Shaper’s cold orb AOEs fill Zana’s shield and fight is unwinnable

Yeah, six fights, six losses. I bought the fragments, Uber elder down, Jun main boss down, elder down, sirus 8 down... but shaper is unwinnable.

Maybe because I make my own builds and don’t have the highest damage, but I can easily handle his regular attacks. What kills me is his cold orbs that make the ground aoe. Nothing new. Except now he gets to do his purple bullet attack 3-5x per later phase. And it’s always in the same spot as far as the shield goes, so the ground becomes DOT until zana’s shield gives you nowhere to stand at all.

Boom, six portals gone, reaching the red shield is easy but inside you run out of potions and health and die over and over.

I enjoyed the shaper fight, but dying because zana puts her shield in the middle on top of several dot swirls is really really frustrating. It’s the same thing as Sirus’ storm blocking the stairs. It’s a no-win situation.

Six times this has happened to me now. If it wasn’t for this shaper would be completely beatable.

I’m fine with the shaper health buffs etc. But make the ground DOTs at least vanish after a time instead of lasting the entire phase, or make them not pierce her shield during the purple bullet phase.

It would be much more fun not to lose five portals to a spot of the ground I can’t stand on, but am required to stand on to avoid another lethal attack.

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Assuming your post is genuine, the trick is to pop those anomalies as early as possible so they don't bite you on the ass when Shaper starts playing hip hop around the arena.

Even when you're in the shield, you can detonate the orb on the border of the shield leaving you space to stand.
You can also get out of the shield for a split second to detonate the orb and get back it.
You can also significantly lower the changes of needing to detonate one of the orbs during the bullet phase by carefully detonating all present orbs before it starts.

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Assuming your post is genuine, the trick is to pop those anomalies as early as possible so they don't bite you on the ass when Shaper starts playing hip hop around the arena.

He is saying he killed uber elder but can't kill shaper, ppls this is a troll.

Uber elder is far easier.

I’ve beaten shaper a hundred times, this was never an issue until his health pool was so large he does bullet time with permanent dot two three times per phase.

I don’t use a meta build so my dps isn’t perfect but I’m damn near unkillable against anything that isn’t unavoidable and permanent. My only other issue was Sirus’ storm on the staircase.

It’s a crappy way to lose five portals in a row. More than once.

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SaphironX wrote:

Uber elder is far easier.
I don’t use a meta build so my dps isn’t perfect but I’m damn near unkillable against anything that isn’t unavoidable and permanent.

Congrats, you have a solid character with ONE weakness to play around, and you'd rather call it "unwinnable" instead of learning to move the orbs around manually (it's possible, I've seen people do crazy things like naked shaper fights that take like 45 minutes and still have room to move).

Take it as a learning experience. It's not unwinnable, and after learning how to detonate the balls in the right places, it's not even hard.