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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/Drydek_TV on 2024-12-30 23:26:10+00:00.
Another post - another story mission boss lost to a one portal death. I would like to preface by saying that the one portal per MAP is somewhat ok. It doesn't feel horrendously awful, just really bad. Sure you lose your t16 juiced map, sure you lose multiple exalts, maybe even perfect jewelers orbs cause of the SUPER - let me restate that - SUPER clear on-death effects and ground effects assaulting your eyeballs every quarter of a second being hidden behind the terrain being super-imposed on top of it. Yeah sure. Go next right?
Holy mother of Jesus and all that is holy. I just slogged thru Vaal City and Vaal Forge to get to a Stone Citadel. Side note, why is EVERY single Vaal ANYTHING - unequivocally the worst designed anything they ever make? The style of design is so bad ass, yet their structuring of those zones is...... well. Just run a few. Or don't. Please save your self, don't do it.
ANYWAY - get to Doryani at the end. This is a statement that will more than likely make people be like - WELL DUH. I insta phased the boss, the moment he touched the ground. Cool - I have invested 50 divs into my build I should be rewarded with an ultra powered character. BUT here comes the fun police with their better ideas.
How about we make this boss, have forced phase changes, and when the boss hits ZERO HP, he gets to keep having mechanics? FUN! To paint a picture of how this went down, he then kept moving, using attacks, and his little lazer turret in the middle kept firing off - for a full 18 SECONDS after he's dead. Now this could be my specific hardware setup but this allowed the boss mechanics to keep happening JUUUUUUST long enough for them to glitch out, de-render the attacks, and they conveniently snap back into existence JUST in time for the game to lag spike while rendering back IN the attack that was already on the screen previously, lock me into place, letting Doryani and the lazer to hit me at the same time and I died.
I really am trying, very hard to get through this 500 foot thick brick wall of anti-fun everything to get to the fun part. Which at this point, it's literally just Breach.