Had huge difficulties killing Merveil...

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Daegon wrote:
Trouble on Merveil?? You have GOT to be kidding me..

Pretty much
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Ninami wrote:
EDIT: I'm using Ice Spear and Freezing Pulse but the main spell I used was Ice Spear since it has the longest reach.


Just go with different element. I was struggling with IS/FP too, cold resist you know. :) My build also has the +cold dmg skills and i was doing very little dmg to her. Yours doesn't so i can imagine you can barely scratch her. For that fight i switched to fireball and poison arrow (for the lulz) and nuked the sh*t out of her quite easy.
I had to hide behind wall, cold snap, hide, fireball hide, these two spells took out her shield at time I had ro come out and coldsnap since fireball has longer cas time. Then regen shield and do the same. I also let some traps in the floor and tried to have her follow me. Took a while but I did it with no fire resist at level 16
IGN: LessBow
Yeah she was the first real challenge. I soloed her with about 66% resist and nuking her with fireball that I had luckily been leveling along with my main cold spells.

Went to town once with TP to refil flasks.
Try to get bear traps on her. This way she gets damage, and will never regenerate her energy shield while you are kitting her.
IGN: Gonorreitor
If you for reason or another have terrible gear and/or no portal scrolls, you can lure her around the entrance and use spark from the corners of the rock wall while she's at the other side. When she comes for you, switch sides and continue. Yeah, it's inefficient way to do it, but relatively safe.
IGN: Jid
Why doesn't anyone mention the most dangerous part of the fight? The constant rapid-fire stream of suicide bombing summons during phase 2. I'm playing a melee-templar-style witch and can get past phase 1 easy enough, but then she summons exploding minions on top of me that I have no time to kill or react to and blow up for over half my life.
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Rapkannibale wrote:
...about 66% cold resist...

That's all you need, actually.
Actually, Merveil was my 1st death in PoE. Since I didnt bother myself with cold res (silly me... :P) I had to kite, set up fire traps on bridges, summon skeletons and bombard her with firestorm from behind the rocks. Then TP back to town to refill flasks. She died after about 3 trips back to town.
IGN: Avlee
Last edited by avlee#5968 on Jan 26, 2013, 9:58:36 AM
Just had to necro this thread because I too was really upset at how stupid this fight was with its insta-freeze crap.

Hoarding cold resistance at this level is a bit absurd and doesn't really explain how to fight her. It's just the age-old "get better gear so that you don't have to figure out how to win" statement.

For me, I had zero cold resistance gear and didn't have the luxury of portal scrolls. I had to get behind a rock, spam-summon skeletons on one side to distract her while I casted fire storm on the other side of the rock before retreating behind the rock again. This would only shave off a little hp each time, but after repeating ad nauseum, she finally went down.

Since I'm a summoner/cold witch, the second phase was far more straightforward by keeping my distance and spamming freezing pulse and raising zombies. The zombies were good enough meatshields for me to get close enough to just spam freezing pulse till she dropped.

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