Dunes lvl66. Wtf

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Delirii wrote:

IF you really had -60% Chaos Res and nearly died in a second, you must have around 1k Life.
You can stay several seconds in the poison cloud without dying if you have like 3.5k+ Life - more time than needed to move.
It is avoidable, nothing wrong with it dealing quite some damage.

Yeah I knew about spider forest. Learned it the hard way on ranger :D

THe point is inappropriate difficulty of some maps, compared to other ones.

For example Shock and Horror.

Hohoho I didnt read patchnotes about Torture chamber and went there.
Well that was really "Shock and Horror".

God bless my alt f4 skills.

I have -50% chaos resist and a bit over 6k life. While I agree, that the "Heavy Strike barrage" attack that he does every so often does ridiculous damage, but you can avoid most of the hits if you just move away when you hear that Heavy Strike sound hitting you. He stands stationary when doing this move.

I also agree, that the zombie death cloud can kill you pretty fast - but I've never had them take away my life in a second. Unless, of course, I was stupid enough to stand in a multiple cloud stack longer than necessary. Leap Slam etc are your friend.

That being said, it is kinda out of place boss on a lvl66 map. Spider Forest is ok, but Dunes is an entry-level map. Anyway, I haven't died to Blacksmith yet - you just have to employ a certain strategy to beat him. Make him spawn zombies by leaping on you, then move a little bit away and kill the zombies (while hopefully also damaging Blacksmith as well). Once the zombies are dead, proceed to hit him in the face. Be mindful of the Heavy Strike barrage he does, move away once you hear the first hit. Rinse and repeat and hopefully he'll die relatively easy. :)

Just my empiric experience. :)

Im not saying hes hard.
Meh its uber easy to run from zombies
But the fact that i can desync into poison cloud that kills me in second, makes me blacklist this map.

If It was softcore.. okay I wouldnt mind.

Just this map is obsolete, 66maps worth nothing, so ppl will just skip overtuned maps.

And about Shock and Horror. Well Ill wait some tweaks, cuz dat deathbeam is rly rly unforgiving:<

Totally agree man!
It's just way overpowered that poison!
with -4% chaos resistance and yet died from 2 freaking zombies in 1 sec
and you can't even counter it!
GG on chaos damage -.-'

Ummmm don't kill his zombies? There

Blacksmith is one of the easiest bosses, no matter 66 or 69. It's just a gear check. Facetank it and boom - no zombies, no chaos damage, easy like that.

When poison clouds spawned by lvl 66 zombies hurt more than lvl 74 alchemists, then maybe we have a balancing problem.

pseudocode for this boss encounter:

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if can_facetank then faceroll else die_motherf*cker

dude.. dunes is so shit easy. just facetank the boss and thats it..can u even die there?

it's an easy boss, you should think more to beat the 66 map.

2.6k HP, -60% chaos res, the zombie poison cloud didn't kill me in .1 seconds... more like 2 seconds (if i hadn't run out of the cloud). *Very* easy to avoid