Any advice for Rathbreaker for sorcerer

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Been trying to kill the hyena boss at start of act 2 for a while now, as soon as the packs come up it is over, my shield depletes quick and they eat my health quickly as a sorcerer that isn't a lot of health, I can avoid his main attacks but those hyenas .. just make it extremely difficult.

Thanks for any advice that doesn't involve "git gud"

[Poyzo]

I noticed when I fight Rathbreaker near the top no adds appear. You can try going right and left near the top while avoiding the bottom half to see if that prevents the adds from coming. Could have been a bug though, not sure.

[Millertyme]

I bugged him somehow. Same problem, got to near the end and would just get swarmed and die. Happened 4 times in a row. Then magically I bugged him.
I tried to drag him down to the bottom area of the map but he reset after I did about 15% of his health pool. Then when I re-engaged him he never used his abilities, I just walked around him in a circle and when it came time for that final big swarm, it never came. Boss died and I moved on.

[Ragemonkey]

Hard fight for us sorcs , unfortunately I did mine just before the cast on freeze nerf and that allowed me to blow up the adds as I controlled them. I found fighting at the point of the platform made it so only a few adds came up. It is one of those fights that suck for certain classes , sorcs it's this guy , melee it's the molten guy.

Fire wall and kite them works well , that's what I did on normal mode

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Originally posted by Millertyme:

I bugged him somehow. Same problem, got to near the end and would just get swarmed and die. Happened 4 times in a row. Then magically I bugged him.
I tried to drag him down to the bottom area of the map but he reset after I did about 15% of his health pool. Then when I re-engaged him he never used his abilities, I just walked around him in a circle and when it came time for that final big swarm, it never came. Boss died and I moved on.

I managed to bug him, but his health kept replenishing, so had to reload on last checkpoint to reset him.

But yeah those hyenas are brutal, not only do they stack up , they can hide Rathbreaker so you can't see him at all or what he is doing. If those spears where not near the top it may be a bit easier. But yeah, guess I will just mass level and get those +12% lightning damages on the skill tree :P

[Empukris]

You can kill those add before fighting the boss with arc or other hit scan projectiles. The arrow will stop.

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Originally posted by Empukris:

You can kill those add before fighting the boss with arc or other hit scan projectiles. The arrow will stop.

They continually respawn.

[Subset6]

That boss is easy to bug out. Just fought him, killed all the doggies, then attempted to drag the boss down, he leached up stairs, the dog's kept spawning below, took a mess of them out below, went up to fight boss and the dogs never even engaged.

[GOD OF WAR SANCHEZ]

you can buyg him out for this run out of the fighting area then get back and move him to the end of the cliff

[Tozo]

You need to increase your damage. As a sorcerer it should be easy to kill those trash mobs, maybe just level up a bit and get more damage on your equipment.

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Originally posted by GOD OF WAR SANCHEZ:

you can buyg him out for this run out of the fighting area then get back and move him to the end of the cliff

I think the latest patch kinda fixed that as said above, his health will regenerate constantly when bugged at the edge of the cliff.

I will try again though :) I did manage to get him to half health doing it "normally" but the doggies are a pain >.<

[Boomshanka]

Originally posted by McGeorgeOfTheJungle:

Been trying to kill the hyena boss at start of act 2 for a while now, as soon as the packs come up it is over, my shield depletes quick and they eat my health quickly as a sorcerer that isn't a lot of health, I can avoid his main attacks but those hyenas .. just make it extremely difficult.

Thanks for any advice that doesn't involve "git gud"

Kill the Adds as they approach and just dodge that one shot attack, thats how i beat him, using my arc orb shocker build. He can be annoying but all the bosses get easier the more you play through it.

[Scullhead]

Dmg, you need more dmg to kill the Hyenas quick.
Place Flamewall, Electrosphere and spam Spark.
Grab a Weapon with Spelldmg >40% and a bit ES.

[DontEatSmurfs]

Originally posted by McGeorgeOfTheJungle:

Been trying to kill the hyena boss at start of act 2 for a while now, as soon as the packs come up it is over, my shield depletes quick and they eat my health quickly as a sorcerer that isn't a lot of health, I can avoid his main attacks but those hyenas .. just make it extremely difficult.

Thanks for any advice that doesn't involve "git gud"

rathbreaker is a DPS check, you need to have enough DPS to deal with his adds fast enough so you can deal with it before his one shot attack, sadly there is not much we can do since we dont know your build/gear, that being said...most of the time what you can work on is your weapon, if you are lacking enough dmg to deal with his adds everything boils down to gear

POE2 has multiples DPS checks, trials has dps checks act 3 has 2 dps checks back to back, there is no problem to farm a little bit and deal with rathbreaker when you fix you gear

my only hint i can give is to use any freeze ailment and/or explosive AOE dmg as soon as the hyenas start to surround you, i would bet in that firewall could do the trick, as the game progresses you will notice that you will keep changing your build, dont try to brute force it, sometimes betting in weaker gear / skills is enough to push your dps for that fight

there are even harder DPS checks in the game, rath is just one of the newbie ones

his mech is

call adds, jump, call for arrows and big hit that one shots

if you are able to deal with the adds quick enough you will have time to deal with everything else

[greenember]

if you basically hug him he dont do any major moves and the spears dont really chuck at you

[McGeorgeOfTheJungle]

Originally posted by greenember:

if you basically hug him he dont do any major moves and the spears dont really chuck at you

Interesting might give that a go.