Sirus fight is making me quit POE

Finally I've found a build to deal with this annoying fight at A8.
Here it is: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3043478
An aurastacking scion with SRS.
Not supercheap, but affordable. Basically I leveled up and use it exclusively for Sirus.
You survive with rapid shield regen, chaos immunity, bleeding immunity and crazy high (90%) elemental resistances.
While Raging Spirits autotarget Sirus and attack him nonstop. They also show you where he is if he teleports off screen or something. Just follow the spirits.
I'm still dying several times during the fight, but at least I can kill this little shit. Even though I noticable lack DPS.

To the OP have a look at this video, this guy explains the fight very good, just hang in there, once you get the fight down it is very easy (if you are playing on softcore that is) i sometimes die in there still, but thats just me beeing impatient or on some scuffed build :D but we got 6 portals! thats the way i see the fight at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEvVU5CW7w

I've all but given up on Sirus.

I did everything, read the guides, watched the videos, adjusted the build, got the no corrupting blood gem.

I've faced him 6 times, and failed all but once, and as far as I can tell, that 1 time was just a fluke.

Things actually go fairly well till I get to the last phase, then its just 1 shot, 1 shot, 1 shot, 1 shot, 1 shot, 1 shot and no more portals, no more xp, and back to mapping.

At this point, when I get to Sirus, I just load up a level 1 alt, die 6 times, then I can get back to mapping. At least I can save the XP.

Grats GGG, you win.

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lockjaw99 wrote:

At this point, when I get to Sirus, I just load up a level 1 alt, die 6 times, then I can get back to mapping. At least I can save the XP.

Grats GGG, you win.

As far as I was aware, a character that hasn't reached the Epilogue was unable to enter the portal to the Eye of the Storm.

Regardless, you can also just open the portals and then go and open a different map afterwards to reset the conquerors. You don't have to die against Sirus.

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lockjaw99 wrote:

At this point, when I get to Sirus, I just load up a level 1 alt, die 6 times, then I can get back to mapping. At least I can save the XP.

You can fight A1-A7 Sirus (whichever you comfortable with), just remove some watchstones. Those are actually doable and still drop somewhat valuable loot. Only A8 Sirus is fucked up for some reason.
It's also a good idea to do Sirus right after level up, so you wouldn't waste xp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJrB4EWkZk

Here's a guide on how to kill Sirus under 80 seconds.

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Flying_Mage wrote:

You can fight A1-A7 Sirus (whichever you comfortable with), just remove some watchstones. Those are actually doable and still drop somewhat valuable loot.

This exactly, A5 is pretty easy and can drop all the loot besides the sword (which only drops from A8). Also it gives you good practice against the mechanics so when you finally fight him on A8 you are better prepared.

Its usually the last phase that fucks people over. Throughout the fight and esp. in the last phase its crucial imo to prioritize on tracking where he is, coz otherwise the die beam can come outta nowhere and one shot you. There's little visual cues as to where he's gonna go, like the red flash after 'everlasting fire' or when his clones merge to shoot the laser. The rotating lasers look scary but they're actually not that deadly you can teleport through them and even if you get hit you don't instarip (but they chill pretty heavily, so chill removal required). Basically, you gotta stay on his ass the whole time to not get hit by the die beam.

My friend we feel what you're going through, and please allow me to bless you with some good advice. To fight Sirus properly, one must have the proper mindset and knowledge. Such mindset and knowledge may only be acquired through the process of gitting gud. I hope this helps, friend.

With the limited time I have to play, I finally reached him today.
I usually reach him towards the end of the 3-month league.

Only to lose, again.

The fight is too messy - it's all dark mushed together. The clouds have a near-invisible edge that can still kill you in a fraction of a second.

I have had even cases where I leap away from the cloud as it is just about to hit me and die mid-leap.


And pretty sure some regions of the world simply get a better connection because of the server locations and got ultra-stable connections.

The closest servers I get might shoe ~30ms in the lobby, but once the action starts it often jumps to 40-60. Enough to die before you see the danger.

And I'm on a 500/500 fibre.

Final phase always is my trouble. Bad ground visual design, lag, spike ... make me hard to keep tracking him. It make me always die because of off-screen die-beam. I try to use many builds but not success. Finally I realize that the only way I could beat him is build a very tanky character. It could tank off-screen die-beam. Now die-beam of A6 can't kill me. In final phase, I just try to dodge degen area, wait him beam then run to hit him. Ofcourse it make me 15-20 minitues to beat A6. A7, A8 still hard to me because of I cant tank. I hope GGG could redesign visual let me could beat him with many different builds.