It’s still a hot mess.
While I was able to knock out two more fights with Mikanikos, one being purely attributed to the spiders on Echthra just sitting there and not doing anything at the last 5%, none of the actual mechanical problems have been addressed.
Kleia and Bron still start with 0 energy.
Echthra is a nightmare with the spiders and the disorient.
Craven Corinth hits way too hard in melee. His puddles take off massive amounts of HP when in Bron. Strangely, they barely do any damage to Mikanikos.
Thran’tiok was actually beatable. Color me surprised.
Mad Mortimer still resets if one of his adds gets stuck in a pillar. I was still consistently about 20% away from winning when the timer ran out. This was where I rage quit.
Also, every boss in the arena is still named Polemarch Kalisthene instead of their real name. This has been a thing since the launch of 9.1.
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All of the above.
Also, why are the achievements not account wide at this point? The Ember Court has a million helpful catch-up things for alts, why do we have to grind out Path of Ascension from scratch on every alt if we want all of the transmogs?
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Did a few more fights while I have a break this afternoon. Lord knows anyone who developed this fight actually plays the game.
Firstly, the bosses are all called Polemarch Kalisthene instead of their real names. My mistake. Updated the main post incase anyone was confused.
Pelagos and Kleia have 34k health while Bron and Mikanikos have 17k respectively. I was wondering why Bron was getting chunked so hard and this is it.
Started with Thran’tiok since this was the one I managed to beat legitimately with Mikanikos. Bron has to be in melee range to hit Thran’tiok and the boss’ hits do a whopping 12% of your health per hit. That’s not counting the spells. I conclude that the only way I beat this the other day was because of precise timing and the fact that Bron heals to 100% once you grab two orbs and jump back in.
Tried Thran’tiok with Kleia and she got demolished. Melee hits are for 6% of your health and you have no way to heal. Yes, you can stand out of melee range and use your 1 attack but it is not enough to complete the fight before you get magiced to death. The only way I was able to win this one “pre-patch” was by using the trick to power her up to 100 energy before the fight.
Tried Echthra and this one I managed to do on my second attempt as Kleia. You must kill the little spiders immediately before you get disoriented. I still believe the only way I beat this on Mikanikos as because the spiders bugged out at the end. I rescind this. I tried a new strategy of killing the spiders with both 1 and 2 when able. Sadly 1 has a very short range and whiffs half the time so I found myself spamming the button.
Craven Corinth hits Mikanikos for a whopping 5% per hit like a machine gun, plus the puddles he spawns underneath your slow moving robot. I’m consistently below 50% health before he starts his fan of death attacks and anybody who has done this knows how crucial it is to dodge those. I will not waste my time on this one.
Mad Mortimer was doable on Kleia on my first attempt. Stack and smack with 1 is important. Once powered up, use 2 to instant kill the blobs and get a nice crit buff. Got it to single digits on Mikanikos but this is still just a hot mess with how he plays. Not wasting my time with this one either.
In summary, it’s been a year since this was released and the “content patch” did little to nothing to fix this feature of the Kyrian covenant. I can’t even imagine some of these bosses with 30% less health and damage for the achievement. I’m sure that someone, somewhere has the Disciple of Humility and Master of the Path achievements but I guarantee it isn’t the people who developed this mini game and said, “This is acceptable” and pushed it live.
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Agreed 100%.
I knocked out like 1 or 2 more. I have most done to get that final transmog set (the dark one) and figured this patch would make the encounters doable. Nope. A handful still need serious adjustments for Kleia and Mikanikos. I’m not even trying anymore at this point. At least not until it’s addressed, again.
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Well 
. Here I was hoping to bring my pally over to SL content when I heard they were fixing the path of ascension. Guess I’ll hold off till 9.2 for the additional fixes and nerfs required I guess.
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Sounds like a miserable mess. They should just give us the mogs for free 
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Sorry to necro the thread but at least you’re able to use your other soulbinds.
At renown 80 I still can’t use kleia or miko. I’m forced into using pelagos the whole time which sucks.
Can’t even do the weekly since it requires kleia and it won’t let me use her.
The whole thing is bugged and it’s obvious it’s never gonna get fixed…
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I totally understand. If this was ever tested or put through QA by Blizzard, it was clearly only done with Pelagos. He is on a whole different level than Kleia and Mikanikos. Don’t beat yourself up over this if you can’t complete it. That’s what I’m doing with my remaining sub time. It’s just not worth it.
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