You don't really clock what the Watchful Twins are about until you step into that cramped slice of Deshar and everything starts firing at once. If you've been cruising through the zone, this is where the game taps the brakes. I made the same mistake most people do: assume it's a straight damage check, pop in, and try to brute-force it. It isn't. It's an awareness test, and the room punishes sloppy movement fast. If you're tweaking gear or trading for upgrades like PoE 2 Currency, do it before you go back in, because the margin for error here is thin.

Hunin and Mugin don't need huge numbers to ruin you; they just stack problems. Hunin's lightning comes out quicker than your brain expects, and if your lightning res isn't in a good place, you'll feel it immediately. Mugin's cold kit is the real trap, though. The chill isn't just "annoying," it changes the whole fight. Your dodge timing gets messed up, your footwork turns sluggish, and suddenly Hunin's bursts connect when they shouldn't. That overlap is what deletes players. Not one big hit. A bunch of small, stacked mistakes that don't look scary until you're dead.

The cleanest win is boring, and that's the point. Approach slow. Like, slower than you think you need to. You're trying to pull one twin without waking the other, and it often works if you inch forward and stop as soon as one reacts. Once one's on you, drag him back toward the entrance and fight there. Keep the camera steady, keep the space you've earned, and don't drift deeper into the room "just to finish it." You're not winning style points. You're turning a messy 2v1 into two simple 1v1s, and it makes the whole encounter feel smaller.

Pay attention to their modifiers, because sometimes the roll is basically a dare. Extra lightning damage plus speed is rough, and you don't have to accept it. If it looks cursed for your build, let it reset and come back in; you'll often get something more manageable. On the gear side, lightning resistance is the big one. Cold slows are survivable if you're moving, but lightning spikes are the thing that flips the screen to grey. Don't stand still to "get one more cast off." Reposition, then hit. Use short windows. And if you've got a way to keep uptime while moving, even better.



Yes, you want the drop that pushes you toward the Trial of the Sekhemas, and that's a nice payoff. But the bigger lesson is how PoE2 wants you to think: space is power, and tempo matters more than ego. Once you start treating fights like puzzles instead of brawls, these bosses stop feeling like a wall and start feeling like a warning sign. If you're stocking up, swapping pieces, or just trying to smooth out the grind for gold path of exile 2, this is the kind of encounter where a small prep step saves you a whole lot of respawns.