The Uber Sirus fight as mele is ABSOLUTE proof that..

GGG should really balance all builds to have similar dps.. Not just the meta..

-I have 7k life
- 36 fortify
- 75 chaos res
-75 all res
-infused channeling( -15% dmg reduce)
-32k armor
-Shock immune
-80 crit multy reduce

And my Char melts like butter.

10-15mln dps with impale.

The boss has like 250% cast speed everything is instant the dmg is like 5k per hit
Most of the time he sits in the black vortex
He has like 12 immune phases

When i aproach him on 5-6 meters from him he usually is near black vortex and it starts melting the life.

As mele this game is utter and absolute garbage.
Making the game ONLY for META builds is frustrating beyond any reason.

-I reallised its POINTLESS to play Anything besides meta builds.
A normal build with 500 divine investment is weaker than 1 divine meta build .

Are you sure we're playing the same game? I can't remember having the same issues you're describing with Sirus. While I do agree that META builds being stronger than everything else by a mile is annoying, the Sirus fight is almost entirely a mechanical skill check. Once you reach his "On the edge of death, my heart races. I am alive!" phase you're good to just nuke. Before that you have to wait for a lot of immunity phases.

I killed him, ,but had to die twice .
The fight itself is extremely annoying as melee...

As caster i would just sit from 3 screens and spam..
Years ago i made the Ghazzy-s minion builds which was Meta.

It killed Uber Elder in 2 seconds.( with 10 divine items)

This is what im talking about. This is absurd......

Meta builds could do 150-300million +++ dmg with minor investment ,while the regular build barely do 10-15...

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Ivanovv83#6618 wrote:

GGG HAVE zero clue about gameplay ,balance, boss fights.

-I have 7k life
- 36 fortify
- 75 chaos res
-75 all res
-infused channeling( -15% dmg reduce)
-32k armor
-Shock immune
-80 crit multy reduce

And my Char melts like butter.

Yeah, that checks out. Your character isn't as tanky as you think it is.

To be precise:
• You have 6,695 Life, not 7k
• 75 All Resistance is weak and the absolute baseline in endgame
• 32k Armour isn't much, especially when you take 41% increased through Abyssus
• Sirus deals mostly physical damage, except for the Die!-Beam that comes with a 25% Physical, 75% Fire, 25% Physical, 75% Cold or 25% Physical, 75% Lightning split
• His default attack deals 40% Physical, 30% Fire and 30% Lightning
• Some attacks deal at most 25% Chaos damage, which you have resistance against

Other facts:
• Your character doesn't have 100% hit chance
• Your character has zero Spell Suppression
• Your character has zero Spell Block
• Your gear consists of mostly life, resists and damage - no other layers of mitigation
• You don't invest in or utilize Endurance Charges
• You don't have a single defensive aura on your character, though a Merc might compensate for that

Your character is basically just a health sponge with fortify as your only real defensive layer. Like I said 32k Armour is very little with an Abyssus on top. No Spell Suppression, no additional (or any) Endurance Charges, no max. resistances above 75.

That character is paper against any and all Uber Bosses.

Your characters effective hit pool with Fortify and Infusion


Your characters effective hit pool with Molten Shell, which doesn't have 100% uptime


For context, and I mean that in the nicest way possible, I've had tankier characters in yellow maps.

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Ivanovv83#6618 wrote:

Most of the time he sits in the black vortex
He has like 12 immune phases

He really does not. Unless you're playing the fight terribly wrong, he has 4 at best.

Sirus will also spawn a Storm every time he reaches 75%, 50%, or 25% health; or if the player is outside of the safety zone for too long.

You're supposed to burn him, disengage while he transitions and a new storm moves underneath him (the game even pushes you away constantly!) and then slowly re-engage. The storm will slowly move away and you trigger the next phase by walking beneath Sirus.

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Uber sirus spawns a demat storm in the arena that chases you, its not bad for builds that are ranged, super high dps or particularly mobile but it makes the experience even more miserable for melee. Sirus in general is also just a bad fight, if you don't have the dps to instaphase him and the tankiness to sit in demats for a little while to force him to come back down in the same place over and over he tends to fuck off into a corner blocked off by demat storms and force you to dodge around degen for a minute or two before you can fight his next phase. Uber Uber elder is good fight design, its challenging and has a soft dps check in the form of adds filling the entire arena with lingering degen but if you are good enough you can do the fight hitless with a pretty weak build, Sirus and the Maven are GGG deciding that turning mechanics off is a good way to make an engaging fight, failing to understand that it is among the most obnoxious artificial difficulties they could have added.

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Ivanovv83#6618 wrote:

Im done with this RMT simulator.

That's fair and all but

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Ivanovv83#6618 wrote:

GGG HAVE zero clue about gameplay ,balance, boss fights.

is simply wrong. You have a decent character but it isn't built for harder content. That's entirely on you, not GGG.

Edit: It looks like you deleted your characters. Better luck next league, exile!

When people complain about dying - versus Ubers - wearing an Abyssus, trying to 'defend' their tankiness, it's nothing but a knowledge issue.

People need to understand that armor does 'nothing' versus big hits, and the amount of armor and/or endurance charges you need to make up for the HUGE drawback of an Abyssus is also huge.

You're fighting Ubers, and fighting Ubers should require very good gear. There's nothing "RMT" or "bad" about that.

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Phrazz#3529 wrote:

People need to understand that armor does 'nothing' versus big hits

I'd really wish people would stop spreading this ... misconception. You simply need to have an adequat amount of armor relative to the hits you want to tank. Not being able to tank shaper slams with 10k armor doesn't mean that armor does nothing against big hits, you just don't have enough. 36k armour without abyssus reduces a shaper slam by roughly the same amount as 8-9 endurance charges. That's far from "nothing". And 36k armour isn't very high nowadays.

Using armour alone to deal with really big hits is less efficient compared to phys to ele or flat pdr in terms of investment required to achieve a certain amount of mitigation but it's not supposed to be used alone. Just use some phys taken as ele and/or flat pdr alongside your armour and you are good.


@OP You are very much right in that Uber Sirus is incredibly annoying as melee though your idea of "just stand 3 screens away and spam" as ranged isn't going to work much better because you'll get butchered by die beams if you stay off screen. Sirus attacks are harder to dodge if you are far away from him. The degen grounds that cover the entire arena in the last phase are honestly horrible design and a bane for any melee build though.

That said, as mentioned by other people your build isn't anywhere near tanky by modern POE standards. Your build would have been considered good in 3.08. Nowadays stacking HP alone isn't getting you anywhere, especially not as a life build. Even ES builds with 20k+ ES tend to invest into max res, spell suppression and stuff because 20k ES alone will still get oneshot by many uber moves. Using Abyssus on top just makes it worse.

Im going to regear for block and spell block with svalin