Struggling with Chimera/Minotaur - Tips to improve?

Thanks for all the feedback, both for the fights and gear, was hoping for exactly this :)

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Rakiii wrote:

- get two sockets Tomb - if you can afford with good jewel
- replace Glyph EyE for smth with high life/damage and probably chaos resist to counter chaos adds (in Chimera fight) - you don´t need overres in these fights (unless it´s ele weakness map)

Bought a 2 socket Tombfist, and will craft a good gem for it. Crafted a passable one for now.

Good idea with getting a 2nd ring with life + atk mods for bosses! I will definitely do this, and then re-roll maps with ele-weakness mods (unless corruption has other plans, I want completion after all).

I'll look into Grace, not familiar with the skill, so have to check it out.
Will quality the rest of gems, small investment, just kinda haven't thought about it after qualitying the FB and supports.

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Zidly wrote:

500k DPS should be plenty for guardians and shaper. What gems do you use when bossing?

One other suggestion is to change your curse on hit setup to enfeeble on hard bosses.

Been playing around a bit more in POB and I will try to replace the crit dmg gem with a Ele Focus gem for bosses. About a 11% dps increase, and losing the ailment status isn't really relevant since my single hit dmg is probably not enough to reliable chill/freeze high HP bosses anyway.

I also removed the Vitality void passives and used them on the Twin Terror wheel instead. I only lose about 150 Lifeleech/second, but gain almost 15% dps increase. Will also level up once more, to grab the last 5% Incr. Max Life node. Will be at around 5200 life with a new gem in the Tombfist. (And potentially more with the above ring-swap suggestion, getting a Ring with 70+ Life).

Great suggestion with the enfeeble setup! I have been thinking about this some time ago, but never tried it. I assume even with the bosses inherent curse resistance, I should be able to keep up enfeeble most of the time? I wouldn't lose anything by not using the current curse setup on bosses anyway, since I won't be able to get power charges on bosses through HoI/Assassins Mark.

Might try to slam some of my jewels, just haven't felt they are quite good enough to defend an Ex gamble on, I'll think about it.
The one gem I did slam (socketed in my passive skill tree) I got really lucky with and hit Atk Speed on Crit! Maybe I get lucky again.

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Zidly wrote:

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but my understanding of loreweave is that your max resists are always 80, even if you're cursed with elemental weakness.

The only map mod you can ignore because of Loreweave is the -X% to your max resistances. Since that is hard-capped with Loreweave, the mod will have no effect.
However both Ele Pen and Ele Weakness affects you, since none of them have anything to do with your Max Res.

Ele Weakness reduces your uncapped resistance with 34% on red maps.
The mod does not mention, or does anything to interefere with your Max Res.
So, if you have 100% uncapped res and 80% Loreweave, the Ele Weakness will reduce it to 66%.
Your max res is still 80%, but you have not reached it because of the curse.
So, as someone else mentioned, you'll want 114% uncapped res to maintain 80% res on maps with this mod.

Thank you again to everybody giving suggestions! I will try to complete these bosses again in the weekend, hopefully I'll stand a better chance now :) And be able to move on to Shaper!