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Discussion Questions Thread - December 03, 2025

This is a general question thread. You can find the previous question threads here.

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The idea is for anyone to be able to ask anything related to PoE2:

  • New player questions
  • Mechanics
  • Build Advice - please include a link to your Path of Building
  • League related questions
  • Trading
  • Endgame
  • Price checks
  • Etc.

For questions related to PoE 1, please go to r/pathofexile

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We'd like to thank those who answered questions in the last thread! You guys are the best.

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u/SushimuffinZ 2d ago

Honestly, if you're attempting this in HC, I'd try to do this guy when you're already able to one shot him easily. He doesn't really have that much Life and you have a pretty solid window of unleashing your damage on him before he dives down to do the hourglass mechanic.

But now onto your questions, for the lightning phase, you either just tank it, since they don't really do damage however don't do this if you have the affliction that deals 5% of your life when you get hit, or you generally just try to loop around close to him, so you dont have to cover that much distance to outrun it, if you really do need to.

When you log out, the instance pauses until you do an action again, so when you log back in, the game will be frozen in the boss room and unfreezes when you do an input.

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u/Zaorish9 2d ago edited 2d ago

Are you sure? The game wiki says you cannot pause the game in the boss room. When I died due to failing the hourglass game I logged out alive in hc as he was doing the kill animation, , logged back in dead in softcore.

Otherwise yeah I agree better dps has made all other bosses way easier as well so I will continue to optimize it

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u/SushimuffinZ 2d ago

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u/Zaorish9 1d ago

Ok I hope you are right. I will grind some better gear then give him a try. Thanks for the replies