Dominus is badly implemented

Dominus has always been... relatively easy for me. As a Summoner my DPS was absurd and he melted to death.

As a Glacial Hammer, path of life nodes Scion he was a joke.

But I've come to realize that Dominus is really not "fun" and skill-orientated. How did this come about? When I made a CI Wander.

Now hear me out, this isn't "QQ" and leave the "lel u scrbc0or y u care if welcum 2 die?!" out.

I ended up killing him though I did it... by abusing the Portal system (i.e. went on scion, smacked his ass around until he was 1 shot from death, went on Wander, hit him once. Boom-dayada).

What I've come to discuss is simply: Dominus' movesets aren't fully skill oriented. They are tank-oriented. If you can't facetank him, you're in a heap of trouble.

What do I mean?

Dominus' 1st Form: If you suffer from FPS issues like me, gg, expect to die a lot.

His ghost beam thingy: it's probably his 2nd most balanced skill after his searing totems. The problem here is that, in my opinion, the stun on it is absurd. It is a homing attack, dominus will aim right at you, and if you don't get behind cover fast enough, you get stunlocked as a CI character. But that's a minor point, there's skill here. You just have to read his moves really fast. So I can give this move a pass as acceptable.

His "tuch of gawd" move. In most cases it's a great move. It's like Vaal's smash where if you're stupid you die in 1 shot (unless you're tanky enough). My problem here lies with the absurd FPS drops which causes him to "strike" earlier than his animation. What it means is, the attack will come out of nowhere thanks to latency or FPS drops. Only "Fix" for this is to help improve FPS. Otherwise it's simply no fun to fight against.

Flicker strike was never a good move to give minions. Having a move you cannot dodge is no way to create a boss or monster.

All in all, Dominus' 1st form is justifiably fair for most. Melee players without high attack speed will suffer a bit but that just means it'll take longer to kill him.

Dominus' 2nd Form: This is where I have a problem. His blood rain, aside from tanking FPS, takes all the fucking skill away from the fight. If you're a spellcaster, ranged character, etc... there is no kiting. You stand there and take his punches and pray that the summoned minions don't mow you down faster than your pots can recharge.

It's stupid. On my tanky Scion I can stand in his bubble just fine trading blow for blow. But if you're a CI character without all those potions and armor, good luck not getting thrown around. Your only other option is to run into the rain and hope you have enough bleed flasks.

The problem with that, however, is unlike the fight with Piety where her portals can be destroyed. Dominus' minion portals can't. Shit just keeps pouring out and there's no longer any skill. It's just shoot and pray you can kill them and leech off them fast enough to stay alive.

What I'm saying, overall, is that Dominus' 2nd form is restricting. There is no longer skill involved. You're forced to take it in the face too much and if you're not going a tanky build or are twinked out with your tens of exalts worth of gear, you're going to be frustrated.

Lucky me, I could abuse a glitch.

Solutions:

I would create more "bubbles". Maybe have "safe points" scattered on the map where you could run to to escape the rain and not have to stand face to face with Dominus.

Allow us to destroy the portals (if we already can then I apologize for my stupidity).

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TL;DR: Dominus' fight needs fixing. Up the FPS, lower the forced facetanking.

They will tell you not to play on a 1995 PC. I have all the same issues with Dominus as you describe.

Problem is that until the end of closed beta my PC was perfectly viable for this game and now it somehow stopped to be. In the sceptre of god to be precise. People with high end PCs will tell us to upgrade like if it was Path of Exile 2. This thread is doomed.

Why not simply portal out during the blood rain, count to 10 (or so) and portal back in? I agree with the FPS issues though, I have a high end PC and my FPS still fall below 30 when fighting Dominus.

Dominus is a gear check, has never been anything else.

Vaal is the best boss they've designed. Lunaris and Shrine Piety on 2nd place

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JohnGrammaticus wrote:

They will tell you not to play on a 1995 PC. I have all the same issues with Dominus as you describe.

Problem is that until the end of closed beta my PC was perfectly viable for this game and now it somehow stopped to be. In the sceptre of god to be precise. People with high end PCs will tell us to upgrade like if it was Path of Exile 2. This thread is doomed.

If someone is willing to pay my tuition I would gladly upgrade. :P

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Xavderion wrote:

Why not simply portal out during the blood rain, count to 10 (or so) and portal back in? I agree with the FPS issues though, I have a high end PC and my FPS still fall below 30 when fighting Dominus.

That's no way to balance a boss fight. Forcing characters not built to facetank to portal in and out is a horrible implementation. Regardless, by the time you portal back in, say hello to a million Titty Bitches.

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Caessa wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Why not simply portal out during the blood rain, count to 10 (or so) and portal back in? I agree with the FPS issues though, I have a high end PC and my FPS still fall below 30 when fighting Dominus.

That's no way to balance a boss fight. Forcing characters not built to facetank to portal in and out is a horrible implementation. Regardless, by the time you portal back in, say hello to a million Titty Bitches.

GGG saw that ranged characters never ever where in trouble anywhere in the game and they tried to change that with Act3X :P Btw you can stand in the circle and still not get hit by Dominus if you move correctly (which is quite hard with single digit FPS I suppose).

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Xavderion wrote:

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Caessa wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Why not simply portal out during the blood rain, count to 10 (or so) and portal back in? I agree with the FPS issues though, I have a high end PC and my FPS still fall below 30 when fighting Dominus.

That's no way to balance a boss fight. Forcing characters not built to facetank to portal in and out is a horrible implementation. Regardless, by the time you portal back in, say hello to a million Titty Bitches.

GGG saw that ranged characters never ever where in trouble anywhere in the game and they tried to change that with Act3X :P Btw you can stand in the circle and still not get hit by Dominus if you move correctly (which is quite hard with single digit FPS I suppose).

If there was a way to destroy the spawning titty bitches standing in the bubble would be a lot safer.

As it stands, when i look into the rain I see a firing line of them and it scares me.

I'd uninstall this so fast if I had single digit fps that sounds so horrible lol

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I_NO wrote:

I'd uninstall this so fast if I had single digit fps that sounds so horrible lol

That's why a lot of us hate A3 :D

Everywhere else my FPS is sitting at 40-60.

In A3 with rain... oh dear.

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Caessa wrote:

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I_NO wrote:

I'd uninstall this so fast if I had single digit fps that sounds so horrible lol

That's why a lot of us hate A3 :D

Everywhere else my FPS is sitting at 40-60.

In A3 with rain... oh dear.

Let me see your comp specs lol