"Deadly" Bosses Are Crap

the peak of POE2 boss fights are on the campign, after that it's just if you have a 1hit kill build.
You can't get good by playing, you only get good from equipment and stats, no need for actual experience in how to fight the bosses, and that's the core issue of POE2.

The only reason bosses felt Dark Soul'ish in the campaign was because you coulnd't one shot them and had infinite tries to learn their mechanics and had a dopamine hit when you finally beat them.

This goes all out the window in Maps with 1 portal defense. You either have enough damage to one shot them or you lose the map because 100% of the time you can't even see the mechanics because of combo skill visibility clutter.

The deadly boss fight is so stupid that i one shot him to 30% of his health then i have to wait for an invulnerability phase where he does a wipe mechanic and if i survive the mechanic i can finally one shot his remaining 30% health.


If you want Dark Souls boss fights, make them drop your 10% experience loss on the ground, and only lose it if you fail to pick it up the second try while having infinite tries.

You can't balance this game around 1 portal and still pretend to have Dark Souls boss fights.

Wise words brother 👆

You know I just realized something else is that I have a character with probably 100x the value of anything the boss might drop. Yet if I I'm not already standing in the perfect spot then react within less than a second to dodge roll an attack my character gets deleted. Does that make sense?

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ttuuff#4138 wrote:

This would be good if it rewarded building more into defenses so even the zoomiest blasters would need to care about it. In the current state of the game it just makes you want to go full glass cannon because the damage you can get is so insane you can insta delete everything. I hope with time they find the proper balance but this aint it

It doesn't help that the game has timed content. Timers strictly enforce a DPS minimum to clear, and if you wish to get everything in that content, your minimum gets even higher.

Sacrificing DPS for more defenses are going to piss off people who run breach and delirium. And even if you made bosses tougher, more often than not, people will simply choose to be even more glass cannon if it means not locking themselves out of DPS check content.