The Sirus Fight is Really Badly Designed

What's even worse is that they don't seem to care at all, and have no intention of fixing the fact you can brick the whole fight by dying just once. Like I did.

The 'what we're working on' implies the stationary vortexes can bug at the door. Nothing about the fact you can have 1 of the moving ones move there, preventing you from ever accessing the fight again.

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Even if you do everything correctly, but somehow manage to die. there is still a chance they can then mess it up moving to the doorway...

Yep, they don't get the extent of the problems, or they don't care :

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Sirus' storm can sometimes appear at the entrance of Oriath.

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Universalis wrote:

Sirus fight isn't really hard, and isn't really entertaining too.
The cloud is not a problem once you know how to lure it aways.

Maybe devs are not motivated anymore because POE 2 is next step, meaning they are working on a dead horse.

Did... did you...

Did you even read/watch how PoE and PoE 2 are going to interact together?!

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Ydoum wrote:

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Universalis wrote:

Sirus fight isn't really hard, and isn't really entertaining too.
The cloud is not a problem once you know how to lure it aways.

Maybe devs are not motivated anymore because POE 2 is next step, meaning they are working on a dead horse.

Did... did you...

Did you even read/watch how PoE and PoE 2 are going to interact together?!

Because they share the same engine ? Are you joking ?
Let me know how POE 1 will evolve once POE 2 will be out.

Atziri or Uber Elder fights were the real deal.
However it's possible Sirus and maybe other things will be improved. Next league.

Cyclone critical vaal pact. 2 times i faced him, the best fight ive had, took him 1/4 of his life. So many portas wasted dyeing for 1 hit, for a tornado that i see in a place but is over me... i felt the same when i faced the uber elder, but it was a fight that i felt that i can manage, and learn to avoid his skills... but that?
Tornados, sirus is most of the time untargeteable, tornados that damage you when have vaal pact.....

Totally agree.. lost 4 portals because can't reenter to fight, the red clouds were blocking the entrance..

Make them degen zones not insta kill ..

stupid design

Fixes, better gear, more EHP and... storms still big as hell, boss attacks faster then Flash, 99% of screen - death zone. I have to guess that in 0.01 seconds the boss will start attacking? I have enough damage, but I have absolutely no room for maneuver and no time for reaction. This also applies to metamorphs. Huge AOE, huge damage and very often you realize that the boss / metamorph attacked you when you died. I went to play Path of Exile, not a guessing game or Touhou.

Ok, I understand that he spawns new Vortex after each phase... but who the fuck thought it's a good idea to make him cast Vortex basically after every wipe? Hell I've seen him cast 2 vortexes WHILE I was trying to get to him... it's fucking retarded.

I'm done with PoE.

See you guys in PoE 2.

Biggest turn off i have had in POE ever... even worse then my first experience playing the game... because know i know what i am suppose to do. but the broke atlas and horrific new boss design have pretty much made me not play.. I got my atlas FINALLY all done up with watchstones dealign with the horrid buggy atlas. Then even trying to spawn sirus again is a bullshit buggy fiesta. Not that i really wanna spawn him but when i do try, i shoudln't have to spend 30 maps making new hideout guessing white/yellow/red map to trigger.

I’m seeing a pattern of people fighting him once or twice and then taking to the forum to complain.

I fought him like 10 time before killing him; each run I got better and better and figured out wtf was going on. I watched other players as well as my own run to learn wtf was going on. I am not saying this is a fight without issues but the storms make sure you move your ass and don’t just stand there to glass canon him down.

To those complaining about the storms closing in on them I say move out of the fucking way! I even see a path in one of the screenshots where the player just didn’t respond quickly to the direction they need to run.

Half of his attacks are a joke and are easily avoidable. I killed him with DoT over a 10 min fight on atlas 8 just running circles around him. He is a bitch for melee for sure but for ranged he is not that hard. Entrance bug aside, the storm acts as an equalizer to test your reaction time and quickness so if you just stand there with 3 storms closing in but one path is clearly open for your to maneuver through and you didn't, you deserve to die. I died a bunch of times myself.

My guess is most are also facing the fight with their chaos res in the red. Good luck with that. You can’t suck *and* have no chaos res. At least if you cap your res you can afford to suck if you get tagged by the edge of the storms, but you have 0 room for error if you are slow and have 0 chaos res :)

Toe to toe he is actually easier compared to the Shaper or Elder because in those fights you had to get your +max on your cold res as much as possible. In this fight you seem to do just fine with just 75/75/75 but your chaos also needs to be 75 because if it's not, you need to be a god at maneuvering like that one dude that was able to run around all of Shaper's circles outside the Zana protective circle phase.

In full disclosure, I killed him with pretty fucking good gear in standard which compensates for how shitty I am as a player but I got it done. I saw people kill him with 1/10th the gear in league so GGG is looking at the stats and seeing that players are doing it, so if they nerf him in any way, you better believe that they will nerf his rewards - somehow. After that more players will kill him but take to the forums and complain how he doesn't drop a damn thing, heh.