1st Shaper Guardian Chimera - BAD FIGHT!

Never did the Chimera before and DID NOT READ A WIKI BEFORE TOO.

My Guardian's history:
Had done 2 other guardians some years ago.
Died some times but killed them with a Cleave block gladi with 200k dps.

Fighted some time vs Chimera with my Necro (mostly my 26 minions were fighting).
Added some vaal skeletons.

Ok, some adds were spawning. Killed them easily.

Now some dust clouds and no! monster.
Died in some seconds, 1 life flask helped only for 1-2 sec.
Not knowing what happened reentered ...
died again just lived some sec longer with 2 or 3 life flasks.

Did now (!) some searching in new wiki.
Aha ...dangerous phase 3 ... you have to search clouds for Chimera.

Did this the last 2 portals but died too fast or game is bugged because NEVER found Chimera.

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Kirac's missions make it easier to reach a boss - though it's T16.
In "good old times" with Shaper and Elder beeing final bosses you meet them in lower maps first. I met them at T10 and T11.
Don't know if this would make a great difference.

What I don't like (to say that VERY friendly):
It's a bad boss design if there are no hints in new (!) boss fights and the mechanic is so deadly you are dying in a few seconds.
And when dead you don't know why.
So you need third party help to have a little chance.

Have read many threads that Sirus and Maven should be much more bad fights.
This experience with Chimera will prevent me from trying that fights in the future.

The death xp penalty makes this boss design even more disappointing and annoying.

The smoke phase is dangerous to builds that lack meaningful defensive layers. It’s your build that’s the problem here.

Lots of other games have combat logs. Obviously PoE's UI doesn't include this, but it would be an incredibly useful feature to include in PoE2.

A combat log will help players troubleshoot their builds when their characters die. It will also decrease the massive learning curve and reduce reliance on third-party tools and search engines.

It's incredibly frustrating when you die multiple times to a non-obvious mechanic that you end up having to Google.

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Sighted wrote:

Lots of other games have combat logs. Obviously PoE's UI doesn't include this, but it would be an incredibly useful feature to include in PoE2.

A combat log will help players troubleshoot their builds when their characters die. It will also decrease the massive learning curve and reduce reliance on third-party tools and search engines.

It's incredibly frustrating when you die multiple times to a non-obvious mechanic that you end up having to Google.

Death log, or what ability killed you, is available on a "particular" PoE server. We do not deserve one.

Here I am lol'ing at him with my 95% evasion.

Definitely a unintuitive fight though. There's no way anyone going in blind is going to realize that you need to walk into each smoke cloud to reveal him. They'd probably stand around getting hit for a while until trial and error brings them to the correct solution. Of course, your typical newbie won't have the defenses to survive long enough to actually test things, either!

Agreed, it's a bit like Eater of Worlds. I had no idea what to do in that fight during big laser phase. I didn't have dialogue volume up either, so I didn't hear Maven tell me to walk into the purples. I used 3 portals before figuring it out.

There are some games out there that when you die, they'll show a little box that gives a tip. Maybe GGG can implement something like that.

If you have no other defensive layers, use steelskin for this phase and pop your speed flask.

I did my first chimera fight this league and was lost during the smoke phase luckily I ran it white so I took no damage until I found him hiding in the smoke

Chimera does mostly just physical damage, you should probably look into resolving your defenses, as chimera is hands down the easiest mini boss in the game.

Your not running a single defensive aura or defensive flask in the day and age of armour, evasion and spell suppression. So yeah, don't know what else to tell you. You are living in 2018 with this build.
Strength stacking The Baron Build, wasn't that a thing in Metamorph league and than never again?