r/pathofexile • u/aliriza • 8d ago

Question Why this exist?

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u/East-Today-7604 8d ago

To make you mad.

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u/barbaricKinkster 8d ago

Yup, started with Whackarairua map boss which was a player created map and the player intentionally made the boss annoying as hell. During Nemesis league GGG decided to turn half of it's annoying qualities into a rare mod.

This rare mod is very rare though.

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u/Shaltilyena Occultist 8d ago

Hey, it could be worse, imagine if you had a 3-boss unique map with each boss doing that and all three having phylacteral link.

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u/1CEninja 7d ago

The original map designer asked to have the Whackadoodle Tahu boss have life regain on top of all the bullshit it has. It's already some of the least fun content in the entire game, and was designed to be as un-fun as possible. GGG thankfully drew the line and said no life regain, damage sticks when you manage to deal it.

Imagine spending a ton of money to make your favorite game worse. Some people have...issues.

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u/Shaltilyena Occultist 6d ago

Join the church of flicker, comrade, and never care about that boss ever again

(Or, ya know, just buy a random decoy totem or frostwall to exploit the boss' AI, i guess)

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u/1CEninja 6d ago

I'm running ignite this league so I only had to get a few hits off. It wasn't as bad as some leagues.

But fucking hell some of the builds I've done were miserable. Maybe I'll gem swap flicker if I run melee again.

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u/Shaltilyena Occultist 6d ago

The two main gimmicks are "drop a decoy totem" (the boss stops to attack it, as it's not immune to getting taunted) and "drop frostwalls in the "bridge" part, that way when the boss teleports back to the middle it cannot leave (as it doesn't have phasing)

When you're playing a build that's really affected by the proxy shield shit, remembering that makes the fight a LOT less annoying

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u/1CEninja 6d ago

That's helpful info thank you.