Sirus/Maven = BIG NOPE

Got level 98 today and decided to give Sirus another try. This fight is just too annoying. I'm not even going to bother. No boss should have invuln phases, much less minute long ones. I could probably kill this boss too but since GGG desided to test my PATIENCE with the encounter instead of my CHARACTER I believe I'll just quit.

Invuln Phases (and even memory games) from a game design standpoint are a complete cop-out on GGGs part. They make the boss difficult in the most annoying and unfun way. These boss fights are cheap and do not test your character at all. Instead GGG tests my patience... lame... or my memory.... lammmmeeee...

This patch really was awesome all the way up until the end-game but the poorly designed end-game boss fights give me nothing to build my character for because this is content that is unfun and I'd rather just avoid all-together.

With that being said I do think I'm quitting POE, probably for good unless GGG makes some BIG TIME design changes to these two fights in particular. I'm not grinding 98 levels again just to have access to trash content that feels mandatory.

Sorry poe is too hard for you, I heard minecraft dungeons is fun.

I don’t enjoy either fight, or bullet hell mechanics in general. That being said, they are optional bosses and ought to be seen as such. Beat them once for karui shores/atlas skills, then never touch them again.

I have yet to be able to beat Maven, but I’ll get her eventually. Then never again.

These bosses are legitimately hard, and don’t pay attention to those who say otherwise (they’re amnesiacs regarding their own skill development and practice). The good news is that bossing really isn’t the main focus of PoE unless you want it to be.

It's not hard at all. That's the problem, I'm fighting a final boss and just standing there for 90% of the fight waiting for the invuln phase to end. This is TRASH content.

While I personally don't like the Sirus fight at all, and the last phase can be a bit random in difficulty, especially with a melee char, I mostly like maven, except the flying obs that make circular degen ground just because it is already a mechanic in like every boss fight and it isn't a really exciting idea in the first place. The memory game isn't a very epic boss mechanic but it is ok for me since I am softcore and I can use another portal if I fuck up because I panic.

I think Sirus can be "outbuild", with a block/avoidance/mitigation build relatively easy. I'm fine with bosses having phases, but I would like the design team to consider builds like Vaal Pact for future bossing.
I prefer Maven over Sirus.

It's not even about it being a focus. If a fight is so fucking convoluted, and mechanics so unclear that I have to wiki it to even know what the fuck is going on then you've already lost me.

Sirus is actually Poggers. I love doing that fight. Maven is dogshit on the other hand.

They're both complete shit in my book. Buggy, and unclear mechanics. These invuln phases are a total cop out so GGG doesnt have to balance the game around the top builds doing massive damage.

How about instead of trying to make every boss unkillable by every shit build in the game we try to balance the bosses around actual bossing builds so the mechanics can be fun instead of arbitrary.

Learn the mechanics, and they are not that bad once you know it.

There are tricks to each fight that let you get through them.

But are they fun? Hell no they're not you cant even hit the boss for most of the fight. I made this character with the goal of fighting the end game bosses but then I get there and the fights are janky and the mechanics arbitrary and unclear. It's just simply unfun content that should be a grand encounter.