sirus fight is the worst fight to ever exist in PoE

Another Sirus is a bad, poorly designed, not fun boss fight thread? I just have to say again that I agree, Sirus is a bad, poorly designed, not fun boss fight. I think that might have something to do with these kind of threads popping up all the time?

<Insert my customary "I love this fight and it gets me hyped still to this day" comment>

Oh yeah, the music is fantastic and I turn it all the way up.

Git good :)))

Had to be said.

Let me tell you my story with Sirus. I am casual player (play one league per year) and until this league Sirus had a psychological hold on me. What that means is I was pretty sure I was going to die going into the fight and will not kill him. Guess what? I was. Trying to run away was almost always sure death.

I was switching chain to concentrated etc. Just to be more efficient with boss fights.

Finally I killed him by taking all the stones out and making the encounter A0... with my final portal.

I reached Awakened 8 and I said " F..uck it". I'm not going to switch skills. I'll just go on top of him and see what happens.

Guess what happened ? Deathless Sirus A8. No concentrated effect, no switching gear, nothing at all. Just my normal clearing gear.

Do I still die every now and then? Yeah. Sometimes. But since then I killed him every time A8.

And I play icicle mine. No cyclone. No great tanking stuff. Just flame dash and manual dodge.

Once you understand he is always hitting in front of him with whatever he has, except for the big beam, where it's better to just dash behind him just because he rotates a little and covers a bigger area... other than that you can just side step left or right and keep chipping away.

And trust me I don't have big DPS.

One bit of advice. Never stand still when you don't know where he is in the circle. Dash-dash-dash until you find him.

I'm pretty sure it's just psychological for most of people. Once you get over that it's just simple mechanics and you can dodge most of his damage.

Guess what, failed Sirus 0 again... Yeah, I fell to the rage.

Killed him countless times before in AL8, but this league just wanted the challenge and never see him again, but one death triggered my rage, and GG.

Serves me well for not playing meta or high DPS builds.

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frostzor27 wrote:

Guess what, failed Sirus 0 again... Yeah, I fell to the rage.

Killed him countless times before in AL8, but this league just wanted the challenge and never see him again, but one death triggered my rage, and GG.

Serves me well for not playing meta or high DPS builds.

Yep. Sirus is impossible unless you play a meta build. Keep telling yourself that bud :). Maybe if you played a meta build, you wouldn't get hit by telegraphed attacks, right?

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BrettLee wrote:

Yep. Sirus is impossible unless you play a meta build. Keep telling yourself that bud :). Maybe if you played a meta build, you wouldn't get hit by telegraphed attacks, right?

You really have problems with understanding don't you? Guess you need to go back to school...

@topic

A comparison that came to my mind: Sirus is like doing a prostate exam. It's not a hard exam, just a very unpleasant and painful one. But you need to do from time to time. Yet some people love it...

I totally agree with OP and would like to add:
1. Color palette during this fight is just ridiculous. Boss is a red-black around the red-black environment using red-black skills with red-black particles all over the map. I mean don't you feel a little obligated to change this while hearing that players are advising others to use dialog Audio to recognize if Sirus is gonna use Die Beam? Cmon...
2. During Sirus fight when the player is inside the circle, those black void SHOULD NOT damage you. The Player has just fulfilled the restriction to be in a circle but still, the void can dmg player cos of its huge aoe.