Sirus fight still has the same bugs.

It's 2022 now and the Sirus fight still suffers from server-side desync bugs or cases where the ability telegraph audio comes after the ability happens. Or the ability is being cast and visually happens slightly in a different location, killing the player.


It's major bugs like this that waste people's time. Ongoing bugs like this demonstrate you ultimately don't care about the overall quality of the game and this is one of the huge reasons why so many people absolutely hate this game.

If you do enough dps its really a non issue. I would hate to be a hcssf player though.

That's the disappointing thing: The game more often than not conflates "hard" or "challenge" with bigger numbers and poorly designed mechanics, rather than a ramp up of mechanical skill. The former is simply, not fun. It doesn't create a solid game play loop.. thus massive vocalized frustration from a large swarm of people.

In the context of Sirus, most people know you want to have corrupting blood immunity or negation for Sirus. Not because the ability that applies corrupting blood is necessarily hard to avoid as much as: it's a workaround for the potentially-buggy abilities that apply it.

If this wasn't a case where you have some high chance of getting deployed to a desync-prone instance of the Sirus fight, then corrupting blood immunity/negation would just be a helper more than a requirement.

In summary: I always get to "end game"-ish content and it's always plagued with these incredibly jarring design bugs and it is soooooooooo frustrating, mostly because of the time investment (plus the intentional disrespect of player time) to get to those encounters in the first place. Over-gearing the content shouldn't always just be the solution, right?

Note: I would consider my character currently "over-geared" for a bulk of the non-bigger numbers (non-uber) content in that, I can ignore all of the archnemsis mods, can face tank most bosses with most map modifiers, and rarely (if ever) die.

Other than the problem with playing melee every league i have no complaints with sirus. All the uber bosses feel like they were made for ranged chars but im still able to kill them just fine