[INV] Bosses Feedback

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Startkabels wrote:

Yeah better skip MOST of it and farm easy content.

You really should try out what I suggested and you will get my point.

Do you know how underwhelming melee characters are in the start game compared to ranged characters?

I'm pure melee at level 78 and i kill almost all invasion bosses, even in maps (up to lvl70 ones atm, building a pool, not same luck as nemesis tho)

For example, in Lunaris 3 i used to kill all bosses except prequil (desync) and Evocata.

Also i kill with no problems bosses like Cintiq, Chaska and Kormaq even with one extra damage mod. I have to skip some of the elemental shotgunning ones because i'm melee. When i'll find a Saffel's frame i'll try kill shotgunners too.

Melee where underwhelming at the beginning of the league without any good equip; now that you can find your basic gear with ease they're viable at all levels.

One thing that i'm experiencing in this league is the importance of armor. Bosses like Cintiq and Chaska with a decent amount of armor are not a threat at all. Block (40% moreso) is very helpful too.

I'm at work. typing is fine but editing the original post is kinda hard atm. So I will do so at thursday, since then i am free.


Just fyi

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Fruz wrote:

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Have not encountered Cintiq yesterday, what changed about her ?
As a ES user, I'm pretty sure that I'd just run the hell away from it unless my Vaal summon skeletons is up ( and still .... might not be enough ).

Sorry for the late reply Fruz,

Uhmm, if there have been any major changes I was hard pressed to notice them. The only real noticeable thing I could tell, was the skin colour from a mainly black to a more normal spider with the green outline. Which I guess could help you spot it more easily in dark areas of the game.

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TwistedTrip wrote:

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Fruz wrote:

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Have not encountered Cintiq yesterday, what changed about her ?
As a ES user, I'm pretty sure that I'd just run the hell away from it unless my Vaal summon skeletons is up ( and still .... might not be enough ).

Sorry for the late reply Fruz,

Uhmm, if there have been any major changes I was hard pressed to notice them. The only real noticeable thing I could tell, was the skin colour from a mainly black to a more normal spider with the green outline. Which I guess could help you spot it more easily in dark areas of the game.

np lol it's just a forum ^^"
So ... it's still scary as hell in merc I guess .. I have close to 5k buffer already, so I'll have enough time to notice if I need to run away or logout next time lol!

Yeah I think you should be fine Fruz, you usually have a good idea how the fight is going to go down in the first few seconds if you're forced to fight it, which then gives way to an exit options should you need to.

Thinking on it a little more, the green outline could make the players more aware that it will deal chaos damage, but that's not to much help when you're on higher difficulties and you have faced it a few times and know what to expect.

However I guess it's always a reminder, do you want to get tangled up in a risky situation with chaos damage/how good is your chaos res for people in general. But in saying that, I think it's the flicker strike that gets the rips.

Anyway! Lol, stay safe man :)

Some of the invaders are much more of a threat to me still, we'll see in the next encounters.

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Alea wrote:

Gl trying to get endgame invasion, u will see if 5L or 6L is that just optional

Oh don't, worry, I will.
And I'm pretty positive that it will be just fine.

It looks like people consider anything that takes more than 10 mins for a map as something un-viable / un-playable or something ... idk, but it's ridiculous.

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Alea wrote:

Topic: exiles got buffed:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/879542

I fought some today .. didn't notice anything crazy ( in invasion ).
Maybe I got easy ones, dunno.

As a level 85 Fireball witch with AA and 82 all res soloing 73-74 maps, I kill most of the invaders. Granted, the build does allow me to offscreen almost every one of them. It's weakness is some rapid minion summoners like Kutec and Wiraqucha because I can't damage the boss through all the minions. I don't think skipping is an option in high level maps anyways if you want to sustain decent pool. Especially not when it's just annoying but not deadly.

Kamaq, Chaska, Haviri, Kutec, Wiraqucha are the ones I skip every time without a second thought. Some are more situational: Coniraya is a skip if I can't reliably offscreen him to death, Inti is hilariously impossible in LMP/GMP maps if I fail to burst him before shit starts to hit the fan, Spinesnap is logout territory if map has Increased monster damage or Vulnerability.

I have very different experience with most elemental damage bosses, which with my resists are just free loot. Evocata Apocalyptica, Guardian of the Mound, Perquil the Lucky, Bolt Juggler, Sheaq etc. just fall over. The most hilarious one is Curator Miem, he deals literally 0 damage.

GreatOne just instalogged in Ledge thinking that other guy in group was ST boss.

Fun league!

Haviri, Vaal Metalsmith doesn't instagib anymoar!
You can miss a totem and live!
All hail Invasion!

In the end it was fair fight, though this dude as most inv bosses heavily favors open area.

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TwistedTrip wrote:

Cintiq, the Inescapable, post patch 1.2 (imo still as deadly)



I cropped the picture, if you would prefer the whole picture just ask.

Picture link - http://i.imgur.com/CxU2rqH.png

Mammothcage, post patch 1.2 (didn't notice any huge change, I will mainly just post the pictures though and let others gather more comprehensive changes to the bosses)



Picture link - http://i.imgur.com/fAabkSs.png