters running MOM where their mana is their health pool has met their counter.

This is literally the hard counter to mana/MOM users.

The only tip to beating this is fight them inside the circle, only the ring drains. and blink/roll while clenching and hope you don't do it into the ring.

[ominumi]

I'm a warrior using melee skills. WTF am I suppose to use for counter play? This modifier needs to put a circle on player's feet instead of being center on the monster.

[Nightskies]

What ffrotty said, but emphasis:

"fight them inside the circle"

This boss is particularly easy to avoid its attacks through plain movement. The lightning is a bit more rough to deal with, but with someone of your skill (I would presume), it shouldn't be too hard.

[Emiya Muljomdao]

sounds like a skill issue
git gud bruh

[blndr]

Originally posted by ffrotty:

Originally posted by blndr:

The only tip to beating this is fight them inside the circle, only the ring drains.

Thanks, I didn't know that. That's only the ring is the issue, many thanks. Will try it out on new encounter.

[grei]

you will win when you understand games logic.
POE logic is kill mob without visible range before it kills you before visible range.
If you see a mob charging at you and he hits you, you lost.
Game is praised for a good gameplay, but when you understand what stands behind it, game becomes average at best.

[CHAO$$$]

The mana drain just happens if you touch the blue ring.

You can be right next to the mob and not get mana drained which is usually the best solution if theyre super fast.

Its really not that hard to deal with overall.

[Baked Potato]

If you get close to them you wont be drained... It only drain around (blue circle). In those case, I go in while using a mana pot and use my Weapon Skill which require no mana.

[['w']]

block their movement, I freeze them or use icewall with my deadeye... blink away

I put a bell down and roll away with my monk, hit the bell with a ranged attack called stormwave and stunlock the rare, if he isn't strong I just melee him, but sometimes they come with even more nasty mods so beware.

[Acronen]

I have learned a few steps to fight this particular combo (if they also have teleport, just get ready for the death screen.)

Step 1: Get as much move speed as possible.
Step 2: Also get blink.
Step 3: Use temporal stasis.
Step 4: Realize none of the previous even really matter.
Step 5: Hit your most powerful hotkey in the game, the "esc" key and log out to character screen. Select your minion focused character, log back in, step through the portal and continue playing as that.

Edit: In all seriousness, I am lucky that my wand is a volatile dead wand and I run/blink away as fast as possible and cast that heat seeking fireball over the trail of corpses I've left as I am running and just hope it kills the damn thing before it catches me.

[Desync]

Skill issue