Labyrinth boss, Evasion, Accrobatics and IR

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Invalesco wrote:

These wsa my fight with the labyrinth boss as an Acro character:

http://youtu.be/BSEnOQszzGc

labyrinth boss hit me for about 3.1k damage

and this was jungle valley

http://youtu.be/WccbE-aB30k

Jungle valley boss crit me and hit for about 5k damage.

Chaos res was approx 60% in the first case and 38% in the second.


IR users would at least have been able to mitigate some damage because of armour. Evasion users would not be able to

Edit: also notice that the weaver cast EK twice in succession as compared to labyrinth which cast its projectile spell once to give the user time to recover hp. I would most certainly have been killed by the weaver if both spells had hit me - which would have done a combined total of 8.3k damage, which is a ridiculous amount of burst damage.

It's worth pointing out that you killed the lab boss before he could eat. If he devours the corpses he will spam the chaos EK and is generally on pair with weaver then. It's so weird that the buffed the heck out of just the 72 bosses, and then the 73s are a joke. Loathe is still easy and asphyxia is not bad unless he's GMP, but weaver, lab boss, shock and horror, all way more difficult than any 73/74 except dominus.

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reboticon wrote:

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Invalesco wrote:

These wsa my fight with the labyrinth boss as an Acro character:

http://youtu.be/BSEnOQszzGc

labyrinth boss hit me for about 3.1k damage

and this was jungle valley

http://youtu.be/WccbE-aB30k

Jungle valley boss crit me and hit for about 5k damage.

Chaos res was approx 60% in the first case and 38% in the second.


IR users would at least have been able to mitigate some damage because of armour. Evasion users would not be able to

Edit: also notice that the weaver cast EK twice in succession as compared to labyrinth which cast its projectile spell once to give the user time to recover hp. I would most certainly have been killed by the weaver if both spells had hit me - which would have done a combined total of 8.3k damage, which is a ridiculous amount of burst damage.

It's worth pointing out that you killed the lab boss before he could eat. If he devours the corpses he will spam the chaos EK and is generally on pair with weaver then. It's so weird that the buffed the heck out of just the 72 bosses, and then the 73s are a joke. Loathe is still easy and asphyxia is not bad unless he's GMP, but weaver, lab boss, shock and horror, all way more difficult than any 73/74 except dominus.

So wait. Lab boss fires for each of its summons killed??


Also for JValley I don't have many problems because I kill so many adds that it allows for 100% jade and granite uptime. For life builds it also allows for 100% amethyst and granite up time BTW.

CWDT + Immortal Call along with Chaos Innoculation/Ghost Reaver and decent life leech = this boss is not a problem.

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Necrogue wrote:

So wait. Lab boss fires for each of its summons killed??


Also for JValley I don't have many problems because I kill so many adds that it allows for 100% jade and granite uptime. For life builds it also allows for 100% amethyst and granite up time BTW.

Not much point granite-ing as an acro user

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tackle70 wrote:

CWDT + Immortal Call along with Chaos Innoculation/Ghost Reaver and decent life leech = this boss is not a problem.

That's my issue from a previous post.

http://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-posts/Invalesco/page/2#p6635297

If memory serves me right I just ran up to the squirrel and facetanked him. I'm an armor char btw ;) I did indeed use immortal call on cwdt, granite, and amethyst flask.

As for sidestepping, the f*cker is really fast, and my reflexes apparently suck

It was a tedious fight since he got back to almost full helath like 2 times. I figure you should avoid killing the devourers, perhaps position yourself behind a pillar or something. I only have my lmp coc fireball though, so XD

Question is: did he fire upon me while in melee? i dont remember actually.

But anyways: granite, immortal call and arctic armor might help an eva char.

EDIT: Not so much for an acro user

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Necrogue wrote:

So wait. Lab boss fires for each of its summons killed??


Also for JValley I don't have many problems because I kill so many adds that it allows for 100% jade and granite uptime. For life builds it also allows for 100% amethyst and granite up time BTW.

Not killed, devoured. It eats corpses and recovers life and goes into crazy mode if it feeds. As far as I can tell if it eats any corpse it will immediately fire the EK instead of the supressive fire. I tend to roll this map into dark forests because I hate the layout so bad.

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Invalesco wrote:

Not much point granite-ing as an acro user

I'm not sure why people don't understand this. Every evasion/armor debate I get into I'm told to use end charges and granites. If I'm playing pure dex I don't have access to many end charges and granites are at half effectiveness. Would be nice if evasion had something comparable rather than being stuck relying on another defense's crutch.

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Moosifer wrote:

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Invalesco wrote:

Not much point granite-ing as an acro user

I'm not sure why people don't understand this. Every evasion/armor debate I get into I'm told to use end charges and granites. If I'm playing pure dex I don't have access to many end charges and granites are at half effectiveness. Would be nice if evasion had something comparable rather than being stuck relying on another defense's crutch.

Jade Flasks?

Won't work the same.

Armor user facing a boss will pop a granite and go from 10k armor to 30k jumping their DR much higher in a situation they need it. While it's not incredibly effective against stuff like vaal, against Laby boss it will be very effective because many shots for small damage, large DR.

For an evasion user. If they don't need a jade against vaal. Chances are vaal won't land the hit with what they already have. Against Laby boss and physical spells, where evasion is lacking, jade will do nothing.

What it should be is a glancing blows flask that works off of the users chance to evade/dodge. Or anything that works with evasion rather than gives just more. Right now jades are just being used to stack with granites for the most part.