Sirus fight is making me quit POE

Tried A8 for the first time.
Died 1 time due to off-screen DIE, 5 times due to very dark color palette chosen (couldn't see the maze escape etc). I literally have trouble seeing what is going on on the screen. Cranking up my display brightness just for this fight is not an option.

I remember not having much trouble with Sirus back in the days.
But I guess they thought it's too easy and changed some things. Now it's a mess.
And looks like Maven is even worse.

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TheSaltPrincess wrote:

Sirus deals quite a wide variety of damage types but most importantly he deals substantial chaos damage and often is unfortunately one of the first places newer players discover that their chaos resistance is actually quite important.

idk. The char that I use for Sirus has 78% chaos res and 6676 hp, yet still getting oneshots from all kinds of shit. And I'm pretty sure that earlier I was able to tank almost everything he throws at me, because I was farming him extensively.

I don't even know what I'm supposed to do in this fight. The smaller dude just appears for a few secs, then I'm left like a fool, dancing between the blobs, waiting for... what exactly? Where the F is the smaller dude?? Why do I have to watch YT to learn something the game should be hinting at just by playing it? I don't mind dying, but I want to learn something in exchange, otherwise it's a pure waste of time. Boss fights seem to be the weakest element of PoE, most of them just don't make sense, you just have to learn them by heart.

Ye, that fight is a good example of a poor boss fight designed.
But it's not the only cr*p we have to deal with in with POE
After playing some games like Dark souls or DDDA I've learned to loath GGG's terrible boss fight design and mechanics.

You would really love the Maven+Uber Atziri combo-Maven's vines slow/lock you in place and the Atziri death circles oneshot you with little chance of escaping.
But I'm sure there are plenty other examples

This game is unplayable for me now.

High latency
Bad optimization
Disgusting boss fights
Useless items and low drop rates.
Getting one shot with perfect defence statics.

I uninstalled the game because of crashes 2 days ago but i installed today again. I just played 30 seconds and i did uninstall again.

Chris Wilson doesn't care us. He wants to sell mtxs.

Time to find a different game.

There's almost 70 pages of Sirus complaints now. Does anyone have a video recording of themselves struggling against Sirus? There are so many reasons thrown around in this thread about how bad this fight is. I'm genuinely curious to just see an example of one of your fights against Sirus.

This is how my fights go. I will concede that I'm using a ranged dot build, so that makes the fight simpler. I imagine it will be much harder with fast hitting melee builds.

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Diclonious wrote:

Twice now, I've managed to summon Sirus, which is beyond annoying in how much RNG is required in of itself. I get to the fight, and its a giant cluster. I try to lure the storms away, to finally have a path to Sirus, for me to TOUCH one for half a second and instantly lose almost all of my HP. I lose the rest of my remaining HP touching a barely visible patch of ground. I have 5k HP, 2.5k MP MoM, 1K ES, so around 8.5k EHP. I die before even seeing The boss fight. I lose to the freaking environment. Ive used 12 portals trying to see what the hell the fight even is. I"ve watched videos, but i cant even get to the damn fight. I"ve played plenty, but my lord the environment fight is making me done with the game. I clear t16 just fine, my damage is fine, but the endgame boss is unplayable. Good Game.....

Oh man, I was about to say almost the exact same thing.. 2 fails at 0 so far for me, with "corruted blood" jewel, at lvl 93, almost never die at t16s.. Last league with a similar build I was killing him easily, often deathless, no clue whats up now.. The mechanics and the whole procedure are idiotic in the first place, but the biggest problem is it's 100% rng - whoever claims it's not just check out some videos from the best streamers how many oops-deaths they suffer at any level.. yes - they kill him almost instantly at times, unless of course he kills them.

I fucking despise this fight with the passion of christ. So poorly designed, a complete cluster fuck of trying to track the fucking boss. Cancer fight in its finest.

I too got super frustrated at this...but...

I know this is gonna sound too simple but...learn his mechanics and TURN ON THE DIALOGUE SOUND. It actually helps a ton with this fight.

First to phases you wanna stand literally on him and you are fine.

Basically try to always literally stand on top of him.

After he does the clouds, wait and relax. Stay a bit outside of his range of attacks and wait for the cloud to move along.

Outmaneuver all the crap on the ground and get back right below him.

Dont instantly attack once he gets down. Wait to see where he ports (this is where dialogue sounds and turning off your music really help)

Third phase is the crappiest one as it can be difficult to keep track of him.

He turns to where he ports before he ports. Pay attention.

Follow him, stand on him, make sure to be aware of his beam of death that comes in a sort of quadruple installment. pew, pew, pew and big pew.

That beam is also not stagnant as he can reposition it slightly after each pew.

Just move in circles around him and you get out of his circular movement range and can attack a bit.

When he does the spiral with 4 dudes pewing 4 beams together, dont attack.

Be patient. He will port after and either does multi-dude-confusion circle where one of his clones attacks or he does the death beam.

Dialogue sound helps whilst he creates the beamspiral to see which of the 4 he is.

Again make sure to follow him and STAND ON HIS ASS. You can attack him!

Basically practice this and I promise the fight will become significantly less rng heavy and bad.

Dont forget that you will die sometimes for no apparent reason or he ports off screen or you are too slow or whatnot. Dont fret. Come back. Listen to where he is. Run below him. Wait for him to come down.

Repeat.

Managed him with 1 death. And trust me when I say: I am anything but good at poe. Just average.

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Revnaut wrote:

There's almost 70 pages of Sirus complaints now. Does anyone have a video recording of themselves struggling against Sirus? There are so many reasons thrown around in this thread about how bad this fight is. I'm genuinely curious to just see an example of one of your fights against Sirus.

This is how my fights go. I will concede that I'm using a ranged dot build, so that makes the fight simpler. I imagine it will be much harder with fast hitting melee builds.

For me, the issue is the complete crap of the visuals. The off screens, everything red and lack of any contrast in the area. I play a minion build and trying to see the openings of the wall phase is impossible. If I could tone down or turn off the clutter it would make it easier to learn the mechanics and such.