How to Minotaur?

So ive been killing all other 3 guardrians and Shaper deathless, even with some pretty mad mod rolls. But if it comes to Minotaur, i just cant fucking do any shit. Im RF berserker with 10.3k life, 7k armor, 4 endurance chages and fortify 100% uptime, but i cant kill him without dying 4-5 times. On a white map.
If any damage/hp mod - wasted map. Litarelly. If I tank him, and dodge his smashes, i got spammed with falling rocks, 2-3 in a row = rip. If i start to kite him, he burrows - unburrows(no fucking idea how to dodge that coz i cant see him underground) = -6-7k + some attack = rip. Didnt find any tictac for him on poe.wiki, or whatever else, so maybe im doing something rly wrong?
For now only possible way to proceed to Shaper is just trade minotaur fragment from some1, but thats just sucks.

Any tips&tricks?

That's...a bit embarrassing honestly you can do all other bosses but you haven't a single clue of what to do on minatour?

I can stream one if you want I'm BV which is basically the same as RF.

Do not take the slam, step aside.
Do not stand in falling rocks, step aside.
Never stand in the lightning walls.
As far as I can tell, the burrow strike has some "timer" in it, when he decides where he will come up and deal his damage, like the burrow strikes of Shaper and Malachai. Learn the pattern to evade it.

If you avoid all these things, he is just a "DpS vs. sustain" check:
Can you take his normal attacks long enough to kill him?

Get stupid high DPS and Vaal Pact :P. That is how I do him at least, a lot easier for me than Phoenix, though harder than the other two. It seems like this is one of the few bosses that rewards evasion.

Apart from that, the burrow attack is targeted at where you stand (or where your golem is). If he burrows, move. Also you can see the burrow trail on the ground. Maybe try unsummoning your golem to make his burrow always target you, so you know where he goes. The burrow attack also deals damage when he goes underground, and I am pretty sure the area scales with increased area effects on the boss.

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Peterlerock a écrit :

Do not take the slam, step aside.
Do not stand in falling rocks, step aside.
Never stand in the lightning walls.
As far as I can tell, the burrow strike has some "timer" in it, when he decides where he will come up and deal his damage, like the burrow strikes of Shaper and Malachai. Learn the pattern to evade it.

If you avoid all these things, he is just a "DpS vs. sustain" check:
Can you take his normal attacks long enough to kill him?

Ok, 1st slam, i step aside from falling rocks, 10sec after 2nd slam 1 step aside and then i have no space coz falling rocks form slam #1 still falls. So i try to move out and he 100% burrow, if i survive his unburrow - this shit repeats and i just die on another switch.

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h3llraiserlol a écrit :

So ive been killing all other 3 guardrians and Shaper deathless, even with some pretty mad mod rolls. But if it comes to Minotaur, i just cant fucking do any shit. Im RF berserker with 10.3k life, 7k armor, 4 endurance chages and fortify 100% uptime, but i cant kill him without dying 4-5 times. On a white map.
If any damage/hp mod - wasted map. Litarelly. If I tank him, and dodge his smashes, i got spammed with falling rocks, 2-3 in a row = rip. If i start to kite him, he burrows - unburrows(no fucking idea how to dodge that coz i cant see him underground) = -6-7k + some attack = rip. Didnt find any tictac for him on poe.wiki, or whatever else, so maybe im doing something rly wrong?
For now only possible way to proceed to Shaper is just trade minotaur fragment from some1, but thats just sucks.

Any tips&tricks?

Minotaur burrows only when you're NOT in melee range.
When he burrows, he targets your location at the moment the started to burrow.

When he burrows, he deals signifcant AoE damage, creates "sunder"-like wave from his burrow point to target location, dealing significant DAMAGE, when wave reaches target, he unburrows dealling significant AoE DAMAGE.
If you're hit by both wave and burrow/unburrow, you will be oneshotted, most probably.
Burrow has a cooldown.

When minotaur performs downward slam, he deals heavy damage and creates an area with "stonefall" where fall rocks dealing significant DAMAGE and stone golems are spawned. Try to get out of stonefall area as soon as you can (in best scenario - before downward slam hits) Falling rocks can deal damage outside marked area, so dont stand close to its edge. But when you evade downward slam, minotaur will most probably use Burrow, so you must see him on your screen to evade burrow too. If you cant see him, try to run a bit futher, and then return to him. Try to either melee him, or run quite far ways from him. If he'll use burrow when you're at close range, you will have troubles.

And unsummon fucking golem!

If you should go through lightning barrier, use movement skill (Lightning Warp, etc).

Extra AoE mod on Minotaur is kinda dangerous, and makes fight much harder (for other guardians, you can ignore that mod, but not for Minotaur).

most retarded fight totally designed for VP OP shit
fuck it, ill just trade minotaur fragment for others

https://youtu.be/qvnRhGMVp4A?t=82
so retarded. nuff said.

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h3llraiserlol a écrit :

most retarded fight totally designed for VP OP shit
fuck it, ill just trade minotaur fragment for others

https://youtu.be/qvnRhGMVp4A?t=82
so retarded. nuff said.

My Slayer can kill him deathless, if mods arent too hard. I've killed him even with 60% less recovery speed mod (one of the worst for Slayer, cause it slows all leech and regen by 60%).

Minotaur just punishes you for mistakes. Even with VP, you cant "yolo-facetank" him, unless your DPS is crazy and you kill him before he lands second downwards slam.

SOmetimes i think we play different PoE. Coz in mine, with my starforge cyclone slayer(2nd char), with 7k hp, any miserable dps mod on minotaur = oneshot from everything.

Mistakes mistakes bla bla.

Ofc i can dodge 1 slam, 2nd slam, but then just whole zone is spammed with falling rocks, and you just have no space, so you forced to run away => burrow rip again. It works if you have broken damage to kill him in 3sec and can just facetank 1-2hits.

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h3llraiserlol a écrit :

SOmetimes i think we play different PoE. Coz in mine, with my starforge cyclone slayer(2nd char), with 7k hp, any miserable dps mod on minotaur = oneshot from everything.

Mistakes mistakes bla bla.

Ofc i can dodge 1 slam, 2nd slam, but then just whole zone is spammed with falling rocks, and you just have no space, so you forced to run away => burrow rip again. It works if you have broken damage to kill him in 3sec and can just facetank 1-2hits.

Because my Slayer has 9k HP, AA, enfeeble aura and +23% reduced damage from Fortify.

So indeed, we play different PoE's. In mine, i'm tanky enough to deal with Minotaur. In yours, you arent.