Izaro - Is he overtuned?
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Dying to him sucks a ton, especially in the 3rd phase.
I like that there is some punishment for failing but this is a bit much. He seems a bit strong in all difficulties for how much time you have to take to get there and the fact that there's no way out once you start the fight. |
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So I finally faced him for the first time today. Level 40+ summoner. 6 zombies and 2 spectres. Everything was a breeze until form 3, where everything hit me for 90% of my health (1400ish) and my minions died almost instantly.
In my limited experience, I'd say he's overtuned. BTW, my first time through I was rather thorough, 2nd time through, just ran through all the traps cause damn that's a freaking long dungeon with gear 10 levels lower than me dropping. We fight to delay the end because it's the means that matter.
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For an optional boss, he isnt hard.
What is frustrating is dying means restarting the whole thing. You have to stack a few more layers of defense or over-leveled to avoid dying. Thats all. Malachai is still overall harder. |
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Well, it doesn't really matter, since GGG's official stance seems to be that this is okay game design.
Honest to christ, play literally any other game and you will never see shit as OP as this game throws at you. This game is like one of those impossible flash games without the self-awareness. There is no fucking challenge to having the screen covered in projectiles while you attack a boss once every 12 seconds for .01% of his HP at a time. There is only frustration and inevitable death. The game forces you to cram every last scrap of HP you can onto your gear just to be two-shotted instead of one-shotted. There are huge sections of damage nodes on the skill tree that might as well not even exist. There are infinite possibilities for builds but if you're not playing something that has been on the boards for months, to the letter, your build is bad. That is shit game design. And I'm not just talking about Izaro. Izaro is the latest in a long line of abysmally designed things in this game. Difficulty does not mean trying to defeat your players. There is nothing "challenging" about being curb-stomped and told to go fuck off. This is a buff™
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Well, I not understand how the mechanics of Izaro work. Sometimes I prevail against him without even move a hair; but other one-shot me, and I'm pretty tanky. It gives the feeling that something is wrong.
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"the problem is the direction they are heading for making the game "challenging" The game would have much more less 1 shot issue if they tune both the monster damage down as well as all the healing options(potion recharge slower/regen are slower etc) It will archive the same challenging result without the 1 shotting mechanics. Current POE is fulllife-->fulllife-->spam potion--->dead |
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If i can find a way to deal with his golems as a low dps melee build i guess he's ok.
For now i think he's a bit too much though, especially compared to malachai. ( and everything after that in the next difficulty) Yesterday i pretty much facerolled cruel malachai (where i know the mechanics) yet could barely lay a finger on 2nd phase cruel izaro. (Where i still have to learn a lot - still was a humbling experience) So yeah, i think he's definitely the hardest boss atm by far, not sure he has to be nerfed though. CliveHowlitzer wrote:
I am now too addicted to that feeling of being kicked in the nuts when you die. |
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Well I kill him in a heartbeat now in merc
feels goodz Dys an sohm
Rohs an kyn Sahl djahs afah Mah morn narr |
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" care to link your character (gear, tree) so we can see where the problem is? |
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I tried Izaro in cruel both with elementals and gargoyles(winged lion statues). If the difficulty of Izaro with elementals is how it's supposed to be, one with golems is too easy. (You can check my toon in the profile. It's berserker and only difference is the body armour, which got me from 1.8k AR to 2.3k after killing Izaro in cruel. I was using Arctic Armour in the labyrinth instead of Purity of Ice which is necessary to fix cold res in Merciless.)
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