Minara Anemina

have I got a fun story for you guys.

First encounter with minara anemina.

She was in a room with the new ST and vaal ST scion plus a rare with increase phys dmg (map was with vulnerability).

I entered the room, lagged for 3 seconds then I found myself surrounded by creeps and sitting in the spinning ST. Then I killed her creeps and died.

Sighed so much, guess I'll have to read the new rogue exiles behaviour.

I killed her yesterday with my lv 71 scion in a lvl 67 map with enfeeble. A hell of a fight. Took about 10 minutes. Nearly died several times. Minutes after the fight, my heart still beat with multistrike! The most exciting experience I ever had in PoE! So much fun! I want more of this.

"

zanno a écrit :

I killed her yesterday with my lv 71 scion in a lvl 67 map with enfeeble. A hell of a fight. Took about 10 minutes. Nearly died several times. Minutes after the fight, my heart still beat with multistrike! The most exciting experience I ever had in PoE! So much fun! I want more of this.

:3

Encountered her yesterday in Solaris Temple (merciless). Before the patch I killed her several times without any problem at all. Yesterday I was killed several times. Her Vaal Summon Skeletons + Minion instability is a really dangerous combination. Finally I switched my gems and went after her with a single attack with leech gem, ignoring her minions completely. After this change, she was quite easy to bring down. When she was dead, I retreated and killed the minions one by one.

Despite the fact that I lost ~20% xp (would have abandoned the fight, if I had more to loose) I enjoyed the fight. It was hard, but with knowledge and tactics you can overcome it.

I encountered her yesterday in a shrine map in Piety's lab ! Fortunally was a map with no sick damage modifiers and I managed to kill her pretty fast but my impression was that her arc hits like a truck

This fight is now bullshit because of two things that put the control over the fight out of your hands:

* lag while loading resources from disk (yeah yeah, "buy SSD". Buy a freaking supercomputer if you wanna fluidly play a game coded for the year 2008)
* a horde of exploding desyncing minions


At least this one time it was worth the hassle:

Just got to A1 cruel and insta ripped to her <.<.

I've just encountered her in a lvl 67 area (no modifiers changing monster damage) with my 75 lvl character - 2,9 k life with MoM, all resists capped at 75%, 30% chance to evade, 34% to block, 5,1k tooltip Lightning Strike DPS. The fight took around 4 minutes and was fairly easy - I was never down to less than 1,5k health - but still challenging, not a face-tank battle it used to be before the buff. I used 4 stacks of Viper Strike and Vulnerability on Minara in-between her Vall Summon Skeletons to slowly bring her health to zero.

I liked it, the fight required a tactic to be used, not just pounding the enemy with my main attack. Considering the fact that my character is rather weak, I'm convinced that this exile is not overpowered.

"

Anseth a écrit :

I liked it, the fight required a tactic to be used, not just pounding the enemy with my main attack. Considering the fact that my character is rather weak, I'm convinced that this exile is not overpowered.

you used hit and run tactics with viper strike to kill her and mostly stay away from her minions. not everyone uses dot skills. your build can kill her, gj. as far as her not being overpowered you have no case.

"

awave a écrit :

"

Anseth a écrit :

I liked it, the fight required a tactic to be used, not just pounding the enemy with my main attack. Considering the fact that my character is rather weak, I'm convinced that this exile is not overpowered.

you used hit and run tactics with viper strike to kill her and mostly stay away from her minions. not everyone uses dot skills. your build can kill her, gj. as far as her not being overpowered you have no case.

As for the "overpowered part" - it was meant to be regarded as my personal opinion about Minara and NOT a fact - I'm really sorry if it sounded like the latter, I guess that I shouldn't have used the word "convinced".


I agree with what you pointed out abouth DOT skills. They are not a necessity and they should't be. I'm just of the opinion that, unless you have a lot of defences/health/DPS (or all three combined), you should't be able to face-tank any difficult mobs, exiles included. Using different skills - traps, curses, mines, movement gems or, what I do, DOT skills AND your main attack/spell should, in my opinion, be mandatory in these kind of encounters.

As I said, I like the buff to Minara - from a "hey, here's an exile, let's spend 30 seconds to kill it and hope for some loot" encounter she changed to a "Wow, this exile is pretty powerful, I need to find a way to kill it" one.



But hey! I don't have to be right about this. I don't have that much experience in PoE as others do. However, I'm more than willing to learn some stuff, so feel free to say what's wrong in my reasoning, and what kind of builds wouldn't be able to kill her using some tactics, be it hit and run, like in my case, or different ones.