SSF HC Death @ High Lithomancer T4 in half sec

Today I melted in half a second in a Level 4 Map by the High Lithomancer. Map had some minor mods without evil Crits or Vulnerability.
I didnt really see it coming, Boss was also busy with my minions.

Stats:
3900 ES
3800 Life
38% Mind over Matter, 22% Mana Recup, 1900 Mana
-> about 10K Health Pool
Flesh and Stone Aura, Sand Stance (11% less damage from ranged hits)
Armor around 3K
Minor Spell Block and Block at 8% and 22%, almost irrelevant
Immortal Call on Move, and Flame Dash on space key (instant)
I died faster than I could react/ teleport, I didnt even see it coming.

After that, I went in Standard Mode into the same Map and killed the Boss without taking any significant Damage. I also typically evade any circles that start appearing on the floor, and stood on ground where boulders cant hit me.


Is there a way to get logs to learn how that happened exactly? Unfortunately I dont have a video, but I found one on youtube where someone else also dies n a fraction of a second by this boss with about 6800 Healt Pool total.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGCRG8bIlg

Is this intentional, or maybe a bug?

Additional Info:
I stood about 6m (3/4 screen) distance from the Lithomancer, at full life, with no minions of him in my proximity, channeling spells at him, with no visible circles on me or such.

Resistances were all on 75% cap, including chaos.

I also found a little bug: Tooltip says arctic armor blocks 35% mana (what it indeed does), but skill gem description tells me it would be 25%.

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pax228080 wrote:

I also found a little bug: Tooltip says arctic armor blocks 35% mana (what it indeed does), but skill gem description tells me it would be 25%.

you know support gems have a mana multiplier, right?

boss can deal high physical damage which you are vulnerable to.. could be multiple effects overlapping, mods on maps, crit, etc.. I found this boss to be dangerous and unpredictable, but thats maybe because I havent studied its behavior..

About the mana multiplier, that explanation works.

So, nologs are available? Or, is there an explanation how the guy in the video died?
"Unpredictable" is a bit vague. How, exactly, am I supposed to prevent a death in half a second when I dont even see a projectile or something that hit me?

Its a new League, so that specific death matters not anymore, but for the new character I would like to know. Or, how much effective hit points (EHP) am I supposed to have in a tier 4 map to prevent this? POB told me that I was at 21000 EHP against physical, and 75K against elemental and chaos damage.

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So, nologs are available?

Unfortunately not.

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How, exactly, am I supposed to prevent a death in half a second when I dont even see a projectile or something that hit me?

That's the whole point. If you could see stuff coming, you would avoid it an never die. So they kill you with stuff you don't see coming.

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"Unpredictable" is a bit vague.

The first rule of HC is to never do content you don't know well. Doing some searches will show that this boss has a history of one-shot kills. My personal experience is that this only happens on my characters with low phys mit, which makes sense given he does a lot of physical.

Also, the guy who died in your video was standing still for about 3 seconds while Litho looked like he was doing a wind-up. That's never a good plan.

It sucks to lose a guy on HC, but if you just started PoE with this account and made it to t4 in HC, you're doing fine. Just realize the game has a lot of ways to kill you.