I *must* be missing something [spoilers]

Bleed Damage is Physical.

Granite Flask of Staunching negates existing charges, and reduces the damage of incoming new Bleed charges.

Have an increased duration smoke mine laid at the door and use it to avoid dying in the first form. Detonate it when he yells out his kamehameha at you or there's a lot of glowing miscreations screaming towards you like bomb guys in serious sam.

Second form.... just don't get out of melee range. He won't even attack you, just spawn miscreations. I was lucky to be the only guy playing melee in the HC group I did him with, a couple of ST scions died cause they didn't think to stand right next to the giant demon. It's so obvious!

I just killed him today on Merciless and let me tell it was not fun after the first 30 deaths or so.

My stats:

3.8k hp
77% all ress
4k armor
30% block
5 endurance charges & cast on dmg taken(got full charges all the time)

The first "mini" bosses i killed really easy. First Dominus phase is just crazy, he killed me within seconds. After some struggle i managed to kill him.
Second phase was pretty much tank-spank refill and repeat.

Anyways, i don't think HC-people will ever get close to that boss in Merciless.

Proof: http://imgur.com/5mzaJxc

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Bep2 wrote:

I just killed him today on Merciless and let me tell it was not fun after the first 30 deaths or so.

My stats:

3.8k hp
77% all ress
4k armor
30% block
5 endurance charges & cast on dmg taken(got full charges all the time)

The first "mini" bosses i killed really easy. First Dominus phase is just crazy, he killed me within seconds. After some struggle i managed to kill him.
Second phase was pretty much tank-spank refill and repeat.

Anyways, i don't think HC-people will ever get close to that boss in Merciless.

Proof: http://imgur.com/5mzaJxc

30 deaths in one fight. wow. your defense seems solid somehow at this stage. did you use granites?
at normal mode it was very easy for me (38), i died once tho, in the beginning.

I fought him last night finally in normal, was level 35. I never saw this "blood rain" I keep hearing about, which form uses it? I actually thought he was really easy, but that could just be the build. I was using double strike - added fire - life on hit, melee splash. Also viper strike. Also Fire traps. Hardest part was that freaking cyclone guy in the beginning because he doesn't stop spinning. I suspect what made it was I was using Crest of Perandus and have several block nodes as the rest of my gear was shit. The first form totems were annoying but I just cast rejuv totem randomly and would take out a totem, put a couple of viper strike stacks on him so he couldnt start recharging ES, wait for an opening as he was casting and double strike him a few times. Just straight up face tanked the second form. Whicho ne does blood rain?

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reboticon wrote:

I fought him last night finally in normal, was level 35. I never saw this "blood rain" I keep hearing about, which form uses it? I actually thought he was really easy, but that could just be the build. I was using double strike - added fire - life on hit, melee splash. Also viper strike. Also Fire traps. Hardest part was that freaking cyclone guy in the beginning because he doesn't stop spinning. I suspect what made it was I was using Crest of Perandus and have several block nodes as the rest of my gear was shit. The first form totems were annoying but I just cast rejuv totem randomly and would take out a totem, put a couple of viper strike stacks on him so he couldnt start recharging ES, wait for an opening as he was casting and double strike him a few times. Just straight up face tanked the second form. Whicho ne does blood rain?

Second form, the stage turns dark red and a large bubble forms around him. You need to stay in the bubble else you get melted. Everyone assumes to get away from the big demon when he has a big circle around him though, so there's a lot of people getting melted.

this fight is difficult because there is no way to figure what is happening when fighting him for the first time. there is no time and all symbols/skills used are new.

there are new staus icons with vague descriptions - this is the first time this kind of mechanic is used etc. so people trying him for the first time with their lvl80 merc HC characters probably died because time for reaction is VERY limited

i died like 10 times fighting him for the first time because i didnt know what element he was using - both totems and 'spiderlings' look like snow + lightning but that was quite not obvious - using new gfx for elemental damage in just this one fight? artificial difficulty created by surprising player..

and that rain.. holly f.. how strange this idea is.

GUIDE (HEAVY SPOILERS)

phase 0:

CAP RESISTS (ESP lightning one)
kill cycloner last, spork - first
these adds are there to refill your flasks

if you barely kill these mini-bosses - DO NOT pursue Dominus. you are not ready.

phase 1:

all Dominus attacks are telegraphed. if you get hit - it is your fault

when you are cursed (symbol above the head + icon in top-left) minions will explode on you dealing ENORMOUS damage. do not try to melee them! i had 5k hp and 79fire res and these 2 shoted me.

be prepared for FPS drops/spikes in the upper area - i do not know why but this is the laggiest POE has to offer

totems are very weak - both hp and dmg but they chill - avoid

'hand of god' attack does lightning damage so sometimes it rolls the '10' roll and you think you can ignore it. YOU NEVER WANT TO GET HIT WITH THIS! the 'top' roll of this strike is in several thousands! smoke mine should work, leap slam also works, mind the desync! just do not get hit. Dominus after this is stationary for a while - slam him!

ligthning machine gun - just do not get hit. i could absorb entire series and survived but that was a miracle and used up all my pots.

devouring totem is very nice addon as it clears the corpses (reducing fps lag) and keeps you alive

consider chaos dmg - you cannot attack him all the time and he has LOTS of ES

phase 2:

BRING all 'removes bleeding' flasks you have! this is MANDATORY

in the upper left there will be another icon - bleed stacks. when these reach 2-3: pop the flask. try to get healing flask with 6 'uses' as the healing is not that important (i think these prior to lvl 34 flasks have 80 charges and consume 20 or so?

keep close to him at all times. this way you can completely ignore the 'rain'. Dominus does pitiful dmg so you can really facetank him no problem.

if you die by the rain - wait until it stops before resurecting! otherwise youll die on your way up.



i think that ill be able to solo-farm him in 1-2 tries. his drops are amazing (but the risk is great: desync + exploding minions == KO)

Thanks, that explains it I stood right next to him the whole time and just counted on block % and perandus leech + life on hit and wailed away. Only stepped back to smack the titty bitches that occasionally spawned behind me.

Managed him today with mediocre stats. Just gotta stay in the circle when it rains.

pretty easy in normal ( nemesis )
game crashed the first time though ( but I didnt die )