cant beat act 1

[BlueBarrymore]

i cant beat the final boss in act one. why is the story so punishing, i get 2 shot and many of the moves freeze so really that is just one shot.

[party pooper]

You need more armor, Life, and freeze resistance.
It also helps to upgrade your skills and slot decent support gems that have synergy.
Lastly don't be afraid to die a few times just to learn his move set and get the timing down for when to dodge, kite and attack.

[GMdoghunter]

To be perfectly honest here when a story mode boss is concerned there should definitely be No need for the boss to take a group to properly kill it successfully.
I do get the difficulty of POE2 Varies sometimes things are pretty hard and pack a punch,but there are other times things die too easily as well.
I personally would say the bosses for the acts are way too far overtuned when it comes to this.
GGG Has to get the balance of the difficulties correct and hopefully with time they do.
Overall i absolutely love POE2 And enjoy the challenge b ut for others this may be different in turn they could actually cause people to leave the game because of things like this.
Which i do not hope happens as game is way too enjoyable and good.

[WereChicken]

Frost resistance gear. Also get move soedd boots.

Make sure you stay out of the telegraphed attack zones as they are brutal.

If you have some sort of area damage spell then the second phase onwards is a lot less brutal

What class are you using?

[Pervy]

Originally posted by BlueBarrymore:

i cant beat the final boss in act one. why is the story so punishing, i get 2 shot and many of the moves freeze so really that is just one shot.

Dont stand in the freezing ♥♥♥♥ then? you can see where the moon beams will hit, you can see where the spike wave will hit, you can see where he will breath at.

[Rinky]

the most important thing here is cold resistance. my friend stacked it up to a maximum xD and wasn't getting any damage

[DirtyMick]

Get like 30+ cold res, and it should be manageable. Not that hard to achieve either. Ideally, try to get even more than that, of course. I just never had a problem when I ran with 30%.

[SoD]

Originally posted by BlueBarrymore:

i cant beat the final boss in act one. why is the story so punishing, i get 2 shot and many of the moves freeze so really that is just one shot.

skill issue, if you get one shooted it means that you stay still. If you cant beat this boss you wont be able to beat any other bosses. Just move and spam your skills dont stay still. I killed that boss on my second try just spamming spark and moving around Lol

[Wasabi Steak Sashimi Burger Cake]

Originally posted by GMdoghunter:

To be perfectly honest here when a story mode boss is concerned there should definitely be No need for the boss to take a group to properly kill it successfully.

Good thing you don't need a group to properly kill any of the story bosses successfully.

[TheAmazon]

Let me guess Warrior build?

[alan0n]

These guys have to be trolling. Its statistically unlikely that this many people are totally unable to play video games.

[gachi is manly]

Make sure you got the +10% cold resist from the first miniboss outside clearfell.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by GMdoghunter:

To be perfectly honest here when a story mode boss is concerned there should definitely be No need for the boss to take a group to properly kill it successfully.
I do get the difficulty of POE2 Varies sometimes things are pretty hard and pack a punch,but there are other times things die too easily as well.
I personally would say the bosses for the acts are way too far overtuned when it comes to this.
GGG Has to get the balance of the difficulties correct and hopefully with time they do.
Overall i absolutely love POE2 And enjoy the challenge b ut for others this may be different in turn they could actually cause people to leave the game because of things like this.
Which i do not hope happens as game is way too enjoyable and good.

The problem is not difficulty but lack of balance across classes (some are way op compared to others) lack of balance across skills (again see previous) and a system that is heavily gear dependent.

Add those 3 factors together and you have a game which for some feels like fighting impossible odds and others feels like a total cake walk. And skill doesn't factor into that to much. My first efforts to beat act 1 boss my gear was garbage. I have played just about every worthwhile ARPG ever made, a lot. So I know my onions. I wrongly presumed this was like other games and you could largely ignore gearing till like act 3, nooooooooo

The difference between facing the boss wearing random crap and facing him wearing considered pieces that actually covered resistance gaps and focused on layered defense was night and day. I didn't magically become more skilled, I just had way better gear

[Pervy]

Originally posted by RodHull:

Originally posted by GMdoghunter:

To be perfectly honest here when a story mode boss is concerned there should definitely be No need for the boss to take a group to properly kill it successfully.
I do get the difficulty of POE2 Varies sometimes things are pretty hard and pack a punch,but there are other times things die too easily as well.
I personally would say the bosses for the acts are way too far overtuned when it comes to this.
GGG Has to get the balance of the difficulties correct and hopefully with time they do.
Overall i absolutely love POE2 And enjoy the challenge b ut for others this may be different in turn they could actually cause people to leave the game because of things like this.
Which i do not hope happens as game is way too enjoyable and good.

The problem is not difficulty but lack of balance across classes (some are way op compared to others) lack of balance across skills (again see previous) and a system that is heavily gear dependent.

Add those 3 factors together and you have a game which for some feels like fighting impossible odds and others feels like a total cake walk. And skill doesn't factor into that to much. My first efforts to beat act 1 boss my gear was garbage. I have played just about every worthwhile ARPG ever made, a lot. So I know my onions. I wrongly presumed this was like other games and you could largely ignore gearing till like act 3, nooooooooo

The difference between facing the boss wearing random crap and facing him wearing considered pieces that actually covered resistance gaps and focused on layered defense was night and day. I didn't magically become more skilled, I just had way better gear

And some builds dont need as good gear to kill act 1 last boss as others do.

I recall a guy saying hes level 20+ and can't get anymore xp, but still can't beat him with maxed cold res.

[joebyronlee]

Originally posted by Tired Insomniac:

Originally posted by RodHull:

The problem is not difficulty but lack of balance across classes (some are way op compared to others) lack of balance across skills (again see previous) and a system that is heavily gear dependent.

Add those 3 factors together and you have a game which for some feels like fighting impossible odds and others feels like a total cake walk. And skill doesn't factor into that to much. My first efforts to beat act 1 boss my gear was garbage. I have played just about every worthwhile ARPG ever made, a lot. So I know my onions. I wrongly presumed this was like other games and you could largely ignore gearing till like act 3, nooooooooo

The difference between facing the boss wearing random crap and facing him wearing considered pieces that actually covered resistance gaps and focused on layered defense was night and day. I didn't magically become more skilled, I just had way better gear

And some builds dont need as good gear to kill act 1 last boss as others do.

I recall a guy saying hes level 20+ and can't get anymore xp, but still can't beat him with maxed cold res.

once and only once I started tweaking my full armor and weapon was i only able to survive this. To the Op, I still dont know how the Coop works but if its okay I can try to help

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Tired Insomniac:

And some builds dont need as good gear to kill act 1 last boss as others do.

I recall a guy saying hes level 20+ and can't get anymore xp, but still can't beat him with maxed cold res.

That's what I said, for example the ranger really only needs a half decent bow and thats it. She shreds bosses early on. Monk on the other hand needs an insanely good staff to make it feel smooth. Its doable with a mediocre staff but tedious.

It's why you see these wildly varying reports of difficulty. Some people are playing broken ass builds like the flame skull minions and are like "Game is easy tho lol" cool now play a blood witch who uses chaos spells and not minions, see how much harder it feels.

Another example being any rare tanky mob with life regen who has a chaos aura or chaos plant mod, try fighting them with a tank specced warrior. It's becomes comical, they heal faster than you can damage them.

I am not concerned mind you this is what EA is for, the balance is completely up the wall in every aspect atm, it will only improve from here.