Huntress class is weak. Geonor is unbeatable.

Hi guys.
As the title says, I am struggling with count geonor.
I have always sturggled with Count Geonor.

ACT 1 IS WAY TOO UNBALANCED.
One boss has cold resistence, one minboss has fire resistece, count Geonor is the OP that gets me every time.

I have:
51% cold resistence
22% armour
44% evasion
20% block
life 369
I am running with Enfolding Dawn Pilgrim Vestments which dropped at one miniboss in act 1.

Yet, I cannot beat Count Geonor.

What is even the purpose of the Huntress?
Whirling Slash + Twister combo with Explosive Spear and Lightning Spear is weak, way too weak.
Getting combat frenzy by blocking is a stupid mechanic, i barely manage to make a combat frenzy against Geonor in order to use either Explosive or Lightning spear that barely does anything to it.

Please GGG, for the love of what's beautiful i nthis world, change a bit the game man. It's really unfun to be stuck at these stages.
And the Huntress class is weak, way to weak.
It's frustrating to keep dying to Count Geonor over and over again.

My spear is not the best, but still. What the hell?!
This is so frustrating,
I get you want the game to be challenging, but this is not properly balanced.
STOP FOCUSING ON ENDGAME WHEN YOU ACTS ARE BROKEN AND UNBALANCED.
The Hunting Grounds in Act1 are just pure insanity with the mobs that do poison.
Nothing is balanced. Everything is a total mess.
Count Geonor has way too many phases, I barely managed to kill him when the game launched with my Monk and my Mercenary after dying for like 20 times each time.

Now with my Huntress Class I die even more.
I'm on my 8th attempt with Geonor and I just want to uninstall the game...............................









EDIT: I maanged to beat it after 14 attempts and after spamming RAKE + Dissengage with Whirling Slash...
This is the most weak class startup ever.
These three skills have nothing to do with the "SPEAR".
huntress since it has a Spear, it should've been played like the Monk plays with Quarterstaffs..simillarly not exactly like that.

To OP: see latest EA Patch Notes.

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chobo999#2010 wrote:

To OP: see latest EA Patch Notes.

Thanks, I just saw the updates.
My post was from yesterday before they launched/will launch the changes


https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3746503/page/1

The Count was so easy with Huntress. I just spammed rake(stomping ground support and Strength stacking) and he was dead in less than a minute. A bit disengange to get away to not be freezed and hat no resistance higher than 10%. I am half through act two and can just run though and everythign dies very fast

Rake+Stomping ground and invest in strength on tree and items. This combo works for my warrior and should work for your huntress too.

And farm a bit before Geonor. Overlevel, get spirit gem, maybe create other character and try farming Beira in first area for better gear, maybe even some lucky unique drop.

In December I was so scared of Executioner that I farmed the village until level 18 before I faced him. Then I farmed next area and I killed Geonor when I was 22 which is way too late according to what you see on streams and YT.

And if you play trade maybe group up with other who struggle with same boss and try to take him out in team? Or buy better gear if you can. Usually, there are solutions to these things.

This Boss can be a nightmare, I feel you. Using a Huntress as well, beat him at third try using nothing but parrying and applying damage using Rake, worked at first try. Good luck Exile.

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Fuchsii#4400 wrote:

The Count was so easy with Huntress. I just spammed rake(stomping ground support and Strength stacking) and he was dead in less than a minute. A bit disengange to get away to not be freezed and hat no resistance higher than 10%. I am half through act two and can just run though and everythign dies very fast

This.

Can't say I agree overall, at least not so far just starting Act 2.

Geonor Pt 1 was easy, Pt 2 was hard as he doesn't seem to do anything you can parry. Save up charges from Pt 1 then you need to watch the mechanics as you don't have the DPS to kill Wolfeonor quickly once your charges are gone.

Outside of Geonor most things have been unproblematic. I wouldn't say Easy, but I feel powerful against most non-bosses. And bosses you can parry a lot are a breeze.

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ArdeleanuG#2185 wrote:

Hi guys.




EDIT: I maanged to beat it after 14 attempts and after spamming RAKE + Dissengage with Whirling Slash...
This is the most weak class startup ever.
These three skills have nothing to do with the "SPEAR".
huntress since it has a Spear, it should've been played like the Monk plays with Quarterstaffs..simillarly not exactly like that.

imho it is not the huntress.. are some of her skills. I am playing with Rake, disengage and BASIC throw alone, using as much of all the nodes and supprot that ncrease damage if other was used recently) and having an easy time, including against the count.


The elemental skills are indeed subpar.

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Fuchsii#4400 wrote:

The Count was so easy with Huntress. I just spammed rake(stomping ground support and Strength stacking) and he was dead in less than a minute. A bit disengange to get away to not be freezed and hat no resistance higher than 10%. I am half through act two and can just run though and everythign dies very fast

This may well be true but if you have invested into the parry / Frenzy playstyle not so much. With that I found Part 1 very easy and Part 2 took a while as he doesn't do anything you can parry, at least not that I found.

I mean, sure, you can respec fairly easily at lower levels but it's not free to do so and I'm not sure if that's what GGG have in mind? If you need to keep speccing out of the playstyle they clearly had in mind for this class, I'd say there's a problem.

Thankfully they have said they are working on it.