Sirus fight is making me quit POE

third phase is literal garbage there is no other way to describe it, making him chain cast spells is not the answer IMO to making him more difficult.

So I failed Sirus 2 times now on a Cobra Lash build, everything was fine until he started chain-casting... maybe I should play minion builds huh? is this what you want GGG? Red map t16 with various mods full sextant is fine but end-game boss is not, plus the deli boss named Kosis and his ridiculous skills really challenging my fun in this game. If this goes on I think quitting is not a bad option now

In my Sirus fight tonight, he chose to hide in the storm and shoot me from there - no way to see him, no way to dodge what you can't see. Just . . . DIE! So I did, repeatedly. And now I get to spend a half day grinding maps out for the pleasure of that fight again?

30 pages of commentary detailing the failings of this fight, zero staff posts in response. And that pretty much says it all.

What where you thinking GGG?

In 3.9 everybody was, with some practice, able to defeat sirus, some had it easier (for minions, dot, CI builds it was a real pushover) some had always quite a challenge (melee, life builds, I killed him several times with double strike and believe me...that wasnt always pretty but with some routine possible and actually a fun challenge doing it the hard way)

I 100% agree that he needed some tweaks to make him fit his role as the "final boss" better. Mechanical changes not just numerical. But you went the wrong way here and way to far down that road as well.

All the builds who had it the easiest, still have a fairly easy time killling him, dots let you focus way more on dodging airtrikes, lasers and ground effects, minions too, while the builds who struggled before now dont even really fight a boss any more but spent 90% of the time dodging stupidly overtuned mechanics ond routefinding just so they can dps for 0.5 seconds until sirus ports away to one shot you from offscreen. You then need two portals to just reach the arena again since the lag and rubberbanding ravaging the bossfight kill you even before you reach the red circle.

Thats the expirience you get after focussing several hours on mapping and spawning conquerors. As a melee player you feel deliberatly excluded from a fun expirience and a rewarding endgame and your motivation to play at all gets slowly drained.

Why is that not high priority? Big parts og the player base are denied a fun and rewarding endgame and long term motivation.

Failed my first attempt. Killed him on my second attempt in delirium league.
Died two-three times on my second attempt. It's usually his Die! attack that kills me if i don't see where he is when he shoots the laser.

It's a pretty good and fun boss fight.

Yeah, I don't understand how they can screw up this fight so much. In metamorph it started out so buggy with storms camping the door. They fix that and the fight became piss easy on AW 8. Now they "fix" it again and the storms are back camping the door. Also, my last Sirus fight had 6 phases! Guess I got 2 bonus phases (this was on AW 7). FFS please fix the damn Sirus fight.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

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Tolerantzdestr0yer wrote:

this is so sad

if you think about it: even strong well thought melee builds cant compete when it comes to the dps-uptime because of this
and in exchange: nothing
they have nothing justifying that
i like melee, but this and my lazyness to optimize builds to the brim makes me always question : why would i play melee?

Because it's fun? And aside from current Sirus fairly effective? Bex already said on reddit that Sirus will get changed, but it isn't top prio right now so it might take a week or 2. Either way, the current situation isn't permanent and selfcasting caster/ranged builds have pretty much the same issues. I wouldn't even want to try to fight him with my Bane/ED Occultist because hitting him with that stupid ED projectile is going to be a major pain.

If you don't have some autoattack build available the best thing is probably to either skip Sirus entirely or to just do him on lower awakening levels until he gets fixed. Personally i'll keep trying on AL8 either way. Saviour is the only drop that interests me and it can only drop on AL8 so there isn't any difference between trying AL8 and failing and doing AL6 and winning.

PS: For the lulz

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/fnuntu/glad_sirus_is_still_fun_and_interactive_content/

The fight is Sirius next level bullshit right now it's hilarious how something like that can actually get released -.-

its fun? melee isnt fun, not against sirus and not in delirium
except you play a juggernaut huehueuheuhe
did you played this league btw? it was very rippy and still can be very deadly very quickly in no matter of time

Sirus is the most stupid boss and fight ever created on this game,
It´s so stupid that in the end for me is not fun,
It´s becoming a matter of achievement,
Gg don´t know what to do to get this game challenging,
The best way is to get this bosses and the usual one shots,
So many tings,

If the only boss of the end game was Sirus, I would already moved to another game,

Content we have but this game is getting annoying already,
You start to have fun mostly at the middle of the season after many people complain and the game slowly gets optimize,

I've been playing Wolcen and Doom Eternal lately. I decided to try out Sirus with 3.10 to see what all the fuss is about; along with the guardian spawn/atlas changes. I fought him a bunch of times from many deaths to deathless before and after the storm nerf.

So of course the game programmers welcome me with this first death:

ty for bullshit timing

... which jostled me mentally and pretty much set the pace for the rest of the fight.

And then from my typical 7 - 8 min fight with my dot chick I was treated to a 15 minute experience that culminated in the best loot reward anyone could ever hope for.

the full fight

Like I understand you are trying to find that sweet spot for risk vs reward but you basically kept the reward identical to what it was while making him way harder than what he was at launch.

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Tolerantzdestr0yer wrote:

its fun? melee isnt fun, not against sirus and not in delirium
except you play a juggernaut huehueuheuhe
did you played this league btw? it was very rippy and still can be very deadly very quickly in no matter of time

I play mele i have fun. But i hate Sirius.