10k armor, 3k health, max resists, Steelpoint two-shots me with his RoA
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The simple reason that boss is so strong is that he is using a PHYSICAL attack with high damage.
As you can see the way armor works is explained on the wiki: Damage Reduction = Armour / ( Armour + (12 * Damage) ) This means that the HIGHER (bigger) the hit is with a physical attack, the LOWER the actualy damage reduction from your armor actually is. Even though it will say you have around 50-60ish damage reduction on your character spreadsheet in game, when this boss hits you, it is probably closer to 10-20%, thus resulting in your demise. IGN BearBrew
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" Ranged attack totem with ROA. You stay out of range, totem does all the work. He's down in less than 1 min. See the bow for support gem setup: "The Eye of Ra appears against you, His force is powerful against you. She devours you, she punishes you In this her name 'Devouring Flame." -Anubis Hotep Last edited by Wadjet#3943 on Apr 20, 2013, 10:07:28 AM
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" This may be more of an area design problem than it is a boss features problem. Or it could be that they simply want you to have a map in the set of 67's that you, with your build, can't do alone. I'll not comment on whether that's good or bad game design; not sure if I have an opinion. Out of curiosity, do you have LL on your primary attack? --C |
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" Yes. Level 17 Life Leech. I do 6k dps with my Cleave. No amount of Life Leech is going to save me from a two shot though. |
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" Yeah. I usually team up with a friend who's a dual spork guy for this particular map. Also, when I added LL, to my primary, I started being able to get in there and do some damage without a 100% suicide rate. ;-P --C |
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" Ah. You're melee. I see. That would suck. I'm ranged, and found him difficult at 3K life. I have 3500 now. I don't know how you could do this at all. I'd get a team mate or two for these maps, preferably someone who can drop in summons or damage totems into the area. --C Last edited by Courageous#0687 on Apr 20, 2013, 10:10:16 AM
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" Yup. I didn't want to mention it because it might trigger another shitstorm about melee vs ranged, and that wouldn't be what I would consider to be a useful discussion. Guess I just have to skip that map or the boss room then, at least until I have 4k health and 20k armor and max resists when I have somehow farmed until I'm level 90. Last edited by elitedesolator#6827 on Apr 20, 2013, 10:12:47 AM
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Ah, I remember first doing Thicket with Twinned mod...
This boss is mostly hard because of how Rain of Arrows works and the small area you're in. Some characters will just get absolutely mullered. I remember playing Thicket and enjoying is nice size then get to the two bosses. First time I TP'd in a map just to get back flasks. |
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" Learn to read. I didn't say life leech was useless. I said it's useless against a few consecutive big hits. Sit, newbie. IGN: NuzzyFipples
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" tl:dr: lots of nonsensical blah blah. Get good. IGN: NuzzyFipples
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