Act3ex difficulty

I love the challenge as the next guy, but the new content is just insane. Difficulty spike that starts in garden and goes wild in Sceptre is just all over the board, but the DOminus boss fight is just insane.

When a twinked character is having problems with the boss, you know something is not right. I just ripped 6 times to Dominues on Cruel with a twink character on standard, finally asking a guild member to kill it for me. What you see on the image below are 3 seething flask that could not over do his degen. And yeah, I was running to stand next to him, but the degen is so fucking brutal that you rip while running to him.

I can't even imagine how the new players with completely new characters are doing against him, if I couldn't beat him with 2 5L items, and +60 life at min on every item except weapon and belt AND 1 flask that removes bleeding.

Jesus ggg, please neft the difficulty in act3exp as soon as possible. Act 1 merci is like a walk in a park after the brutalitly of act3exp.

Character in question:

Lets do this like a walk in the park

Next step is to make us immortal

You could just not attack him when hitting him stacks bleeding. or stay in the shield circle

Doesn't help, as I'm swarmed by a dozen of his mobs. And it's quite hard to see what's actually happening when it starts raining.

But that's not the problem, the problem is that a character with quite decent life and armor (add 3 endurance charges to shown stats), dies in about 4 seconds walking through his rain. You can't deny that Caliga and Dominus difficulty is just through the roof. I just killed merci brutus with this character and he was a joke.

I have to agree about the difficulty.

The problem isn't so much about the difficulty, but the fact that its an unsmooth curve.

From running characters a ton in OB, you could go self foudn without having to slow down, sotp or farm until merciless act 1, where you ended up under levelled.

Now however, the damage output in the gardens is a big step up. Not so much its unable to be dealt with, but stil significant.

The dom fight however is a gigantic step up. The damage being dealt is more than merveil in the next difficulty.

My character was being one shot by dominus, without any mobs nearby, and I couldn't do anything about it because you can't stay at range from him. This is a boss you HAVE to tank and have no options. Piety you have the ability to kite, hide, and take the fight at your leisure. Vaal you can stay mobile to do things like keep your ES regen up. Dom you just have to stand close to him, but still avoid him, and theres no way you will ever get your ES back.

This same character however could facetank brutus without even caring for the time it took to burn him down from 100-0 in one incinerate burn.


I doubt any CI character without GR will be able to run dom in merc if the difficulty spike is the same.




I don't mind things being difficult, but this is sometihng where you need to actually farm up better items and levels and overlevel the content to be able to deal with the fight. And this is on normal.

I feel that the difficulty curve of act 3x is so high that its actually more damaging than act 2 in the next difficulty. Infact I am not going to be putting in any skill points, changing any items, as far as I can into act 2 cruel and I doubt I will have any problems with my character compared with the problems I had wit hdom

Stacking life on hit can really help. Adds are basically free flask charges and HP.