Hallowed Ground Map Boss

I played the Hallowed Ground unique map for the first time and had what I thought was a strange experience.

Here's my rough description of the context and what happened. The map seems to be made up of a half dozen boss fights or so. The first boss I ran into was based on Brutus the Prison Warden boss. (edit2: this turned out to really be based on Kole instead as Doc points out below.) He seemed invincible, no damage registered at all. My life and mana leech did not work and so there was nothing I could do except run past him. I didn't see anything under his description saying anything unusual. It just said "Elemental Resistances" and "Chaos Resistance", I think. (edit: I'm thinking that maybe I saw a reflect aura and I'm thinking now that maybe he wasn't even ever damaging me. That it was only really the reflection aura?) Anyway, I ran on and eventually meet Brutus again and this time a twin Brutus at the same time. One of the twins could take damage and provided my character life and mana leech opportunity. When the one Brutus was finally killed then both twins died and there was the three rare maps dropped.

So perhaps there was some description someplace about what was going on but I missed it? Maybe one has to kill all the other bosses first before a Brutus appears that is not invincible or something?

bump, can anyone perhaps shed some light on this?
Thanks

Correct. You need to enter each of the other wings off to the sides, and kill all of the other bosses. As you kill each one, the Brutus/Kole dude in the middle get more buffs. You need to just dodge and out run him until you kill all of the other bosses.

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Docbp87 wrote:

Correct. You need to enter each of the other wings off to the sides, and kill all of the other bosses. As you kill each one, the Brutus/Kole dude in the middle get more buffs. You need to just dodge and out run him until you kill all of the other bosses.

Thanks! The map would have been almost trivial for my character, if I'd known what was going on. :-) GGG should consider adding some hints at the beginning of the map. It was very disconcerting at first. Well hopefully this thread might prove helpful to some others. Also, I think you're right he was based on Kole not Brutus. Regards,

So, what if you entered the four wings and killed those bosses, and maker of mires still does not take any damage at all...? He does spawn a clone of himself, that vanishes after 5-10 secs and when he respawns has full life again....

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Elithraldor wrote:

So, what if you entered the four wings and killed those bosses, and maker of mires still does not take any damage at all...? He does spawn a clone of himself, that vanishes after 5-10 secs and when he respawns has full life again....

That's basically what happened to me just now. I killed all 4 bosses but he's cloned and invincible again.

i was also confused when i first did this map but i cheated and checked the wiki :)

he has the "allies cannot die aura" which i actually recognized.

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Turtledove wrote:

The map would have been almost trivial for my character, if I'd known what was going on. :-) GGG should consider adding some hints at the beginning of the map.

The wiki is quite useful, you know... ;)

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the main boss, Maker of Mires. It is immune to damage until the other four occupants of the map are eliminated.

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Hallowed_Ground