Dunes map boss, the Blacksmith

spider forest hillock is really insanely strong.

It's good he got buffed but it seems now he one of the strongest bosses besides piety and stuff...

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Seelenverheizer wrote:

spider forest hillock is really insanely strong.

It's good he got buffed but it seems now he one of the strongest bosses besides piety and stuff...

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm currently going through my pool of 67s with my current character, will get to 68s soon.

Just ran this for the first time. Not fun at all. Died before I even knew what hit me. Zero time for anything other then an insta-potion to even register. I even had +80% Armor Granite running too. Didn't even slow him down. I have 3K life and 750 ES with about 12k Armor.

But it's cool, they rebalanced melee so we didn't need more life by nerfing monster damage amirite?

help's a lot. Get some dual curse item and enfeeble + temp chains and you should have no issues.
With decent life/es ofc.

u rly cry about the new hillock...

then ull never reach 72+ Maps...

hf on cells, dark forest, maze, temple, shrine

first time run this map and I was like WTF HAPPENED? 1 slam 99% hp + desync running = die, best update ever!

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MagicJohns0n wrote:

u rly cry about the new hillock...

then ull never reach 72+ Maps...

hf on cells, dark forest, maze, temple, shrine

Thanks for the constructive post.

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MagicJohns0n wrote:

u rly cry about the new hillock...

then ull never reach 72+ Maps...

hf on cells, dark forest, maze, temple, shrine

I think the original point was Hillock/66 (he is by FAR the most deadly boss). The Shrine/77 boss is supposed to be deadly.

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Flapdrol wrote:

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MagicJohns0n wrote:

u rly cry about the new hillock...

then ull never reach 72+ Maps...

hf on cells, dark forest, maze, temple, shrine

I think the original point was Hillock/66 (he is by FAR the most deadly boss). The Shrine/77 boss is supposed to be deadly.

Try the 69 version(Spider Forest) of Blacksmith. Killed him twice in rare maps today on Anarchy in mediocre gear. First one was 90% extra damage as lightning and the other was 30% extra boss damage and X% increased boss attack speed. The Damage+Attack speed was a bit challenging, but both me and my brother survived using Skeleton totem and Enfeeble. I'm a phy cleaver and he is a wand witch. Also I'm only 4 linked with 2200 life and 6.5k Armor.

I think the issue here is more about the recent "buff" to melee - which actually wasn't a buff in high level maps.

In normal play, absolutely melee is definitely better, however, because of the way the armour equation works high life is absolutely necessary in map play, but with the recent life nerfs the map bosses are still hitting for crazy amounts which WILL 1 shot you if you don't have 5000 life.

I really hope GGG does something about this soon.