Catarina fight's still a mess?

I fought Catarina today for the second time since coming back to PoE a few weeks ago.

How is this fight still this much of a clusterf***?

I died twice and had no idea why either time. The first time I fought her since I came back I died once, but that was a clear misplay on my part. I guess I was just super lucky that time? Another thing: Her invulnerable phases are way too long while the environment shreds you. I have a harder time with her than with Sirus 3 or 4 (highest I ever got).

Why does the little arrow under your feet tell you to go to one of the squares, and then when you do, you get hit with a degen from hell. WTF?

And then I noticed that my whole board got reshuffled like it used to do a while before I quit playing... well over a year ago. I heard they had fixed that to encourage people to play that part of the game.

Guess who I won't be bothering with anymore?

It's a shame really, that part of the game has such good voice acting and music. I remember Betrayal being the first time I hit level 95, and with a janky Champion summoner to boot. Good times. Except for the Mastermind fight. Bad times. Maybe it would be better if I were CI.

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Most her damage is physical as far as I can tell.

Anyway the big thing that kills people who don't already know what to do is her exploding skeleton things. Occasionally she'll throw a bunch of skulls on the ground and you need to walk over each of them to disarm them. After a while, if they're not stomped, they'll start crawling to you and likely one shot you.

The other danger is for people with poor regeneration: standing next to the pillars and getting out of the degen floor afterward.


Oh there's also currently a bug where she'll stay invulnerable after a pillar gets destroyed. She'll be hittable again after she either throws her staff or teleports, so just run away from her until she does either.

cats a very simple fight.

walk over all the skulls to stop them becoming dangerous.

when you get an ugly green icon at your feet, its pointing to a corner. go there and stand around until the pillar dies.

then just manual dodge the telegraphed aoes/garbage from the center totem.



but if you're ALSO having a hard time with sirus, you might just need a better build in general.

sirus and cat are not really that tough.

Gotta love rants that are rooted in missing information...

First of all, the degen is the part that u need to jump out of, and it's 100% telegraphed after you stand in a corner waiting for the totem to die. Of course it's hefty, else there wouldn't be any difficulty at all anymore, would it?

Secondly, the board always got reshuffled, there is nothing to be "fixed" - you may not like it but that's how it is supposed to work - you eigher set up a board and constantly profit from t3 members or you prepare catarina which now elevates them to t4 but afterwards reshuffles. At the start of the season I prefer an optimized board setup as aisling t4, hillock t4 and all that other stuff is not worth enough to make a reset reasonable, once the prices of those services start to grow in demand and therefore in price I start going for catarina. It's a choice, why u ranting about it?

Betrayal was one of the most intelligent and successful reworks, maybe come up to speed before u judge.

Learn the fight before you complain.

Yes, it still is.

If you like fighting arenas, little ground puzzles and degens, you will like her and Maven.

If you don't, you won't.

I always prefer boss mechanics to arena mechanics but its just personal taste.

It's funny different fights for different people I guess. Most bosses are a jumbled mess for me until I've seen it a few times, but I've understood Catrina from the first time I saw it.

It's very simple. You don't walk on some things and have to walk on other things. Obvious.

yes and no.

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Vennto wrote:

Gotta love rants that are rooted in missing information...

First of all,

fair enough. But "telegraphed" must mean different things to us.

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Secondly, the board always got reshuffled, there is nothing to be "fixed" - you may not like it but that's how it is supposed to work - you eigher set up a board and constantly profit from t3 members or you prepare catarina which now elevates them to t4 but afterwards reshuffles.

Elevated how? A single scarab from Tora (3 stars) is elevated? One winged scarab out of probably 8 total (most being polished and some being rusted) is elevated? Aisling's bench telling me "could not create the mod." and doing nothing... is elevated? And yes, I remember it being mentioned here in the forums that the Mastermind was no longer going to wipe the board. It was probably wishful thinking that I latched onto out of desperate hope.

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At the start of the season I prefer an optimized board setup as aisling t4, hillock t4 and all that other stuff is not worth enough to make a reset reasonable, once the prices of those services start to grow in demand and therefore in price I start going for catarina. It's a choice, why u ranting about it?

Hey man... it's not like I expect anything to be done about it, just bitching, ya know? Besides, due to my work schedule I only play standard.

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Betrayal was one of the most intelligent and successful reworks, maybe come up to speed before u judge.

Not judging, just a bit salty about the shitty return from Tora and no return from Aisling... I agree, Betrayal was and is a fantastic mechanic overall. I never had the performance issues that most people had so I truly enjoyed it. Are you gonna tell me not to vent when I feel salty?