I don't like Geanor, this boss fight is bullshit, not fun

I have now wiped 4 times in a row. My character is insanely over geared (loot from 5 full A1 runs), and melts everything else including rares up to this boss. One of the wipes I had him at 1% (health bar not even visible), and then it transitioned into the stupid wolf fog phase where he is invincible. Fuck this shit.

Here are the issues:
* This boss fight takes way too long, even with high dps. It gets boring. The issue is not "get gud" or "your build". I have high dps, high survivability, etc, this boss just has too much HP so it takes forever.
* There are far too many one-shot attacks in general. This is not reasonable given the fight takes so long.
* Many of the one shots are not well telegraphed, and basically come out of nowhere. This makes it feel very unfair.
* Even the one-shots that are telegraphed have such a large area that even a dodge roll won't get you out.
* Making the boss invincible for the entire fog phase feels cheap and unfair.
* I have a flask that regains charges, but I still run out before the fight is over. This feels like bullshit- I do the whole fight correctly, only to peter out of some basic resource at the end. I then spent 2 minutes avoiding every single damage source, only to eventually be one shot.

Fuck this boss, it just has too much health. One-shot dodge roll marathons aren't fun.

....and on run 6, I died to a lag spike. This isn't fun, it just unreasonably punishing. I know the game devs really want to show off their beautiful boss fight, but seriously, it needs 30% less life and 50% less damage.

It is also not acceptable to freeze my character with a basic attack, and then do a 1-shot on top of that while I am still frozen with zero possibility of dodging. This is broken.

Run 8. everything is going great, then instantly killed with zero telegraph. This is because I happened to be north of the boss, so the animation that would telegraph the attack is totally unreadable.

Come on, man… I died a few times while playing couch co-op with merc/witch combo, but beat him first try solo with my monk. The monk was the first char to go past that point, so no assistance gear-wise from other chars.

It’s a difficult fight, indeed, but it’s not bullshit in any way. Seemed like a very rewarding challenge to me.

All of his moves are well telegraphed, give it a few more tries, you got it!

run 9, second phase, everything is going great, then instantly killed by an invisible/unreadable attack.

run 10, killed by a wolf in the fog phase, after running out of flask charges

I have no issues with this fight even on a pretty suboptimal build. If you had high DPS, the fight wouldn't take long, ergo you do, in fact, not have high enough DPS.

8 runs really isn't much either, I've died to Jamanra 10+ times, ended up farming a bit, reconfiguring some gem setups, getting better gear and then steamrolled him first try. And that fight is a LOT harder than Geonor.

The fight is designed as a skill check and dps check, teaching you some elementary things without which you'll have a terrible time in later acts and making sure your damage is good enough for what follows. All of his attacks are very easily avoidable. If you can't beat him, then it is indeed either an issue with DPS, survivability or player skill, or a combination of the three (excluding the lag spike, that sucks).

The fact that you complain here after merely the 4th try instead of trying to solve the fight tells me that maybe you expect to be able to beat any and every boss first try. In which case I'll save you the trouble of finding out for yourself that that will not be true in the rest of the game either, failing and figuring out how to succeed the next time is part of the game pretty much.

run 11, killed by adds un fog phase.
this really isn't fun, i consider this bad alpha balancing. it needs to be fixed.

While, I did it quite easily as Witch with summons and the Chaos damage, because you have sustained and AoE and can max range.

But, solo as Lightning Sorc is the worst feeling I've had in this game. On other Bosses, my damage was completely fine, but this guy just takes no damage from me, and I don't feel like I have anything to deal with the werewolf part. Even empowered attacks that proc more projectiles barely touch him.

Taking a break until this guy gets tuned for solo play. Can't be expected to be playing the perfect single target build for this fight to bore you to death 10x in a row.

Inb4 "just completely change your entire build for one boss, when all other parts of the game are fine".