Saark
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Last phase Sirus is just a matter of practice. You don't see him a lot for a while, so you have to go by sound queues for both the "DIE!" and the "Feel the thrill of the void!" beam attacks. Mobility skills (and corrupted blood/shock immunity) are your friends in that phase, it's why people highly recommend a "Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted in you" jewel corruption for the fight. He almost always does both of these beam attacks immediately after the quad-beam, so leapslamming/flamedashing into another quadrant is the way to do it. You can also keep attacking him as he charges up the quad-beam, if you look closely enough you will be able to see which of the four apparition is the real one.
How to deal with the off-screen attacks: "DIE!" beam you just dash away from your current location as soon as you hear him say it, and you should be able to avoid atleast 3 of the 4 hits.
The apparition beam has multiple sound-queues, although he usually only uses the first two. Dodge into a different quadrant as hes about to say the bolded parts. It's either "Feel the thrill of THE VOID" or "You will long for NONEXISTANCE". There's two that I essentially never heard during any of my kills, but just in case, they're "Meaning is ONLY AN ILLUSION" and "You cling to life ONLY OUT OF IGNORANCE".
As long as you switch quadrants either by running fast or ideally using a mobility skill as he gets to the bolded parts of the voicelines lets you avoid these, otherwise it's likely you will get offscreened. Once those two beam-attacks are over you have some uptime where he fires regular lasers, then he eventually does the corridor or meteor attack and shit just repeats. Keep in mind that while it might feel like a good idea to stay away from him, Sirus is actually easiest if you try to hug him as closely as possible, just sidestepping each of his attacks as much as possible. If he teleports away, jump after him as quickly as you can. Not seeing Sirus is the most likely way to die.
You will most likely fail Sirus or only kill him on the last portal a few times until you get the last phase down. Once you do, however, it's one of the easier fights because he doesn't actually have a dps-check and all his abilities can be manually dodged. While Shaper/UElder are cleaner fights mechanically, they both had a dps-check. Sirus doesn't.
How to deal with the off-screen attacks: "DIE!" beam you just dash away from your current location as soon as you hear him say it, and you should be able to avoid atleast 3 of the 4 hits.
The apparition beam has multiple sound-queues, although he usually only uses the first two. Dodge into a different quadrant as hes about to say the bolded parts. It's either "Feel the thrill of THE VOID" or "You will long for NONEXISTANCE". There's two that I essentially never heard during any of my kills, but just in case, they're "Meaning is ONLY AN ILLUSION" and "You cling to life ONLY OUT OF IGNORANCE".
As long as you switch quadrants either by running fast or ideally using a mobility skill as he gets to the bolded parts of the voicelines lets you avoid these, otherwise it's likely you will get offscreened. Once those two beam-attacks are over you have some uptime where he fires regular lasers, then he eventually does the corridor or meteor attack and shit just repeats. Keep in mind that while it might feel like a good idea to stay away from him, Sirus is actually easiest if you try to hug him as closely as possible, just sidestepping each of his attacks as much as possible. If he teleports away, jump after him as quickly as you can. Not seeing Sirus is the most likely way to die.
You will most likely fail Sirus or only kill him on the last portal a few times until you get the last phase down. Once you do, however, it's one of the easier fights because he doesn't actually have a dps-check and all his abilities can be manually dodged. While Shaper/UElder are cleaner fights mechanically, they both had a dps-check. Sirus doesn't.