Blackjaw is a garbage boss, one shot mechanics shouldn't exist in any game.

The issue is that dodge roll is a massive bait in this game. It's absolutely useless in 90% of cases and literally just running without doing anything is way more effective. As soon as I stopped trying to dodge roll I beat this boss. The mechanic is trash and should either be removed or made useful.

Off-screen attacks shouldnt be able to trouble you because the boss shouldnt be off-screen in the first place. But it does have a problem and that is his fire cleave hitbox which doesnt correspond to the animation, especially the part behind his back

Never tried bosses more than 6-7 times before I finally killed them. Some, oneshotted.

Which is nothing, compared to a souls like game where you will lose your mind at some point, and no, my build was not a broken build, it took me about 2 to 4 minutes to kill some bosses.

For me the problem is the reward, not the difficulty.

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913dinor#3498 wrote:

Blackjaw attacks you off-screen. You are unable to see when the attack will occur, and the attack window between hits is too short to avoid the attacks from distance.

Boss health bar really annoying me in poe2. I can't see boss attack because of it.


The triple strike attack is designed to circle the boss, but the file projectile attack prevents you from staying near him all the time.

This is the final line for me, I'm done with the game, if we get buffs/nerfs I will come back.

Chimera boss is also bad but at least it doesn't one shot you.

None of the bosses you mentioned can one shot you if you have the right gear. According to your logic not even the absolute highest pinnacle encounter should be able to oneshot you then if your gear is just garbage.

Yep. Been a few pretty bad bosses so far, but this one's the worst. Hitboxes do NOT line up w/ visuals, which should be considered a priority bug. Also has about twice the health bar that would make this fun and enjoyable instead of a frustrating death after 10 minutes. Ugh, I'm clearly getting sick of this game, keeps putting me in a bad mood. Time to move on.

I mean, even if I kill him I'll just get a piece of magic-rarity monk gear for my witch as a reward. What's the point?

Blackjaw feels like a walk in the park compared to what comes after him. His HP pool isn't large so people with good gear or OP builds can melt his HP down so fast he may only use the one-shot skill 1 time.

I say this because of the Forgemaster and Viper, these two are even more ridiculous than Jamanra the act 2 boss, the HP pool is absolutely ridiculous for these two, makes me wonder who playtested them in Alpha and what builds they were running and how on earth they thought it would be fine to force everyone, the vast majority of casual players included to fight them in the current state. Forgemaster isn't hard at all to dodge, but the enrage timer/ hard dps check is not what ARPGs boasting build diversity is supposed to be about. Imagine if Elden Ring bosses have an enrage timer and force you to do max dps, FromSoft would never consider anything like this because it's just flat out contradictory to the idea of 'slow, methodical, skill-based' combat. Since gearing up when you're stuck at a boss isn't realistic, you're forcing players to look up guides online, and I'm not talking about boss guides for MMORPGs or soulslike where you learn boss mechanics, I mean build guides on how to min-max damage, so players stuck at these ridiculously designed and tuned bosses will be shoehorned to use the same skills and same gems and same passive tree talents just to stand a chance. And if they then proceed to beat the boss, they aren't going back to previous builds and skill gems. This goes against build diversity and player choice, pillars of the ARPG experience.

Problem is not that many players actually care about theorycrafting and min-maxing their builds to that extreme extent, most players are running undergeared, sub-optimal builds through the campaign so they're forced to engage with boss mechanics the hard way. The min-maxers with their OP builds are part of the reason why some campaign bosses are as they are and yet to be nerfed because they make everything seem easy.

range of boss combo - 99999 metres.

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cawpoe718#1178 wrote:

The issue is that dodge roll is a massive bait in this game. It's absolutely useless in 90% of cases and literally just running without doing anything is way more effective. As soon as I stopped trying to dodge roll I beat this boss. The mechanic is trash and should either be removed or made useful.

funny enough... exactly as in Elden ring (roll is a trap 90% of time in elden ring )

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Ovari#3383 wrote:

Off-screen attacks shouldnt be able to trouble you because the boss shouldnt be off-screen in the first place. But it does have a problem and that is his fire cleave hitbox which doesnt correspond to the animation, especially the part behind his back

YEah That is the true issue with this boss. As soon as I learned the true range of his attacks.. it became easy. Problem is.. the game deceives you.

blackjaw cruel is one of the few bosses that actually needs to pay attention in sofcore so plz let him be.