Sirius Fight for new players
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after playing harvest, heist and now ritual I flighted sirius for the first time in this league (Ritual) today was the second time I faced sirius and to be honest was really frustrating lose 4 portals dying for that giant black ball that stands in the arena..
I understand that sirius is the kind of boss that practice makes perfect but the balls blocked my path to reach sirius 2 times and the other 2 times the balls were so close of each other that I take damage from 2 balls and die trying to reach the center of the arena.. after dying for the fourth time I let the character dead there with the arena open and saw the balls moving slowly to the corner of the arena making space in the center of the arena.. So how a new player that is facing sirius for the first or second time can guess that the balls will slowly change their position if there is no kind of hint or any small thing that suggest this? is not better if the player die just reset the balls position? after understand that I entered in the arena and waited for almost 1 min to balls reset their position.. when I finally get to the last phase of the boss I have only 1 portal left and manage get him with 30% of life.. so if I didn't lose 4 portals trying to understand how the balls in the arena change their position maybe I was able to kill him for the first time.. Path of exile is horrible for new players.. that is the true.. the game lack tons of information that is needed for new players.. I understand that the game is make to be difficulty and to give challenges for the players but some basic info need to be given to make new players like me first of all understand the game.. and second to make the game more pleasant for new and average players.. I am playing the game now because I have a friend helping me but 2 years ago when I tried to play by myself I gave up after reach act 5.. so if you GGG cares about new and average players is a good thing try to improve their game experience. Hope this can be an idea about how new players feel and you start to think in the new player too. Last bumped on Mar 16, 2021, 7:30:18 PM
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There are hundreds of Youtube guides to this fight if you don't want to go in blind.
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It's not a boss encounter a new player will see immediatly and at some point we all fought Sirus for the first time, so I really don't see how this is a new player issue at all.
Not all boss fights are handed to you for free, you know? That's why softcore exists and that's why you have 6 portals. The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.
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Sirus is very poorly designed (90% of time he is immune) but you can always skip him.
If the clouds are in the way, you can wait them out, and stand near them and they eventually move. Like others said, youtube is the best resource here. Not loving recent design choices though, the game hit a high point with Uber Elder. |
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" This was first league with sirus that i've played. I killed him without problems at high atlas level on first try. Here is the recipe 1: Go directly under him to activate, then run in circle around the arena dealing dps to boss. 2: He will chicken out spawning the whirly coca-cola thing, do not get scared and just wait on edge of the arena (he will himself push you off the danger zone with his air-no-jutsu 3: Wait like few seconds and it will be possible to walk under sirus again ^repeat that and he is killed with your 0deaths the only dangerous attack he has is maze, which can be cheesed by flame dashing at perfect time and staying at edge of the map. If he manages to catch you, either die and try again OR just walk out of it, it has holes. I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty, and witty and gay, And I pity Any girl who isn’t me today! | |
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" why so sirius? I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty, and witty and gay, And I pity Any girl who isn’t me today! |
