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interstate90

Very new to POE, I don't understand this fight.

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https://imgur.com/a/ZZWpc2Z

I started playing POE for the first time this season. I played a bit several years ago, but I only made it until level 20. I consider myself a decent-ish player. POE has been a learning experience, as the in-game tutorials are basically useless. I usually keep the wiki open in my second monitor and read up on just about every fight, mechanic and skill I can. POE is fantastic and truly blows my expectations away. I have had a large amount of free time lately and have spent an embarrassing amount of time and money on POE since the start of the season, but still loving it.

This is my second run of attempts on Sirus. My first run was quite a bit longer but wasn't able to manage the storms. I have watched a few video guides on killing Sirus and have tried to follow what I've learned, but I am just not sure where I am failing. Grinding out another set of Conquerors isn't something I am excited about doing.

Can someone please explain where I am going wrong? I am at 79% resist, 8k armor and 8.5k ehp unbuffed. I can run through almost any T16 map, with the exception of some Rippy metamorphs at Awakening 5. I unsocketed my watchstones to make this Sirus fight as easy as possible and wasn't able to engage him until port #4 (the death in this video spawned a storm on top of Sirus).

I could use any advice I could get on what to do next.

Thanks.

Posted Jan 7, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

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ColinStylesDC League•

I'm not sure why you're trying to facetank his abilities, this is clearly why you're dying.

I'm actually questioning whether this is bait, it's extremely obvious that trying to facetank the strongest boss in the game is going to result in your death.

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interstate90OP•

The fight takes a few seconds of RP to actually start, was checking gem.

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SwagtimusPrimeDemon•

well, dont check gems when youre attempting a bossfight.

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Reaver_01HarderDaddy•

He's definitely playing the wrong build to face tank Sirus. It can be done btw, and Sirus is a joke with the right build. The only thing that I have to worry about anymore is if a storm is going to kill me and brick my fight.

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interstate90OP•

What build is that?

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Reaver_01HarderDaddy•

Spiders/Herald of Agony Guardian

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ctchocula420•

standing directly in the bad stuff on the ground

has inventory open for some reason

makes no attempt to move out of bad stuff as hp ticks down

Ah, yeah mate, no clue why you died. Sorry you claim to have watched a video on the fight and you can't figure out what killed you? This has got to be a bad troll, unless playing a summoner truly just makes you this bad at the game.

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interstate90OP•

I went back and double checked the video to see. I honestly couldn't tell if I was standing in something. My hp went down in under a second, check it out at the 6s mark.

I am terribly sorry that I started playing a summoner as my first class. I looked up builds and saw that one and went for it. After playing this game a total of 4 weeks, I kinda understand that this class has been overplayed a bit.

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ctchocula420•

Not even trying to be a dickhead, are you perhaps color blind or do you need to update your prescription? You're being pelted by explosions. You don't see them falling from the sky directly on top of you? It doesn't help, surely, that you're standing completely still in the middle of all your minions.

Literally run in circles around him and he'll basically never hit you. Standing still in POE is a surefire way to get your face melted, but all of Sirus' abilities have very obvious visual and auditory indicators.

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Drekor•

You straight up face tanked the meteors and they all leave ground degens. Something those videos you watched on the fight would have shown you.

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0nlyRevolutions•

Bro why are you standing still and reading your gems instead of dodging abilities

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ACiDRiFT•

What other games have you played? The top level of skill in POE is very quickly dodging attacks and being very aware of your environment. This might take some time if you are used to slower games, Sirus is the endgame boss, some people won't kill him for a long time. Previously Shaper/Elder/Uber Elder were the endgame bosses and there were people who played for years and never beat them.

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You need to be able to analyze your combat, never stand still. This game is easy once you think about it from a blueprint perspective, the bosses have to telegraph attacks and most mean they lock onto you. If you constantly run in a circle you know when an ability is coming because the boss will turn or stop following you, you shouldn't focus on dps and focus purely on dodging mechanics first. I say the same thing to people in WoW in our mythic raid team, prioritize mechanics first then weave in your damage since dead DPS do zero DPS. Think of the boss as a circle with a target line following you, manipulate the bosses line of sight for attacks to survive longer. Never run straight into a boss, circle around him until you can get close to evade all attacks. You will need quick reflexes for this boss and awareness.

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Exploit the bosses weaknesses, he has to target and telegraph attacks so the average person can avoid them, this gives you time to hurt the boss or heal up or think etc. Eventually you will have a rhythm that is second nature and can just time your flame dash or movement skill perfectly with his attacks to have max uptime.

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interstate90OP•

To answer everyone's questions. Yes, this wasn't the best attempt to showcase. I definitely see that I was standing in something and hopefully won't be standing in shit my next run. This game can be brutal at times, but as a very new player this boss is above the brutal gradient.

My point is, what am I missing in order to get this fight down? Other than sarcastic comments of course. Should I swap specs? Classes? try again?

I have the entire run screencapped, but it's over the 200mb imgur limit

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0nlyRevolutions•

The boss became active at about the 8s mark in your video. You need to be ready and already moving - in fact, basically never stop moving. Literally continue running in circles and never stop except to get out of the maze and/or corridor blast.

Only a hugely tanky character can do what you did there, and even then, probably safer to still dodge

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GrumpyDim•

FYI, it’s not a video but a screenshot. Also, congratulations on reaching Sius!

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Kurtsey•

You should try looking again, because it's not a screenshot.

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GrumpyDim•

Tapped twice on it and it would only open a picture... my bad then, just wanted to let you know.

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interstate90OP•

Thanks!! He's a bit harder than I was expecting :D

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