Let's talk about new Sirus

I love that I can finally learn the fight so when they eventually buff him somehow I'll know the mechanics at least.

So, Im bad at this game. I'll throw that out right now, I am not good at dodging, running, mechanics and any of that. I spawned him a god 10 times, before I finally beat him on 0 awakening on my last portal. Part of the problem was when I figured out a little piece of it, it took hours to get back to fight him again.

I learned, painfully slow, and was able to kill him Awakening 8 pre-patch. Now I can farm him myself without worry. The biggest change I did personally was get chaos resist, I went from -60 to 66 atm and it made a massive difference in survivabilty.

Now that I understand the mechanics, the fight is much easier. Taking away storm management, made the fight overall fairly simple until phase 3, and as someone else said it's not bad once you get used to it.

I like this fight compared to Uber, or Metamorphs and the like though. Yes he telegraphs his attacks, most bosses actually do. The difference in this one, is there arent 19000 ground effects that you cant see in the chaos killing you. When I die to Sirus, it's because I'm an idiot who screwed something up, not because my entire screen is filled with effects and I missed the black pool on the dark gray ground that insta kills you.

I dont think they needed to change the storm mechanics personally, except for fixing where you cant get back into the Arena, but if it makes the fight way more accessible for folks, Im for it. Im not a fan of content so insanely hard only the top 1% who can play 18 hours a day can beat.

Last phase seemed to exploit all of my build's weaknesses. He always teleported near one edge or did his meteor thing, teleporting me, before I could get any frenzy charges or rage, so all I did was get blasted from offscreen. Map drops make me not wanna try again.

Your elitism aside, I agree he is just boring, needless long fight. I always oppose long fights in ARPG's, once I killed a new 'billion hp boss' once, I usually skip it after, I cba running around for 10 minutes for a 1 in 250 chance to get something good.