Just did Malachi in Merciless

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

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SVD wrote:

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kreca73 wrote:

killing Act iv Malachai is not a requirement for progression. you can do it at lvl 90 and 3-4 shoot him. it's pointless and useless to tone him down.

he has more hp than atziri.

a character that takes five seconds for dominus will still need 2 minutes for malachai

yeah it is kind of silly, even if he had super drops (which he does not) he would be the least efficient boss to farm in the history of poe .

plus he moves around and his arena is tiny ao not much chance for a culler to be consistently safe which is kind of a mandatory requirement for serious boss farming anyway.

i dont quite mind the 3 you need to kill before malachai since they die reasonably quick and have respectable drops for what they are.


they dont hold a candle to the daresso three, but then again the daresso three aren't exactly easy to cull with their wildly different movement behaviors.

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Ttanik wrote:

And you can do atziri deathless (or should I say "Could", I guess?), with A LOT of different builds. I bet there are like, maximum a handful of builds that can do easily deathless merc. malachai right now.

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Hercanic wrote:

Same.

My favorite feature of this fight is kissing my entire XP bar goodbye. On my high level character I came back to, all XP I earned during Act 4, plus everything I'd earned from when I last played, went up in a puff. When I finally killed him, the drops were crap. I was hoping to get at least a skill point out of all that work, but no, the quest reward was one rare map. Why did I even bother?

After several more days of playing I still haven't earned all that XP back.

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Krehlmar wrote:

Why wasn't it fun on merciless?

One-shots and no room to maneuver in the final area.

If you go in without reading up on the fight, it's hard to know what's going on and what you have to do while dodging everything (I played a summoner, so boss invulnerability is even less obvious), and the numerous phases feel exhausting when you don't know when it's going to end or what has changed. Once I read up on how the phases worked, it was much easier, but still a pain with all those AOEs.

GGG should introduce some kind of tank monster in the Harvest that takes massively reduced damage while blood-shielded by its nearby immobile heart (with a connecting misty blood stream acting as a visual arrow), in order to help train players to identify an external strengthening object similar to the final fight. In other words, use miniature versions of the boss mechanics in the zones preceding the boss to familiarize players.

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Char1983 wrote:

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Ttanik wrote:

And you can do atziri deathless (or should I say "Could", I guess?), with A LOT of different builds. I bet there are like, maximum a handful of builds that can do easily deathless merc. malachai right now.

I actually tried it a few times cause I liked the mechanics. However, I am a heavy-defense cyclone Marauder, which probably makes it a bit easier. After some training, I can not only do Malachai deathless, but I can in fact do Malachai deathless without using any flasks. The build is not something OP, in fact its a pretty cheap build using a Marohi Erqi. While I can (barely) kill her, I cannot do Atziri with that build no matter what flasks I use.

I absolutely do not like the Daresso fight though. The mechanics are weird.