Iron Maiden/Crucible, did she change recently?

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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It is feeling like she is hitng harder than she used to. LOTS harder. Builds that used to be able to take down Fabius + Iron Maiden without (too) much trouble are RIPing in Wave 100-110 to a single Iron Maiden now as her charge takes half of a 13.8k health pool and the lingering IT dot takes the other half every time. I also notice she is sporting an 8%+ crit change even with 2.6k DA which seems new and may be the source of the problems…

Anyways, it seems she got ninja buffed recently, anyone else noticing this or am I just going crazy?

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I don’t know, but with the new AoM mobs getting mixed in, there are also some new debuffs floating around. You might want to check there to start.

3

AoM monsters debuff you way too much. Try to kill the normal monsters before the Nemesis.

4

If you fought her at lvl 100 she is naturally harder. She can blitz you at 17k dmg if your DA is only 2800

5

Glad to hear I’m not the only one having problems. I was just surprised because this character pre 1.04 had fought her several times in Cruci and while she was definitely my least favorite nemesis these last three fights were vastly harder than I remember her.

On the other hand I recovered and then had my best set of three Cruci runs ever, getting fun stuff like double Vald and triple Zant, nice easy combos.

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If you are not consistently having issues with IM it is possible you are experience unfavorable weapon spawns. As she is a humanoid she can equip a variety of 2h weapons. All it really takes is a nasty affix with chance of flat damage or human racial damage to ruin your day.