Architect one shotting?

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ac429#4687 เขียน:
This boss fight is pretty busy. He does a lot of different attacks. They are all telegraphed, but it's a lot to remember.

Don't go berserk on him. Hit him a few times, then watch what he does and avoid it. He has a big cold AoE centered on him. Move away from him as he charges that (you'll see a blue circle growing around him on the floor). Then he has a fire AoE in an area. Move away when you see it (big red circle on the floor). Sometimes red hands slap down. Move in angles (straight away, then turn 45 degrees and go straight) and they will always miss you. Then he summons squares and slams down. This is the most dangerous one for me, but I think there's a trick where you can actually walk over to one of the entrances, and then the squares cannot hit you. Then he has a bunch of other attacks, like spark, bouncy balls (lots of damage), fire pillars, electric squares, and a mini-tornado that specifically hates melee players.

Honestly, it's too much! This boss needs to be toned down, especially since you get 1 shot every 6 maps at best, and there's no way for the player to down-level him. Maybe he should wait a bit more between attacks, or some of the attacks should have their damage reduced, or reduce how many different attacks he has.

EDIT: To be clear, he is absolutely designed to 1-shot you, even if you have reasonable defenses (I think you do). His attacks are telegraphed, and you're supposed to dodge them. But, it is hard. It's not easy.


In other words, it's a tedious boss. Avoiding certain telegraphed attacks from bosses is fine, even fun sometimes, but just hitting once then doge 3 things, then hit again, doge again.....until you very slowly chip away at his health is just tedious; unless, like always you play "the correct build" in which case he melts.
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He is a bit disgusting, a lot of abilities across all damage types (including some bouncy chaos), depending on your temple and level most abilities will kill you fast.


Boss is dumb when you go in blind due to over tuned and amount of abilities leading to a high chance of bricking your temple (1 death). Either blow him up or struggle thru the slog.
The architect boss is SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult than Atziri herself. The AoE is far too fast a cast to dodge even with 30% speed boots, and it will kill you even at capped resists and high defenses, until you're beyond stupidly geared out, and maybe even then for most builds.

There was only one time that he didn't open the fight by instantly 1-shotting the whole room, and that was still an absurd shit-show, because the bouncing bullshit never stops. I still killed him that time, but when I finally got to Atziri after that, she was a complete pushover by comparison, beaten on the first attempt.

Whoever designed the architect was just trolling, there is no real excuse for it.
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lupasvasile#5385 เขียน:
In other words, it's a tedious boss.


Yeah, that's a very fair point. In another thread about the Arbiter gatekeeping rare tablets, we also called fighting that boss tedious. I'm sure it's subjective to some extent, but maybe it's a valid concern/feedback that all these linchpin bosses feel this way.
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