How to Beat Count Geonor in Path of Exile 2

Count Geonor, the Putrid Wolf, is the final boss of Act 1 in Path of Exile 2 and serves as a skill check for players looking to advance into Act 2 and progress further into the campaign. There are three different phases of this boss fight, and each has a new attack pattern to learn and ingrain.

Defeating Count Geonor requires precise positioning to avoid his hard-hitting attacks and the understanding of when to go in and when to back off. Dodging or blocking is key, and button-mashing will get even the most overpowered builds killed in an instant, as the Mad Wolf is not an easy fight to brute force.

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How to Beat Count Geonor in PoE 2

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Geonor’s fight is split into three different phases. In the first phase, he is in his human form, swinging a large greatsword, using ice attacks, and occasionally transforming into a wolf. In phase 2, he fully transitions into wolf form, regaining all his HP and gaining entirely new attacks and abilities, ones that are significantly harder to dodge. In phase 3, he becomes enraged, becoming a significantly greater threat.

Phase 1: Human Form

The first phase in this fight is quite easy. Geonor telegraphs his attacks quite early, and plenty of time is available between combos to deal damage.

In Human form, Geonor has the following attacks.

Attack	Description	Voice Line	Dodge Difficulty
Sword Combo	Geonor swings the sword at the enemy in front of him seven times.		Easy
Sword Thrust	Geonor thrusts his sword forward, creating a wind slash that travels at high speeds.	Easy Prey First Ones’ Ire.	Easy
Sword Charge	Geonor lines up his sword towards the player and charges in a straight line, impaling the player if they’re caught in the charge.		Easy
Sword Ice Wall	Geonor summons two ice walls to trap the player character inside a cone before slamming down his sword to deal massive damage. The walls are breakable.	You will falter. First dawn’s frost. No escape.	Easy
Wolf Summons	Geonor transforms into a wolf and summons five smaller wolves to aid him.		Easy
Red Blood Slam	Geonor transforms into a wolf and fades away into a red mist for a second before slamming on top of the player’s location, dealing massive AoE damage.		Hard

The main move to look out for in this phase is the Red Blood Slam. It is very hard to dodge, mainly because if you start the dodge as soon as the blood circle appears, you won’t be able to escape the attack. The only way to avoid taking damage is to move toward the edge of the circle before dodging. This needs to be timed precisely. Otherwise, you’ll get caught on the edge of the blast zone and tank the hit. Since there are no i-frames, dodging is only effective if you actually escape the damage AoE.

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Phase 2: Wolf Form

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After Geonor falls down to roughly 40% HP, he transforms fully into a large wolf and regains all of his HP.

Attack	Description	Voice Line	Dodge Difficulty
Icicle Breath	Geonor creates icicles in a thin cone from his breath. The icicles deal low damage and slow enemies.	Chilling Frost Freezing Gale Desolation	Easy
Ice Spikes	Geonor plunges his sword into the ground, creating small circles of frost in a large area around himself. After a brief delay, ice spikes emerge from the circles, freezing the player if they’re caught inside	I will take out your heart… and savor each bite. I smell your blood… and I am ravenous.	Medium
Ice Mist	Geonor summons a damaging fog that blankets the edges of the arena, periodically summoning more and more wolves for 30 seconds. Periodically, he bolts across the arena, damaging the player if they don’t dodge out of the way.	As night falls… The air grows colder. Your pulse quickens.	Hard
Requiem on high	Geonor summons beams of ice from the heavens, striking the ground in a small AoE for medium damage and slow effect.		Medium

The safest area during the Ice Spikes attack is far away from Geonor. However, if players stand on a spot where there is no ice surface, they will escape the attack entirely. This allows melee characters to wail on the boss without worrying about dodging. It is the best window of opportunity for DPS.

Avoiding the summoned wolves during Ice Nova is a mistake. Thirty seconds is a long time to dodge out of the way consistently, especially with Geonor constantly nipping at your heels. It is, in fact, a blessing in disguise because killing the wolves is a way to refill the health and mana flasks. Do not hesitate to use your best AoE spells and abilities to take care of the wolves; they can easily trap you to death if you let yourself be caught and swarmed.

While it’s possible to use ranged spells during Requiem on high, it’s easier to focus on dodging the beams instead.

If you’re having trouble with a lack of DPS, consider upgrading your main weapon by
increasing its rarity
or adding modifiers.

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Phase 3: Enraged Wolf Form

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When Geonor is on his final legs in wolf form and falls down to roughly 25% HP, he will become enraged. He uses the same attacks in this phase as in the previous one, with one key addition.

Attack	Description	Voice Line	Dodge Difficulty
Red and Black Beams	Geonor summons beams of red light from the sky that deal damage in a small AoE upon impact. This works exactly like ‘Requiem on high’ only with slightly more damage.		Medium

After the first time, Geonor summons the beams, they start appearing alongside his other attacks without warning. Keeping a ready finger on the dodge key is the only solution to this.

Culling skills, ones that automatically kill an enemy when their health is below a certain threshold, work on Geonor and are an easy way to get through phase 3.