Azmadi is unbeatable for melee druid

This fight is so poorly designed for melee, phase 2 all his attacks are 1 shots and there's not enough time to do any damage as melee between his attacks. I've asked other melee and their response was I paid someone to beat him for me. 1400 hours in POE2 early access and this just makes me want to uninstall and never play the game again. This fight was a joke as a ranged character last season. Glad GGG has done nothing to balance this fight for their Druid class.

EDIT: while still annoying, was able to basically face him down but needed to basically reroll into a (relative) buttload of ES in addition to armour. This at least lets you somewhat get tickled by bad placement (still can get one tapped tho by the big attacks). might give that a shot if still having issues.

agreed...my dude has been more than fine in every other fight/instance. was having a pretty fun time with the build until this. more deaths on this fight than the rest of the entire campaign. this one is just instadeath after phase 1. throw in the unskippable intro and map you can't fully see (despite getting one shot from across screen), and you've got a winning combination. maybe i'll "get gud" and learn the fight a bit more in depth later, but this one sucked the fun right out of the leveling game and made me turn comp off and touch grass.

Yes! I just made the decision to quit the game.

It's fun and challenging as ranged, often pretty easy and as usual a face roll as DeadEye, but as a bear druid, I don't see how it's mechanically possible making it a shit show design wise.

Na, fail GGG

Took me 10 tries to beat him as the bear. Absolutely the most frustrating boss fight of the game. AND you have to fight him 3 times each time he kills you. The sadomasochist devs love to punish us. Also, as a bear I get knocked down constantly regardless of stun threshold level. Fresh from town I will get knocked down by the first quill. It's ridiculous. I also think armor is broken again.

Not unbeatable but definitely very, very annoying. I pretty much lucked into a kill where he didn't have enough time to use his one shot thrust attack. That move is too fast for the instakill it can do and it also makes it impossible to charge directly at him. I had to rampage in circles around him and even then, he would still occasionally hit me with the one-shot thrust and instakill me. I think that move should be nerfed, but I also don't like how Azmadi can sometimes randomly decide to stay in a corner. It's like the game is baiting you into being one-shot by either an offscreen attack or a thrust if you try to get up close to him.

It is a silly fight but as a bear druid I had to basically dodge everything and just get in some chip damage after the moves that leave him the most exposed. Not fun at all to spend more time dodging stuff than attacking but eventually you wear him down.