Piety, the Abomination.. seems OP

Granted, this is my first time playing through the game, so it may be due to lack of experience. I dont mind challenging bosses with hard mechanics where you have to pay attention and not get hit by stuff. In this case, the cone that goes around the room, that will practically one shot you. Run circles around her, get a hit in every now and then, and your good. However, then she moves to a wall.... where you cannot run circles around her, and that beam practically one shots.... this seems a bit stupid. I am not saying that the beam needs to be nerfed, or anything along those lines, but she should atleast be limited to where she moves to, forces to stay so close to the door maybe for when you respawn, or to stay a certain distance away from the walls.

She was the only death for me on merciless, she shouldn't be able to 1-shot you with that fire beam with full resistances (actually had 84 fire resist).

for what it's worth you can whirling blade through the laser and take no damage

Piety's beam doesn't do fire damage. It's 50% physical 50% lightning and applies corrupted blood.

This boss is plain stupid.
I played it on normal and whole map was full of everything.
This doesn't really give you an option to play it with skill.
Just come with stronger equip.

Get some kind movement skill (flame dash, lightning warp etc) and jump over the beam. It's certainly not ideal to have her up against a wall but this is an option to deal with that situation.

Anyone know if you can los the beam?

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cosmin281 wrote:

This boss is plain stupid.
I played it on normal and whole map was full of everything.
This doesn't really give you an option to play it with skill.
Just come with stronger equip.

Or i don't know...use mobility skills?

Run in a circle around her?

Chill her and then laugh at how dam slow her beam turns?

Use a quick aoe during that time to clear adds then go back to work?

I got more.

And yes i did it as two melees so far.

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Steelgrey666 wrote:

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cosmin281 wrote:

This boss is plain stupid.
I played it on normal and whole map was full of everything.
This doesn't really give you an option to play it with skill.
Just come with stronger equip.

Or i don't know...use mobility skills?

Run in a circle around her?

Chill her and then laugh at how dam slow her beam turns?

Use a quick aoe during that time to clear adds then go back to work?

I got more.

And yes i did it as two melees so far.

Beam is not the problem. Problem is that there is to many sh.t/minions, which are spammed by piety. You are attacked from all sides and you are taking ton of damage, and when you are trying avoid this, you are dealing very little damage to boss. Compare it to the fights with other bosses where you can avoid attacks with skillful play. With Piety you have to kill her in very short time. Actually i am very disapointed about this fight in compare to the rest of the bosses in act iii/iv.

The biggest problem I've seen from watching other people play it is that they are too afraid of the everything else in the room and too unafraid of the beam.

When you're avoiding the laser beam, avoid it at all costs. Get hit by minions, run through the balls, whatever you need to do. Weight the laser beam as "certain death" and let everything else be "less than certain death".

All of the mobility skills (LS, WB, Flame Dash, LW, BA) make short work of the fight since you can play jump-rope the entire time.

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I have no problems with the Piety fight as is, but then again, I've never actually seen her leave the center of the arena.

For those who have seen her move to a wall, how did that happen?