Uber Elder: it's the Little Things

Ah, a few more attempts today. Add another +2 to map deaths. Again, if it wasn't for those corners, I would have gotten the kill!

So, I found another "little thing" that bothers me. Kaom's Roots is practically required for the fight. I've managed to go so far without it, but I just had 3 deaths back to back to back with the most inconvenient time to get massively slowed.
Suggestion: Have the Shaper stop doing stuff for a few seconds while this is happening. Lore reason: Shaper was there to help you the elder when you were frozen, maybe it jogs any memory to make him question what he's doing, but only for a moment.

I managed to bring them to 25% each btw. With SR totems and Whirling Blades, without Kaom's roots at all. I usually die to Shaper's balls from off-screen.

Until now 6 failed tries. Now farming currency/new sets to try again. Changed my build a little to make casting faster.





EDIT (May 11):
Completed PoE today. Spent 4 more sets, but have killed him! 4 deaths even on successful run, but still. Probably could do it with 1-2 deaths with some practice, not sure about deathless. Sometimes there's simply no place to jump away from bosses combined AoEs, and I can't survive any hits with my 5k hp. So it's more question of luck, with my build at least.

Congrats on finally getting it!
SR totems make so much more sense as they have a significantly longer range than AW totems do.

I have probably burned the upper 40's amount of sets, and I think I am ready to call it quits.

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Datachanger wrote:

Congrats on finally getting it!
SR totems make so much more sense as they have a significantly longer range than AW totems do.

I have probably burned the upper 40's amount of sets, and I think I am ready to call it quits.

Thank you.

Yes, I agree, longer range definitely makes this fight easier (or at least possible). Elder one-shots me with his melee attack, for example. Sad to hear you didn't kill him, but certainly some builds are less suitable for that fight, if appropriate at all.

I was thinking about making better run with less number of deaths, but idea of starting spreading Elder influence all over again is killing me.

After about 50 attempts, the Uber Elder is dead....
After burning so much cash, he is finally dead.

I specc'ed out of 3 points of damage and gave my totems more ele resistance and life. (Though with purity of elements, the extra resists didn't add much.)

I noticed my totems living on 10% health much more often, and I think enabled me to get just that bit more uptime that I needed.

HOWEVER, this could be entirely circumstantial, as I didn't get the terrible lotto roll of adds that poop within 5 seconds and I didn't start getting terribad mechanic overlap until the last 25%.

Use ^this^ information for your own conclusions.

For any reading this, I highly recommend not using ES builds without leech for this fight. Nor do I recommend AW totem. It is doable, but without a decent recovery, save your money and reroll.

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Datachanger wrote:

After about 50 attempts, the Uber Elder is dead....
After burning so much cash, he is finally dead.

Gratz!