Kintari

This is the weaver build I have been experimenting with. It's sword + dagger, full viper's on all gear, berserker runes, bursting & malice sigils. With food, both burning and bleeding should be just below condi duration cap. It relies heavily on sword and fire autos, and rotating between fire and earth attunements basically just hitting stuff on cooldown. It's important to swap constantly so that you keep your Elements of Rage uptime high. (Xera: https://youtu.be/ZXx8b11y6wk)

Question: How did the greed explosion strip aegis if distortion was up? Here are my general thoughts / observations: - Greeds need to either die quickly to cleave damage, or be slowed / immobilized / chilled so they can die more slowly. - During green circle phases, it is probably safe to assume that every greed will make it to Saul and explode. So the best way to minimize damage to Saul during those phases is to burn Saul quickly and return. - It would be good to have a backup plan for the situation pictured here where a greed makes it to the center at the same time as a mind crush. - Prides are a pain in the ass. Having a magi druid managing prides while the rest of the team is in the demonic realm is doable, and also unreliable. They just don't have enough tools and condi duration. Possible exception to this would be a druid that runs sword MH for perma cripple. That doesn't give me the warm fuzzies though. - I feel that having 1 person (with the proper tools) explicitly assigned to pride management would be helpful, and even if their personal dps is low, could result in a net group dps increase by allowing more focus on the boss and less panic. - The ideal 'pride controller' would have access to large amounts of movement speed debuffs that can be applied from range, on low cooldown, and preferably in an AoE so as to also help with greeds. They would also be a condi damage class so that they have the increased duration on these debuffs. They would also have access to hard CC for use against Saul's clone. - Assigning a cPS to prides is a no-go because we want to send both cPS up to demonic realm every time. - Necro and Engi seem like 2 very good candidates. Condi Ranger / Druid could probably also do it. - Necro wouldn't have to play the so-called meta build involving GS, even a Scepter / Dagger camping Necro would be very effective in this role. Epi can be used on cooldown because it's not integral to keeping prides under control. Scepter 2 and dagger 4 can by themselves lock down a pride pretty effectively. - Fear is the only tool that can actually let you move a pride further away from the center of the platform. Fear would be best used against prides when they are not movement-impaired.

Thanks, I've been working a lot with ffmpeg lately, so here's the gory slow-mo version:

Did some looking over our Deimos CM runs. Observations: 1) A lot of greeds are getting to Saul. On our better runs, Saul is hurting pretty badly, and it's a race against Saul's HP bar (until we screw up a mechanic). 2) Greeds making it to Saul are what mysteriously strip Aegis at times: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/170581913?t=02h25m15s. It is difficult to see with the camera angle, but watch Saul's HP drop half a second before the mind crush goes off, and group 1 takes it in the shorts. I think some adjustments to our strategy to more effectively handle greeds and / or avoid the greed explosions are probably in order.

This came up during the raid and it seemed like not everybody's game shows this. Look for the 'Deimos' text right before the orange spawns.

This is consistent with what I have seen / heard in various pug groups. From what I can tell, the 1 person going up and /gg = group does not have to fight final Saul below. From Nike's video, it looks like a modified version of that, where you don't actually /gg, you just wait for your compadres to burn and join you up top.

Here's the uncut version