Balbala is stupid, this is bad game design

Is the Balbala fight stupid and bad game design because you can't just melt her like bosses in PoE 1? I struggled against her, died 3 or 4 times before deciding that I just need to go and level up some more and come back to the fight when I can comfortably do a little more DPS. I love that fight, I think it's such a cool design

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afar_poe#0236 wrote:

This boss fight is bullshit. Stuck in a room with poison gas and the solution is to find an INVISIBLE enemy. There is no "figuring this out", its just a stupid thing you have to look up on YouTube, the answer isn't satisfying, the gameplay isn't fun. This is just bad. Don't make fucking invisible enemies. Period. Its bad design.

Balboa design is fine. The final boss in Sekhema's Trial though....

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afar_poe#0236 wrote:

This boss fight is bullshit. Stuck in a room with poison gas and the solution is to find an INVISIBLE enemy. There is no "figuring this out", its just a stupid thing you have to look up on YouTube, the answer isn't satisfying, the gameplay isn't fun. This is just bad. Don't make fucking invisible enemies. Period. Its bad design.

I killed her in my second attempt, and just died in first one because i did`nt pay attention to one of her skills.
If u play the fight and pay attention, u will see and listen the things that she do before using some skill. Also the skills have some order, u can figure out the pattern after she does it like 2-3 times.

No need youtube, just listen to the game.

It seems Balbala becomes invisible amd spawns a poison cloud. you can decloak her by just running around but if you miss her you will die.

is this just random? can you do anything about it? I'm skipping this boss now after no luck for 10+ attempts.

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gmillar#4054 wrote:

If you think that's bad, wait until he's on your side.

I laughed more than I should have.

I have not had a single issue with Balbala. I walked right over him.
I walked over him so hard, including the first time, that I kept fearing his name. "Need help with Balbala" "How do I escape Balbala's poison cloud" etc. kept coming up in Global chat, so I was mentally preparing for a big fight.
The big fight never came. Not even after completing act 3. I was so confused... Turns out Balbala was one of the easiest bosses and I steamrolled him without even learning his name.

Still.. there are so many complaints about him, clearly he could do with some tweaking. Maybe a voiceline to indicate that you need to look for him?

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HudsonTNG#1281 wrote:

It seems Balbala becomes invisible amd spawns a poison cloud. you can decloak her by just running around but if you miss her you will die.

How can you miss her? You run around along the outside wall. If you get close to her, she stops the poison cloud and goes back to business as usual.

My god, how can ppl cry about everything today..
Hc player only I killed balbala on figer encounter so easy, he disappeare he will not be in poison right ? Just make a circle around the room and you find it in 3 sec..
My god what kind of whiners this game got… just try to understand the mechanics instead of cry all the time.
How comes I am lvl 40 a3 without a single death in hc if it’s so horrible.. So many ppl in maps in hc after less thn two weeks.
Stop crying all the time just learn a bit…

Yeah, you are a great player much better then the others you should be praised forever, but that doesn't change anything on the bad design of this encouter, get rid of this it is awful.

One of the coolest bosses imho.
It's fast, its dangerous, you really need to find a way to overcome all that.
Also it posed a challenge on both melee and ranged builds that I played.

BUT the poison / invisiblity thing should probably be called out / hinted at somehow, maybe even a note warning on "the shadow hiding in the poisonous mist" or something.