Act 10 Kitava fight is absolutely stupid

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Grumpy3D wrote:

I mean whats the point of doing hard mechanics when the designer had in mind "oh yea they still could port in and out several times". Most of my playstyle consists of avoiding the tactic for to much using tp scrolls in boss fights as cheap mechanic to avoid hard stuff or plain refilling flasks.

Instant portals is the worst thing about this game. I dont say diablo3 is better in any way (POE much more deep mechanically and fun), but i must admit, when i saw Kripp killed inferno Diablo in hardcore, that was epic, you know why? because fight was 20 mins and you cannot insta-port-out (portal cast like 10 sec).

One crucial advice - before You enetr fight like that complete the level so You wont loos exp.

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kalbright wrote:

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Moshe_of_Succubus wrote:

have u killed merciless malachai in 3 days of league? malachai is very stupid boss when u dont have gear

Except, now in 3.0, you are required to kill act 10 boss to access maps. so you have to kill a T9 map boss to have access to fight T1 bosses. Typical GGG balance.

I could not agree more :D

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Alternalo wrote:

Well i was expecting worse. Only died 3 times during the fight with 2k hp, uncapped resistances and not knowing anything about the fight mechanics. Placing a Decoy Totem to the other side of the map significantly reduced the amount of attacks i must dodge. Died 2 times on his X attack because you can't see the red effets on red textures and i was in a very wrong place when he started to burn the entire map so i ended up dying in flames as my 3rd.

How is it even possible I instantly die with 4100 life? I can't even see what does it...

Before you enter to area with Kitava, Innocence should say "At long last, we've found Kitava' weak spot. Please take this sacred weapon.", and gives 20 portal scrolls to a player :D

Did Kitava again today with a lvl 68 Scion, three Shockwave Totems in the helmet, Vulnerability+Maim as support, Life and MoM with some armor, capped resistances, Solaris and Ryslatha powers active, did merciless lab just before that.

A few close calls but I didn't die once. So it's definitely possible, even in Hardcore. That build didn't die at all in the ten acts. Kinda proud of that, it's a first for me I think.

Just did it again with my friend, using the worst build you've never seen, at level 67. (kitava vs kitava lol)

I probably couldn't do the heart/add phases solo due to how shit my dmg was, but I could do the rest of the fight perfectly fine.

I had 3.5k life and an absurd amount of evasion for my level (worthless against kitava itself) and the add phases is fking ridiculous. Champions of Kitava flicker for like 1k dmg and do a shotgunning volley (aoe overlap?) or just multiple projectile hitting (those red/black balls). I actually had about 28k evasion and every single mob blinded and my life still spiked down to like 200-500 in the add phases and only the add phases. Probably those mortar or whatever it is does spell damage which I have currently 0 mitigation for.

Good thing life potions are so overpowered.

Those kitava's champions are fucking insane... I think the fight is pretty easy otherwise. Having any amount of regen is really nice for the fight overall. It's only really bad when the black stuff covers the floor so you can't see anything combined with the orb in the sky in a bad location, and then kitava does an attack with both of those going on.

I still think the converging pulsing floor explosion is pretty bullshit. It does same or more damage than the giant telegraphed circles, while being 100x harder to spot. Especially when 2 vertices are blocked under the the black sludge, how do you tell where it is going to converge...

The fight is easier than gruthkul still at least.

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Mythabril wrote:

Did Kitava again today with a lvl 68 Scion, three Shockwave Totems in the helmet, Vulnerability+Maim as support, Life and MoM with some armor, capped resistances, Solaris and Ryslatha powers active, did merciless lab just before that.

A few close calls but I didn't die once. So it's definitely possible, even in Hardcore. That build didn't die at all in the ten acts. Kinda proud of that, it's a first for me I think.

Nobody's saying it's impossible. Only that it is a) absurdly difficult compared to the content both before and after it, and b) a poorly designed and unfun encounter.

i only died to the act 10 boss 2-3 times with my first charachter in harbinger league. not so bad. i died quite a lot more the first time i tried to kill malachai act 4. how about that?

I remeber when people were complaining that the game is too easy , like 2 months ago .