Zelina and Zolin

I feel like it's a very steep step from all other bosses. Others were hard but I could kill them with my build and I felt it was fair, I could see my mistakes and improve.
This fight I tried 30 times, I did manage to kill 1 but I had no resources to finish the fight. I felt like I was playing dark souls with all the rolling around and dodging stuff and I HATE dark souls so I guess I've reached the end. It's ok for a fight to be challenging but I mean this is not enjoyable in my opinion.
This is just my honest and humble feedback. If this is the game you guys want to have, then fine, it's just not for me I guess, I'll just wait for a new PoE 1 league.

It seems broken or something. Not sure if its because I was minions or what but they just wouldn't die. I got one of them to half and did more than half a mill dmg to it. Nothing else took anywhere near that much to kill.

Ive been hard stuck on this for more hours then i want to admit heh (chaos fire chrono), the dps is a problem, but the worst part is the bleed.


It goes thru energy shield... which seems to make this fight next to impossible if you don't have the dps to overcome the selfheal (even with archi), passive flask gain and bleed charms.

They are even bugged. I had the Bug that the fight didnt even start and they were just talking the whole time. Had to redo the whole area.

I had 1.2k life and the bleed goes through 1.1k lmao.
Balance is a joke

Took me a few attempt with this two, and felt even harder with monk, tho what i figured in the fight is to completely ignore Zalina and do damage to Zolin, once Zolin hits a threshold on damage he starts leeching life from Zalina to the point you could oneshot Zalina and then work on Zolin, but ignoring Zalina is damn freaking hard since she keeps pushing. But yah, balance seems kinda off with this two.

how are folks killing zolin? i can get zelina down and zolin to about half..

after that he will do a leech heal on zelina and now zolin is back to full health.. this cycle repeats at nauseum.

its impossible to progress.

Downed the woman and during the 2nd phase the other one kept healing using the woman's life force (blood tethers displayed).
If you have very good spike damage you can kill the him no problem, but as I didn't have I've managed to do so this way:

I've kited him next to the fainted/bleeding other one.
He periodically releases a blood pool like effect that homes on me and starts inflicting physical damage over time debuff after a generous delay.
I've made sure to get it path trough the woman and not let it affect me.
The guy kept skipping the healing move using his partner when doing so.
If he was too far to let the blood pool reach the woman, the 25% healing move was executed. Sometimes even twice in a row.

Now I don't know if the above strategy is intended or it's just some weird coincidence. There were no clues - no npc shoutout, no animations etc..

I've got a pretty decent build. I'm running Hollow Palm as a Ritualist. Most bosses are fair and manageable. but this fight.... this fight sucks something FIERCE. The regen is Far too aggressive, the tracking on the ranged claw slash is too laser focused. and to top it off it seems to inflict a debuff that drains your health until you use a flask.

I just want to get to maps so I can work on gearing up a second char. I don't want to get my asshole inverted because I'm not cheesing hard enough

The game strongly implies that you should kill Zelina to stop the regen - her health goes down when he uses it. But then you kill her and he just keeps doing it lol. Very tedious fight.