Orchard boss

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di0nix wrote:

the real problem is the auto-hit that the unborrowing devourers do... just unfair. a pack of blue devourers is op as hell!

I have never been hit by the initial deburrowing of the devourers. From what I can tell autohit only happens if they reburrow/ you run?

It's always funny how PoE don't give anything about level differences. A Level 68 Boss can kill you easily, even if you are level 80+, I don't know any other RPG that has this hard mechanics. In other games, mobs can't even hit you if they are lower level than your own. But I see no "outlevel" success in PoE except that you just don't get XP if the mobs are to low.
GGG could re-balance these mechanics a little bit, I'm farming Level 67 areas with level 81 for a reason, I WANT to outlevel my Enemies, but PoE ddon't let me. ^^

Maps are the end game, there would be no point facerolling everything with a 20 levels higher char.

This boss is the ultimate anti-glass cannon.

My lvl 66 evade frenzy ranger (with just 2k hp atm, yeah it's life life life the coming 20 levels) didn't even get hit on this map.

Then the boss 1-hit unburrowed me before I even got a shot off XD

I don't mind, I just skip him for now. My characters with >5k ES/life can do him just fine.

Completely broken.
Does one-shot you from half the screen away with no attack animation at all.

Did my first Orchard Map today, like always, I play solo. For a Level 66 Map, the boss is pretty OP, how much damage does he actualy deal and especialy what type of damage? Really only Fire? Feels more like chaos damage because I have max. fire resists + Arctic Armor and he still hits like a Truck. I was lucky to survive but he killed all my minions pretty fast, even the Shield guys and not even Dominus was able to do this. I can't even imagine to fight such a boss alone with just a melee chara.
The only good thing was, the boss basicly killed himself pretty fast with some tricks of my Witch and especialy my Minion Instability. Funny, how all Skellies and Zombies around him basicly explode at the same time, I guess the Boss does some kind of AoE besides these Balls he shoots. But I was never close enough to analyze his attacks.
I know for sure I will skip this Map, not worth the stress for only a level 66 Map.

Fuck this boss. Unavoidable bullshit like this is balanced?

Just did my first Orchard map in Domination. Cleared the map fine but died twice to Tunneltrap. Ended up just kiting his ranged attacks and then throwing in a Flickerstrike + Viper strike between them. Managed to dodge his melee attacks alright though. Whittled his health down in the end but...definitely not a worthwhile boss fight, first time around.

6K Eshield Full Resi, 10k Armor -> 1 Shot!

GG -> GGG

Yep. *beep* that worm.