Strategy for act 3 boss? (spoilers ofc)

So? Is it even possible to kill her as a solo player?

It was difficult but i accomplished it

Use quick flask during the fire-form and just kite it until it ends. As soon as it ends barrage away.

For the ice-form use the pillars to block the ice lances, and just wait until it ends then barrage away.

Also I liked to use bear traps between her and the gateways, though It didn't do that much.

Its mostly just learning the patterns

Damn this sounds dangerous. *scared*

Is it a very non melee friendly fight(seems like most sofar in act3 are pretty much)? I am playing a marauder solo in HC, lvl 32 atm, have cleared alot of act3 so I'm guessing I will be at the boss in a couple of hours.

What level is the boss? Good to have some info before I throw myself into the fight. Going to lvl up way above the boss lvl. Hopefully that makes the fight somewhat safe.

Bumping this thread.

Just woke up and going to log in and finish up act3 in a while. Watched the act3 boss fight on a stream but still would like some suggestions and strategy help.
My biggest concern is how to deal with the portals the boss spawns on the ground and uses to transform. Do I as a solo player try and kill them? Or should I just ignore them?
Would be great if anyone could help out with this. Yeah and also is it possible to heavy strike the boss? Or should I just use groundslam to get a small distance?

Spam Arc, boss goes next to portal, Arc jumps Boss > Portal > Boss, portal dies, boss dies, commerce looting.

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Alhoon wrote:

Spam Arc, boss goes next to portal, Arc jumps Boss > Portal > Boss, portal dies, boss dies, commerce looting.

Well not playing a caster so don't use the arc skill.

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Eivon wrote:

Damn this sounds dangerous. *scared*

Is it a very non melee friendly fight(seems like most sofar in act3 are pretty much)? I am playing a marauder solo in HC, lvl 32 atm, have cleared alot of act3 so I'm guessing I will be at the boss in a couple of hours.

What level is the boss? Good to have some info before I throw myself into the fight. Going to lvl up way above the boss lvl. Hopefully that makes the fight somewhat safe.

I just finished normal HC (lvl 37), melee marauder, 1.4k life, almost max res.

The final fight was actually easy (easier than I thought). Just bring lots of resistances (all of 'em :). Dont stand close when she spams projectiles, or you'll get the full volley, which hurts quite a lot even on max res. When she reverts, smack the b**** up! - and thats all to it...

EDIT: Maybe in my case having lots of stun (enemy threshold reduc. and duration) helped me, because I was able to pound her for periods of a few seconds and she just stood there taking blows & knockback (heavy strike).

Thanks man for the advice. I am actually at the boss now, I think. have a red portal infront of me and just portaled to town to sell some stuff.

I am lvl 36 so lvl seems to be in order. Only problem is my weapon (maul 80 max damage) and around 30 cold resistance.

Im not sure how to balance the resistances. Do i need lightning res? Could drop a lightning ring to get a frost one isntead.

edit: fuck it, im going in :D here we go. bought a cold res armor from vendor. 50% res cold/lightning, 75% fire. 1100 hp, here we go!

edit 2: damn. had to portal out and abort. I started with the wrong tactic from the start. Tried to kill to many adds and she was able to regen her energy shield all the time. So each time she was back in human form she had full shield. Oh well, Will get some lvls and perhaps gear from running from the waypoint again.

You mostly need cold & fire res (though I saw some of those lightting balls in there too...)

I did it with ~400 DPS on heavy strike (physical & elem. damage from weapon - I had a very nice alchemy roll on a maul)

In my case she regenerated the shield every time too, but the shield went down quite fast, so it wasnt a problem.

lol I died. Got killed by her lightning attack. I equipped a frost ring instead of lightning one to get 75% frost, dropped to 29% lightning. Had a new maul though so was killing her pretty good.

Oh well. Sucks but what can you do :P

Anyway lessoned learned at least. The question is now what to roll out next. Think I will just go for another 2h maul marauder. Smartest would be to make a caster I quess but I am a melee kind of guy. :)

The lightning attack by the way was flashes of lightning coming down from the air. Not sure if it exists as a player skill gem or not.

/played time was 12 hours for a lvl37 character. Pretty slow going but all the fiddling around in teh stash etc takes time on the first HC toon since you want to build up a buffer.