Perpetus in City of Sarn
" The guy who mentioned having 25k armour probably meant with granite, thats not exactly hard if you stack up armour nodes, from a perfect granite u get 6k armour, not to mention it also doubles the armour you currently have. Perpetus is pretty tough, but ppl are skipping not because he is very dangerous, they are skipping him because the drops are not worth the time spent killing him, main bosses of the game have much better rewards, and some area bosses, like kuduku for example are faster to kill(hes immobile so its easy). Last edited by Aetherium#6579 on Sep 3, 2013, 6:54:50 PM
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" If people are skipping him because the drops are not "worth the time spent killing him" that suggests that he is more difficult to kill than the other area bosses. ...which equates to he is out of balance with the other area bosses. Also I'm pretty sure hardcore players skip perpetus while leveling, (even armor and es chars) because of the threat level and not because of the "time to kill" factor. Obviously this applies moreso to evasion characters, who are all getting 1 shot by both bear trap AND ek, in the instance the first bear trap doesn't down you immediately. And whoever suggested skellie totem for perpetus, IDK I've used skellie totem in a lot of places on a lot of bosses that I didn't think it'd work on, but for a guy who throws bear traps, throws ek, and whirling blades'es around the map I think skellie totem would give you a false sense of security more than actually help with the boss. my evasion is so high i only insta rip sometimes ----- Bug Fixes: People were using cyclone for actual melee builds, so we nerfed it and made blade vortex. Also, we went ahead and made cyclone great for CoC casters while we were at it. Last edited by Legatus1982#1658 on Sep 4, 2013, 10:23:01 PM
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" The majority of advice was to skip him but TC persisted in asking for help on the kill. Of course he got answers on how to kill Perpetus. That doesn't change that the majority of the Perpetus advice was to skip him, unless you are insistent that he must be killed. " If his purpose is to teach players how to make good skill selections then he shouldn't be optional. Like the monkeys in A2- you learn or you die. Learn or skip teaches to skip. |
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" tell me you are joking lol I can get 25k without granite ez (on my build, a tank max block mara)... <10 points in armor nodes, determination, grace + IR, shield (double armor from this because of shield defenses nodes), chest, helm. The best gear in the game will net me in excess of 100k armor with granite. And that guy said ''If you got 25k with a granite and charges on'' --> he means 25k armor with a granite (piss easy to get), and have endurance charges for more flat physical damage reduction. What build are you using? Last edited by mvm199#0755 on Sep 5, 2013, 6:42:20 AM
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" And then there are non-melee toons who aren't built this way. If he catches you unaware on a caster type build, things are much different. He's also among other stuff so he can be harder to pick out. If you draw him out into the open, he's much easier to take on and more so if he's alone. Also note some players might not be fortunate enough to have a granite flask. I faced him three times in Normal and Cruel without one. He can be a major pain or fairly decent to take on. I have yet to find him to be easy. Last edited by Without_Pause#7886 on Sep 5, 2013, 9:46:50 AM
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" Was not questioning this, I was simply replying to '25k armor is impossible without the best gear in the game' I even said ''I can get 25k without granite ez (on my build, a tank max block mara)'' Also, yes you are correct ... sadly, a lot of non melee builds are shitty glass cannons that dont invest in some armor for protection. |
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I just kill everything around him first then take him on and I'm fine. This approach stops the chain trapping situation too. That was when playing melee, haven't faced him as a ranged character yet.
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This cunt is one of the best gear checks in game.
Typically long ranged chars have no problem with him, because they kite and kill from distance. Melee builds will check if they are well geared, because they have to facetank him. Kiting around traps is dangerous, melee chars must engage him in close combat without moving to make bitch mostly hit them, instead of permanently using EK. His AI works like that. Worst mistake is to try to kite, risk of being trapped arises and if no WB they die without dealing any damage. Short ranged chars (FP,EK,arc,etc.) are actually in the greatest danger, because usually their range is equal to his EK. They have to kite around him at close range, around and between the traps. If being trapped, they easily get trap locked and shot until they're down. The most practical way to deal with him is temporal chains+kiting. In all the cases it's better to call him alone and separate from surrounding creeps. This is a buff © 2016
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Well, Perpetus (and Ash Lessard in anarchy) can be seen as the biggest middle finger GGG has given towards evasion based characters in PoE.
Apart from that they're alright I guess. |
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Hi
Perpetus' usage of EK and bear trap can be quite formidable. I have found the best approach to perpetus is to not get bear trapped via leap slamming, teleporting or just shield charge, the ek can hurt a lot but perpetus doesn't like being close and more often then not try to walk away, that is when you beat that monster good since it doesn't have huge life. I found almost always that melee does better if they get close(duh!lol) whilst my ranged character always inevitably get bear trapped, perpetus can chuck that bear trap far. 1+ on the unbalanced theory though he can be brutal if your not prepared and in later difficulties I tend to just avoid perpetus maybe if this bugger guarded a big treasure box in a ruined home I would be more apt to approach. cheers Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
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