Maia
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Maia replied to Mr.Pyropuffin's topic in Raid Info
Go for it. -
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Maia replied to Mr.Pyropuffin's topic in Raid Info
I appreciate that sentiment but that's not my chart. I'm insulted that's what you think my handwriting looks like! It's atrocious! -
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Maia replied to Mr.Pyropuffin's topic in Raid Info
Lol "masterfully" I doubt Mold will approve. -
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As far as tanking strat goes I think your description matches this Yes? -
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I have to admit that was pretty satisfying. 😂 On topic though, I've been light thrower on the Darkness event before and used Condi Soulbeast. I'm not sure if the Condi nerfs made that impractical now, but it used to be doable on Condi. I'd say two warriors not necessary. -
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Hmmm. I expected to see a long post here from @Mold with our marching orders for tonight. I'm disappointed -
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One of the few time I RSVP late Mold figures out how to ping me. sheesh! -
untilLet's celebrate Wintersday together! Mounted orphan farming! Skritt kicking while we follow a super slow dolyak! Tixx's infinirarium! Toypocalypse! (we can finally play as a team this year!) Don't worry, I won't make anyone play Bell Choir with me
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Yeah, I think so too but Doc tells me most people think it's cancer. -
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Just a note, the mid strat might be a meme. I rechecked this thread and someone posted this didn't work for them. Could have just been good luck for the OP's group. Hmm. Could be easier if the off tank is off the group slightly. For example, lets say we're tanking at circle, if the off tank stands towards square or heart (now that I think about it heart is probably best) the golem should run there. If the group is faced outwards, the golem should? survive long enough for us to push it. We should be able to push faster with 2 LB druids using glyph and point blank shot everytime. -
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Found this on Reddit. Since the Surging Souls always come from cardinal directions, it can be useful to always knock the Dead to the NE, NW, SE, and SW to avoid blocking off the edge that the o---o pattern leaves. Markers can help people remember this in the middle of a fight. Seems like a good idea. A second thing: The walls are not very RNG at all. Everyone overestimates their randomness. In actuality, those nice and easy walls with the holes in the middle spawn every time if the entire raid stays in the middle of the arena. By contrast, the difficult walls with no holes, which are only avoidable at the edges of the arena, those spawn every time if the raid stays closer to the edge of the arena. If the tanks keep the boss near the center, and the raid stays with the boss, you'll only get easy walls. Furthermore, there are 4 guaranteed "safe spots" where the holes are always found on the easy walls. I've enclosed a picture illustrating this. Remember: this only works if you keep the whole raid near the middle and push the golems outside the arena. Moving the raid to the outer edges leads to a snowball effect which almost always results in a wipe. They posted this diagram https://imgur.com/a/oK94n This sounds too good to be true but maybe we could try it for a few pulls. -
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I'm thinking both me and Kintari could bring GoT: Khani (normal healing traits): bring all spirits Maia/Kintari: (Marksmanship and Skirmishing): GoT, Muddy Terrain, Search and Rescue? If we keep Skirmishing we can quick draw LB 4, but that means Khani has full spirit duty. If we go nature magic, we can share out the spirits, but LB 4 will be up less frequently. I also think we should think about it as first push and second push rather than primary and backup. I've been looking through more videos and most of them have 2+ pushers. If Kintari and I handle it, the chronos can concentrate on quickness/ alacrity. -
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No problem. RSVP for Doc by the way. -
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I hate to beat a dead horse, but I still think the scourge should consider taking sand swell as an "oh shit" button. If we get stuck in a bad place because of wall rng it could save the run. I've been in a few pugs now where the long wall was approaching and we couldn't easily get to a safe spot because of reds. Especially when the platform is at its smallest. I realize our new golem strat should fix this problem, but accidents happen. -
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Good to know. Someone said that in a pug of mine, but it didn't make much sense. I was thinking it would be good if we pushed diagonal behind us, sort of behind and out. Could the off chrono try to stand in the back of the group? -
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The push timing is definitely tricky. However looking at Molds video again (that's LN I believe) they allow the golem to get pretty close before they push. At least that's what I see when I look at the first few golem spawns. I totally agree about back up pusher. The fight is hectic and stuff goes wrong. Maybe when we're more experienced we can do without. I also like the Soulbeast idea. It would allow us to save Epis for the worms. They re spawn in Challenge Mode I believe. -
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Looks like Snow Crows used something similar to Option 2. Until it breaks down around 40% -
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So I've been thinking about the first boss more. I feel like I didn't have the clearest concept of the two strategies before, but here's what I see now. Option 1. Druid/scourge management 1. Group stays together, kites boss around circle "track" right outside of white circles on floor 2. When add spawns wait until it runs to the group 3. Druid steps towards middle and hits glyph of tides to push mob outwards 4. Scourge epis 5. Druid (and other helpers if necessary/available) pushes add further out with LB 4 or whatever else they have I was doing a bad job of doing this consistently last night which made Khani's job very difficult. I will check my footage to see where I was messing up, but I'm pretty sure it was a positioning issue (step 3ish). I'm willing to try again or someone else can take over. Option 2: Chrono/Berserker management 1. Add spawns 2. Chrono kites it over to the other side of the platform accompanied by the berserker 3. They position and kill the add and run back to the group 4. Druids use long range heals to keep the offtank chrono/berserker up -
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I brought stone spirit last night. However two Druids will allow us to bring sun as well. Maybe one of the druids brings entangle and escorts the kiters and other brings nature spirit? Kiting Druid could also bring long bow for the knock back. PS The qT strat looks good to me. See video in chat box. -
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Fred says probably. He will let us know if he can't make it. -
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Boo social awkwardness! I want to say I'll rage quit if this is true, but it's a distinct possibility ☹️ -
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Oh yeah. I ought to mention that we definitely shouldn't rely on me to distort greens or smashes. I will try my best, but at this point I haven't practiced enough to get it 100% of the time. If that's okay I'm happy to chrono and get some practice on the distorts in. If someone else wants to take it, I'm okay with that too.
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