Sirus fight is making me quit POE

I just stopped doing the fight.

Everything about it is bad, the colours, the sound, the voice acting and especially the mechanic. I'd rather miss out on the drops than put myself through several minutes of utter garbage.

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I agree - Sirus should not be able to do things that players are unable to do and vise versa. Remove his invulnerability phases, adjust the shock, hell, make him sit down from his throne all the time, just give him 4 endgame flasks and a pathfinder ascendancy and smile at players beautifically. ^^

And what on earth is his damage balanced around? It's so based on one-shots, but they're not telegraphed like the shaper slam or uber elder one-shots, they're just ... every ability he has (especially in the 3rd fight, at AW8). Nothing untelegraphed should one-shot a char with 7k hp and 76% resists - maybe close, but not entirely.

Either fix balancing to not always cause a one-shot, or add some sort of "cheat death" mechanic like diablo as, because that's one of the few things they do a hell of a lot better than poe does.

It's so frustrating to have maps be too easy, and then the final boss so stupid hard.

Uber elder was really frustrating, but 1) the moves were telegraphed and consistent 2) you could see him on the damn screen, and 3) you could repeat it when you failed for just the (relatively inexpensive, then) cost of a shaper set. With sirus it now takes me over a week of casual mapping (all I have time for) to get back to it.

I did him deathless before I finished my final conqueror grind and it ended up being "luck".

And, when I say luck, I mean I was lucky things like having the cross beam spawn on top of me giving me no chance to react mean that even playing to the mechanics isn't always enough.

In fact, I would have probably have finished the conqueror grind a lot sooner if I didn't see it as a nearly guaranteed xp loss. I was still using my cycloner to protect my herald stacker from xp loss despite her having much better survivability and mitigation.

I started playing again a few weeks ago and did him for the first time. Playing in Standard so my gear is good with over 20k ES. He was not that difficult and felt like he had less HP than the Guardians. Barely took any damage in the first few phases.

Only reason I will never fight him again is because of his last phase one-shot Die Beam. 22k ES gone instantly and no time to react as it came from offscreen. I also play with 200ms ping from SA so even if I see it, I might not be able to dodge in time. Even the best players who play POE for a living die to that beam. So what chance does an average player with ok gear but high ping have?

At least there are always people looking to buy A8 Sirus. So can just sell the fight. All the other Guardians are easy. I've done them all with A8 around 6 times now. Drox is a bit tanky only so the fight takes longer. Max damage hits I've taken from them is around 15k so they are doable even with high ping and taking full hits.


tl;dr Sirus would be ok except for his undefendable Die Beam in his last phase. I can't guarantee dodging the attack with the high ping so I'll never do the fight again.

Anyone know how much damage that beam does if you take all of it? Maybe I just took a lot because I got shocked. My new character is shock immune.

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teodar1987 wrote:

I agree - Sirus should not be able to do things that players are unable to do and vise versa. Remove his invulnerability phases, adjust the shock, hell, make him sit down from his throne all the time, just give him 4 endgame flasks and a pathfinder ascendancy and smile at players beautifically. ^^

Give him Forbidden Taste and players will say "wow my dot dps is pretty nice"

sadly... after remaking my delirium toon into a hollow palm build from bower.... i ve done 4? i think a8 sirus. and all but one were deathless. sadly comment is with regard to my realization that this fight is just a dps check. when you can phase him in about 3-5 seconds...........and can take a damn hit in the face (6.5k+) he becomes far far easier than uber elder.

but god i despise this poorly designed fight.

this fight continues to suck the enjoyment out of this game for me. at least let it be so you can get back into fight after dying without him starting cycle before he's even on screen

no more supporter packs from me.

Just got there, and i should say that the fight is hilariously retarded. How could that idea pass pre alpha stage and then be implemented only god knows. Hands down, path of exiles diversity amuses.