Act 4 Cruel - Malachai Fight - one shot

Char: Mohawtz
LVL: 59
Stats: 3699 HP, 75% all ress, -20% Chaos, 6691 Armor 65% Phys Damage reduction, 204life regen per sec, 33% chance to block

i use fortify in my 5L with cyclone.

Passive Tree:
https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwQAAdwEswUtC2EUIBo-IWAppS_MMZ4x-zIJNZI64TwtPfxAoEMxRJ5HfkrITeNQR1O7WGNfP2EhZKNlTWebaPJsRm6qbztybHTtdPF343gNeTl6737ig8yE2YTvjM-bWJ-jogCmV6efqW6uPq9stfK3PrkdvTa-p8AawGbBgsauxtjYvdrB5FHvDvAf8kX2SP4K_o8=?accountName=xxhor&characterName=Mohawtz

got one shot from Malachai from his scepter. I don't know how you can build a char more tankier then this, ofc. some things you can do better but still ...

Malachai sceptre is literally vaal smash, do you facetank vaal smash? NO
Teleport is really slow and suprises you the first time but after that it gets easy.

Btw merc Malachai sceptre is probably about 12-15k dam unmitigated and I'm pretty sure it deals less the further away you are from the middle of the strike. The skills is 100% phy so you can IC through it.

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KillerB wrote:

Malachai sceptre is literally vaal smash, do you facetank vaal smash? NO
Teleport is really slow and suprises you the first time but after that it gets easy.

Btw merc Malachai sceptre is probably about 12-15k dam unmitigated and I'm pretty sure it deals less the further away you are from the middle of the strike. The skills is 100% phy so you can IC through it.

Exactly this.

Why would you ever tank a slam?

...ever?

...why?

Forgive me salt induced rant but Malachai is a terrible fight.
It's based around you constantly moving which runs contradictory to how the characters are designed to function.
There are far too many abilities being thrown at you and far too little time to either react to these abilities or deal damage in between them.

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Malachai sceptre is literally vaal smash, do you facetank vaal smash? NO

They aren't even remotely similar.
Vaal smash has a wind up and a small area of effect.
Vaal smash is super easy to dodge.
This is far quicker and has a far larger area of effect.

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KillerB wrote:

Malachai sceptre is literally vaal smash, do you facetank vaal smash? NO
Teleport is really slow and suprises you the first time but after that it gets easy.

Btw merc Malachai sceptre is probably about 12-15k dam unmitigated and I'm pretty sure it deals less the further away you are from the middle of the strike. The skills is 100% phy so you can IC through it.

Lol! I was tanking vaal smash on cruel all the way, no problem at all, cause my build is that tanky. I was just cycloning all day and one time that samsh fall down and i missclicked, spinned into wrong direction and couldn't stop the cyclone fast enough. I lost 25% of my hp and continue my cyclone until he was dead, never cared about his vaal smash anymore.

Same mistake happend to Malachai, he smashes, i spinned to his direction and couldn't stop cyclone fast enough to run out of it, bam - ONE HIT O`SHIT DOWN TO NORMAL.

I would rather take 100 vaal smashes then one malachai scepter

Nerf malachai... At least this will be enough.

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HiroProtagonist2332 wrote:

Why would you ever tank a slam?

Thank You for pointing this out.
Answer:
a) Thinking that the build could take it, again, as several times before on Cruel.
b) The build is using molten strike as attack, to deal damage one has to stand right next to the target. (Which makes evading strikes difficult even under good circumstances).

Getting one-shot by something really nasty on merciless or higher maps, that i can live with.
Tough i would prefer not to, since the build is mostly about defense and can't push dealing damage.

So, most higher bosses are a sure way to get one-shot sooner or later for this build, having come to recognize that i just don't mess with them.

Getting one-shot on cruel mode by anything with this build, at this stage?
No, that doesn't leave me with a nice fuzzy feeling at all.
More like stumped and dazed.

Again, this is not about asking to nerf or change anything, what i wish to know is if this happened cause of a fluke, something not known, or if this went as should be.


Regards, Gray