Aberath fight is darksouls bullethell and its not good

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10 Tries so far that went unsucessful to beat Aberath, i have 3k health, capped res, 55% armour, dmg over time armour mitigation 20& , 100% crit avoidance ,void taken as fire and 15% reduced fire dmg taken, 10%less dmg over time from oriaths eye, and with all these defenses if i dont pay attention to mechanics Aberoth just one shots me or melts me in 2 seconds before i even react.
So now im clueless what to do, is this fight supposed to be like Darksouls type with bullethell elements and your defences totally useless? Why the hell did i even build defences if i get one shot?
I am old and dont have the reaction time of a 15 year old kid, this is too hard for me. My reaction time is close to 400 ms i think lol.

Did you guys beat him? can you tell me what i need to do to beat him cus im losing all hope to farm further if defences dont matter

[Psojed]

Sustain.

[Echo]

Life builds are at a major disadvantage vs energy shield in boss encounters, due to much lower cap. You'd be able to survive more than half of those abilities with a 7-8k+ energy shield, which takes about as much investment. And this is after the ES nerf.

Alternatively, go for a massive damage build, enough to cut short some of the phases.

I've beaten him with several low-life necromancer builds, once I figured out his attack patterns. Not sure how it'd work for a melee character, but if you're ranged, stay in his vicinity and try to keep positioned behind him.

Maybe watch a video and check how other people are doing it.

[Psojed]

You can survive his abilities, and you don't need 7k Ward to do so... Here's a melee HP build fighting the boss I found on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkBSQjM1OM

Hopefully it showcases that you can get hit or stand in bad stuff and still survive that.

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Let's say you have 10 000 HP + great damage mitigation. You will STILL die if you have no means of restoring that 10 000 HP back to full. That's why you need sustain.

For example look at 3:38. In that situation, he's stuck between damage effects so he cannot Leech, and has no other way of refilling his HP. You can see his HP regen barely doing anything, and it takes him 10 seconds before he gets back to full HP with Leech. That's how it looks when you don't have enough sustain.

Ward builds often generate Ward from simply using skills, so in the same situation the Ward user would simply cast his spells as normal and refill the Ward automatically. You can do that on HP builds too, simply stack on some HP regen.

[Ravenkid9266]

You can find all the relevant info here: https://lastepoch.tunklab.com/npc/Aterroth

Bosses use the same math as the player does so its not too hard to get an idea of what the boss is capable of DPS wise, and thus a target to aim for.

Your options include the Touhou approach and not standing in bad.
Tank it, this will require both the EHP to do so and the sustain to recover for the next one.
Burst it down. A lot of people have said the most effective way to do this is by stacking DoTs.

Most will likely do some combination of all three, and if you know what the incoming damage is likely to be you can be more informed as to what is the lesser of the options if you are put in the position of having to pick the less damaging option.

A few outliers to watch for are the "curse of aberroth" as it stacks resistance reduction on a fairly large hit, Cursing Scythe. Absorbing Chaos into Timeshattering slam also jumps out as a likely one shot 5K physical+ 5K void as only part of the combo with a DoT component.

"Aberroths time rot" and "frality of Aberroth" also work to make the tank it goal less desirable not to mention the "standard" afflictions of Ignight, Poison, Chill, Chill of Aberroth, Frostbite, Shock of Aberroth, Persisting Void, seem to demand DoT mitigation/cleanse.

If that was not concerning enough you also have more then a few attacks that become more damaging over time 400% per second.

Not to mention his 90% less damage taken as phases shift. This means you need to take more care as you push phases as this damage taken reduction also cuts into sustain.

[FredDie]

killed him 3x out of 10 attempts last night half drunk...at first I was lost too, but its not that bad. For tips I cant stress enough how awareness is important so you dont jump into something that will kill you. You can quite well kite him and the stuff he casts. Also it felt so much easier when my DPS was actually good, fight is lot faster, last phase is pretty nuts, but if you have damage, pretty much all you have to do is avoid the two beams and then do one wipe mechanic and hes dead. Playing torment WL though, that build is definitelly very strong now, so you can try it, it has great sustain a DoT, so you can dps while running and stuff easily.

[Serious Squirrel]

If you are an hp facetank build, your leech is as important if not more (in most cases more) important than the other defenses you mentioned as well as endurance needs to be capped. Without those two the others dont mean much. With those it doesnt mean you can just face tank everything from abberoth but some things yes.

[southcabeza]

get kill threshold, even 10% can change everything, get an orian eye too

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git gut

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im melee guys V_V