Zolin & Zelina Bosses undoable with minions due to leech

+1 cant kill them with minion build. Stuck in SSF.

I've tried everything, Vaal Specters. They throw so many exploding grenades that I can't see ANYTHING... and anyway, the two bosses are always at full health.

I've already wasted over five hours... enough is enough.

I'm quitting Poe2, I'm going to play Diablo IV.

I thought GGG was more serious than this.

took 20 mins, managed to brute force the first guy down enough times he stayed down in the first 1-2 mins then after about 5 mins of watching her leech back to full health I unsummoned everything except a ranged unit and just rolled around the arena firing off ED.

Once you learn the attack pattern it's quite easy to kite her around the arena, but the whole regen/leech on bosses is a cancer mechanic that should not exist in any game, ever. It's just bad design.

I'm not at all specc'd for ED either, i've just got some chaos nodes for duration buffs and a 70% spell damage shield (Lv65).

I was able to do this, but I agree the fight is dumb against minion builds.

lvl 70 eldrich witch, probably don't need 70.

The strat I did used 3 vaal guards from act 3 (the fire bombers), be tanky 1k hp and 600 energy shield. Focus the priestress first (the melee one), have 2 skeleton warriors (the free one from the scepter), and keep sacrificing them for more dmg (that one skill). Keep dodge rolling into the priestress's back 24/7 (I was able to dodge her leeching life claw attacks, her light jabs doesn't hurt that much and doesn't leech, so you have a good few seconds to dps/debuff her) while she is getting fire bombed by the vaal guards.

Was able to down her in few attempts with this strat.

Bump, soft locked due to this boss fight being near impossible with minion build

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DisposableHeero#1679 wrote:

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Hana51#0580 wrote:

I don't get how this wasn't planned from the start, them leeching from minions just make almost every minion build unable to finish the campaign...

Basically Every minion build on the north side of the tree can pickup Heartstopping Presence and put Acrimony on a chaos dot skill with prolonged duration and keep it up on both bosses. This is 125% reduced life regeneration rate for the bosses which zeros out their leech and makes the fight trivial for minion players. This costs 4 respecs (sub 10k gold) an uncut gem and 2 uncut supports. It is absolutely within reach of every minion player at the stage of the game these bosses appear. It is an easy problem to overcome if you look at the tools available.

Tied this, didn't work. Still massive leech with the life regen debuf.

I didn't play 0.2. I decided to try 0.3. I spent more than 10 hours going through an extremely tedious company with my minions. And instead of getting to the endgame, I got stuck on the last bosses.
I spent a couple of hours trying and realized that I wasn't going to waste any more time on this crap — if the developers and testers don't understand what they're doing.

I managed to kill them with a minion build (Lich with Necromantic Conduit and Blackened Heart).

It took me about 7 tries to find a working strategy, then 3 tries before succeeding.

I used ant spectres, ravenous swarm, and chaos DOT and bolt for this fight, with a hit and run tactic on Zelina. I had the impression the life leech was lower with the spectres. Don't even try to use skellies.

The principle is to target both bosses with DOT to maintain pressure. When Zolin heals, it drain life from Zelina: that's the moment to target Zelina for a damage spike.

Never let the spectres too long on Zelina, or she will start targeting them. Move them to Zolin before she starts leeching and go at her to take aggro.

Try to keep Zelina aggro (usually not to hard since anything tend to target you whatever your minions do), and dodge roll her while the ants eat her.

Get as much time on Zelina as possible without letting her target minions. Once she goes down, Zolin is easy dead meat.

You will probably need a few tries because of corrupting blood and your empty life flask, but it's doable (and yes, it's tedious. I understand why you may quit at this boss).



With a necromancer, this fight is *really* hard compared to any other campaign bosses and definitely needs to be fixed.

Vaal Spectres destroyed them but idk about weaker minions.

I used vaal gaurds and brutes with stun and just ran around they died eventualy.