Mektul, the Forgemaster Overtuned

Level 44 Witchhunter, primarily using grenade skills (Flash/Oil/Explosive) with Explosive Shot. Only got him to 25% before the hard enrage. Feels like his health is way out of whack, because I've been able to kill every boss other than him in single digit attempts, and this guy is outright impossible with my gear.

For reference, Explosive Grenade's sheet DPS is 1,619 and am using a rare Construct Crossbow. If I'm missing something, I'd love to know, but it feels like it's completely impossible for this skill setup without getting 10 more levels or something.

Should add that his mechanics feel completely fine. He's just too tanky by a significant margin (33-50%).

Second edit, I killed the boss in the temple (after the area where the Forge is located) very easily on my first try without having seen the boss before. My TTK wasn't even that high, and he was fairly mobile (can pose a problem for Grenade-centric builds).

to me that boss has way too much elemental resistances. it would be nice if there were one ele res where he is more vulnerable, to swithc the spell.

my tree buffs a lot of elemental damage - and after switching to Bonestorm - almost fully unbuffed by my tree, i deal like double the damage i dealt before? that's too much - especially since it's kind of a dps check

i really like the boss though!

**edit just managed to take it down after playing around with bonestorm a bit more (sending it through the fire wall really packs dmg - afterall the damage is added to all the 22 projectiles), it's probably not as bad as i thought - but i still think one more elemental dmg vulnerability would be nice, like let's say he has a low lightning res

Flat out too much health. Does NOT help he does an anti-melee mechanic twice in the fight. Cut his health by 40% and we're on to something because a hard check like that should NOT be that insane if they expect us to be running around with like 2 rares for how often my regals and exalts actually pop something useful enough to be an upgrade.

Want to add that I agree. The boss has high armour as well as heavy fire resistance.
This means that together with high health the boss is stupdily designed especially for Warrior.

Warrior as a class gets pushed into two damage types: Fire and Physical.
Guess what Forgemaster is highly resistant to? Right both of those.

Add in the anti-melee mechanics such as him running into the lava where you can't reach him. Yeah this boss is a mess on so many levels and should be entirely redone if they want to keep the lava in any capacity.

My 2 cents to this fight: The fact that you have a timer here in form of lava doesn't help either. GGG should give us something to counter that. Simple solution would be make the boss less powerful, the more interessting solution would be a mechanic in the map to counter his buffs.

For the moment not a great design.

Reached him at lvl 42. My build that's so far focuses on melee and defence only managed to take 25% health of off him.

The only special thing about him is that he's timed, literally nothing else particularly stands out.

If you cap fire res, that's more or less just a fight that you can't protract too much, nothing else is special.

The boss is naturally pretty resistant to fire and physical, what else you'd even expect here? Still, personally I haven't had any issues with him with my fire/phys damage titan.

How are you supposed to do this guy as melee? He stays in the gold most of the time and you can't even touch him without burning yourself.

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theomni#7082 wrote:

How are you supposed to do this guy as melee? He stays in the gold most of the time and you can't even touch him without burning yourself.

What, you can't survive a bit of molten gold? And you're calling yourself a good melee character?

On a serious note though - it's fire damage and it's not particularly big. With enough sustainability you can just sit in the gold without much issues.

its a dps race, if you cant kill him your just underleveled, bad gear, bad build or whatever.