I just finished the regular game in HC. I talked to creed, watched the cut scene, and headed to town to open the gate. That aetherial guardian popped up out of the ground (I forget its name). I was fighting it from a distance with my ranged weapon, then suddenly I heard a pop sound and my health was gone in an instant.
Does anyone have an idea what could have caused that so I can take steps to prevent it happening again with future HC characters?
I’ve fought it countless times before and never heard that sound or died to it like that.
The place where Guardian spawns is aetherial like Conflagration and you take ground damage-percentage health every second you stand.My guess is you fight right on it,combine with boss damage kill you.Next time try to lure him outside that ground and ofc cap your aether resistance;)
I hope it’s not one of those stupid-ass reflective shields, I know some ghosts and undeads can spawn with them, allowing for some nasty one-shots with no warnings, but maybe aetherials too?
Those were two good ideas, but neither applied here.
I was lvl 53 in normal mode. I can’t pull the character up to confirm, but its resists were 60-80%.
When you say percentage health damage, that isn’t what happened. It was all my health gone at once. Also, it happened as a result of something that went ‘pop’, so it was an instant effect, not a damage over time. It wasn’t a combination of things, it was a single effect that went ‘pop’. Boss melee damage doesn’t go pop, neither does the damage taken for standing on aether.
I had legendary lvl 50 gear for the most part, so I was not underequipped.
So I still wonder what that mysterious effect was that went ‘pop’.
Hmmm,bizzare thing.I went and check it,tried with different chars and different levels.Did not see reflect mob,some waves around doing damage and noticed dots,but you said is insta hit.The fact is you just began AoM area so it can’t be Alex,Wendigos are not far away,but they don’t have that effect.Maybe some arcane hero stripping you from buffs and auras?Or maybe is bug,if I notice something like that,will report.
He has two dangerous attacks - an aether “circle” around him, and aether wave.
The latter is cast at distant targets, consists of multiple projectiles hence could shotgun under certain conditions.
Its his only attack able to oneshot you, so that’s what eventually happened.
The strange “pop” sound came out your character getting crack open.
Might have been his aether shotgun, he has an attack where he fires 3 aether flames in a cone. Now the nasty thing about that is that those 3 are instantly followed by another 3, making it 6 in total. Getting hit by even 2 of those can hurt.
But without a video, like the HC twitch streamers have, we’re limited to play a guessing game what really had killed your build~
