Xandro

Xandro isn't that bad, biggest issue is that life leech of his which means you have to stop him hitting you all the time.

The one I hate is that new spectral throw one. He uses vaal spectral throw about 20 times in a row and it just feels like it was made to screw over evasion. Those things always hit.

Sorry I didn't say earlier. I'm just a searing bond with the problem that once he sees me, he perm stuns me. I can't get anything in on him because his -stupidly- fast attack speed.

Don't underestimate the reduced block and stun recovery stat. With enough of that, even on a CI build you can survive stunlocks.

But then most people don't want to carry round a 'get out of stun free' granite

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ER_Triage wrote:

How the hell is he NOT broken? What the -fuck-? Perm stun with his spamming ground slam? Exiles are anything but balanced... Makes as much sense as Merveil being harder than Vaal, which is also stupid.

After a couple hours, I just realized:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/584012
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/927146


...et cetera. GGG listening??

Answer is he IS BROKEN, like ALL of the exiles....
Rogue exiles are just Grind Gear's little joke on the players, designed specifically to be UNREAL.

I mean seriously, YOU can't do that, Multistrike/Ground Slam, eternally without running out of mana, which NONE of the exiles EVER do. Then they decided to add Life Regen to him as well so you HAVE to beat him in 1 try or he will Regen back to FULL HEALTH almost immediately.
WTF is that all about??
I almost religiously come across this OVERTUNED, BROKEN exile in a Zana map trying to complete a mission, and because of him I can't finish it as he almost ALWAYS comes RUNNING up out of nowhere with that ground slam thing and kills you, and then when you come back in you find that he is back to full health again. O_o I am a melee build, and it is near IMPOSSIBLE to get close enough to this creep to beat him down without being stun-locked and killed.
For the record, just skip him is easy to say, but not always realistic as he, like most of them, is very quick to chase you down, and stun you.
Triple G, PLEASE do something about these retarded, so called "random" mobs, I say so called because they are not random, but always seem to show up in the same places, and they are destroying the game!!

He is pretty mean lol

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cortni wrote:

Answer is he IS BROKEN, like ALL of the exiles....
Rogue exiles are just Grind Gear's little joke on the players, designed specifically to be UNREAL.

I mean seriously, YOU can't do that, Multistrike/Ground Slam, eternally without running out of mana, which NONE of the exiles EVER do. Then they decided to add Life Regen to him as well so you HAVE to beat him in 1 try or he will Regen back to FULL HEALTH almost immediately.
WTF is that all about??
I almost religiously come across this OVERTUNED, BROKEN exile in a Zana map trying to complete a mission, and because of him I can't finish it as he almost ALWAYS comes RUNNING up out of nowhere with that ground slam thing and kills you, and then when you come back in you find that he is back to full health again. O_o I am a melee build, and it is near IMPOSSIBLE to get close enough to this creep to beat him down without being stun-locked and killed.
For the record, just skip him is easy to say, but not always realistic as he, like most of them, is very quick to chase you down, and stun you.
Triple G, PLEASE do something about these retarded, so called "random" mobs, I say so called because they are not random, but always seem to show up in the same places, and they are destroying the game!!

Take a chill pill?

On topic: I didn't know people still have problems with exiles in general, they all seem like such a pushover for all specs I ever ran. If your build doesn't manage to have enough defenses (out of all forms of defenses there are) nor enough damage to pwn everything it touches, your build sucks and exiles are there to remind you of it.

Same goes for people crying about map bosses. If you somewhat can run maps without nasty mods and then rogue exiles and certain map bosses (and beyond bosses, and whatever out-of-the-box situation you might face) kill you, it's not the game's fault and certainly not a justified call for nerf. It's just you sucking or your build sucking.

Build shouldn't be planned to do well under normal conditions only. It should be planned to have none or only a few acceptable weak points. That way you won't simply die to everything unexpectable and the general flow is way better (also helps you to sustain your map pool which many people seem to have problems with etc).

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ER_Triage wrote:

Sorry I didn't say earlier. I'm just a searing bond with the problem that once he sees me, he perm stuns me. I can't get anything in on him because his -stupidly- fast attack speed.

Stunlock occurs because you have poor defenses. Since you're totem build you could basically just kite him but as for defenses, I could suggest you try to build in high evasion with acrobatics and phase acrobatics if possible or block or high armor/endurance charges or unwavering stance or high level arctic armor with MoM (or Cloak of Defiance) or a Lightning Coil with high max lightning resistance (combined Coil with the one or two of the previously mentioned things even?).

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Telzen wrote:

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Mahesys wrote:

Can i list all the million ways to counter him or you're biased with your opinion and claim my methods are useless?

List some. That guy is always a pain in the ass for me.

Ok i used these to counter him:

1) smoke mine. If he's blinded he will hit 50% of the times so he will deal 50% of his DPS
2) if you're ranged, it's easy to outrun him and use an hit&run tactic
3) flame totem with blind works well too for blinding him
4) using a granite flask will help a lot and will avoid being stunned. Up to a1m a single granite flask will grant a lot of mitigation
5) having puncture in a trap can be useful, kite him and put a trap: look at him bleeding to death
6) he has multistrike and it's forced to do 3 attacks. So lure him, let him attack and use ranged skills to damage him
7) enfeeble will greatly reduce his DPS. combind with smoke mine will further cut his DPS

I never had troubles with him with any build. Igna on the otherside was always a problem to me..

1) He has resolute.
2) You can't really kite and outrun exiles in merciless difficulty, they move like a bunch of kung-fu squirrels.
3) Same as one, a blinded Xandro is the same as unblinded.
4) If you got just granite and nothing else, it won't help much, he hits pretty hard.
5) If you're a bow user, yes.
6) As I said, exiles are tricky to kite, especially with nasty map mods.
7) Yes, enfeeble works but it won't exactly reduce it greatly, only the damage part will work, his accuracy doesn't matter and he can't crit so with his 50% curse resistance it will be some 15% less dps. It works, just not as good as for other exiles.

There isn't really all that much you can do versus Xandro, you just have to be tough enough to take him on and do enough damage to outdo his leech. Fortunately, he doesn't require you to be extra strong, if you can tackle most of the tough customers in endgame you can usually kill him too.

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cortni wrote:

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ER_Triage wrote:

How the hell is he NOT broken? What the -fuck-? Perm stun with his spamming ground slam? Exiles are anything but balanced... Makes as much sense as Merveil being harder than Vaal, which is also stupid.

After a couple hours, I just realized:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/584012
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/927146


...et cetera. GGG listening??

Answer is he IS BROKEN, like ALL of the exiles....
Rogue exiles are just Grind Gear's little joke on the players, designed specifically to be UNREAL.

Just leaving this link here, so everyone can make an own opinion about how to take your posts.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/881816/page/8

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Sa_Re wrote:

Just leaving this link here, so everyone can make an own opinion about how to take your posts.
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/881816/page/8

God damn... that's quite an eye opener. Posts like that are the ones giving the feedback thread a bad name.

I'd just like to know where the hell did he get a 6L shav if he never played maps? It probably took an ice age of farming Piety (giving it every benefit of doubt I can muster here).

Well, Xandro is definitely harder than Torr. So I guess he had the feeling he's fighting Atziri while Xandro did him, that hard.