How do you kill Drox?

The add spawn (bubble) phase lasts a LONG time in the 3rd and 4th fights. I have not found a way to accelerate it.

Getting the last 25% of health also seems MUCH slower than the first 75%. Will try a frost bomb next time to see if regen has something to do with it.

I think i figured out his invulnerable mechanic. During the last 50% of his life he keeps summoning 4 Banners around him while he himself is in that Purple bubble. While he is inside the bubble AND inside the radius of at least 1 banner he is immune to Damage. The "trick" is to kill all 4 Banners quickly and then Damage him more until he summons the next set. I think the banner summon has a cooldown of maybe 10 or 20 seconds, not sure. So you have to kill all Banners and hit him a while within this timeframe. It's basically a DPS check mechanic. I believe without enough dps to kill the banners in time it will become borderline impossible to kill him.

I always just wait out the bubble phase and kill adds during that point. I just assumed this was a timed invulnerability phase and ignore him the entire time until he comes out of it. I'll look at speeding this along if I can in future encounters as I can clear all the mobs and just have him there alone waiting to come out of it.

After he comes out of the bubble I try to kite him to the end of one wall, it seems easier to manage the banners there and dps him down. Last encounter I was able to facetank this part and he just died. Fight took two tries, first time I had him more in the middle and the banner spam was more than I could handle.

Something is definitely off about this boss mechanic. His banner summon rate is way faster than it should be. Especially on red maps, banners are up as soon as i was able to destroy 2 on the edge of map. My hand literally hurts after fighting Drox. I expect some changes will happen to Drox in the future, no doubt about that. Not all PoE players have Twitch elite streamer DPS. if you setting your bar for them, you are alienating your playerbase.

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apexmateria1 wrote:

just cleared t15 drox. I did pretty much the same thing as last time, except he eventually broke out of his protected phase. I have an extra 100k dps the fight felt a lot smoother.



^ if you guys have some range to your attacks you want to stand in the overlapping areas of the banners.

Brilliant tactics! After 3 attempts doing the headless chicken mode tactics, killing banners and avoiding slamming fists, i went to this tactic and went down like a ripe peach for picking!

Stood right at the overlapping point, minions went apeshit and boss was killed within 30s! Thank you for the image and tacts :)

This is the most boring and annoying battle in the history of POE ! I hate it, it is stupidity long .... My hand hearts after 10 mins of intensive clicking...

Agreed Fizo ... this game is so much fun to play when it works, but getting really tired of mechanics that are buggy, continuing game crashes. frame rates that drop to 1 or 2 when opening legion spire on any map, or on L5+ Blight maps or any red tier map bosses. It stops being fun and I stop dropping $60 a league.

This fight makes me want to quit, no matter how much damage you pump on your toon it takes ages to go down (when it does) and he can one shot you way too easily.

This update has been a clusterfuck with a league mechanic you're actually avoiding because of how rippy it is and Drox is one of the worst fight in the entire game (seconded by Catharina).

Theres difficult and theres stupid this boss falls in the second category.

Edit : DPS check you mean having 100k dps tooltip is not enough? So its mirrored gear tier or bust? :p

He's probably the hardest of the 4 conquerors - certainly the longest.

You do need decent DPS to do him at higher levels, but I have no trouble on a miner with SSF gear. My 6L is still a tabula.

His multi-minute bubble phase is boring, but not dangerous, since you're just killing adds.

He's doable at higher levels if you know the mechanics. You have to clear out banners in an area to be able to take him down when his bubble is not up. You have to avoid the big fist, but that is well telegraphed. And you also need to avoid the exploding wall projectiles (or whatever they are) as much as possible.

But, yes, it's a long fight that takes patience.

Starting yesterday, every time I fight Drox he has a banner that stays up in the air, meaning he never comes out of his bubble. WTF am I supposed to do with that?

I've just run around for 20 minutes killing adds and the banner is still there floating happily in the air...