Please nerf this fucking hillock boss in maps

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LeninGHOLA wrote:

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deadlylag wrote:

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KikosLive wrote:

So it seems that I am not the only one struggling with hillock.
I am not a kid crying about challenging stuff. I love path of exile cause it seems challenging in so many ways, dont get me wrong there.

I am melee and only face him while granite flask is up, so with 15k armor + I use enfeeble.
If he leaps on me once -> lose 80% hp
leaps on me twice in a row -> death


I can't really see the challenge there to be honest.
Its just losing motivation and xp.

Hmm I found a dune map the other day. I'm going to see how my lvl 56 pure Physical Melee Marauder will fair against him. I'm going to face tank him. Will post the video when I'm done.

1700 health, 370 ES, 309 DPS, and 16% physical resist vs two Blacksmiths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRTu13Knveo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq3mQ49zOEA

That was a facetanking? >:3

That wasn't the video. That was the video of my farming character which is grimp via IIQ/IIR.

I just finished with my lvl 56 Marauder against the Blacksmith. The nerf to life hurted me a lot. I died three times facetanking him. All was due to bad microing. However I don't think I could have beaten him with perfect microing. His melee attack hit fast, stun, and knockback. The stun and knockback prevented me from leeching life back. Really annoying.

If I had more life I probably could have beaten him via facetank.

With that said I did beat him without any more deaths using leapslam. LeapSlam vs. LeapSlam. I'll post the video ASAP.

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big_aug wrote:

Alright, here you go.

I actually facetank two of the bosses in the Spider Forest map. This is in Onslaught League. Sorry for the chopiness at times. I don't think I've got my FRAPS set up right.

http://youtu.be/oqCz03Qh4d8

Only reason you could facetank him like that is 7 endurance charges, SEVEN. No game should impose on their players a certain must of a playstyle, running around with 3 enduring cries is downright boring and having charges should be optional, not required.

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deadlylag wrote:

That wasn't the video. That was the video of my farming character which is grimp via IIQ/IIR.

I just finished with my lvl 56 Marauder against the Blacksmith. The nerf to life hurted me a lot. I died three times facetanking him. All was due to bad microing. However I don't think I could have beaten him with perfect microing. His melee attack hit fast, stun, and knockback. The stun and knockback prevented me from leeching life back. Really annoying.

If I had more life I probably could have beaten him via facetank.

With that said I did beat him without any more deaths using leapslam. LeapSlam vs. LeapSlam. I'll post the video ASAP.

The goal is not dying once, also as i said before, having to build your character based on what a boss does is annoying. Yes leap slam might work, but what about people who don't want to use leap slam or 7 endurance charges + shield to block his attacks?

Boss is overrated and not that hard to deal with.
If you can't beat him without dying, run other maps.

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Mannoth wrote:

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big_aug wrote:

Alright, here you go.

I actually facetank two of the bosses in the Spider Forest map. This is in Onslaught League. Sorry for the chopiness at times. I don't think I've got my FRAPS set up right.

http://youtu.be/oqCz03Qh4d8

Only reason you could facetank him like that is 7 endurance charges, SEVEN. No game should impose on their players a certain must of a playstyle, running around with 3 enduring cries is downright boring and having charges should be optional, not required.

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deadlylag wrote:

That wasn't the video. That was the video of my farming character which is grimp via IIQ/IIR.

I just finished with my lvl 56 Marauder against the Blacksmith. The nerf to life hurted me a lot. I died three times facetanking him. All was due to bad microing. However I don't think I could have beaten him with perfect microing. His melee attack hit fast, stun, and knockback. The stun and knockback prevented me from leeching life back. Really annoying.

If I had more life I probably could have beaten him via facetank.

With that said I did beat him without any more deaths using leapslam. LeapSlam vs. LeapSlam. I'll post the video ASAP.

The goal is not dying once, also as i said before, having to build your character based on what a boss does is annoying. Yes leap slam might work, but what about people who don't want to use leap slam or 7 endurance charges + shield to block his attacks?

You can beat him just by running in circle and kitting. I beat two blacksmith with my summoner without dying.

I can beat him with leap slam without dying. I can beat him with immortal call without dying. I can keep immortal call up forever. That means the blacksmith will not deal damage to me.

The goal of the test was facing tanking him without the use of immortal call at lvl 56 vs 66.

The main reason why he killed me was his knockback which robbed me of my life leech. I can survive his hit as long as I can leech back the life I lost. If I have 500 more hitpoints which was lost in the nerf I could have face tank him.

At par lvl the Blacksmith should not be any trouble.

Anyway here the videos. Part 1 shows me herding large amount of mobs. Part 2 near the 13 minute mark is where I face the Blacksmith. Keep in mind this is a lvl 56 Marauder vs lvl 66 map boss. It is also my first time I used this character in a while. So my microing was rusty.

http://youtu.be/TI6bS8TwHLo
http://youtu.be/UPRemKhpoZ0
http://youtu.be/_E3iI8JRpQE

It shouldn't be MANDATORY to have 7-8 endurance charges + immortal call to face this boss.

Not every build builds around endurance charges, and your comment about summoners is invalid seeing as summoners can solo the whole content with mediocre gear due to the fact how good their minions scale.

I hope they keep boosting bosses like this is rly lot of fun when ppls bitchin about so easy boss kill them, keep good work GGG I hope this game will be harder than this

btw this boss is so easy I hope they boost him more for be more challenging =P

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Mannoth wrote:

It shouldn't be MANDATORY to have 7-8 endurance charges + immortal call to face this boss.

Not every build builds around endurance charges, and your comment about summoners is invalid seeing as summoners can solo the whole content with mediocre gear due to the fact how good their minions scale.

glass cannons get owned from this boss deal with it get more def nodes less gay dps or crits, no1 force you to play glass cannon

What a stupid topic, deal with it or stop playing shit builds.

I just came across this thread and found one sentence to be pretty funny in retrospective.

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Repeats wrote:

All I heard was "My build blows, but please nerf him anyways."

Kole was nerfed because Kripp made a really stupid mistake. So why not nerf Hillock if someone dies to him ? Ah right, cause as long as Kripp doesn't die, everything is balanced, got it ;)

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Darkrox01 wrote:

Kole was nerfed because Kripp made a really stupid mistake. So why not nerf Hillock if someone dies to him ? Ah right, cause as long as Kripp doesn't die, everything is balanced, got it ;)

Is this why Rhoas can be evaded now?

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dynia6666 wrote:

glass cannons get owned from this boss deal with it get more def nodes less gay dps or crits, no1 force you to play glass cannon

Fucking purely defensive builds get wrecked by this guy if they aren't running charges (or absurdly excessively powerful gear), a feature GGG stated they wanted to be optional.

This is the EXACT problem that D3 Inferno had.

Not to mention that this boss is level 66.