[INV] Bosses Feedback
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Description - Abilities of the monster, looks etc.
Difficulty - Rating how hard the boss is C = Easy B = Medium A = Hard S = Very Hard X = Insane (needs fix) Strategy - What is best to do when encountering the boss Comment - My personal take on how I think of the boss (adding feedback as well) Solution - Adding ideas to fix broken mechanics (feedback is welcome!) Alpha Paradisae Plumed Chimeral devouring corpses and casting desecrate.
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Difficulty - B Strategy - Better Skip. If fighting it, get DD, or other corpse destroying skills. Have high dps or something like perma Stun or Freeze. AA and IR are good against his attack, or Ondars Guile. I personally always skip him because he is annoying and not worth your time. Solution - Long Cooldown on Desecrate, Less Life regenerated from Devouring Atziri‘s Pride Miscreation with lightning warp, AA and RF
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Difficulty - C Strategy - Kill. Get decent lightning and fire resist and the main damage source should be no problem. Armor and Evasion also help agains his melee hits. His teleporting can be annoying so getting ST as melee or any Ranged skill helps. I like this guy from a concept as it combines all three signature mobs of Lunaris into one. Solution - It‘s okay the way it is Balus Stoneskull Bandit with Heavy Strike and Flicker
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 Difficulty - C Strategy - Kill. Facetanking him is the best strategy, there is nothing to really take care, running away won‘t work well because of flicker but he shouldn‘t be a problem for any half decent character. His original is one of the easiest Unique bosses in the game, so is this one. Solution - It‘s okay the way it is Beheader Ataguchu Atziri Elite with Cyclone, Physical degen & Cleave with Bloodstacks.
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Difficulty - A Strategy - Only kill if you have a good character. Try not to stay in his Cyclone, when he cleaves you make sure you have a staunching flask ready. Armor is your best friend, evasion also helps. I love the trio. Good design, hard but fair. Solution - It‘s okay the way it is Bladeback Guardian Porcupine Goliath with Flamenova
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Difficulty - B (A on early levels) Strategy - Skip him if you have no resist. If you have resists he is no problem, you can dodge his Icespear easily and back off when he does his flame nova. I died to him in low levels because his Fire Nova did too much damage. Since then I just skip him (especially as melee). Solution - Make him spawn only when you can wear resist rings. Bladetooth Flame Hellion with chaos damage and Immortal Call
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - If you have negative chaos resist and are melee then better back off later and kite him. He isn‘t all that dangerous but Chaos damage is a threat if you have negative resist. Almost killed me on my first character in normal Mudflats. Solution - It‘s okay the way it is Blood Morpher & Blood Stasis Monkey Duo with Fire and Ice spells
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Difficulty - B (if low resist A)
Strategy - Get cold and fire resist, seperate them (fire first) then kill em off. Getting surrounded + cold is an instant death, so better be sure you have space to kill them seperately. Can hit really hard especially with low resist. Solution - Maybe tweak some of the damage, I saw they can also one shot in maps. Cava, Artist of Pain Whipping Miscreation with Storm Herald
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Difficulty - B (bad lightning resist A)
Strategy - Kite her, or skip her, and of course get a lot of Lightning Resist. I personally hate Storm Herald, it is spammy and not dodgable. Solution - I would like GGG just to rework the mechanic and make it more similar to Storm call (like spawn 5 storm call fields and let them explode one after another and then repeat after a 2 second cool down) Ch‘aska, Maker of Rain Atziri Elite (Tentacle Miscreation) with Physical/Chaos Spike Spells (ROA, FireStorm, Pseudo EK)
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - Skip her, there is no good reason to fight her unless you really want to. If you fight her, make sure you have Immortal Call or a lot of Armor. Spellblock and spell dodge also helps. Wide fields are good to kite her around but in close areas you better try to avoid her. I know she was totally OP but now I think she is a good threat. Solution - It‘s okay the way it is. Give her increased drops! Cintiq, the Inescapable Black Spider with Multi Flicker and Multi Chaos-EK
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Difficulty - X (Killer)
Strategy - Skip her, Log out, make a new instance. Dying to her is not worth it, and you shouldn‘t test your luck with this one. Her multi flicker can stun you, crit you and kill you with one strong attack. The only way to deal with her is a lot of Armor/Evasion, Block and Immortal Call. Her EK is apparently not Chaos, but pure Physical. My #1 Killer. She killed me 2 times and 2 times almost. Now when I see her I just don‘t even bother Solution - Nerf her damage. Really nerf the shit out of this one! Coniraya, Shadow of Malice Pirate Ghost Archer with RoA that create Shocking Ground and Puncture
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 Difficulty - B(early) A(later) Strategy - You are better off skipping this one. The puncture is deadly, the Shocking ground will hurt you and the RoA is also dealing a lot of dmg. It‘s just not worth killing this one. I personally only encountered it on low levels, dangerous but doable then. Solution - Damage reduction in higher levels Corpsestitch Necromancer with extras
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 Difficulty - C Strategy - Skipping it for the time investment he needs. Though he is not that bad. Just DPS down and make sure he can‘t spawn too many zombies. Easy one. No further comment. Solution - It‘s okay the way he is Corrector Draconides Blackguard Captain with Leapslam, GMP Fireball and Bear Trap
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Difficulty - A Strategy - Better Skip him, he is deadly. His Bear trap will keep you in place and then he we do insane damage to you. He also spawns with elite Blackguard Soldiers which also are pretty bad. Make sure you have capped fire resist and some run away skill. In crowded tight places I log out. Solution - Better drops please Curator Miem Undying Incinerator with Firestorm
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Difficulty - A (almost S) Strategy - Run away, make new instance or log out. His Firestorm spam is unfair and not a good mechanic. There is no playing around it just capped fire resist. If you are AA or RF you should have no problems however. I saw people die to it, and me myself have always skipped him. Solution - Cooldown on his Firestorm, it is insane! Also unfair against Summoners! Droolscar Pirate Ghost
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 Difficulty - C (maybe B) Strategy - Concentrate on him, let him not spawn too many zombies, or just skip him he is not worth killing. He blocked my way once, wanted to skip but couldn‘t. I killed him, it was easy. Solution - Okay the way he is. Evocata Apocalyptica
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Difficulty - S (almost X)
Strategy - If you are not RF or AA there is no reason to mess with her. The totems are waaaaaay too many and the damage is insane. We saw Willy rip to her, she is no joke. Solution - Maximum of 2 Totems should be allowed and at least a 10 sec cooldown on recasting them. Genesis Paradisae
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Difficulty - A Strategy - Capped Cold resist, good armor or block or evasion. He hits hard and will land on you and take you to hell. Oh and just skip him, he is annoying and not worth the rip. Cold Leapers are some of the most annoying mobs in the game, they do insane damage and chill you. Solution - Less damage overall Glassmaul Skelleton with Lightning and Cold aura, Spawns Skelletons and uses Glacial Hammer and Lightning Strike
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Difficulty - C
Strategy - One of the easiest Bosses in Invasion. He will spawn Skelletons but if you have decent cold and lightning resist it should be no problem. Just kite him and kill him this way, he is slow and dies quick. I kill him every time. Solution - It‘s okay the way he is Granitecrush Golem with Discharge
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 Difficulty - S (almost X) Strategy - Deals way too much damage, is very dangerous and should always be skipped. Maybe even make a new instance if you encounter him. Solution - Nerf his damage, the way he generates charges and the AOE he does Grath
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - Hits hard so stay away. Better skip he will only make everything around him invulnerable and takes forever to kill. If you have high dps however just kite him. I usually kill him but he is not really worth it Solution - Better drops? Guardian of the Mound Goat Shaman with Totems
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Difficulty - S (almost X)
Strategy - If you are not RF or AA there is no reason to mess with him. The totems are waaaaaay too many and the damage is insane. Just skip or new instance or log out. He killed me, placed 2 totems next to me and I got shotgunned from both sides. Solution - Cooldowns on totems, less totems and overall less damage Harbinger of Elements
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Difficulty - C
Strategy - One of the easiest Bosses. You can easily dodge his projectiles or just have a lot of resist. Kill him. I always kill him. Solution - It‘s okay the way he is Haviri, Vaal Metalsmith
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Difficulty - X (Killer)
Strategy - There is no good strategy besides running away, logging out and praying to RNGesus that he does not spawn in your map. I faught him in a corrupted area, took forever to kite him and in the end I gave up. Solution - Either remove from the game, or less totems, longer cooldown, less damage Inti of the Blood Moon Vulture with Soul Eater, spwans smaller Vultures
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - Skip. There is 0% reason to fight him. He is dangerous, takes forever and is annoying as fuck. I fought him in a Corrupted area, couldn‘t kill him, left again. Solution - Remove him from the game. Or remove Soul Eater from him. Or give him less life. Something! Jikeji Big Totem with smaller Totems
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 Difficulty - B to A Strategy - If you don‘t see it coming it is dangerous as hell! Get max Lightning, and kite the smaller totems, dodge its attacks and range it down. He killed me off screen, 3-5 totems teleported on me and I was dead, so was my party member. Solution - I guess he is okay but the off screen potential is high Judgement Apparatus Vaal Construct with Ele Weakness and Lightning Ball
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Difficulty - S (maybe X)
Strategy - Skip him, log out or make new instance. There is no good way too kill him. Make sure though you have capped lightning, spell block and curse removal. Not seen him myself. Only videos and people talking about it. Solution - Less lightning damage! Junglemare Big Ape with Energy Shield
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 Difficulty - C Strategy - Skip. Takes too long. Boring tank boss does nothing and takes too long. Solution - Please less tanky it‘s such a boring boss! Kall Foxfly Bandit with Beartrap and teleport
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Difficulty - B to A
Strategy - Dangerous, especially the trap. Good reason to skip. Ondars Guile helps, or massive armor/Immortal call. He sometimes pops up I just run away. Solution - Beartraps suck, but that is just my QQ Kamaq, Soilmaker
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Difficulty - S (Maybe X)
Strategy - There is no strategy with this boss, he just pops up and kills you. Always make sure you have good armor/evasion, block, dodge, spell block, over capped resist and pray to RNGesus that he will never show up. Instant logout otherwise. He popped up when I hit cruel ledge with my first Invasion character. Rip. Solution - Nerf his damage to the ground! Konu, Maker of Wind Goatman with Fire-Leapslam and Molten Shell
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 Difficulty - A Strategy - As per usualy, have good resists (especially fire) back off when he has Molten Shell on and mow him down. Before the leech nerf he was almost unkillable. Solution - After nerf he is pretty okay Kutec, Vaal Fleshsmith
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Difficulty - A (Maybe S)
Strategy - Skip him unless you have good chaos resist. His desecrate does insane damge, his minions are fast as hell and hit hard. There is no good strategy besides pure force and GG gear. I tried to fight him once. Rip. Solution - Chaos damage nerf, cooldown on desecrate M‘gaska, the Living Pyre Totem which summons Flameblast and smaller totems which summon Raging Spirits
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - Back off, stay away and cheese it from range. There is no other good strategy. Make sure the Raging Spirits can‘t reach you and expire fast. I just skip him, he is hard and not worth it. Solution - Less totem spamming. Less Summoning Raging Spirits. Slower Cast speed on Flame Blast Mammothcage Skelleton Bear with Immortality Aura and Life Regen
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Difficulty - C Strategy - Skip it. Not worth your time. 100% DPS check nothing else. If you have insane dps, then just spam on it. I just skip him, he is hard and not worth it. Solution - Bad designed monster Nothing to fix but to remove him. Mother of the Hive Sandspitter with Immortality Aura and summons more Sandspitters
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - You need some form of Life Regen and damage mitigation. LgoH is great with Spectral Throw against this one. Totems die fast, so try Flameblast. Or just skip him, he takes a while. I usually kill him but it is never really worth it. Solution - Boring design, like the Bear. Mother of the Swarm Carrion Queen with Soul Eater and DD
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 Difficulty - B Strategy - Facetank, or range her with something that reaches her. She is easy and does not require any special strategy. Killing her is easy. Solution - Okay the way she is Nighteater Cannibal with Beatrap and Firestorm
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 Difficulty - C Strategy - Easy Boss, kite her, don‘t step into the bear traps, don‘t stay in her Firestorm. Temp Chains is the only bad thing about her, especially if stuck in a Bear trap. Killing her is not hard but skipping her is just as valid. Solution - Good the way it is. Ossecati, Boneshaper Giant Skelleton with Vaal Slam
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - Stay away from him, he desyncs and uses his Vaal Slam which will 99% in cases one shot you. Better skip unless you can easily kite/cheese it. But the desync is strong in this one and might kill you when you don‘t see it. I only killed him once with Flame Blast, he was stuck somewhere I just unloaded. Solution - Since nerf okay. Perquil the Lucky Pirate with Spectral Throw which summons Storm Calls where you walk and where they hover
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Difficulty - S (almost X)
Strategy - Without Capped resist, instant log or run away. He will hit you in most cases and is very hard to beat. I do not recommend fighting him at all. He killed me because I couldn‘t escape his Storm Calls. Solution - Lower Cast rate of Storm calls, Not where you walk but only where the spectral throw hovers. Pewterfang White Spider with Viper and Smokemine
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - Not as bad as her black sister, but still dangerous. I recommend skipping her, the viper hurts, if you are ACC based you will not hit her in the smoke and it just takes too long. I skip her. Solution - Better loot? Rancor Miscreation with Chaos Degen, Smoke Mine and some Spells
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - Chaos Damage is dangerous as hell. If you have negative resists better skip him. Chaos damage OP. Solution - Less chaos damage Rima, Deep Temptress Seawitch with Cold Traps
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Difficulty - X (Killer)
Strategy - Spell Block, Overcapped Cold resist and insane DPS is the only way to kill her, or flameblasting her off screen hehe. Avoid her otherwise at all cost, just skip she is slow. I fought her with 85 cold res and she killed me many times in Ambush. Solution - She spams way too many traps, should have a cooldown on it and deal less damage. There is no way to escape her traps. Shadow of Vengeance Bandit with animate weapon
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Difficulty - X (Killer)
Strategy - Skipp at all cost. Or have insane amounts of armor or immortal call. I only saw him once. That was in normal was able to kill him, my friend almost ripped to him. Solution - Less weapon spamming! Sheaq, Maker of Floods Goat Shaman with Multicast Fireball
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - In right areas skip, log or new instance. In wide areas you can dodge his attacks but he is still dangerous, especially for melee. He almost killed me and I saw videos of people dying to him instantly. Solution - Melee hate as usual... Just don‘t design mobs like him. Shivershell
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Difficulty - A (on normal) C or B (later)
Strategy - Just don‘t stand in the corpses when he is in the second form or else Vaal DD. Also Skip he takes a while. He almost killed me early in the league. But it was funny as hell! Solution - Hilarious. Love it. Shrapnelbearer Vaal Construct with „vaal fireball“ poison bombs
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - Chaos Resist or Skip. Have not encountered Solution - no comment Simi, the Nature Touched Ape with Soul Eater
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - Must Skip, takes too long, and becomes pretty dangerous later on. He is never worth killing. Solution - Less monkey summoning! Spinesnap Leaper with Chaos Degen
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - Again, chaos resist or skip/log out. This thing melts you! In normal he was okay, but in Cruel he totally wrecked me. Solution - Nerf Chaos Dmg Strangledrift
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Tailsinger Snake with Puncture and Frostwall
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 Difficulty - B Strategy - Skip this one, it takes long and can hurt you, just quicksilver and run. Snakes are annoying especially ones with massive HP Solution - Less HP? The All-seeing Eye Soulless Watcher with Lightning Skills
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - You must have Lightning res to fight this one. Otherwise he is pretty fun and challenging. Recommend fighting him. I like these Watcher mobs. Solution - Cool Boss The Bolt Juggler Undying Aristocrat with traps
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 Difficulty - S Strategy - Skip him, traps are way too dangerous. The only way you can do him is with overcapped resist and spell block. Hate trap monster. Solution - Please reconsider trap mobs, and their spam The Book Burner Librarian with Bear trap and Lightning Warp
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Difficulty - A
Strategy - He is tough but not impossible. Dodge his Storms and traps and dps him down. Otherwise skip is always recommended. Do not fight him in a LMP/GMP map!!! Easier than the original Solution - Good designed Boss The Duchess Seawitch with Souleater and Summons
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - Skip or fight, there is only one strategy, cold res and lots of dps, if you kill her quick she will not get big from Soul Eater and is much easier. I usually skip her she is just too annoying. Solution - It‘s okay The Firestarter Undying Incinerator with Raging Spirits
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - I recommend always to skip these mobs. Raging Spirits are just waay too dangerous (unless you have AA). Saw him once, run and never went back. Solution - Don‘t make them spam too much Spirits! The Raging Mask Flame Sentinel with Raging Spirits
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Difficulty - S
Strategy - I recommend always to skip these mobs. Raging Spirits are just waay too dangerous (unless you have AA). Not encountered this one Solution - Don‘t make them spam too much Spirits! The Revenant Void Bearer with Cyclone and Searing Bond
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - Range him, or melee when he is just standing there. He is easy especially with AA. His cyclone looks hilarious! Solution - no need for change The Sunburst Queen Carrion Queen with huge Fireballs
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Difficulty - B
Strategy - Her Firenova isn‘t all that bad, but her 3 fireballs hurt a lot. Fire res and dodging her balls is the way to go. Or skip her, she doesn‘t move much. Shotguns are not nice! Solution - Change shotgun mechanic! Thornrunner Snake with Proximity Shield and Spike Storm
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Always skip snakes. Annoying as fuck Danger: Hard Rating: Always skip Wiraq, the Impaler
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The trio is cool yada yada
Danger: Very hard Rating: Only fight if strong Wiraqucha, Ancient Guardian
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Always skip snakes. Annoying as fuck
Danger: Medium Rating: Always skip Wonderwalker
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Dangerous but doable.
Danger: Hard Rating: Skip or kill Edit Log: March 31 - Added more Screenshots and additional Information and some Strategy. Last edited by KenshiD#1543 on Mar 31, 2014, 11:17:26 AM
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Great topic I just wish you would remove the unnecessary spoiler tags.
I agree with the nerfs, Haviri, Vaal Metalsmith needs to be removed completely, his incinerate totem 1 shot me offscreen with 86% fire resis and 5.2k hp. |
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" I didn't have spoilers at first but it looked so overwhealming like TL;DR. So I thought I put some spoilertags in it.. Well what a waste I guess haha. I may remove them later, not in the mood right now... |
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THANKS for this!!! There should probably be a similar thread in the gameplay forums.
EDIT: I believe I ripped to Corpsestitch a few days ago. The chaos damage was so fierce, I didn't know what hit me. My error was mistaking it for the other summoner invader. GGG listens to its fans!!! Thank you! Last edited by Catchafire2000#0702 on Mar 30, 2014, 10:06:45 AM
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" Thank you, feel free to repost this anywhere you want. Also hope others also share their opinion on the bosses. We need GGG to know which one are liked and which are not. Some of them are still completely insane. |
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" Just did two, Curator Miem is silly, either there should be a delay on his firestorms (they target where you were two seconds ago) or the time in between firestorms needs to be increased. In addition to that regardless the range needs to be massively decreased, even approaching from the best angle you're already hit by firestorms before seeing him, that should never happen. M'gaska, the Living Pyre on his own is fine, his flameblast is cool and an interesting mechanic. Raging Spirits however are entirely the wrong spell for his summons, they simply turn what could have been an interesting encounter into a skip. What could be much more interesting is if the totems used lvl 1 Flameblasts, diversions from the real dangerous ones. My vision for a better PoE: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/863780
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The only thing I would add to this thread are pictures of the invader, with their caption below. Maybe we can start doing this and the thread op updates each section.
GGG listens to its fans!!! Thank you!
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Feel free to use these pictures to add to the database. This is good information thread.
DroolScar
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Coniraya, Shadow of Malice
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Mammothcage
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 Mother of the Swarm
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I want to add that taking a snapshot of an Invader Boss freezes my computer for 2-3 seconds, and is incredibly dangerous. Good luck to you if you decide to add to the picture database. GGG listens to its fans!!! Thank you!
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Great Thread, Kenshi. You reflect my own opinion(s) towards the bosses here, got nothing to add but to give you a +1 and a free bump
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1552460 - my drop solution
Specs: CPU - i5 9600k, geforce 2060, 32 gb ram, ssd, 2133/2333 mz.----- EXILES EVERYWHERE, PLEASE?!?!?! |
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