PoE Endgame challenges always make me quit as melee

SO I'm playing the new holy strike. I've got maybe 5-10 mil dps and super tanky, but the feared challenge is just nuts as a true melee character.

Synthete drops black DoT pools that you can't see, dread has the spell that you need to be near him for, and sirus places an untraversable obstacle and constantly teleports. Maven heal is a percentage of health, I've had to switch to regen reduction pantheon and frostbomb to 100% reduce that. Yep as melee you are forced to use spells (frostbomb) unless you have >10m damage. Synthete Dot pools would be my only problem if it weren't for sirus forcing you to tank shaper beams / slams / dread spell synthete pools etc. I can facetank a single shaper beam, but sometimes maven twins, and then you get stuck in the sirus trap.

I've tried three runs now and got lucky with synthete and dread released first, but even then I died four times to the impossible to see degen pools.

Anyone got tips for real melee play? I have invested about 500div in the build, and not sure that I can go much further with holy strike at least.

https://pobb.in/PoaRU5SkB7UG

Not that PoB is not calculating holy strike full dps correctly, it counts as if you only have one minion (I have four, could get 8 with dark monarch, but that disables the templar relics)

The only thing I think I can improve in the build is admirals arrogance instead of shapers touch for some higher dps. (have 150 div budget)

All the things you mentioned in combination and in such a small arena makes this fight the worst choice of game design in a game ever made. kappa. Only few meta builds can just tackle this fight. Many will have no shot at this encounter. I have done it in the second try but i am playing uber dans manaman, an absolute metacuck powerhouse. I cannot imagine doing my own build and being able to defeat this encounter it is simply not possible.

Sirus does not belong into that arena, the new dread thingy does not belong there as well. Lazy design choices, they just got vomitted in there. If you spawn them in maps, you can at least kite sirus away from the others and manage it this way, but no shot in the maven arena. Maven cooldown for heals is also way to low. THis should be a once per encounter thing or sth.

Every ability that includes untraversable obstacles should not be allowed in the feared and the cooldowns for every boss should be much higher. They need to be slowed down big time. As is should be when you have the action speed map modifier on there maybe. Sirus jsut does to much to fast and the palyer is slowed to much by unavoidable random stuff, while no being able to efficiently focus on a boss. If you have es mod on there it's ggg, cause es recharge.

Obv some builds can do it, but these invitations need to be balanced around a variety of different builds, otherwise it is path of carrycuck andys.

I think synthesis boss needs to be taken out ASAP, everything else is kind of fine. Ignore Sirus because he's a time waster.

I wanna do the feared but....Sirus us there. Sirus and Maven are two bosses I'd rather never fight.

Yeah I can do all the feared bosses maven witnessed solo easy, but the witness fight is hard. Normal Maven is really hard for melee too. That last phase with the regen killer beams, and she teleports around. Took me 3 attempts and last attempt was on the fifth portal.

This has always been the GGG way. Over the top one shot, mega ridiculous bosses.

With each iteration over the game across the years, the new content was always grossly mistuned, completely imbalanced, and over time, they got the idea in their head, anda few choir preachers praising them, that these idiotic boss fights were a good thing.

It's really not a case of skill as people claim, but simply, follow the herd and join the meta one shot cucks, or suffer.

It is what it is.

Ah fuck it, can't even attempt the feared because incarnation of dread is impossible for what I am running. Good game, a nice addition.