Arbiter Mechanics in 0.4

I have just defeated the first arbiter for 0.4 and I had significant more trouble defeating it than previous and it has brought some queries that I would love to hear other peoples experiences with. Just to clarify, I usually only fight Arbiter a couple of times per league at most, but I have never experienced difficulty with Arbiter even the first time I fought him because I looked at his mechanics in advanced.

However, in 0.4 I lost count of how many deaths I had before I beat him despite being able to absolutely destroy him with my DPS, well at least after the DPS reduction stage at the very start. What kept killing me though was he would phase into the circle dots that you have to stand in and then use his beam attack on the circle pretty much right on when you had to be on the circle. I have never had issues with this previously and I swear he usually doesn't attack during this phase? I could be wrong, but I don't ever remember it.

But basically this just felt like if I didn't go in the circle I get one shot, but if I do I will also get one shot. I don't know if I was approaching it wrong but are you supposed to try and frame perfect dodge roll the beam? The only reason I did defeat arbiter was by being able to blast him down in the second phase before he went to the circles. I was never able to survive that combo beam over the circle you had to stand in.

Hence I want to hear from others about their experience. Has this been a change or has it always been there? How do you survive that combo?

Can you do us a favor and log into the character you were doing arbiter on, the one you said trivialized the encounter, and go fight him again.

My best guess as to what to chalk your experience up to is you literally just leveled a new character and are fighting that boss with your new character, while your previous character might just have a different strata of investment into it.

With all due respect I know the DPS was fine for the fight, but I had never experienced the Arbiter using a one shot move over the entire circle you must stand in to avoid being one shot at the same time. So am wanting to know if this was always a thing because I really don't remember it and I have experienced the circle mechanics multiple times before.

But thanks for your opinion.

I have not reach Arbiter this league but I can confirm one point that he will stay stationary in the middle of the arena, and also targetable (you can "hit" him) throughout the entirety of the flaming orb explosion mechanic. Both normal and uber version behave the same.
Your issue if true, would be the same issue with Balak, The Sky Seer as that boss can continue attack during phase mechanic that they supposed to stand still. I noticed that they changed sommething about Balak this league, he is no longer invulnerable during the tornado phase, and the tornado no longer snap to him, allow you to continue damaging him during phase despite he still invisible and still attacking. If I have to guess it may have touched on something for other bosses with similar timed phase mechanic.

I think the Arbiter is bugged.

I am on my 50th try, and pretty much always it becomes impossible, when the orbs come in and Arbiter does the huge wide beam into the orb. There is no time to do anything else than go into the orb and you will then die into the beam. Or you will die when your toes are on the edge of the orb circle.

It looks like sometimes it would not happen, so it is up to RNG that what you will get.

I'm sure I would have cleared it many times by now, if not the bugged mechanics.

I believe my dmg is good enough, although build requires some rotations, so not too easy to get rotas correctly in, to "one shot" the boss. However, I also believe that is not even possible at 0.4 perhaps.

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SpankingJohnny#8132 เขียน:

I think the Arbiter is bugged.

I am on my 50th try, and pretty much always it becomes impossible, when the orbs come in and Arbiter does the huge wide beam into the orb. There is no time to do anything else than go into the orb and you will then die into the beam. Or you will die when your toes are on the edge of the orb circle.

It looks like sometimes it would not happen, so it is up to RNG that what you will get.

I'm sure I would have cleared it many times by now, if not the bugged mechanics.

I believe my dmg is good enough, although build requires some rotations, so not too easy to get rotas correctly in, to "one shot" the boss. However, I also believe that is not even possible at 0.4 perhaps.

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Sigh... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.... But Arbiter using the beam over the circle has always been a thing. In fact.... That is the mechanic... It has a very tiny safe window... The point is... U stay out of that circle and have to dodge roll into the circle at the exact moment the beam attack ends... It's the real mechanic... I know.. super hard to figure out...

I can't stand this fight. Stupidly difficult for no good reason, and they are locking rare tablets behind it. Everything about this just encourages getting enough DPS to bypass all the mechanics, because doing them is extremely painful and requires near perfect timing. It's not well designed.

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bashkarthegreat#9171 เขียน:

Sigh... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.... But Arbiter using the beam over the circle has always been a thing. In fact.... That is the mechanic... It has a very tiny safe window... The point is... U stay out of that circle and have to dodge roll into the circle at the exact moment the beam attack ends... It's the real mechanic... I know.. super hard to figure out...

I actually can't believe that this post is so far down the list.

Imagine being so reliant on mechanical-circumvention levels of DPS to progress that when you see an actual boss mechanic you call it out as a bug.

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karsey#2995 เขียน:

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bashkarthegreat#9171 เขียน:

Sigh... I hate to be the bearer of bad news.... But Arbiter using the beam over the circle has always been a thing. In fact.... That is the mechanic... It has a very tiny safe window... The point is... U stay out of that circle and have to dodge roll into the circle at the exact moment the beam attack ends... It's the real mechanic... I know.. super hard to figure out...

I actually can't believe that this post is so far down the list.

Imagine being so reliant on mechanical-circumvention levels of DPS to progress that when you see an actual boss mechanic you call it out as a bug.

To be fair, that's how the vast majority are doing these bosses. Hardly anyone is actually mastering the mechanics, because the difficulty is insane. Why suffer through all of that instead of just waiting until you can one shot the boss and bypass all of that pain altogether?