Just killed all four Shaper guardians for the first time in my PoE career. Thanks to your guide, I killed all of them, first try, deathless. Made the fights much more bearable when I easily could have seen myself using every portal learning their attack patterns and gimmicks. You showed off all their attacks in such a simple and straightforward way, your guides are the kind of videos I wish other people could make. Simple and to the damn point.
I did my first 2 guardian runs with the help of this guide, awesome bro, keep up the good work (the build i used is the crit dark pact zerker you posted lol)
As someone who just started with PoE a few days ago, I absolutely love your videos! Very entertaining to watch, an I learn a lot. Thanks for making such good quality content!
3.0 Updates: Minotaur is now only immune to Knockback, Stun & Freeze Hydra is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze Phoenix is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze Chimera is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze As an update on on the Chimera Fight, Huizui did some research on the damage that he performs. You can check out his analysis here: www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/67iop7/kinetic_blast_full_chimera_guide/dgqv16i/?context=3 The data presented in this video was pulled from poedb.
First time doing all the guardians today. Watched each guardian section before fights only a few deaths and most were simply because I neglected to remember a move. I found the Phoenix blast to bigger than I expected. 1 shot me twice. Other than that most of it was just staying on the move and attacking when the opening came. Thanks for your help! Onto elder and shaper soon.
Hello! This is a fantastic and well-written guide. I've used it to beat three of the guardians so far, and I have one tiny piece of feedback: On the Minotaur fight, I know you mention the slow from the lightning wall, but I would recommend more emphasis on it. In the video, you are immune to this slow, and I missed it on my first round at the boss. It took me by surprise. But other than that, fantastic video and it is easy to understand.
lol, should have come here first but wth I cleared the corrupted minotaur map with monsters 99% added lightning damage and poision on hit (along with several other mods ofc). I did so well on the t15 maps I went straight for the t16... man was i surprised! I was like "WTF is going on with his health? I'm hitting him right?" 8x a t15 map bosses health... lol
Amazing guides, for this and other content. Maybe it's a bit much but some annotation updates would be great to keep them relevant. Such as these guardians not being immune to chill anymore, as a lot of people use Hypothermia these days.
Killed Chimera on my first try ever thanks to your guide!, died 2-3 times on the phases he disappeared and for some reason those cloud-like things were black for me, so it got me a bit confused
Nice guide mate thanks. But there is a mathematical error i need to tell. Reducing the player's fire resistance by -50% means, increase fire resistance. If you say reduce you don't need to put minus. :D
sir, you saved me many deaths and really helped me get through these encounters on my first play through. Kudos for the fantastic videos, I love it. Next time I want an MTX I'm going to send it your way instead.
Nice guide, i'd like to add: don't even try chimera without good clear speed aoe skill, like 6L one... Add phase is actually harder than Chimera himself
Awesome as always. You definitely meet expectations! :D 17:20 if you time your movement skill(with enough attack/cast speed) while chimera performing hidden attack you can dodge it actually. btw. how do you know that "x" boss deals "x%" amount of dmg rather than "y%"?
Ok so my problem with Chimera and literally only issue i have is cloud phase. He literally stuns me each attack so i cant flame dash and or use my quick silver to run fast. Is there something Im not getting? In this video you just walk around easily.
extremely good quality content. but you did mention fortify and endurance charges all over(primarily). what about builds that do not have those?? mitigations??
builds that dont have physical % mitigation are kinda fked. but they are normally only made for farming strands and stuff and not bosskillers. but you could also buy the keys.
you should never have evasion as your only layer of defence. if your evasion fails (and it will, as its entropy based, so the more often you evade, the higher the chance that the next attack will hit you), the youre kinda dead lol. in the video you can see how much dmg he takes with fortify up (20%dmg reduction) etc. evasion can be a layer of defence when you have 10-15k energy shield, as you will most likely survive if a hit comes through. and then you get back energy shield while you evade. but if you cant survive a 1shot, then evasion is almost useless as these fight can take very long. another thing is that armor itself is super useless against bosses. like SUPER useless. its good against small enemies like archers etc, but against bosses 7k armor mitigates like 1-5% physical dmg xD basically: try to get fortify in your build (linked to movement skill for example, running into boss with it every 5 seconds), try to get a shitton of life or energy shield, try to get stun immunity (especially if you are energy shield), get your resistances capped (135% in hideout). then think about %physical mitigation, evasion, dodge, block and spellblock, and +# to maximum elemental resistances as additional layers of defence.
but is it possible to have fortify and endurance charges on every build?? I don't think so- in that case you must rely on your other ways to mitigate incoming damage. capping resistances is a must for any build that wishes to go past level 75.
essence of horror on a weapon, enduring cry, warlords mark with either curse on hit or blasphemy, there are many passive skill notes that generate endurance charges, etc. its not a must but it helps alot. you can link fortify to any melee spell (like blade flurry, where you actually gain alot of dmg) and the movementskills (as most of them are melee) and it is posibble to have foritfy and charges on every build, as its your personal build so you can decide what to pick up and what not to pick up. without alot of % physical dmg reducion you just need other layers of defence.
Awesome! I havent tried them yet, but seeing you having 7k health and taking so much damage I dont believe I can survive the Chimera. Im at 13 - 14 level maps and Im doing OK, but I have no idea how to improve my build to survive these encounters. Im with double Ancestral warchief totems. DPS from one of them is about 73k to a total of 146k when they are both active, but my health is lacking and my only way of regenerating is shouts with the Ascension that gives my shout 25% health and mana regen on shout. Also I am using endurance charges (Got them to 5 from the tree) and Immortal call, as well as fortify on leap. Another problem is that there is something not really compatible with my PC and the game and I have big FPS drops and freezes sometimes. Sad story.
Chimera's cloud phase is BS. I killed all the other guardians deathless. But i die to this undodgeable move that I have to rng whirling blades through clouds fast as possible and hope I find him. Great design
@engineering eternity - you might want to update this. In 3.0 the guardians were reworked and many of their immunities were removed. I still love your videos, but I've needlessly spent the last month in fear of two guardians, thinking my Viper Strike couldn't touch them! Source: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1930316 From that source: Many unique monsters which were previously immune to Ailments have had their immunities removed, with the exception of Freeze. Notably, this includes several Beyond Demons, the Atziri Trio, Atziri herself, The Shaper and his Guardians, among others.
Is this guide still up to date? EE says in the video that chimera is immune to bleed but the wiki only says: 80% Less Curse Effectiveness, Cannot Be Fully Slowed, Immune To Knockback. So Im wondering if I can make use of bloodlust or not?
I did phoenix deathless with my cyclone build kind of crimson, 5.3k hp but mixed with evasion and armour hahahaha hydra on the other hand was extremely hard
Who is the hardest of them in your opinion? I think it was the phoenix, he is 6 times harder than others, it wasted me 2 map to beat him. My 1st result of fighting them : Chimera - 0 death Minotaur - 0 death Hydra - 1 death Phoenix - 6 death
Second time I've noticed this. Wraeclast isn't the world. It's the continent. You're being _exiled_ to Wraeclast, from the empire of Oriath. I'm sure somebody else has pointed that out to you by now, but it's only been a month, so who knows.
No clue what to do about the Chimera guy. I managed to kill all other guardians but this one is unbeatable. I manage to kill all the lesser enemies and make it to the last phase and then he makes this cloud bullshit and that never stops. I have no clue how to get him out of this. Im zipping through the entire arena with my whirling blades, trying to find that fucker, but I can't get him out. And he's jumping me constantly. Furthermore there is no white fog anymore. It's just the barely visible red mist now. And it's everywhere. It stretches across the entire arena. There's not an inch where you are safe and he doesn't jump you while being invincible. Lost all my portals to just that now. Absolutely sucks. So frustrating, honestly. I can buy a dozen of those maps now, but I don't see a point when it doesn't seem to be possible to get him out of that shit fog? Otherwise it wouldn't be any problem to kill him but game makes him invicible in gives him godmode.
Currently running phoenix all day long with my flicker... running all map mods except phys reflect, cannot leech. But map mods like added projectiles are really dangerous by itself. Inc aoe is only really bad if you got temp chains too.^^
Never seen any guides as good as these... and believe me I hunt round.
Amazing, you keep on pumping out quality content.
Just killed all four Shaper guardians for the first time in my PoE career.
Thanks to your guide, I killed all of them, first try, deathless. Made the fights much more bearable when I easily could have seen myself using every portal learning their attack patterns and gimmicks. You showed off all their attacks in such a simple and straightforward way, your guides are the kind of videos I wish other people could make. Simple and to the damn point.
The best of presentation and explanation. Your guides are the epitome of guides. I hope you get to keep doing this because this is fantastic.
most people think chimera's flicker/smoke cloud phase is bug when they do it 1st time (me too) :) nice video , keep it up
I did chimera today and died 6 times to the smoke phase, i didn't know what to do, i panicked so hard, that's why i'm here.
@@Figuinot 2 years later , same for me. sadly even after i knew he still kills me before i can find him
Best guide ever. Im doing minotaur today for the first time and this helped a lot!
I did my first 2 guardian runs with the help of this guide, awesome bro, keep up the good work (the build i used is the crit dark pact zerker you posted lol)
What a good guide. I've reached this point in the game for the first time in HC and this saved my life.
As someone who just started with PoE a few days ago, I absolutely love your videos! Very entertaining to watch, an I learn a lot. Thanks for making such good quality content!
+Dritos Thank you!
Oh god, a guide where you explain crafting and essense crafting will be my best youtube video in 2017
3.0 Updates:
Minotaur is now only immune to Knockback, Stun & Freeze
Hydra is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze
Phoenix is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze
Chimera is now only immune to Knockback & Freeze
As an update on on the Chimera Fight, Huizui did some research on the damage that he performs. You can check out his analysis here:
www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/67iop7/kinetic_blast_full_chimera_guide/dgqv16i/?context=3
The data presented in this video was pulled from poedb.
extremely well done guide, keep em coming ! finally a detailed video about the guardian's mechanics / attacks !
I'm happy that I've found a channel like yours. Very helpful content, thank you for doing this!
love your videos, this really helped me on hardcore to get these bosses down, thanks again!
Chimera hidden attack CAN be dodged, iam using vaal grace for it and its works. Anyways, great vid as always!
woah the quality on this is insane! I wished my game looked this good when I play, my computer is a potato :(
great straightforward video, thank you for posting these
Thank You, this is the best video I have ever seen on this subject!
Thank you for this guide. They were easier than expected even with 4,9kHP/~700ES/900Mana(MoM), except the Minotaur, that was a hard/long fight ☺
A very nice video. Has a high-quality look an feel, good job.
First time doing all the guardians today. Watched each guardian section before fights only a few deaths and most were simply because I neglected to remember a move. I found the Phoenix blast to bigger than I expected. 1 shot me twice. Other than that most of it was just staying on the move and attacking when the opening came.
Thanks for your help!
Onto elder and shaper soon.
Excellent guide as always. Thanks
This content is so good, you should have a lot more subscribers! Thanks again.
Amazing indepth guide, thank you for this!
Hello! This is a fantastic and well-written guide. I've used it to beat three of the guardians so far, and I have one tiny piece of feedback: On the Minotaur fight, I know you mention the slow from the lightning wall, but I would recommend more emphasis on it. In the video, you are immune to this slow, and I missed it on my first round at the boss. It took me by surprise. But other than that, fantastic video and it is easy to understand.
Just wanted to say thanks for this video. Just did all 4 for the first time on one map each. Couldn't have done it without your video.
Awesome, really happy to hear that my guides helped you out!
your channel is mirror worthy.
Tyvm for these videos you are awesome please keep them coming and keep up the awesome work. I'm subbed for life!!
Thank you. Your guides are amazing and I wish I can get to the same level sometime.
Thanks for doing these awesome videos!!!! =D
Your Videos are so good, I'm not very good at POE but you help alot.
Amazing video man! keep up the great work!
It's criminal how few subs you have, keep up the good work!
This really helped me a lot. Thanks for the guide!
Really in depth giude!
Ty very much.
lol, should have come here first but wth I cleared the corrupted minotaur map with monsters 99% added lightning damage and poision on hit (along with several other mods ofc). I did so well on the t15 maps I went straight for the t16... man was i surprised! I was like "WTF is going on with his health? I'm hitting him right?" 8x a t15 map bosses health... lol
Best POE guides out there. Keep up the good work!
Amazing guides, for this and other content. Maybe it's a bit much but some annotation updates would be great to keep them relevant. Such as these guardians not being immune to chill anymore, as a lot of people use Hypothermia these days.
Cannot thank you enough, managed to kill all guardians and shaper thanks to ur tutorials. Congrats on the job, please keep on doing it =)
Great guides mate :)
i mean, yeah! This guide was extremely cute, clear and helpful, thanks for the video!
Killed Chimera on my first try ever thanks to your guide!, died 2-3 times on the phases he disappeared and for some reason those cloud-like things were black for me, so it got me a bit confused
Says to stay outside the chimera circle. Stays inside. What a boss.
Haha, I did it for demonstrations of damage you take, even with all of the defenses.
Chimera melts me. I have 6k life fortify up with staunching flask and his smoke phase murders me every time.
subbed.
first try easy kills. awesome explanations, gonna watch the shaper vid next :)
Nice guide mate thanks. But there is a mathematical error i need to tell. Reducing the player's fire resistance by -50% means, increase fire resistance. If you say reduce you don't need to put minus. :D
Lovely guide, much appreciated, thanks.
thanks awesome as always keep em coming
i remember first time e met minotaur was rly hard ... but after several runs all guardians to me become ez cake
Thank you!
sir, you saved me many deaths and really helped me get through these encounters on my first play through. Kudos for the fantastic videos, I love it. Next time I want an MTX I'm going to send it your way instead.
nice guide
thanks bro helped me alot
awesome guide, could you tell me what build have you used in this video?:)
Nice guide, i'd like to add: don't even try chimera without good clear speed aoe skill, like 6L one... Add phase is actually harder than Chimera himself
Awesome as always. You definitely meet expectations! :D
17:20 if you time your movement skill(with enough attack/cast speed) while chimera performing hidden attack you can dodge it actually.
btw. how do you know that "x" boss deals "x%" amount of dmg rather than "y%"?
awsme vid full of content gj man !
thx lerned mutch and got my first kill so many thx
Did chimera with 4.2k hp Cold conversion spectral throw, did not even died once. The only skilll you need to dodge from chimera is the red circle AOE.
Great Guide.
10/10 Video
thanks pls keep going
Ok so my problem with Chimera and literally only issue i have is cloud phase. He literally stuns me each attack so i cant flame dash and or use my quick silver to run fast. Is there something Im not getting? In this video you just walk around easily.
If u stood in the AoE to demonstrate the damage and are playing hardcore u have balls of steel
Softcore Balls of Aluminum ;)
I love you
Thank you sooo much
I just got hardfckd by the Chimera, found your guide and now I am pumped up to destroy him! Thanks for this great content :)
What is the minimum dps you recommend having before attempting the guardians?
Best guids. Just kill my first Chemera with this guide... thnkyou
Hydra seems to be immune to taunt as well. She still shot at me even though my Decoy Totem was right next to her.
extremely good quality content.
but you did mention fortify and endurance charges all over(primarily). what about builds that do not have those?? mitigations??
builds that dont have physical % mitigation are kinda fked. but they are normally only made for farming strands and stuff and not bosskillers. but you could also buy the keys.
gino meier and I thought that there was a thing called evasion.
you should never have evasion as your only layer of defence. if your evasion fails (and it will, as its entropy based, so the more often you evade, the higher the chance that the next attack will hit you), the youre kinda dead lol. in the video you can see how much dmg he takes with fortify up (20%dmg reduction) etc.
evasion can be a layer of defence when you have 10-15k energy shield, as you will most likely survive if a hit comes through. and then you get back energy shield while you evade. but if you cant survive a 1shot, then evasion is almost useless as these fight can take very long.
another thing is that armor itself is super useless against bosses. like SUPER useless. its good against small enemies like archers etc, but against bosses 7k armor mitigates like 1-5% physical dmg xD
basically: try to get fortify in your build (linked to movement skill for example, running into boss with it every 5 seconds), try to get a shitton of life or energy shield, try to get stun immunity (especially if you are energy shield), get your resistances capped (135% in hideout).
then think about %physical mitigation, evasion, dodge, block and spellblock, and +# to maximum elemental resistances as additional layers of defence.
but is it possible to have fortify and endurance charges on every build?? I don't think so- in that case you must rely on your other ways to mitigate incoming damage.
capping resistances is a must for any build that wishes to go past level 75.
essence of horror on a weapon, enduring cry, warlords mark with either curse on hit or blasphemy, there are many passive skill notes that generate endurance charges, etc. its not a must but it helps alot.
you can link fortify to any melee spell (like blade flurry, where you actually gain alot of dmg) and the movementskills (as most of them are melee)
and it is posibble to have foritfy and charges on every build, as its your personal build so you can decide what to pick up and what not to pick up. without alot of % physical dmg reducion you just need other layers of defence.
you realy save my ass, with this video i was able to beat the medusa,
Awesome! I havent tried them yet, but seeing you having 7k health and taking so much damage I dont believe I can survive the Chimera. Im at 13 - 14 level maps and Im doing OK, but I have no idea how to improve my build to survive these encounters.
Im with double Ancestral warchief totems. DPS from one of them is about 73k to a total of 146k when they are both active, but my health is lacking and my only way of regenerating is shouts with the Ascension that gives my shout 25% health and mana regen on shout. Also I am using endurance charges (Got them to 5 from the tree) and Immortal call, as well as fortify on leap. Another problem is that there is something not really compatible with my PC and the game and I have big FPS drops and freezes sometimes. Sad story.
2 ancestrals? How? :D
remember he is mindlessly tanking his attacks.
You can get 2 ancestrals from ancestral bond node. Drawback is you deal no dmg with your own skills just the totems.
Uber lifting has a pretty thorough guide on ancestral warchief
Recommendation: I recommend you watch this video, subscribed to the channel and hit the thumbs up button!!
If i play a bleed build i have 0 chance to defeat 2 of them right ? (Chimera and Minotaur)
What about summoners. If I can’t have such high life or ES?
what build u use in this demo?
build?
Chimera's cloud phase is BS. I killed all the other guardians deathless. But i die to this undodgeable move that I have to rng whirling blades through clouds fast as possible and hope I find him. Great design
gj man
@engineering eternity - you might want to update this. In 3.0 the guardians were reworked and many of their immunities were removed. I still love your videos, but I've needlessly spent the last month in fear of two guardians, thinking my Viper Strike couldn't touch them!
Source: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1930316
From that source: Many unique monsters which were previously immune to Ailments have had their immunities removed, with the exception of Freeze. Notably, this includes several Beyond Demons, the Atziri Trio, Atziri herself, The Shaper and his Guardians, among others.
Will do, I had forgotten about that adjustment completely!
Fighting Minotaur as a miner is a pain in the ass.
UGGH! Why are all these bosses Immune to freeze AND Chill??? Is there any point to having a cold build? :c
Is this guide still up to date? EE says in the video that chimera is immune to bleed but the wiki only says: 80% Less Curse Effectiveness,
Cannot Be Fully Slowed, Immune To Knockback. So Im wondering if I can make use of bloodlust or not?
The wiki values are up to date. I think I made updates in the description/pinned comment/written guide
i did all the guardians at 82 with 5.8k life as ngamahu cyclone, killed all except phoenix. phoenix is cancer for melee
I did phoenix deathless with my cyclone build kind of crimson, 5.3k hp but mixed with evasion and armour hahahaha hydra on the other hand was extremely hard
Who is the hardest of them in your opinion?
I think it was the phoenix, he is 6 times harder than others, it wasted me 2 map to beat him. My 1st result of fighting them :
Chimera - 0 death
Minotaur - 0 death
Hydra - 1 death
Phoenix - 6 death
Phoenix is probably the most difficult
I'm glad, thanks. Your channel are so far the best poe dictionary on youtube, keep it up.
Can I ask? The guardians loot are mostly trash, why should I risk it and put mods on the maps?
Great guide man, I've tried guardians a couple times before and got raped, after seeing this finished all 4 of them pretty easily, cheers!
what build is that??? earthquake?? ground slam?
What's that costume? Looks badass
I think it is the Phoenix Armour set from the supporter pack with the Flamming Skull.
What build is he using here?
Ironically I only died vs Minotaur!!
Second time I've noticed this.
Wraeclast isn't the world. It's the continent. You're being _exiled_ to Wraeclast, from the empire of Oriath.
I'm sure somebody else has pointed that out to you by now, but it's only been a month, so who knows.
No clue what to do about the Chimera guy. I managed to kill all other guardians but this one is unbeatable. I manage to kill all the lesser enemies and make it to the last phase and then he makes this cloud bullshit and that never stops. I have no clue how to get him out of this. Im zipping through the entire arena with my whirling blades, trying to find that fucker, but I can't get him out. And he's jumping me constantly. Furthermore there is no white fog anymore. It's just the barely visible red mist now. And it's everywhere. It stretches across the entire arena. There's not an inch where you are safe and he doesn't jump you while being invincible. Lost all my portals to just that now. Absolutely sucks. So frustrating, honestly. I can buy a dozen of those maps now, but I don't see a point when it doesn't seem to be possible to get him out of that shit fog? Otherwise it wouldn't be any problem to kill him but game makes him invicible in gives him godmode.
Another bad map mod for forge of the phoenix is added projectiles because his add phoenixes will shotgun you. :(
Yep, can be really deadly
increased area of effect is disgusting on phoenix.
Currently running phoenix all day long with my flicker... running all map mods except phys reflect, cannot leech. But map mods like added projectiles are really dangerous by itself. Inc aoe is only really bad if you got temp chains too.^^
Those adds in chimera they worse than the Boss,,, Especially the snakes.
The dislikes of these guides are all from a few douches that wrote sub-par POE guides, saw these, and then shat their pants out of anger and fear.
Recommendation: don’t make maven witness the fight on your first try
minotaur easiest are you seriusly right now ? Done all the others death less and failed 3 minotaur maps
phoneix is impossible while u rf build
this need`s updated.... they are not that easy to kill anymore ...
Shaper is easier than guardians.