They are still ruining my day. Why are they more deadly than the bosses themselves?
Look blizz, if you have to have this broken mob at least play that sound when you get spotted in metal gear solid when they spawn, put a giant red exclamation mark in the middle of my screen, and a special minimap marker, and make them glow profusely.
That way I properly understand who the real boss is, and at least I have a chance to react before a fireball comes from off screen and one taps me while I’m busy absolutely obliterating and facetanking every one of said desecrators peers.
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True this Horde mob kill aloot my friends on hardcore he is more deadly then Uber lilith.
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idk, i am having a time figuring it out atm, since resist and armour is good, and i have some DR, i am still working out where these need to be the DR and skills i mean, not A and R, or if you simply need a defensive skill in the bar setup correctly as a “deflect” almost incase you miss time a dodge, I often lag so badly atm i can die just from that, performance is in the toilet after these last few updates and back to getting black inventories etc, so not sure if that is lag or a GPU/ Memory issue tbh, or my pc has issues idk, but this game more than others is being effected.
So that makes it more difficult to dodge. Other than that, yeah idk, like always despite caps, despite taking this or that, the game doesn’t really seem to respond, so its difficult to tell if by design its a one shot we are meant to avoid or if we can build against it.
Had this issue since launch on every build that doesn’t have class or good use of defensive skills in the build. thats my perspective at least. I made two druids and one is good and more defensive other is a glass cannon it seems, so useless atm for hordes.
But is melting monsters compared to the other one. 
I rather die from a 1 shot then level up hellborne 5x and have none spawn in a round.
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Yeah… I’ve been noticing a lot of times that I sit there and there is nothing to kill as the timer continues.
It feels bad, like you are being throttled or something.
Yes Blizz, please explain why some generic white mob enemy is the most powerful enemy in the game.
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They are surely bugged. I died to one then literally clicked revive and died again INSTANTLY before I could even move my character, was to Desecrator again.
The thing that always kills you is the triple fireball, it moves in a figure 8 pattern, it is almost impossible to see and they can shoot you off screen.
For those who want to try minimise deaths, safest way to fight one is up close, get in their face they either don’t cast the fireball or it starts in a WIDE pattern and completly misses you.
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You are. Only so many mobs will spawn during a wave, and each set of spawns during that wave has a timer attached to it. It’s the reason that getting the Exalted Hordes (50% faster event spawn from kills) is considered a “noob trap” because if you can naturally reach the internal cooldown for the mob spawns during a wave, having that “perk” only means you’re going to see empty screens that much more. Additionally, to add insult to injury, if you keep getting nothing but soulspires as your events, you can’t actually eliminate any of those spires efficiently or at all if you’ve got one that’s spawned during the mob spawn downtime.
If you’re able to kill mobs fast enough to consistently hit the ICD for spawns, then you are probably ready for the next compass tier. If you’re hitting that ICD at tier 8, grats, you’ve officially beaten that activity this season. 
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Blizzard DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! The mob is easy enough to kill but if you don’t get it down soon enough you get a dot that is impossible to health pot your way out of. If any of you played your own damn game you’d see what the problem is immediately.
When Desecrater spawns off screen and you don’t see it, it sucks.
But if you know where he is, it is not hard to side step his ranged attack or stand by his feet and dodge through him when he goes for the down swing.
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Since the new patch tanked the servers, they really became a problem. I was one of the main advocates to “just dodge bro” but I literally instadie and I do not even see one on my screen. I do not see any projectiles either. Sometimes, they just kill me when they spawn from the bubble and the horde stutters for a second.
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At the easy mode IH7 level my sorc can take a few hits from him (w/o a shield) but i always pop up a shield so he can hit me as long as he wants. After a few seconds hes gone. I guess a better optimized character just 1-shots and forget about those mobs.
If you try IH7+ with a fresh non upgraded and optimized Lvl 100 character this special mob will of course kill you quickly if you are not prepared for it. But his attacks are also easily to avoid by dodging. Attack, dodge, attack… etc…
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My Blood Surge Necro can tank IH 8 Desecrator. I’m actually in the process of testing it right now.
When fully buffed, my Necro has 120K HP and 120K Fortify with a 6K barrier. With barrier, my total damage reduction is about 60%. No barrier it drops to 30%.
At 100% hp, no fortify, no barrier
- When he’s alone, you can easily evade his attacks
- First direct hit from him drops my HP to 80%
- When he hits me again, my hp drops to 60%
- Third hit drops me to 20%
At 100% hp, no fortify, no barrier
- When that hellfire drops from him, the one with poison, it drops my hp to 50%. The poison DoT is strong
With Barrier and Fortify and me leeching his HP with Blood Surge, he doesn’t have a chance at all.
My first experience with IH7 was totally stressfull. I did not die and killed the bosses after a long fight and exchanged my 200 aether. Than i farmed sparks and got tyraels might. (awesome damage reduction, i had two rolls on it first try and than i got + to all res bah…)
Every resistance is at 80.8 % now. If you have 3 rolls on it even higher. You can bath in elements)
But there are also legendary items which are easily obtained that grants danage reduction to feel more comfortable.
Together with the shako which i also bought from sparks and the further optimization / tempering of my stuff brought me from a stressfull experience (i will never do IH7 again) to an event activity thats actually fun and im getting into the flow. No stressfull hard work anymore.
The desecrator fireball seems to some sort of one shot, but it interacts weirdly with barriers. If I have a barrier up, it just knocks out the barrier. If I don’t, I die regardless of hp and dr.
I think it has poison DoT. Even in NM 100 dungeons, when you get hit by Spiders the DoT really drains your HP fast but if you have a barrier, you are pretty much safe.
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Yeah temerity is awsome for spiders.
Sounds like your class/build needs a nerf
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i just dont really understand the difference in his damage. at times i can facetank him quite fine. and sometimes im just a complete one shot, and i have to kite him all around the map.
he does for sure feel off compared to the others mobbs on each tier.
