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I'm genuinely confused and hoping someone can explain what I'm missing.

My build is basically maxed out:

• Weapon Arts at max rank
• Weapon fully leveled
• Good rolled perks
• Good armor
• Maxed Pacts

Despite that, bosses on Cogah still take me around 10 minutes to kill.

Then I go on YouTube and watch videos uploaded just 6 days ago (current Prelude), where people walk up to the same bosses and delete them in 3 - 4 hits. I even saw someone running a Duelo bow build literally one-shot a boss.

So... what am I missing?

The one thing I haven't really touched yet is the Refine/Reforge system. I honestly don't fully understand how it works, so I've basically ignored it up until now. Could that alone account for such a massive difference in damage, or is there something else I'm overlooking?

Is it:

• Refine/Reforge?
• Tempering combinations?
• Hidden perk synergies?
• Pact interactions?
• Something else entirely?

I'm not looking for someone to just hand me an overpowered build. I genuinely want to understand where all this damage is coming from, because right now it feels like I'm playing a completely different game than the people I'm watching.

If anyone could explain what separates a "10-minute boss kill" build from a "3-hit boss" build (damage output wise), I'd really appreciate it.

Getting these every few minutes for the past few days on EU. Game freezes for 30s to 2min, then either resumes or kicks me. Tried the usual (router reboot, reset UI, check addons) - nothing.

Ran an MTR to a Blizzard EU login server and the problem looks like it's on their side. First hop inside AS57976 (the Amsterdam ingress) is showing latency spikes up to ~5 seconds and 15% packet loss continues from there to the destination. Everything up to Blizzard's network is clean, and ping to Cloudflare from the same machine is rock solid at 10 ms with 0% loss, so it's not my line.

Not posting full traces here for privacy, but happy to share details if anyone's curious.

Anyone else in EU seeing this? Trying to figure out if it's widespread or just unlucky routing from where I am.