Map Boss HP is retarded / not worth it / waste of time / GGG do you even try

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LaurelWreaths escribió:

I`m pretty sure the idea was to lower guardian HP, not to get every others map boss HP on par with Guardian HP.

My question basically is... why bother killing map bosses anymore? For the 3 blue random items they drop? Just died to Burial Chambers boss because, huge HP, spawns 46592342 zombies, desecrated ground, dark as shit, can`t see anything, also, detonates all the 44343243 zombies, and gets soul eater when i kill them. Tactic - run around, avoiding the constant detonate corpses, hit her every now and then. BUT WAIT: She has ES, which regens. So until i can take her ES down, i have to run again cuz all the shit that`s happening and she`s on full ES again. Point is, this is just one example of a boss that takes a lot to kill, rewards are shit, not worth the risk of losing xp by wasting too much time on her, OR dying.


p.s. if we exclude expansion this "league" is ... well I`m sure everybody gets all wet when they get that 1/20`th of a Chaos orb drop. 19 More to go.

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xMustard escribió:

its funny but its somewhat true.
people are just going to tell him to git gud because many people in this community are elitist idiots that think saying such a thing is a legitimate argument, but he has good points.

on my standard characters where i could respec directly into what i wanted and load up my 6L gear and OP stuff and 20/20 gems, the map bosses hp isn't an issue. im already plugging away at t15s trying to get back to the guardians to test my setup to see what is optimal and it isn't an issue.

however playing the game from scratch or even SSF, the transition into maps is going to be absolutely horrendous. i imagine you will have to skip all kinds of bosses.
even on one of my standard characters with insane dps and such, i just wanted to test something so i ran a tier8 map which just happened to have something like 30% inc boss hp, and that boss took like 30 seconds to kill. i forget the map, but it much have been a naturally high hp boss or something.

"oh no 30 seconds thats such a long damn time blah blah"

keep in mind this is a character that can clear end game content and clear it fast. normally i can kill mid tier bosses in about 2-3 seconds. and yes, 30 seconds is a long time.

problem with drawing the fights out is that the game has naturally evolved into everybody being a glass cannon because of a few reasons
#1 everybody is glass regardless of defenses. doesn't matter if you have 70% chance to evade, you'll get one shot. doesn't matter if you have 12k ES, you can still get one shot. doesn't matter if you have 9k life, you can still get one shot.
#2 best defense is a good offense. kill before you're killed.
#3 best defense is a good offense. vaal pact is a NECESSITY because life pots almost don't even exist anymore. they don't regen enough, they don't regen fast enough, they don't have enough charges. this is regardless of how you augment them. thus your main defense is your life leech, so you want as much dmg as you can get to leech as much life as quickly as possible.

so when fights are now lasting way longer there is more time for you to mess up vs the mechanics and get one shot, more time to just get one shot by their overtuned adds or something else, more time for you to waste all your flask charges without making any progress (need to portal out constantly), etc etc

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- I do not think the recent balance changes (especially the boss one) were thought out at all.

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Chris escribió:

Our design, balance and QA team are experts at Path of Exile. I would not accept any less. Is 1000 hours of PoE experience

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I_NO escribió:

They're not even worth killing 99% of the time like the fucking boss in Vaal city hits like a FUCKING TRUCK and he drops like 3 rares on a high tier mod? hahah pretty good.