PoE Endgame challenges always make me quit as melee

As already said, DPS is king for Feared. Failing that you need very good sustain to be able to ignore most of the dots. I did it on boneshatter of complex trauma jugg which has very good sustain, as long as you manage to keep hitting things. I don't know what my DPS was when I did the fight but I don't think it was much more than 5M, maybe a bit more when I could get overlaps.

For the challenge (4 mods on the invite) I recommend alt spamming until you get 2 good mods, then regal+exalt. Scour and go again if you hit something bad on the regal/ex.

I got hard wrecked by Uber Sirus when I did my first uber runs this league. Might try again now with better DPS.

I've done 5 tries, got furthest on the first attempt. Did really poorly on the remainder. even rolled with four dead mods (im curse immune and don't use accuracy etc.). The only thing I've learnt from the fight is that dread doesn't do his oneshot spell until he has lost some amount of life (not sure how much). So you either avoid damaging him, or kill him depending on which other bosses come out.

Well we got the sirus problem solved. The cortex block DoT pool problem is:

1) They are a ground effect, so pretty much always at the bottom of the z-order for rendering so almost always covered by player / monster projectiles/ particle effects etc.

2) No warning for placement. They are always placed underneath you and start damaging instantly without warning, without voiceline, without any monster animation

3) They are black so hard to see.

4) They are long duration (permanent?)

5) They are a damage type that is hard for most builds to mitigate (phys DoT, so only endurance charges, additional pdr or doppelganger).

6) Due to (2), they are not really avoidable. (i.e. you are being punished for existing, not for making a mistake). If you are crowd controlled when they appear you will probably die.

Lol the first feared I trie post nerf is twinned and vitality boon. I don't think this character is meant to do this.

more dps.