Mad Queen is balanced out of reach for 2handers

I guess giving her some ranged powerful strike would even the challenge for both ranged builds and dot critters. Somethinglike Valdaraan or Salazaar have - when you go out of certain range they start using some lightning strike/doom bolt that do quite massive dmg.

there are zillions of builds out there who cannot hit for 100,000. if that’s the benchmark needed to kill her that seems a bit extreme lol.

but again, this topic is all about melee. she inflicts % HEALTH damage, which doesn’t seem balanced to me, having tons of hp is worthless against her, and for ranged she’s just silly.

50k crits are completely fine

In the video I posted on the first page.
My Commando had
OA - 2332
HP - 10062
DPS - 35,391

It’s just you. It only does 15,000 to 30,000 crits. etc

If you’re a 2-handed Commando and you don’t have the War Cry line maxed then that is your problem. Start by maxing War Cry.
Here’s another vid with no deaths


Take note of when I’m engaging and disengaging. A character with higher resist reduction and higher DPS in general will have her killed in a 1/10th of the time.

Finally the queen occasionally gets a “power boost” she’ll have a symbol of 2 crossed swords above her head. If you engage in melee range when she’s like this you can pretty much kiss your toon goodbye.

I have 16k health.
btw, I watched your video, and it helped me.
I’ll try again with lv.12 warcry.

thank you :slight_smile:

my issue was when i run she shoots and heals, but i finally killed her w my 80 conjurer, just pulled out a big ass chaos crossbow and kited her, she never touched me. she’s a gear check for melee i just don’t have the DPS (i’ve got pretty much all legendaries but lifetap/sigil builds don’t work on a boss that can one shot you)

please help me to kill mad queen in multi

we kill this boss for 10 second
please, dont touch her

Nice video. I tried watching it all but I do not consider spending 5 minutes on a fight farming content. That is too long for me to enjoy. It should be 30 seconds at most. It is bad enough that I have to run around and wait for the pink death cloud to go away before I can attack. She is more annoying than anything else. After I get a second claw, I will never do her again outside of once per difficulty per character.

She feels like a raid boss from WoW watching your video and they always dropped nice gear, which this one drops a lot of trash.

I see a “we” in your post. Your post is invalid for solo 2H melee users. They have the worst of it with her.

2H melee users dps not so high
this is not my problems

Where in the OP did he mention group play? Where in the OP did he mention relying on someone else at all to get the boss down? Where did he mention he had extra debuffs from another person to help in getting this boss down? He did not, so your “we” does not pertain to this person’s concern.

My Blademaster got hit for 7300 damage by the Queen. She hits hard. I have to avoid her during her pink aura. It is attack then pink aura is up and I have to kite then it goes away and I attack. It is BORING to me. This is just something else to avoid once you are done getting your weapons.

If we use “we” I killed her on elite with a buddy when we were both 10 levels LOWER than the mad queen, pet class and poisoner. I think she’s too hard for some classes to be a total non-issue for others, she seems balanced to frustrate melee and roll over for ranged.

My range toons find ANY nemesis harder than mad queen.

Nope. That video was just supposed to show how you’re supposed to engage her when using 2-handed melee. With a character with relatively low dps. There’s like 50+ builds that show how to beat her in seconds.

If you’re planning on farming a particular enemy that rarely drops something interesting. Then you pick something easier. A ranged or a nuker build or something which has extremely high resist reduction.

Even my pet hybrid was able to burst her down first go.


Skip to 1:12 for the actual fight.

I’ll agree that she can be border-line ridiculous to fight for some melee builds. Ranged has little to no issues against her and she could use a buff in that department.

My Elementalist is 2H but I admit I just kite her around casting Grasping Vines which has Meteor Shower attached and it’s easy killing. Just takes a little more kiting on Ultimate, Elite is a joke.

Very nice video. You are ranged with one pet, solid build from the looks of it.

You have the most fun pet build I have seen. I tried having pets and allowing them to do the work while I curse and got bored. I may switch it up to a build like this.

You are kiting with range.

I think it is awesome you guys have showcased ways to beat her, it is just that 2H melee right now are not in a good spot against her. She does hit like a truck. I have not been hit this hard by any mob in a while. Iron Maiden had the highest hit against me for a long time and now Mad Queen does.

I just beat her with my infernal brimstone commando.

I didn’t spend a point into warcry, but, I tried the thermite mine to reduce her fire resistance.
and I changed my medal BoM +5 FS to Black Star of Deceit.
so, I got -60 fire res with new settings, (with lv.9 thermite mine + black star of deceit)

my 5% OA from BoM is gone, and some skill’s changed,
thus, my sheet dps diminished into 48k with 5 buffs. (before = 53k)

seems reducing enemy’s resistance is the most valuable thing atm.
I don’t like playing this way, (using mines) but it worked and I defeated her anyway.

well, anyway I have to raise another char if I’m going to farm her.

damn, I was misunderstanding.

thermite mine : -40% redece
eldrtich fire : -20% reduce
black star of deceit : 20 reduce
open hand of mercy : 18% reduce

so if it stacked all together, I’ve got -98% reducing fire res.
am I right?

You can probably use devotions for resist reduction, and keep your BoM.

Huh. Just looking at your gear and skillbar, it looks very close to one of my characters. However, you’re getting tickled by her when she just demolishes me with the same hits. I’m still puzzling over what’s different and why I’m having such a hard time in melee. :confused:

I wouldn’t say I was being tickled. Every time I got hit she’d trigger 2-3 defensive procs at once and I was potting like crazy during that fight. I had some good RNG as well (she missed a few times in melee range - unsure if this is due to Flashbang or not).

Even then, it took me 5-6 minutes to finally claim victory.

Long story short. It’s a hard fight for melee and if you can avoid fighting her in melee do so.