Ziggurat map + catarina boss fight

Hello,
i have this problem with catarina boss fight in ziggurat map.

i have few issues with the fight :
1) when you die and enter arena again, you spawn right on the beam, without any option to avoid it (you can avoid it by placing your portal inside the arena, BUT to avoid beams you are forced to place it inside the beams, where you fight boss, making it annoying as hell).
If you have build wich can defeat the boss by avoiding damage by clever positioning, you have effectively one life, if you die, you spawn on beam = gg from start, dot oneshots you, what am i saying is, make it skill based fight, not build based fight.

2) theres way too many aoe dots wich is basically same colour as the theme of the map and colour of floor its laying on. Again, making it build based fight, not skill, when i have to dodge things i cant see, is it really my falut i died ? i dont know honestly.

3) considering points above, theres not that much space, even tho the two issues above are in my honest opinion bad boss design, it would be kinda doable and tolerable if the arena would be bigger.

dont know, im just a noob, my build aint that expensive, but i feel like i cant do anything about this boss, for me its like

YOU DONT HAVE INSANE REGEN ? = SELL THIS MAP
Last bumped on Jul 26, 2025, 10:45:00 AM
T17 maps suck and should never have been created. The Catarina/Abyss Fight is probably the most abysmal (see what I did there?) Arena and fight among the T17s.

IIRC, after you kill a Abyss Boss Catarina will strike down her Cane/Spear into the ground where the Abyss Boss was killed to cause the massive AoE Desecrate (DoT) spell to linger around for like 10-20 secs.

Also, I assume the Beams are Chaos and or Phys based DoT's. Also, if you do die you can use a blink skill to reposition yourself into the middle of the arena taking little to no damage from the beams as you should have grace period once you enter the room.
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I personally think the HARDEST t17 is the Act 9 bosses. There's just SOOO much spam in such a tiny area. And the skills themselves, even unbuffed, have huge AoE. And deal a crazy amount of damage even with 90% resistances.

Catarina fight is at least skillable. It's not great, but not nearly as bad. You can avoid most attacks and ground effects (albeit...looking REALLY hard with the bad color scheme). I question though whether its actually chaos damage? Regular Catarina is Physical and Fire, no chaos at all. And if part of it actually is chaos damage, you can completely negate it, unlike any other fight.

**ED: Yes, its physical and fire, NOT chaos. Biggest thing people forget about this fight is getting rid of the skeletons. Including me. The actual ground degens can be positioned much like Maven fight.
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Last edited by cowmoo275#3095 on Jul 26, 2025, 10:50:11 AM

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