I ran to the edge and it goes all the way to the edge. it is the aoe that kills me every time
I’ve played 3000+ hours of PoE and completed all content, with minmax characters. So it’s not skill. And my gear and defences follow the guide.
It’s the aoe that fills the whole screen, which I can’t see any way to mitigate.
That I have to ask here says that there is something pretty poor with the design of this boss imo.
The boss is just fine. Just move aside from the big aoe. Every character can be build to sustain that aoe dmg w/o duying, if you are duying because you can’t avoid simple mechanic or because you don’t have enough resistane, dodge, damage reduction, glancing blow, endurance, hp, ward its totally your fault.
It doesn’t quite fill the entire screen, there are some safe spaced. If the boss is centered in the zone you can run to the edge of the zone to be out of the AoE. If you’re not sure, run to the south as there’s more useable area there.
If the boss is off-centre then running in the other direction will give you more safe space to use, though you do need to be aware of the red bleed/degen pools that creep in from the corners.
Sometimes people need a bit of a helping hand to deal with a mechanic that’s simple when you know how. Telling them to “git gud” or that it’s “their fault” isn’t particularly helpful.
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The mechanic is actually a little sneaky, the first part is the aoe directly around the boss and then the second is inverted, the area close to the boss is safe and the outside is dangerous. I highly suggest having a look at the last video in this post, it explains the mechanics well imo.
exactly. thanks for saying this
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That is definitely true. Having animated many training sessions during my career, I strongly approve of that, it is completely right.
But in this game I also sometimes found that I was the cause of my problems. We all can learn and improve.
The most important thing is not to shame anyone and to keep a constructive and opened point of view.
aha! That is incredibly helpful. I was staying at the bottom, so the dragon moved towards me, and that’s why it’s aoe leaves no room to move once it does that. I need to rush to it and then move in and out of the aoe and donut aoe.
I’ll try again.
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Hi all,
I want to share my experience here too as I died like 5-6 times with one of my toons as well on the boss dragon. It was not due to the reason not knowing the mechanics but I was just too slow. Having no proper movement skill with Sentinal and together with a bad modifier (slow on hit) I just couldn’t escape fast enough. I had to change attributes and switch to movement speed rings to be able to manage. Very annoying!
Please work on Lounge for Sentinal! 
That shouldn’t be correct though I suspect as the AoE graphic is raised off the ground & the angle of the camera makes it appear as though the dangerous area is shifted north.
The youtube video on the boss talks about this and that is what I experienced too. there was no space at the bottom of the screen to stand
Did you drag him all the way down to the starting area? Or does that get sealed off when combat starts? I’ve never run that way, I usually go left or right.
I had that happen, too. Its not the first aoe attack, as hes centred at that point. But if you pull him to a specific direction theres defenitely the possibility that you cannot get out of the aoe radius if you accidentally run away the same vector you pulled him. Theres the boundaries of the arena tha will block you.
Sentinel has the most issues, imho. Even with Shield rush I managed to get stuck on obstacles on my way out. As Primalist you can leap out, Acolyte and Lich can teleport and Rogues shift is very fast and flexible. Shieldrush feels absolute clunky to use in that situation…
But if it’s the second time he does the AoE so you know that it’s a very big AoE, even if you don’t know specifically how large, you’ve pulled him in one direction, why would you continue to run in that direction?
After I got used to the mechanics of the fight I never had an issue with him on a Sentinel & I’ve usually just run out of the way with just the 10-30% movement speed on my boots.
That’s called panic. 
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I decided to just facetank it, but hey, that’s just me 
My build is incredibly tanky but all the bosses take about 25-30 min to kill 
Only boss I have problems with is Lagon but I’m tweaking my build to sustain his beam too 
Hey,
I just made a Highlight for the boss you’re struggling with, same build than you pretty much, it’s selfmade so idk if things are differents but the spell is the same. Hope it helps, tape is from like 10 days ago so nothing changes in term of stats etc
The affixes are pretty juicy too : Twitch
Make sure your Necrotic resistance is maxed for this fight and have as much armor as your build will allow. You also want to make certain you have your movement key reserved for the big AOE attack.
If push comes to shove, perhaps invest some time in a durable Sentinel build such as boardman21’s Regifter Paladin; you can face tank the Emperor no problem with that build and it will allow you to see further content.
Yeah! You would have known that for the very first time. I guess you always run around that dragon 2 rounds, then to the opposite site, collecting some health potions on the way, sorting inventory and answering forum posts…
So Mr. Smarty, you didn’t even know that this is an issue. You obviously just always chose the right way by accident. Don’t pretend this all is smart playing!
