The mobs are only there to fight you so when you die they think it’s over and go on a well deserved lunch break

So they wanted to make it so the boss resets when you die, so you have to kill it in a single fight, not throwing revives at it. With that, rather than resetting just the boss, they reset it to a new instance, with no mechanics. Most likely so there’s no weird abuse mechanic where you could get the boss to 25% to spawn a bunch of mobs or something, then die to reset and do it again.

I’m sure they could change it, but I assume this is the less abuseable way. At least that’s my understanding.

If I recall correctly it was introduced for some technical difficulty with xesht, when they wanted to give players infinite tries, but where it was not possible for them to spawn xesht without resetting the introducing gauntlet, where infinite tries would lead to infinite gauntlets and infinite loot.

There seems to be some technical limitation with resetting a boss, which sounds pretty ridiculous, but ey, I’m not a programmer. Apparently they can’t reset a boss without resetting the whole instance.

Oh man ive never encountered this because I always save boss for last in case I wipe on him. Mind you im only running t10s. I dont get it either. Thanks for the PSA.

You know what’s even worse? I beat the boss early and was clearing other content on a map and died - still reset my entire map. Lost all loot and monsters despawned.

I’m pretty sure it was implemented in 0.2 to stop people from abusing the bossreset mechanic

I wonder if they couldn’t un-spaghetti-fy their poe1 code, where boss doesn’t reset after player death and had to implement full zone reset to deal with it.
So with full zone reset they have to delete mechanics from it to prevent abuse.

I think they implemented this to avoid people abusing lucky juice maps. If you had a map that was dropping currency like crazy you could go die on the boss and farm infinitely

Friction

It’s a terrible feature that makes you clear the map in one specific way. If you do the boss last you’ll never know about it, but heaven forbid you forget, and die to the boss in the middle.

They’re too lazy to implement resetting just the boss, so they wipe the whole map.

It ruins the flow of mapping imo. Cause now you basically have to do the map boss last. God there are so many little things in this game that are so aggravating.

I need to make my own game. POE 2 makes me want to rip my hair out. Not because it’s hard, but because I just hate how they design some things.

I really enjoyed trudging through the super overtunned delirium on my last map, getting the boss to around 2% HP after a log grueling fight (because of the overtunned delirium), getting killed and not have ANY of my delirium drops happen because the map got deleted. Peak gameplay here.

This is my first POE2 league. I assumed it was to “feel the weight.” of something, I’m not sure what. I already have to RP walk to the boss over a million chill patches.

Is that not a bug? Happened to me on tier 1s last night. It took me a bit to find the boss checkpoint again, because the map doesn’t show where I ran to before.

I’m doing the boss last and it resets me with other objectives to complete (they’re already done and gone)

Spagetti code bug turned into feature.

Intentional or not, as a somewhat new player to poe2 this feels absolutely horrible and makes me avoid certain map mechanics like delirium.

I typically like to do all the map mechanics but it feels like delirium wants me to rush the boss and ignore everything else, and if i do that i can just flatout lose potential loot from the things i passed.

Im sure someome will disagree and tell me im just doing something wrong but as others have said, it feels bad and pretty redundant to have multiple portals/revives when i essentially only get 1 try on some maps anyway, i really hope this changes someday as this is the biggest source of friction ive had since i started.

It feels like a bug to me

This need to be fax asap

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• Ritual - Ritual endgame mechanic (Wiki)

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I haven’t played 0.4 and 0.3, but in 0.2 itr wasn’t like that and I’m guessing it’s a bug. Also, together with the map being cleared, the angle of perspective changes, so weird, the boss arena was at the east side of the map, now is at the south, something like that

This is the compromise to having only 1 life per map. You can revive to fight the boss and complete the map but you lose out on everything else. They want there to be a real penalty to dying (and no losing xp on death isnt that big of a penalty) so people arent just throwing revives at content outsixe of their capabilities.

Originally it was 1 life per map, die and the node was completely dead.. people didnt like that idea so before 0.1 they made it so you can retry the map but it lost all content on it… people didnt like that so they compromised by giving a set amount of revives, but now the map is empty so you can’t sit there and farm a map you really juiced up multiple times but can still beat the boss to complete the map.

As someone who really didn’t like the 0.1 iteration, this is now a good compromise imo. I dont think it needs to be changed any further.

It’s a bug, it’s been there since day 1 of this league. I’m honestly a bit baffled as to how it wasn’t fixed yet considering there already have been like 10 hotfix patches, and this in particular would seem like quite an important part to fix, but oh well.

EDIT: Apparently it’s not a bug and it’s a conscious design decision. My bad for acting so sure about it lol