Consecrated ground can brick maps

Hello,

I just ran an Elder guardian map that had 'patches of consecrated ground'. I finally managed to kill him after dealing more than ten times the health bar of the Elder guardian. Every time he steps on the consecrated ground he regens to full life in less than 10 seconds. The area in the last part of the fight is pretty small, and is almost 70% consecrated ground, so the only way to actually kill him in not too high DPS builds is to have him stand in the non-consecrated areas for long enough. The regen from these should be smaller for these kinds of bosses. This same build killed the Exarch and the Eater today, but this fight took even longer!

Having some way to prevent monster regeneration is becoming more and more necessary for all builds.

Grab a frost bomb and toss it at 'em next time.

Oh, I didn't know that worked against consecrated ground. I'll keep that in mind for next time. Still, it seems like a poor fight design choice where the fight can take 10x longer based on random positioning by the boss.

I feel the need to tell this is very dumb to need one specific spell to run any map with this affix. to need to be abble to slot FB (or keeping it) at any time is awefull build-wise and to not being abble to finish a map because you can't afford to spare a blue slot is infuriating.

Didn 't play last few leagues but seeing some development of the game idk if I ll play next one, I don t feel like the dev know what they are doing anymore.

(this said some changes are amazing but eh, high expectation you know..)

I don't think that CG alone can brick a map.
But along with other specific mods like more life, more res, less crit (any mod that basically increase mobs' EHP), bosses can be really hard to kill.

If carrying a specific spell and swap is too annoying (perfectly understandable), I suggest to roll the mod if you don't like it, just like reflect ele/phys or annoying curses.

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Tykal wrote:

I feel the need to tell this is very dumb to need one specific spell to run any map with this affix. to need to be abble to slot FB (or keeping it) at any time is awefull build-wise and to not being abble to finish a map because you can't afford to spare a blue slot is infuriating.

Didn 't play last few leagues but seeing some development of the game idk if I ll play next one, I don t feel like the dev know what they are doing anymore.

(this said some changes are amazing but eh, high expectation you know..)

If you want to play a build in endgame, and OP is talking about Guardian maps so this is very much that conversation, you need to have some way of getting around monster healing/regen unless you intend to just skip all content where this might be an issue (which includes, among other things, literally all Maven content).

There are MANY options for this, not just Frost Bomb, but it's by far the easiest solution because any build can throw a frost bomb into a weapon swap. Press X, right click bomb on to enemy, press X again. Like I said... easy.

But it's not the only option. You can overwhelm any amount of regen just by having enough DPS, Occultist gets around the issue for free with Void Beacon, etc. You can even roll anti-regen onto rare helmets now with Eldritch implicits:

So no, you don't "have" to run Frost Bomb, but expecting to take a low-DPS build to endgame while completely ignoring the concept of bosses which can heal is unreasonable.

well, I add no luck trying to roll those mods, and I know their existance. It s true that I could use it on weap swap but for real, I gotta change weapon in a boss arena, then turn on every aura while the boss is... waiting, drinking a cup of consecrated tea or something (worst experience was a possessed phoenix).

I know you re trying to help, and I thank you for that, but I ask for this to don t exist 2 leagues in a row. fix this, pls (who said no consecrated ground in boss arena ?)

(edit : if I may add... weapon swap include no resist capped for me, and I have trouble rolling Kirac's maps for some reason. they re the easier way to get influenced item and I kinda need those)

(2nd : oh and I do love the fact I can run reflect map with a few swap on tree and pantheon. pls no more no leech + no regen. and oc, bring melee back)