Sirus lvl 8 fight

I just wanted to ask if im the only one having trouble with sirus on lvl 8. His attack pattern became way quicker than before, you have barley time to avoid things and in his last phase he just goes complete bonkers.

His splitbeam is slowing you down to around 30% movement speed. In this time you have nearly no chance to avoid his "DIE" laserbarrage. Damage from the beams is also extremly high, even with armor/chaos resistance.


Is he just bugged in his current state? Or am i just bad at fighting him. He's not impossible, but it just seems extremly hard to even get to him without dodging attacks.



E: btw. this is about standard, i doubt people are farming him in delirium on lvl 8 already.

Reddit said it was too easy (and they were probably right) so they buffed it to be super difficult. You get what you deserve I suppose. A lot of builds will have to tweak their characters to fight him now where you could just facetank/run around him before.

i died 1 time for first sirus kill, second try i lost all portal xD. not diedto his beam but all those skill and ground effect killed me, 9.1k es btw. Last metamorp 4million deaths, so i think this league will be alot ppl cant kill this newly buff sirus xD.

Don't get me wrong, a challeging fight is good.
When shaper was the endboss, everyone was exited when he finally died.

But Sirus is something else at the moment. His first 2 phases are still pretty easy, but the last phase...

He splits up, you need to find him first, then dogde his "DIE" beam, which has his sound queue either removed or delayed.
Next up is that huge beam that splits the arena basically in 4 rooms and even if you just happen to touch the beams you get slowed for 10 seconds (!) without the option to remove that debuff. If he does his "DIE" beam in this time you will die. There is no way you can avoid being hit, unless you have good reflexes and have a teleport skill at hand (which is also hard, since the animation is slowed too)

Maybe turn down the beams to the size they where before 3.10 but keep the slow debuff. Make a curse out of it, so you can atleast remove it with a flask.

Well, this fight became a pure bullshit again.

Do not get me wrong, it is much better than it was at the beginning of last league, but the last phase now is pure nonsense. Sure, the big guys will insta-phase him again, but for the rest of us, that phase is a real pain now.

I just killed him only on level 81 (first encounter in the league), the first three phases were fine, the upper guy became much faster, but those attacks can be avoided manually in those phases, and the clouds mechanism did not change at all.

Then came the last phase, where I died 5 times in like 3 minutes, just by luck finished him on my last portal. That phase becamse a total joke, the attack speed is absurd and there is not a single moment now to try to hit him, his attacks are chained endlessly and forever, non-stop. And I am pretty much sure he teleports way further away of you every time now, I died all times to the triple laser completely out of the screen. The rest was still quite avoidiable, but the off-screen nonsense made me just laugh from death to death.

Oh, and before the tipical guys says to learn the fight, I fought him 33 times last league and killed him 25 times of it after I learned, then a lot of times deathless at the end, and even killed the original un-nerfed nonsense version of him some times as well. For newcomers, this fight is going to be a pain again.

And all this for another useless prophet crown, luckily I have absolutely no more reason to kill him anymore again as its quest is done so I will just simply skip him, but yeah, adds fine to the laughable delirium explode-all league mechanism.

On paper I agreed with everything they announced for the change to Sirus: more hp in last phase, higher attack frequency for his sprite, making the split beam wider and have a slow, etc. Sure, sounds okay and reasonable...

Having actually fought him a number of times, I can say there were a few things wrong:

1. High attack frequency also meant he did more ground effect attacks, and they still lasts just as long as they did before, or it felt like some don't disappear at all sometimes. Unlike the uber elder fight where if you ran out of place to stand it is 100% your fault, this can just happen bacause he did the degen ground and flame pillars in a row. If you are gona let him spam his skills faster, make it so the ground effect disappear faster, or make his ring arena larger so there are still places to stand.

2. Storms: I've had a run personally where the storms were blocking the entrance again, but that was 1 run so idk. However the storms don't move away from Sirus very quickly sometimes after procing his phases. If he starts the phase with the ground effect attacks, you might as well just run out the circle and let him spawn another storm since you won't get room to stand anyways, especially if melee. Again, larger "arena" would help, or just clear the storms away from him faster.

3. Split beam: wider don't do them justice... These babies are now so girthy they effectively take up 1/5 the screen or more at all times, and if you touched one for a second, the undispellable slow pretty much guarantees you are getting hit by the die beam. Even if you didn't die from the die beam cause you are lucky enough to find Sirus on your screen again, you will probably still be slowed when he does the maze or corridor attack. Hopefully Sirus builts up tolerance for viagra at some point and his beams become more flaccid, and the slow become a strong chill that's removable with a flask.

4. Die beam: I don't remember this being so girthy, it also seems to happen as soon as you hear the voice queue, leaving almost no time to react unless you see him on your screen. Chances are if you dashed to avoid the die beam you'll run right into the split beam and became slowed for 10 seconds, joy. I'd say this skill may be fine (?) if the split beams didn't make finding him after the teleport and evading extremely difficult. Or, if there are some indicators as to which direction he teleported towards so we can actually find him, that'd be cool too.

5. 75% HP for last phase: this is fine, we are powercrept on damage enough to still blow him up in 1 or 2 bursts with standardish build (~10mil dps) pretty easily, but exiles are still made of paper mache, with the sole exception of herald stackers (limiting same notable stacking when?). So the problem becomes if we will actually get to hit him. For all the non-herald stackers (or super thicc jugg, 1% of the ladder btw), we may never get the chance to hit him in the last phase because reasonable survivalbility for the rest of the game (5~6k hp with 50% reduction, soo... 10k EHP?) won't prevent any one taps in the last phase.

6. Unrelated to the fight itself, but having to respawn all the conquerers after each bricked run when it take 20~30 maps is extremely tedious. Uber elder/Shaper didn't just disappear if you bricked a run; you just had to run 4 more maps to spawn him again, making actually learning/practicing the fight possible. Kinda stuipd it is easier to spawn shaper/elder/uber elder easier than Sirus in the current league when they are suppose to be the older endgame. 9/10 times the drops are garbage anyways for something that take so long to spawn.

tldr: take too long to spawn, split beam too thick and DAT SLOW THO, can't wait for actual herald nerfs.

Fight is so difficult. Beat him yesterday with two portals. I have to put head phones on and focus so much.

Just got done fighting him. He is so glitchy. I beat him 5 times in last 6 days but I died 3 times in a row in the first 20 seconds. Was doing some glitchy 1 shot. Took him down though and I am still shaking, and all sweaty.

I can afk 100% delirum mobs and kill them on my cyclone build. Maybe hes cake for herald glitch builds.

For me its a fight for my life. All this for some pos armor and a thread of hope jewel. Both shop food.

I don't need a godly drop everytime, but if your going to put me through the most tortorious fight in my 30 years of gaming you can't even drop me a item worth 30c?

Torture fight. You don't want to waste it. I lost one sirus fight this season doing it without headphones with my kids in my game room. Pisses you off when you waste one.

This is only my 2nd season and I came in 45 days late last season. I learned in last few stages you rage and stick on his butt like and stay on him and kill him as fast as you can.