Bahlak, the Sky Seer's tornado is terrible design, especially for melee.

+1

I have played Path of Exile for many, many years. This is easily the worst boss I've ever had the displeasure of fighting; by a FAR stretch.

I have been postponing the last ascension because both ascendancy options are one of the most frustrating, unenjoyable gaming experiences I've had in a while. Your milage may vary here, some love it, but I can't stand either option.

I just did two lvl 77 or so Ultimatums. BOTH of them I breezed to wave 7 not even being remotely close to being in danger. BOTH of them I died to the Sky Seer. BOTH of them I got him to around 20% and died to the tornado.

I KNOW the tornado is coming. I'M WAITING FOR IT! And I still died to it.

You can say "get gud" and all the stupid shit the poe community regurgitates to feel superior but this fight is atrocious, even in early access.

Edit: And just to add on to the ascendancy options, "Sanctum" aka Balbala trials aren't hard for me; I know I can do the 4 floor one but I just _really_ don't want to interact with it. I truly dislike it that much, and I would rather not play at all than do it.

I guess I'll just keep playing through the entire endgame with 3/4 ascendancies until this awful ascendancy design gets fixed. I simply don't want to engage with it, I don't care about the character power, I'll manage without. I play games to have fun, not to deal with this shit.

The tornado moves too fast and does too much damage. The problem is that if you don't have 30% or more movement speed, you cannot beat this boss unless you're able to one-shot him before he spawns it. This is bad design.

yeah... its... "doable" but the fight actually could use some melee love.

Agreed. Even with 30%+ movement speed I can't outrun the Tornado that instakills you. Total bullshit and almost make me quit the game for good.

Yeah the bird can eat it. Unless you have insane movement speed you are eating the tornado and his fly up and slam everytime which means you are probably getting one shot if you don't have good life/es

Well done GGG - you actually made a worse boss than Maven. I didn't think it was possible lol

I came here just to make a topic on this boss and voila, one was already in the first page.

The tornado damage is WAY overtuned i think, almost like 1 extra digit off. Can you guys please take another look at it? It just feels off compared to the rest of the trial itself. Thank you!

Bump.

Bump bump bump bump bump!

This tornado is a joke. I am honestly baffled how this made it into the game. Did someone misplace a decimal point on the tornado damage? EVERY time this tornado appears I die. On every character. Every class. I've never beaten the thing. The other two bosses? Respectable challenges (although the chimera flies around too much). This boss? FML

6 months later the problem is still there, this being a testament to GGG's capacity at game building.
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What do you know!! This boss is STILL utter bullsh*t for melee characters. The tornado LITERALLY stayed right on top of him the whole time. I couldn’t see a god damned thing nor could I even get close to him to even hit him. I just logged out because I was GUARANTEED to die since getting even close to the tornado just started MELTING my health

NOBODY at GGG tests any part of their game NOR do they even play it - AT ALL WHATSOEVER. Otherwise, SOO many horrid ridiculous decisions that have been implemented would NOT be any part of this game. FIX THIS BULLSH*T ALREADY GGG AND WHILE YOURR AT IT FIX THE GOD DAMNED ENDLESS FREEZING THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THR DAWN OF THE HUNT

UNACCEPTABLE. I can be playing on a RTX 3060 or a 4080 and it still perpetually stutters and freezes. IT HAS BEEN MONTHS THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM 🤬 GGG will add MTX and sell stupid plushies- ANYTHING to avoid fixing their god damned game