Caliga Imperatrix

I ran Caliga in all difficulties, with 10x very various playstyle builds, here's my verdict.

Caliga is not hard, it's not OP, it should'nt be changed in any way, as it's fine as it is.

Why?

Yes, her traps hit like a truck.
Yes, you need high lightning resist, or you die.
Yes, she can 1-2 shot you sometimes.

BUT

So do Brutus, Kole, Hailrake, Vaal, Fidelitas, Perpetuus and several other uniques.

If you stand in one place, no matter the build Caliga will kill you.

So you move around and keep tabs on where she dropped the traps and where you could hide agains 6x traps discharging.

You whack her away in the spare time.

Also - any AoE damage destroys the trap immediately. Reave? OP. Fpulse? OP.

Brutus can one shot you, but it won' tforce you to cap lightning + his hits are not really hard to dodge.
Same for Kole
( Actually, they can one shot you if you gear sucks btw ).
Hailrake one shotting someone ? no, the only threat is that he freezes you from far away, one doesn't even necesserely need to cap cold to beat him.
Vaal is and act-end boss fight, there is a whole level/design and part of the story accorded to him.
Fidelitas one shotting someone ? you are joking right ?
Perpetuus one shotting ? same thing, and he is a huge counter to evasion btw.

All those examples are really not helping your point.

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Fruz wrote:

Brutus can one shot you, but it won' tforce you to cap lightning + his hits are not really hard to dodge.
Same for Kole
( Actually, they can one shot you if you gear sucks btw ).
Hailrake one shotting someone ? no, the only threat is that he freezes you from far away, one doesn't even necesserely need to cap cold to beat him.
Vaal is and act-end boss fight, there is a whole level/design and part of the story accorded to him.
Fidelitas one shotting someone ? you are joking right ?
Perpetuus one shotting ? same thing, and he is a huge counter to evasion btw.

All those examples are really not helping your point.

for the record, I got 1-shot by all of the above in various stages of Open Beta :)

trial and error ftw

If you build like a glass-canon or go completely under-geared, then obviously yes, you will.
I've had many different character through the different acts during OB, and none of them ever been one shot me..


But tbh, I have yet to be OS by Caliga. LAst time I faced her I had 59% lightning ( so not caping, but still it's 59%, no 10% ), and shock stacked + her dmg easily 2 shot really quickly me I think.
None of the other mentionned boss can do that.

Well, thanks for making a boss that makes summoner builds completely worthless. Zombies and Skeletons just die immediately, as do I since I'm literally from full HP and ES to dead (and I have 3000 combined with 78% Lightning Resist)

Thanks for making another unfun, stupid boss!

The only time caliga would be scary would be -res map version of him.

People NEED to l2p ... there's purity, EA, topaz flask (you know you can have up to 5 of these in your inventory ... if you are that bad use them all) and a shield with max res, and things like spell block.

He is a fucking cakewalk, elemental damage in this game can be mitigated to a t. That includes piety light balls and megaera firestorm.

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Gilderoy wrote:

Well, thanks for making a boss that makes summoner builds completely worthless. Zombies and Skeletons just die immediately, as do I since I'm literally from full HP and ES to dead (and I have 3000 combined with 78% Lightning Resist)

Thanks for making another unfun, stupid boss!

Have a backup skill yourself and help them kill him

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jasonvilepox wrote:

People NEED to l2p ... there's purity, EA, topaz flask (you know you can have up to 5 of these in your inventory ... if you are that bad use them all) and a shield with max res, and things like spell block.

He is a fucking cakewalk, elemental damage in this game can be mitigated to a t. That includes piety light balls and megaera firestorm.

Trying to keep a bunch of different gear and flasks for stupid bosses like this is both annoying and retarded. And what about new characters in Normal who don't even have these items/skills yet?

You shouldn't need to cheese game mechanics in the manner you're suggesting just to kill mini-bosses. The damage this guy puts out is ridiculous and clearly needs to be nerfed quite a bit more. It's telling when people have more trouble with Caliga than Dominus or any other boss, is it not?

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Have a backup skill yourself and help them kill him

Even being overleveled with decent resist gear (60%ish) and plenty of "backup skills", it was death just trying to get close enough to nuke him. I had to skele spam then run away and heal up with Rejuve totem over and over again just to finally grind him down. It's just a stupid, unfun fight for a summoner witch, and again, this is on Normal!

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GineyMcGrundle wrote:

Trying to keep a bunch of different gear and flasks for stupid bosses like this is both annoying and retarded.

No its not, you just press a button for a flask and weapon swap, saffel is exaggerated anyways. I dunno, I dont have issues with him when I use the flask. l2p issues

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Fruz wrote:

Brutus can one shot you, but it won' tforce you to cap lightning + his hits are not really hard to dodge.
Same for Kole
( Actually, they can one shot you if you gear sucks btw ).
Hailrake one shotting someone ? no, the only threat is that he freezes you from far away, one doesn't even necesserely need to cap cold to beat him.
Vaal is and act-end boss fight, there is a whole level/design and part of the story accorded to him.
Fidelitas one shotting someone ? you are joking right ?
Perpetuus one shotting ? same thing, and he is a huge counter to evasion btw.

All those examples are really not helping your point.

I recomment you drop a habit of projecting your own experiences onto everybody else :).
Also, some counter-arguments in your post could be useful, otherwise it's just a lot of feigned surprise questions.

I've played a lot of parties and I've seen a lot of 1-shots not only from these, but from "lesser" mobs as well. Most of these came about due to people dicding to facetank stuff. Instead of playing smart, you know. And not stacking boss-relevant defences.

I was about to ask if your experiences are limited to Normal, but you've been playing since OB and before, so...

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GineyMcGrundle wrote:

Trying to keep a bunch of different gear and flasks for stupid bosses like this is both annoying and retarded. And what about new characters in Normal who don't even have these items/skills yet?

You shouldn't need to cheese game mechanics in the manner you're suggesting just to kill mini-bosses. The damage this guy puts out is ridiculous and clearly needs to be nerfed quite a bit more. It's telling when people have more trouble with Caliga than Dominus or any other boss, is it not?

Even being overleveled with decent resist gear (60%ish) and plenty of "backup skills", it was death just trying to get close enough to nuke him. I had to skele spam then run away and heal up with Rejuve totem over and over again just to finally grind him down. It's just a stupid, unfun fight for a summoner witch, and again, this is on Normal!

Refusing to adapt to a situations like this is stupid. Stubborness and rigidity can only get you this far.

Also, QQ about Dom and Caliga as being the hardest in the game... Theya ARE the endgame! They are supposed to be the hardest. So, man up, gear up and play smart. I've done (merciless) Caliga and Dominus with about 10x different builds and I've yet to die to Caliga (but I did have several close calls and a couple of forced town-escape flask refills). I didn't have to have GG gears for that, just high light res and smarts. My HP was never higher than 3300 hp or 4500 es for any char (most people consider that low for endgame, for the record).

Finally, just because you play a build, don't expect to beat all content easily, even if your build+gear is sound. Some places will be harder or easier depending on your build. Sometimes unbearably so. If so - seek help or skip the place, no biggie.