3.0 Updates: Shaper can now be shocked and chilled. However, he is still immune to Freeze and cannot be completely slowed. 1. The Critical Strike Multiplier is 1.3x (Made a mistake on calculations) 2. The Shaper's Teleport Slam deals ~10,000 - 12,000 Physical Damage. (This will still be deadly for most builds) 3. The Shaper Clone can stay up for some of the Portal move, and has the ability to kill Zana. 4. It can be useful to have a totem, golem or skill setup with a Culling Strike Gem to finish Phase Three faster. Thanks for all the support!
I defeated the Shaper on my very first attempt without dying after watching this.It would be great if you make a similar guide on the betrayal mastermind.
Great Video. Just killed The Shaper solo on my Cold Snap Vortex Occultist with minimal investment. Outside of my 6 link 350 ES chest my gear probably is around 20 chaos at most :D
Your guides dude... your guides. Brilliant again. You deserve to be the top source of POE knowledge. A little recommendation: when you cover most of the topics you want to cover on POE, try making guides in this manner for other games. If you can make this your full time job include some kind of show that is different from guides only. It will sky rocket your subs and views.
Excellent structure, clarity and detail. The individual numbers may now be out of date, but everything else (with the exception of the monotone delivery) is perfect
Shaper regens hp between phases ? Dam, didn't know that, i guess i really should hurry up as much as possible between phases then, very nice tutorial, reddit also gave some really good hints, will help a ton !
thank you for making this guy, it helped me alot, but still died 6 times before killing him... all your guides are VERY high quality much love and hope you have everything well in your life
I'll put the 4/5 for this guide, pretty good for new newbies that don't want to get wasted on sets but still want to try end game content. To make it 5/5 you had to make the full description of clone phase. When he summons the clone you can focus on dodging to survive since the clone have DURATION. That's very important point bcoz clone phase is most deadly for any player. Also, you had to add for this phase that you have to be extremely attentive to beams bcoz they can cover any other skill such as yellow balls that deal 6500 dmg or vortex balls that can rip the fight if you catch them in the middle. And also sometimes fight bugs and shaper's clone kills zana and you will have to deal with portal's minions on your own but she will always reappear for the bullet hell. Hope this helps, thanks again for good guide (p.s. you were forgiven for this mistype for 2.3 instead of 1.3 crit mult but I would like to see video to be added with my tips and the mistake fixed for 5/5)
Great video as always! One thing to note though, Fortify does not reduce damage from all sources, only from hits. So damage over time (in this fight, the shaper's beam) is not mitigated with it.
Great Guide only thing a little off is Zana doesnt creat the shield in BulletHell she is only extending it to protect the Player but she ALWAYS has this Shield in the Shaper Realm .
Hey, I'm sure you already have a ton of ideas for videos lined up. But as someone who is getting back in the game and hasn't played since 2013, I would love if you made a guide on completing the acts, maybe even tips on progressing in HC. I really enjoy how crisp and neat your videos are and would love to see your take.
Thank you so much for this guide! I made my first Shaper fight and killed with only two deaths. Now, in 3.7, i feel that some things changed, but nothing to huge to make this guides useless. I never made to many progress in PoE and i consider myself too small, however, each step, a big victory! Thanks again ^^. And yes, i used a Vaal ancestral warchief to finish the fight XD.
@@diegobas852 Yea I lost to shaper first time I did him, then watched this guide, I suppose I was just nervous the first time, but I kept having those vortex balls hit me in the middle where Zana stands, so whenever she needed to protect me, I had those balls on the ground doing massive damage. Thanks to guide I pop them on the outskirts, didnt die at all to shaper 2nd attempt thanks to this guide.
@@thenerdnetwork Hah! Same here! The first half was going great too. I thought I had the fight in the bag! Then all those portals opened up in the protective bubble thing. So now I need to redo the whole thing again. oh well.
@@diegobas852 I like the guide but I have burned a few sets trying to do my own first shaper, in my case though I have a hard time dieing to things I have already dodged... I fiddled a bit with switching between predictive networking and lockstep (I always played on predictive because its smooth) and lockstep really showed how laggy it was... my character was stuttering when moving around. :/
nice guide I did my first run after watching this video and cleared it with a second person inside that needed a boost. Managed it with 2 deaths, both after the nova phase to the beam he casts :P
4:14 Fortify is a buff that grants the player 20% reduced damage taken from hits for 4 seconds.[1] This does not apply to damage over time, since it does not hit.
Just beat him for the first time. The first time I tried I had a tempest lol, even though I watched this video and you told me to make sure I don't have those. Thanks! Awesome guide.
Congrats for this wonderful video mate. Even after a year, it's to the point and it helped me defeat Shaper for the first time...:) Best of luck to you and thank you again:)
I really like your videos engineering eternity - keep up the good work. What would make your videos even better is if you could keep the move/phase information video at full screen without the border so I can actually see what is happening in the fight.
Iv killed the Shaper many times and I find the RNG needs to be fixed, im talking about Votex balls spawning in side the zana bubble at the start of the bullet hell, you have no time to react to it and its 90% a dud run, you can then sometimes port into the room after a death only to be insta killed by the beam or shaper slam, this is due to a old bug with PoE not rendering effect after a spawn in.
killed my 1st shaper ever in harbinger and have killed dozens since and I have a tip which is not in the video. If a vortex spawns close to you when the bullethell move is active, it is possible to kite the vortex ball inside the bubble by just moving in a small circle and then after taking it to the edge of the arena.
Rather unrelated comment, but: One of the Hardest boss areas I faced was in a twinned overgrown ruin. There as a warband guy with a chaos-like searing bond that would deal maybe 3500-4500 DPS even with my 75% capped chaos resistance. The problem was the fact that because it was a twinned map, there were others there too, including someone making all the ground frozen all the time, and the normal/common spectral throw and call-elements skills guy. The most annoying part is that these totems from the "searing bond" seemed to have as much health as like a guardian or shaper, and would block your path from moving around. Between that and the small debris-filled landscape of the arena, and the frozen ground, it just made it so difficult to avoid the lethal damage. Vaal Pact would probably be able to out-DPS if he stood still dealing lots of damage (although VP is pretty OP), but my Slayer leech (around 2500 life per second was quite useless). mod-wise fighting a hard boss when you have no leech and no regen is absolutely nasty. Thankfully both Über Atziri and Shaper can't have any nasty mods like that.
yo that lore was awesome ... U should make videos about the lore of poe,boss etc i never read dialog and after 3 years of poe i have no idea about the lore .... there is a youtube channel who make lore of darksouls and i watch all his video u should try
did my first shaper attempt. ez phase 1 and 2. then comes phase 3. holy fuck those annoying vortexes + clone.. he's so close to dying as well.. like 5% left.. feelsbadman
same here...I wont beat that dude the next few years, thats for sure, while i see videos where dudes with their characters make such hyperextreme massive damage that it seems to be a walk in the park....:d.
Thanks a lot mate. Managed to kill Elder on my first try tonight (only died once). Thought he would be much harder but apparently my DPS was more than prepared :P
tried shaper for the first time yesterday... loose all portals in phase one, as I deal not enough dmg and didn't know the vortex mechanics, all was coverd with vortexes. with perfect movement my build could manage it i guess, but before the next try I will tweak around some stuff.
My only issue with this guide is that he details the outdated lore, cause now the Shaper's lore is different! Otherwise excellent guide, cause this detail _totally_ has an impact on the fight, of course! ^_
+Gabri Block can be useful yes, however many of his hits deal heavy damage and chance based defense can and will fail. So ensure to have enough other mitigations such that you can survive a failed block or dodge.
been fighting shaper for over 2 leagues now and until watching this video had no idea the degen balls activated when you got near them on the edges, I always thought they were timed releases kinda like uber fight.
15:52 ok now im confused, you clearly said that going near the degen balls on the outer rings activates them and they chase you but right there it just appeared and chased?
16:15 "make sure to be ready to move right when he stops." But are there any cues to let us know when he'll stop? I get hit before I can react, if I were to know when to get out, I could avoid that.
+Cooper Morgan Yea man, check out my Creating A Build. Duelist or Marauder are good starting classes and I show how to build a solid Duelist Melee character.
I'm gearing up to try my first shaper ever.. i've done all the maps pre guardians so far, and looking strong. But the guardian videos and thisone are making me scared. Using the super meta Arc traps, but i have issue finding enough life to get anywhere near the mentioned values. current sitting on 4600 life and using MoM. I haven no real issue in T15 maps, but im sure to get hit if a guardian has 8 times the life.. Guess i`ll have to either remap my passives and give up damage, or get some realy expensive gear to beef up the life :(
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3.0 Updates:
Shaper can now be shocked and chilled. However, he is still immune to Freeze and cannot be completely slowed.
1. The Critical Strike Multiplier is 1.3x (Made a mistake on calculations)
2. The Shaper's Teleport Slam deals ~10,000 - 12,000 Physical Damage. (This will still be deadly for most builds)
3. The Shaper Clone can stay up for some of the Portal move, and has the ability to kill Zana.
4. It can be useful to have a totem, golem or skill setup with a Culling Strike Gem to finish Phase Three faster.
Thanks for all the support!
Perhaps add some overlaying notes RUclips can generate on the video as not everyone reads the comments.
You cannot add annotations anymore, only cards and links.
As a new player in PoE, this shaper dude, scares the crap out of me! :DD
I remember seeing this comment 2 years ago when I was also a new player, after 2 years, blight league has been my first shaper kill
Meanwhile I am hitting crabs with a stick...sigh!
Starforge is the rarest drop from shaper and Dying Sun is the 2nd rarest drop, but usually as you said most valuable
Absolutely stellar guides. I'm not sure anyone has done better.
did my first shaper today with the help of your guide! Thanks!
Keep up with the amazing content
ty
I defeated the Shaper on my very first attempt without dying after watching this.It would be great if you make a similar guide on the betrayal mastermind.
Why the hell have i not learned about this lore from in-game features x) Thanks, it all makes sense now.
Thank you for the guide, first solo kill on the shaper on first attempt!
Great Video. Just killed The Shaper solo on my Cold Snap Vortex Occultist with minimal investment. Outside of my 6 link 350 ES chest my gear probably is around 20 chaos at most :D
Your guides dude... your guides. Brilliant again. You deserve to be the top source of POE knowledge.
A little recommendation: when you cover most of the topics you want to cover on POE, try making guides in this manner for other games. If you can make this your full time job include some kind of show that is different from guides only. It will sky rocket your subs and views.
Excellent structure, clarity and detail. The individual numbers may now be out of date, but everything else (with the exception of the monotone delivery) is perfect
I really fucking appreciated your guide... The well you structured it... congrats my man, very nicely done :)
Fantastic guide!
Thanks
Shaper regens hp between phases ? Dam, didn't know that, i guess i really should hurry up as much as possible between phases then, very nice tutorial, reddit also gave some really good hints, will help a ton !
The best path of exile content creator of the world. Thank you for doing this i will comment all your fucking amazing videos
Great video Keanu. You are the fucking one!
+Schmidteren Whoaa! Radicall!
Been waiting on this video, thank you for the time you put into them.
thank you for making this guy, it helped me alot, but still died 6 times before killing him... all your guides are VERY high quality much love and hope you have everything well in your life
I'll put the 4/5 for this guide, pretty good for new newbies that don't want to get wasted on sets but still want to try end game content. To make it 5/5 you had to make the full description of clone phase. When he summons the clone you can focus on dodging to survive since the clone have DURATION. That's very important point bcoz clone phase is most deadly for any player. Also, you had to add for this phase that you have to be extremely attentive to beams bcoz they can cover any other skill such as yellow balls that deal 6500 dmg or vortex balls that can rip the fight if you catch them in the middle. And also sometimes fight bugs and shaper's clone kills zana and you will have to deal with portal's minions on your own but she will always reappear for the bullet hell. Hope this helps, thanks again for good guide (p.s. you were forgiven for this mistype for 2.3 instead of 1.3 crit mult but I would like to see video to be added with my tips and the mistake fixed for 5/5)
Great video as always! One thing to note though, Fortify does not reduce damage from all sources, only from hits. So damage over time (in this fight, the shaper's beam) is not mitigated with it.
+SpaceSPS Nice catch, thanks!
Thank you, your content is unmatched! Keep it up
Great Guide only thing a little off is Zana doesnt creat the shield in BulletHell she is only extending it to protect the Player but she ALWAYS has this Shield in the Shaper Realm .
Hey, I'm sure you already have a ton of ideas for videos lined up. But as someone who is getting back in the game and hasn't played since 2013, I would love if you made a guide on completing the acts, maybe even tips on progressing in HC. I really enjoy how crisp and neat your videos are and would love to see your take.
Those will be out around the 3.0 release!
I look forward to it!
Thank you so much for this guide! I made my first Shaper fight and killed with only two deaths. Now, in 3.7, i feel that some things changed, but nothing to huge to make this guides useless. I never made to many progress in PoE and i consider myself too small, however, each step, a big victory! Thanks again ^^. And yes, i used a Vaal ancestral warchief to finish the fight XD.
I just got the kill, still saving us Exiles EE! Hope you're doing great. I'm dying to run an update of the old BF Glad soon, wish me luck.
Just tried shaper for the first time and killed him with 4 portals left thanks to your guide!
same! 4 portals left, this guide is awesome!
@@diegobas852 Yea I lost to shaper first time I did him, then watched this guide, I suppose I was just nervous the first time, but I kept having those vortex balls hit me in the middle where Zana stands, so whenever she needed to protect me, I had those balls on the ground doing massive damage. Thanks to guide I pop them on the outskirts, didnt die at all to shaper 2nd attempt thanks to this guide.
@@thenerdnetwork Hah! Same here! The first half was going great too. I thought I had the fight in the bag! Then all those portals opened up in the protective bubble thing. So now I need to redo the whole thing again. oh well.
@@diegobas852 I like the guide but I have burned a few sets trying to do my own first shaper, in my case though I have a hard time dieing to things I have already dodged... I fiddled a bit with switching between predictive networking and lockstep (I always played on predictive because its smooth) and lockstep really showed how laggy it was... my character was stuttering when moving around. :/
thx for amazing guides, both shaper and elder.
Damn, you did a great job talking about the lore.
Thanks for the guide! Really helpful smashed him without any deaths. -Nathality
nice guide I did my first run after watching this video and cleared it with a second person inside that needed a boost. Managed it with 2 deaths, both after the nova phase to the beam he casts :P
Thank you for this guide. I attemped shaper for the first time today and managed to kill him using your guide.
Your guides are awesome, I'd like more of those.
+Soulreaver Coming right up!
4:14 Fortify is a buff that grants the player 20% reduced damage taken from hits for 4 seconds.[1] This does not apply to damage over time, since it does not hit.
Amazing video!Thank you very much for your time and effort!
Please keep up the great work!
Very professional video. Great guide.
Just beat him for the first time. The first time I tried I had a tempest lol, even though I watched this video and you told me to make sure I don't have those. Thanks! Awesome guide.
+Wilson I laughed pretty hard at that, but congrats!
Congrats for this wonderful video mate.
Even after a year, it's to the point and it helped me defeat Shaper for the first time...:)
Best of luck to you and thank you again:)
Im going to do this right now in ssf with an arc totems
Great guide, hope I can do this right now
Really good work. Keep it up!
thx man done it on first try deathless :)
even guardians can kill me in general + got all 3 worst first mini bosses
I really like your videos engineering eternity - keep up the good work. What would make your videos even better is if you could keep the move/phase information video at full screen without the border so I can actually see what is happening in the fight.
Shaper also cannot be taunted. That's important for Champion builds that rely on taunt for extra damage and damage mitigation
Amazing guide and very informative! Thanks mate!
i love the quality of ur content its much better then other poe youtubers keep up the good work!
did my shaper for first time yesterday and I was on my toes but damn it felt good to reach the end of the lore
used it for my kill. Very nice work !
You finally did it!
Love the video, your great man.
awesome guide
Great walk thru!
The best video guide i ever seen!
Great Video !
Thx for your work !
I did it! Thanks for the guide
Great guide! Thanks to you i killed him at my first try without dying once!
Its cool you put some lore in it
ma man with the quality stuff
Iv killed the Shaper many times and I find the RNG needs to be fixed, im talking about Votex balls spawning in side the zana bubble at the start of the bullet hell, you have no time to react to it and its 90% a dud run, you can then sometimes port into the room after a death only to be insta killed by the beam or shaper slam, this is due to a old bug with PoE not rendering effect after a spawn in.
After seeing this, I don't even start it when I reach it lol...Nice video thanks
Great video thank you senpai!
Failed my first two tries with two portals on the third phase. Got pretty annoyed. Will try tomorrow again
killed my 1st shaper ever in harbinger and have killed dozens since and I have a tip which is not in the video. If a vortex spawns close to you when the bullethell move is active, it is possible to kite the vortex ball inside the bubble by just moving in a small circle and then after taking it to the edge of the arena.
Tyvm!
Rather unrelated comment, but:
One of the Hardest boss areas I faced was in a twinned overgrown ruin. There as a warband guy with a chaos-like searing bond that would deal maybe 3500-4500 DPS even with my 75% capped chaos resistance. The problem was the fact that because it was a twinned map, there were others there too, including someone making all the ground frozen all the time, and the normal/common spectral throw and call-elements skills guy. The most annoying part is that these totems from the "searing bond" seemed to have as much health as like a guardian or shaper, and would block your path from moving around. Between that and the small debris-filled landscape of the arena, and the frozen ground, it just made it so difficult to avoid the lethal damage. Vaal Pact would probably be able to out-DPS if he stood still dealing lots of damage (although VP is pretty OP), but my Slayer leech (around 2500 life per second was quite useless).
mod-wise fighting a hard boss when you have no leech and no regen is absolutely nasty. Thankfully both Über Atziri and Shaper can't have any nasty mods like that.
Omg thanks I was finally able to kill him for the first time after over 1400 hours played.
amazing guide ty
Please make Breach Lords guide!
Zana girl I love you but you may have to work out these daddy issues on your own
I believe!
killed my first shaper today. Deathless :D got voidwalkers :( but man what a fun fight :) thanks for the help
Attempting this fight for the first time tonight and all i can say is.. oh boi
Me too bruh. Scared shitless
@@rahulsps2009qwerty I failed the first time but did my second run deathless ☺️ hope you managed!
@@rahulsps2009qwerty it's like C'Thun in WoW, like, all bossfight is just constant saying "You. Will. Die."
yo that lore was awesome ... U should make videos about the lore of poe,boss etc i never read dialog and after 3 years of poe i have no idea about the lore .... there is a youtube channel who make lore of darksouls and i watch all his video u should try
did my first shaper attempt. ez phase 1 and 2. then comes phase 3. holy fuck those annoying vortexes + clone.. he's so close to dying as well.. like 5% left.. feelsbadman
oh shit the intro ... awesome!
I don't think I've had a single build that was able to do the Shaper... feelsbadman
same here...I wont beat that dude the next few years, thats for sure, while i see videos where dudes with their characters make such hyperextreme massive damage that it seems to be a walk in the park....:d.
i have llrf which i geared up to 17k es i think, but while doing that i got so bored of the game that i cant even log in now
I annihilated shaper after watching your video, thanks for the guide
Pro vids! Keep it up.
This is insane
Craaap I was so happy that they finally added a powerful unique 1 handed sword and its a 2hander ffs!
Thanks a lot mate. Managed to kill Elder on my first try tonight (only died once). Thought he would be much harder but apparently my DPS was more than prepared :P
What is your recommended minimum dps you should have before attempting shaper?
tried shaper for the first time yesterday... loose all portals in phase one, as I deal not enough dmg and didn't know the vortex mechanics, all was coverd with vortexes. with perfect movement my build could manage it i guess, but before the next try I will tweak around some stuff.
Best video ever
the problem ive always had is the vortex balls come in the bubble then im just fucked
+Ben Garrison Yeah that is the worst, in the guide that happens to me and I have to duck out real quick to trigger it.
My only issue with this guide is that he details the outdated lore, cause now the Shaper's lore is different! Otherwise excellent guide, cause this detail _totally_ has an impact on the fight, of course! ^_
I really hope Shaper is still the "final" boss of 3.0.
First like :) . love your videos !
Fantastic guide, you have my like clic. Question, is spell block useful for this fight? I havent found this information in Google.
+Gabri Block can be useful yes, however many of his hits deal heavy damage and chance based defense can and will fail. So ensure to have enough other mitigations such that you can survive a failed block or dodge.
The Teleport Slam deals Physical and Cold Damage its 50% Phys 50% Cold dmg total amount must be at round about 16000 dmg
+MajorDee Word, it was tough to verify since I dont have any characters with that sort of EHP, they all got squished :P.
been fighting shaper for over 2 leagues now and until watching this video had no idea the degen balls activated when you got near them on the edges, I always thought they were timed releases kinda like uber fight.
15:52 ok now im confused, you clearly said that going near the degen balls on the outer rings activates them and they chase you but right there it just appeared and chased?
16:15 "make sure to be ready to move right when he stops." But are there any cues to let us know when he'll stop? I get hit before I can react, if I were to know when to get out, I could avoid that.
thanks pretty helpfull
Suggestion: put in audio cues. For example, "gaze into the abyss" is how i know to gtfo.
After how many seconds shaper restore maximum health he can restore between phases?
As someone who just started the game, is there a certain build or build type you recommend to get started?
+Cooper Morgan Yea man, check out my Creating A Build. Duelist or Marauder are good starting classes and I show how to build a solid Duelist Melee character.
When 3.0????? I'm uber hyped.
Killed him with 2 deaths with maven on map device :D Not bad for first try, I guess. I failed to kill Sirus earlier this league lol.
I'm gearing up to try my first shaper ever.. i've done all the maps pre guardians so far, and looking strong. But the guardian videos and thisone are making me scared. Using the super meta Arc traps, but i have issue finding enough life to get anywhere near the mentioned values. current sitting on 4600 life and using MoM. I haven no real issue in T15 maps, but im sure to get hit if a guardian has 8 times the life.. Guess i`ll have to either remap my passives and give up damage, or get some realy expensive gear to beef up the life :(
shape me exile!
+POELAB Oh my!
On my last run I lost 4 portals (!!!!) to the stupid unshaped and ended up bricking the set. I'm so pissed.