🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:50:15 -0400, IYM <nor...@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:

>On 7/20/2013 6:28 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> Interestingly, just experienced it again - 5 successive wipes on
>> Megaera, people blamed a monk's pet but it happened twice more after
>> he got kicked. Nobody anywhere near boss, no projectiles showing, only
>> people shown as doing dmg were a shaman (lightning shield) and the
>> tank who attempted to get control on one wipe, so... hmm. I don't get
>> it.
>>
>> Really gets annoying when you want to get secrets, but screw it, I got
>> Ji'Kun last time I queued, and Tortos this time, Megara can wait for
>> next week, coming to hate that fight now....
>>
>
>Hmmm - Unusual...I find that fight one of the more easy ones of the 
>raids.  The only wipes were from getting to the "staging" point after 
>the trash.  Many, including myself, like to jump down the waterfall and 
>swim, where you automatically pop out at the staging point.  Wipes there 
>have been because some ding-dong decides to come down the other way and 
>drag trash when only 1/4 of the raid has assembled.

Yeah, seen a couple that way, but these wipes... these are the boss
aggroing and aoe spamming us while we're nowhere near her, nor ready
to engage. Seems to be either a bug or an exploit (I'm guessing an
exploit being used for griefing), as I found a thread on the official
forums where a couple of others reported it too - doesn't seem to be
many people affected enough to bother commenting, so perhaps I've just
been really unlucky ending up in two runs that have had this happen!

>As far as the fight, it's actually quite boring as dps.  One tank takes 
>the blue, one on the green...Stand in one spot (usually marked) 
>pew-pew...when it dies, slide over to the other, pew-pew....back and 
>forth.  Healing it is also usually not to bad *if* dps stand grouped up 
>like they are supposed to for aoe heals during the big hit parts *AND* 
>if the person marked for cinders runs out when they get it *AND* if some 
>moron doesn't have an itchy trigger finger on the despell and end up 
>dispelling the cinders right in group.  Those are the only challenges on 
>that fight.  Everyone stay in group, get cinders run out, and only 
>dispell after the person is clear.   Those have been the only times I 
>have lost people as a healer...cinders or some idiot messing things up 
>with the cinders...

Oh, cinders is fun... also people standing in front of the poison boss
to dps :-P I've taken to targetting the person with cinders so I can
see on my minimap where they are before dispelling, sadly other
healers have not all figured that one out yet and sometimes it doesn't
go well!

>Bad luck I guess for you....My bad luck on that instance always came 
>with the turtle.  Took forever to get though that when if first came 
>out, and even now - the only reason I've had groups NOT wipe was because 
>many people are overgeared now.  Many succesful attempts now would have 
>been wipes a few months ago.

Heh, I've never had trouble with him except the one time where someone
was constantly aggoring him. Biggest challenge is healing when you
spend 90% of your time flying thanks to turtles everywhere, I've come
to the conclusion that while I use Inner Fire for nearly every fight,
the mana reduction on instants from Inner Will is worth it for this
one, since all I can do is spam instants (and occasionally attempt to
get a PoH or Divine Hymn off, but usually a turtle messes that up for
me).

>Of all the 4 ToT bosses there is still one that I hold me breath for 
>that seems like a 50-50 shot on whether there is a wipe, and that is the 
>eyeball (first boss on ToT, part 3).  There are always a bunch of people 
>that just can't get though that maze.   This is one case where chances 
>of a fights success , IMO, seems to be increased based on a players PC. 
>  If you have a bit of lag or low graphics, the path on the maze could 
>be very difficult to navigate and there is very little room for error.....

I've only done him a few times and urgh, yeah, I'm sometimes one of
those who goes splat still, the maze is way hard to actually find for
me, and I tend to follow other people and only realise when it's too
late that they have no more clue than I do... I'm hoping practice will
help me but most the time I just can't see a clear spot, and spots
that look almost clear (only a tiny bit of purple) still hurt.
Toughest fight in the place I think, my dslike of Megaera is down to
my bad experiences with  griefers causing wipefests rather than it
being a hard fight in itself!