This guy is a nightmare and as a Necro especially with minions, it’s pretty much impossible. He just ignores the minions. If an enemy takes a specific build to beat then they are broken. Please fix this as the only other option is to wait to be 3-4 shotted and die or exit the dungeon.
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Mostly I do him as Minion Necro while running in circles while my minions doing him.
Worked now 6 times.
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He’s unkillable in some situations. I’ve just run from him to the boss room before and it’s worked. He backs off.
What level are you… and what tier?
I’ve managed to take him down both times I saw him so far since release on a Druid at level 36 on WT2 and 56 on WT3. The first kill took me probably a good 7-8 minutes of kiting him around and taking small bites out of the health bar over time. The second kill I was able to chunk him down more significantly while kiting and it took about half the time. He does get shield phases on WT3 also if you can’t kill him fast enough and I had to break his shield twice.
It gets easier, don’t be intimidated by him. Some encounters are easier than others. If you have a large room you can kite him there and evade, even better if the room has a couple posts because you can get him to charge into it and get stunned/stuck there for a few seconds. If you have a series of connecting rooms that flow together in a loop it’s easy to line of sight him and avoid his shout and chain mechanics, but you will still have to evade his charge mechanics and quick slashes.
The shout will slow you, the chain will stun you and the triple slashes will kill you. He will either chain or charge you almost immediately after the shout.
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Maybe that works if you have created 50km long trail of corpses to summon new skelly wellies.
If I’m playing necro and butcher jumps on me skelly wellies die in 10 seconds. And he still has 98% of his hp and I’m out of resource because Sever is most expensive ability in game.
I’m level 47 Tier 2.
okay yeah… that is a bit bad for you… but… was around same level as a squishy sorc and beat him… he’s a cake walk up in t4. Soo if they nerf him… easier legendaries and possible uniques so yes by all means nerf him!
He was a cakewalk in Nightmare. In Torment, I did zero damage to him and ran away. But I think most of that is gear related, currently optimizing my gear and aspect for T4.
He is extremely difficult at lower levels, but once you gain paragon levels, and appropriate gear he becomes incredibly easy.
Specifically on minion Necro: paragon skills that increase minion damage reduction as well as the legendary aspect that increases minion damage reduction, passive skill that heals up to 60% minion HP after 5 seconds. I also use the Reaper minions that have a chance to spawn corpses, so I always have ammo to keep them healthy on big targets. I haven’t lost a single skeleton since then (even during Avarice and Ashava world bosses) Eventually you get to the point where minions do so much damage, you just have to dodge through Butcher a few times while minions destroy him.
hello, i agree, this boss is supposed to be arbitrary, i mostly play as barb, and every time i come up against him while doing sigils, i always get killed… attack speed is too high, vampiric and shielding is just way too much, even when trying to escape him is a freakin nightmare… really hope they do something about it.
Just kite him while the Minions kill him.
Kite in a cycrle or around a pillar or sth.
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It really depends on what world tier and level difference. If he is within a few levels no matter the WT he is killable. If you are NM pushing in WT4 with a Necro minnion build he is not easy. If some says WT4 its easier then they aren’t pushing NM dungeons.
There are a few issues. One he ignores adds even the golem tuant he is immune to. Two because he hits so hard and staggers you repeatedly you have to keep moving meaning the minnion keep missing their attacks so they dont generate corpse quick enough do to the butchers movement speed. Third minnion damage by themselves is pretty awful. Sure with the unique ring tou can overcome this but that requires the player to do damage to proc the effect. Fourth necro minnions need to invest a huge amount of points into minnion passives it doesnt leave any for survivability passives compounding the issue. When you start pushing into +15 level difference in NMs it really starts becoming a issue.
One thing i do is find a heath shrine or buff shrine and play ring around the shrine with the Butcher. With the small area and the shrine blocking and messing up the Butchers AI. This should allow reapers to generate corpses and if you are running a blight build and/or CE blight hit the butcher through the shrine. This is the only effective way i have killed him on high nm runs… well other then having a shrine effect active like protection or conduit.
I run shadow with minions and i just run around putting down dots. Even before shadow i didnt have much trouble and i am talking going back to launch when everyone said necro was weak.
I am running sorc in season 1 and i am having more issues with butcher now.
He will be easier after the patch.
No he wont, he will be harder because from what I understand he is getting a HP buff along with the NMD bosses.
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They are nerfing his shield amd i think only dungeon bosses are getting a health buff.
Just gotta git gud, quit crying 2 get the one thing thats somewhat of a challenge n this game nerfed. At lvl 78 i was killing 108 butchers n 30 seconds w video proof, not hard git gud.
FRESH (never frozen) MEAT!
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The Butcher is still in the game? Never saw him once in the season…