Zarokh, the Temporal - Impossible Hourglass Setup
Did my first 4 room Trial earlier, using a 75 ilvl Barya. Got possibly the worst luck throughout the entire run when it came to room/affliction layouts but still managed to make it to Zarokh despite it all. Had 25% movespeed boots with an extra 6% from relics. Watched several youtube videos of streamers fighting this boss because there's no way I was going to waste a whole Trial going in blind, even if GGG thinks that shouldn't be a thing im not enough of a dipshit to believe that in any way. When this hourglass stuff came up, I got a literally impossible layout. I nailed each one going from bottom left into counter clockwise to be as efficient as possible. Still got nuked right as I was sliding into the last hourglass. While maybe I was slightly off the most efficient possible pixel alignment with my cursor, even machine levels of perfection would probably be cutting it right at the line, if even possible to complete with this layout. In the patch 0.1.1 Q&A VOD posted on these forums, they pushed back on the idea that movement speed was absolutely necessary on boots, and went out of their way to try to imply that movespeed is just a choice and people could opt not to have it on their boots. That is clearly absolute BS in light of the fact that the 4th ascendancy is essentially locked behind a mechanic that RNG fails you even at 31% total move speed. Furthermore, any movespeed affliction is guaranteed to brick your run, full stop, even with perfect boots. I think I saw the movespeed boon one time but was unable to purchase it, and even if I was able to, at no point did the game point out that it was going to brick my run if I didn't choose that one boon. Lastly, for a game and devs that go so far out of it's way to say "we want to do away with movement skills, they aren't necessary in POE2" to brick wall that 4th ascendancy behind (what I can only assume) a mechanic that makes movement skills mandatory, is f**king absurd and is the kind of thing that undoes so much other goodwill the game has built up, because I know this was on some level intentional and not by accident, and blowing the entire trial over this with how much time it takes is a gigantic kick in the nuts. Last edited by Kemptastical#0584 on Jan 19, 2025, 11:41:10 AM Last bumped on Jan 19, 2025, 11:32:38 AM
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PS the 6th hourglass is underneath the boss health bar.
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