Gravicius is too much

Wow, this boss is crazy. Why is he allowed all those abilities? I am in merciless levelling a cyclone mara, but I was using cleave to level and literally obliterating my way through content, until I came across this SOB. Somehow this guy hits me like a friggin MONSTER TRUCK ON STEROIDS. I am sitting on 2100hp, 57 fire res and nothing I can do seems to give me enough leeway to get a few hits in, and drop his (STUPIDLY HUGE) ES enough to get to his hp. Decoy totems, minions ... all these are pretty weak without invested links and passives, and fall quickly to his firestorm and instatraps. Speaking of which, why do they do so much damage? Its like 1/3 of my hp on a crit, wtf ggg? 57 fire res should mean something, do you really want me to spend a year shuffling my stash around and painfully trade (with this horrible trading system) just to max it? I don’t even have a damn ruby flask, because self found and rng sucks ass. Yeah, gg ggg ... fix this boss pls! My opinion is he is currently overtuned, has too huge of an ES, and needs a cooldown on those traps.

I dont even have a viper strike gem and dont even ask me to equip a bow with boring shitty poison arrow that will take a century of kiting to kill him, and also I lose more res from shield loss. Oh yeah, I dont even have enough dex for a simple low level bow ... cuz this game dont give you stat points on level up like d2 ... instead you are forced to take them from the tree and if you are a marauder, there is no DEX FRIGGEN ANYWHERE

THIS GAME SUX

Every build has a nemesis and you found yours. Maybe go farm the docks and gain a couple of levels and retry him when you outlevel him a little.

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Wraeclastian wrote:

Every build has a nemesis and you found yours. Maybe go farm the docks and gain a couple of levels and retry him when you outlevel him a little.

QUESTION FOR YA

When I dont gain any more levels from docks, and outlevelling him doesnt change his damage or health / es in any way, what do I do?

Awaiting intelligent reply, thanks in advance

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mvm199 wrote:

QUESTION FOR YA

When I dont gain any more levels from docks, and outlevelling him doesnt change his damage or health / es in any way, what do I do?

Awaiting intelligent reply, thanks in advance

Ask for help in global chat, I am sure someone is willing to help you kill him.

Make a new character with a better build or buy a ton of regrets and rebuild your current character.

Those seem to be the best and most logical options to me.

comparing human bosses to characters, I'd say Gravicius is a Templar, Piety is a Witch, and various Blackguard Captains are most likely Duelists.

so I think Grav should have far less ES, and instead more HP, Piety = more ES less life (maybe have a CI version later in Act 3x), and captains are fine as they are.

@OP best strategy to melee the bastard is max Fire Resist (so his annoying insta-trigger fire traps won't wreck you), then hit him hard whenever his Molten Shell fades.
you have a small window of opportunity to hit him hard and hopefully crit him a few times if you can, then "dance" around him, while throwing stuff at him just to keep his ES from regenerating.
remember to make several trips to town to refill flasks.

EDIT: since 90% of his attacks are spells, you may want to consider swapping your shield with
it's insane against him.
so good, I used it successfully against two of 'em in a Shipyard map. with 2k life :)

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Wraeclastian wrote:

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mvm199 wrote:

QUESTION FOR YA

When I dont gain any more levels from docks, and outlevelling him doesnt change his damage or health / es in any way, what do I do?

Awaiting intelligent reply, thanks in advance

Ask for help in global chat, I am sure someone is willing to help you kill him.

Make a new character with a better build or buy a ton of regrets and rebuild your current character.

Those seem to be the best and most logical options to me.

there is nothing wrong with my build, its cyclone max block facebreaker build, one of the best tanks in the game atm. Its the boss thats broken and needs a fix asap

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mvm199 wrote:

there is nothing wrong with my build, its cyclone max block facebreaker build, one of the best tanks in the game atm. Its the boss thats broken and needs a fix asap

Cyclone is really bad for causing desync, maybe you are desyncing more than you realize? I haven't had much trouble with him on any of the characters I have played. Perhaps some of your gear is to blame.

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Wraeclastian wrote:

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mvm199 wrote:

there is nothing wrong with my build, its cyclone max block facebreaker build, one of the best tanks in the game atm. Its the boss thats broken and needs a fix asap

Cyclone is really bad for causing desync, maybe you are desyncing more than you realize? I haven't had much trouble with him on any of the characters I have played. Perhaps some of your gear is to blame.

Did I mention desync? Sheesh, I am talking about his stupid es and firetraps dmg and no cooldown on them ... who said anything about desync? Christ ... I dont ever desync, like ever. I dont get lag or random disconnects or framedrops or anything either. We have very good internet here, PC is decent and i dont go balls out on the settings. ALso I am still levelling with cleave because I dont have the FB / BOR equipped yet, and cleave is awesome for now. But the tree is specced for max block and fb cycone build.

Dont believe me if you want, its the truth

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mvm199 wrote:

Did I mention desync? Sheesh, I am talking about his stupid es and firetraps dmg and no cooldown on them
Dont believe me if you want, its the truth

Strange his molten shell causes you no grief with resist so low?
Just take one ring off and roll one magic ruby ring with some extra fire resist instead, 75% resist versus 50% is half as much fire damage taken, it makes a world of difference, you'll kill the twerp in a jiffy.

And yes, resist mechanic is crap, monster damage is tuned to require it maxed but what can you do...

It's probably molten shell that's hurting so much.

And I agree, drop some dps to use a fire resist ring just for that battle.