Ossecati, Boneshaper – Removal from Invasion League Petition

Hello Everyone,

I would like to take a moment to discuss the balance of one particularly devastating Invasion boss known as Ossecati, Boneshaper. This post is intended to be constructive and provoke discussion about this bosses balance in the Invasion league and in a game, that at times, is plagued with desync. We have all seen the video’s where Ossecati, Boneshaper kills a player who in all fairness should not have been.

Here are a few examples of his problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiw3F0P6ubc - Goratha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_288ay2tM – Sleepless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl1-eW0-rNw
http://www.twitch.tv/eaxor/c/3917972

As any reasonable person can see, this boss is in excusably broken. In my opinion, regardless of the reason for desync (summon skeletons on the player or himself), there is no place for a one shot mechanic in a game that does not allow players to accurately control his/her characters position relative a boss such as Ossecati, Boneshaper.

Invasion Players,

We all play hardcore because we love the challenge and this game, despite desync. Please, join me is asking GGG to remove this boss from the Invasion league.

Thank you,

Don't forget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77kjFcjdwM&feature=youtu.be

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6iAYK5f_Ro&feature=youtu.be


Honestly he wouldn't be bad if you just removed his skeletons and toned his damage down (and by down I mean like 50% of what he does now)

speaking of
who has biggest RIP count among new bosses?


some infographics would be nice!

Sounds to me people just need more awareness. GGG already added graphics too his mace, and changed it so he only spawns skeletons on himself. Melee cant kill him, and thats fine. Melee shouldnt be able to kill everything, or tank everything.

People dying to ossecati at this point, are just bad. You know what he does, so dont go near him. Either kite him and kill him from ranged, or run away.

I see no point in removing him, because hes not hard, and if you have half a brain you wont die too him.

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Narrian wrote:

People dying to ossecati at this point, are just bad. You know what he does, so dont go near him. Either kite him and kill him from ranged, or run away.

In Soviet desync Ossecati goes near you.

ouch.

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Narrian wrote:

Melee cant kill him, and thats fine. Melee shouldnt be able to kill everything, or tank everything.

I'm curious how you justify this statement.

This is so ridiculous. 6 videos have been posted that show 100% desync kills and people babble about awareness and armour.

It's probably the least dangerous one. I'd petition for the removal of vaal metalsmith, the black flicker spider, apparatus and the devourer.

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Nastakanoth wrote:

I would like to adress the issue that almost all players ignore armor. You need armor in this game. :-) Below 10.000 armor is a joke IMO.

To be able to beat Ossecati fairly safe you need a very high armor rating. Just as other bosses require chaos resistance. I do agree though that it's pretty lame that he does more damage than a Vaal smash. That's just bad balance for obvious reasons.

The way that armour works in poe means that you have to have ridiculous amounts of armor in order to mitigate even a decent partition of damage Ossecati (or Vaal/Carnage etc) does. And no, below 10k armor is not a joke.