the sirus fight is the worst thing ever

and im not even talking about the boss himself and him shooting beams but those chaos novas to which you die 4 times on the way back to the boss because there is no indication where to go, like pfrrrrtt hahahahaha its so horrible

At least he is no longer mandatory, used to hate having to fight him. I liked how it was a nice build check back in the day. I prefer him over the maven fight.

To be honest the fight becomes somewhat trivial when you are ailment immune and have corrupted blood immunity.

Personally i think Searing Exarch is worse by several magnitudes. It's my first time actually hating a boss. Sirus has some boring waiting phases but other than that the fight is fun and engaging. Searing exarch meanwhile is entirely harmless himself unless you stack 3+ damage mods on him and the fights only difficulty comes from his bullet hell and the floor that's mostly a dead zone during the latter half of his life pool. Shit design through and through.

can we chill on the title like " the worst this ever, the worst that ever". thx

Slightly off-topic.

I hope POE 2 campaign bosses are similar to design as first act 3 bosses from way back. The footage that was released, already looks good. I just hope we dont get any twitch console Kitava fights.

It's an easy fight...just not fun at all. Feels more like a chore that I no longer have to do.

I used to hate Sirus a lot in the past, until getting used to read his teleport direction sings and staying on top of him all the time, which allows to beat it deathless with glass cannon character.

Exarch though, is "kill it before bullet hell begins, or die/logout". Cannot even imagine if it is possible to reliably evade 16-wave bullet hell without building to tank it. Shit design indeed.

I can barely do Exarch I lost 3 characters to ball phase this league I think, It is significantly harder than any other boss mechanic. I did manage dodging them for 3 phases but it feels ludicrously rippy for such an irritating mechanic.

I always plan to only get the easy phase then kill the boss but twice I triggered it at 51-55% then immediately got the auto one at 50% :/ hate it.

Guess we all have some mechanics that don't work for us when it comes down to it.

I think the 2 qol sirus needs are:
1-create a cd on his die beam related to how far he teleports, so he cant teleport outside the screen and trow a die beam immediately, give us a window to get close to him
2-make the disintegration zones more likely to move away from him, its bloody infuriating when you spend more time waiting the black balls move out of the way than on the fight proper

Exarch is okay... if they remove the rolling balls phase... or at least make it shorter and freaking give it a CD like the maven has on her memory game, seriously, if you drop his hp fast enough but not quite fast to the point of killing him, youll see the damn thing multiple times in a row

I always tell people that complain about Sirus that (in my opinion) the fight is genuinely near-perfectly designed. Has it had implementation and occasional buggy issues? Obviously. But the fight itself is incredibly strongly designed. I got so caught up in this fight that I had to ask to write papers for me at https://writemypapers4me.net/. It tests spatial awareness, pattern memory, quick target identification, and adaptability. Excellent fight (sorry this is just my opinion)