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evilsonofgod wrote:

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I went to Sirus for the 1st time, A8, and failed. Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the mechanics yet. I actually got him around 25% HP and he went to that laser phase kamehame wave with the 4 lasers rotating around and his HP seemed to get higher like greater than half so I dunno if that was supposed to happen.

Not sure how to put my setup here, but my character can be viewed by public. Not sure what to improve on in terms of my gear. Got about 7.3k HP.

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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evilsonofgod wrote:

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I went to Sirus for the 1st time, A8, and failed. Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the mechanics yet. I actually got him around 25% HP and he went to that laser phase kamehame wave with the 4 lasers rotating around and his HP seemed to get higher like greater than half so I dunno if that was supposed to happen.

Not sure how to put my setup here, but my character can be viewed by public. Not sure what to improve on in terms of my gear. Got about 7.3k HP.

Nice work, evilsonofgod! Sirus is a crappy fight. Great job getting him down that much on your first go. I see Pusztitoo gave you a great answer so I'll just leave you with a small note: GGG's major bosses like Shaper, Elder, Maven, Sirus normally require a lot of experience to be successful with. There are a few "one-shot" mechanics each boss has and so on. So be encouraged that you got as far as you did! Nice work! (One of the reasons that the Atlas was reduced in size was because of the "required learning" for these big bosses. The bosses are now more accessible and as a result, can be learned by the more casual player.) So hang in there! Nice work.

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evilsonofgod wrote:

Thanks man and thanks for your guide too. By the way, due to mana reservation costs, I'm only running determination, vitality and skitterbots. I can't insert Purity of Fire but my fire resist is way above 75% (says 182%), is that ok? Or do I drop skitterbots or determination?

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Pusztitoo wrote:

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evilsonofgod wrote:

Thanks man and thanks for your guide too. By the way, due to mana reservation costs, I'm only running determination, vitality and skitterbots. I can't insert Purity of Fire but my fire resist is way above 75% (says 182%), is that ok? Or do I drop skitterbots or determination?

What matters for this build is your maximum fire resistance, which is capped at 75%. So not the overall sum you have from your gear and passive skills.

Let me explain with an example. RF hurts you with 90% of your max life plus 70% of your max ES. For example, if you have 7,3k life and 700 ES, then the degen will be around 7k per second. This is fire damage, so you can mitigate it with fire resistance. Having 75% fire resistance will let you take only 1,7k damage per second instead of 7k. If you have increased maximum fire resistance (also provided by Purity of Fire), then you can further decrease the damage taken.

You should have around 20-25% life regen per second, which would be around 1,6k per second with your 7,3k max life. This somewhat sustains RF already with some other passive skill that decrease DoT damage taken, but you will still have some pretty slow regen compared to the huge degen.

If you increase maximum fire resistance to 85% for example, then you will take around 1k degen, so your 1,6k regen will be much better, as you have +600 life per second!

This of course will not help you against oneshots... but your overall experience during mapping and against bosses will feel better due to the increased tankiness. I could basically face-tank Sirus's DIE beam with 87/79/79/50 fire/cold/lightning/chaos resistances and 8,5k life without Determination.

So I would recommend dropping Determination for Purity of Fire. You will also have more mana to trigger more Immortal Calls, which also decreases pyhs and elemental damage taken, so your regen will be even higher.

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evilsonofgod wrote:

sorry, I max my immortal call gem and the guide doesn't say to leave it at a certain level. Now I corrupted it in hoping to get a higher level 20 gem, and it stayed at level 20 but it's not linking to CWDT anymore, I can manually cast it. What level should I leave this gem? I bought a level 1 again.