[3.15] Spectral Shield Throw Bleed Gladiator - tanky & fast mapping - good scaling - all content

"

artisanix wrote:

"

wotad wrote:

Any tips overall on what I should upgrade next is welcome also.

I would probably focus on two items first.

1) Your current shield has ~2300 armour - and final goal here is to have a shield with 2900+ armour, as this will be a very good increase in overall damage, probably more than what you can achieve by tweaking your gems now.

2) If your play style is more ranged/defensive then you may want to change that claw you have for some warlord influenced 1H weapon with increased physical damage over time, and bleeding over time. You'll probably sacrifice max block, and some life on hit, but added damage may be noticeable.

Thanks for your tips and good to see a guide actually active haha other builds I tried or posted in for other skills were not active.

Yo, I have 22ex to spend. How do I make him Sirius 8 viable? Could someone help`me out?

"

SiAnKo wrote:

Yo, I have 22ex to spend. How do I make him Sirius 8 viable? Could someone help`me out?

The question is how many times you fought Sirus before?
As this is mostly a "mechanical" fight. Success is determined mainly by player's knowledge of the fight, damage only helps "slightly".

Anyway, in the first place get your man a better shield...
You should aim at something with 2900+ armour - the bigger the better of course.

And you may want to drop Cruelty from your gem setup and replace it with Divergent Chance to Bleed with 20% qual for instance.

I fought sirius like 2 times and booth times I lost, guess I just need to get better.
Upgraded my shield and armor for now

Guess now it's time to practise. Just did a Vaal Temple with nasty mods and never dropped in life... Its ez mode now I guess

POB says that bleed would do less damage

"

SiAnKo wrote:

I fought sirius like 2 times and booth times I lost, guess I just need to get better.
Upgraded my shield and armor for now

Guess now it's time to practise. Just did a Vaal Temple with nasty mods and never dropped in life... Its ez mode now I guess

POB says that bleed would do less damage

At max block I don't even dodge A9 die beam anymore, I just stand in it. Do you have really bad chaos res or what is killing you in the fight?

I have no chaos at all I think.. Could make some I guess?!

"

SiAnKo wrote:

I have no chaos at all I think.. Could make some I guess?!

None as in -60% or 0%, because 0% is decent enough as long as you don't stand in his storms or something

yep its -60, tryed to craft a chaos belt with hunter mods, dunno should i try further? No Chaos but seems nice



Got myself some nice chaos res items :)

"

SiAnKo wrote:

I fought sirius like 2 times and booth times I lost, guess I just need to get better.

That's normal. Most of exiles died in couple of first fights with him.
The general idea is that you want to keep an eye on him constantly during fights, so being in melee range is far better than trying to exchange blows from a distance. So if he teleports himself in a certain direction, just follow him immediately to close the distance
You may want to watch some tutorials on youtube that analyzes the fight, that knowledge may be helpful to get better quicker.



Don't forget to have immunity to corrupted blood as well on one of your jewels on skill tree, as one variant of die beam applies such debuff on you if you miss just one block. Or at least be prepared to quickly use a life flask with such immunity, though such jewel is better still.

And I'm not convinced by Cruelty setup here - Sirus has so much life that's impossible to trigger the full bonus from Cruelty with this build. So Swift Affliction or Unbound Ailments or Divergent Chance to Bleed max qual is probably a better idea for that fight.

Im about to get my second sirus also.. I did it once this league with cyclone and got blasted I have no chaos resistance also do you need it for sirus or just immune to corrupted?

I could probs get to 0 though through belt and body armor change.

I only have around 10 ex atm so maybe cant get new shield and body for that depending how much they cost.