(02-21-2014, 01:21 AM)Merri Wrote: I'm all for opening up content to be doable by more people, but not at the expense of the serious/hardcore endgame players. There has to be some sort of challenge.

(02-21-2014, 11:28 AM)Celeste Wrote: Once it hits about 75%, it kicks in the first ability, a gravity well. This ability isn't too bad. It will randomly targets a player and that person would get heavy + a DoT debuff as long as they are in the thing. It lasts about 20-30 seconds and there will be a little cool down before the next one goes up. The primary thing that this interferes with, though, is stepping out of it's laser attacks and the Allagan rot, which I will mention shortly.

At about 50% it has the most infamous attack, Allagan Rot. This is what it does: The player will have a debuff that does nothing but is instead a timer that counts down (iirc this is 15 seconds). If the person's timer drops to 0 a huge AoE explosion occurs and everyone dies. How a person gets rid of it is by physically getting close to another person. This "passes" the debuff from the first person to the next, resetting the timer (since it is a new application.) The player that passes the rot also gets a 60 second immunity debuff which means that they can't receive the rot again until those 60 seconds are up. This mean that when the next person's timer drops they need to move to another person to pass it again, resetting the timer and getting the immunity.

This basically makes this part of the fight a game of debuff hot potato.  Since there is a little time 5 players can pass this around safely -- usually three ranged dpses and the two healers.

At about 25%, the ADS learns a water crescent move that has an atypical shape in melee-mid-length range. People that get hit with it take a couple of thousand water damage and get knocked back. Mostly this thing is surprising when it first starts and is something to keep in mind thereafter. It works horrendously with rot and screw up the cycle rotation.

(02-21-2014, 09:54 AM)ExKage Wrote: I can't tell if the bugfix or the 2.2 change is the AI randomizer "Gambit"

(02-24-2014, 12:33 PM)ExKage Wrote: I ended up going along with my FC friends to T4. Oh was that a thing. They're currently still usually getting walled a little bit by it so while I did feel a bit bad by how much I (probably) am not contributing as BLM I didn't feel like a failure. Flare bombs in the beginning I can definitely do those! XD

Sometimes we DPS the first Dread right in time as the Rooks fall and quite a few times it didn't. I popped Thunder, Raging Strikes, Quelling on it asap.

For the 2nd Dread I was told as BLM to stay on that one and let one of our tanks kite the others as I stay on Dread, finish it as the other pops, and then help finish the tank kiting soldiers.

Is this what I should be doing or should I be doing something more? I don't have Virus (we had a WHM and other BLM popping it on Dread) but that's my next cross class in the works at lvl 4 when I'm not working on my paladin.

(02-24-2014, 12:33 PM)ExKage Wrote: Is this what I should be doing or should I be doing something more?

(02-25-2014, 03:54 AM)synaesthetic Wrote: everyone stacks on the DN's butt

(02-25-2014, 03:54 AM)synaesthetic Wrote:

(02-24-2014, 12:33 PM)ExKage Wrote: Is this what I should be doing or should I be doing something more?

Wave 1: 
Spam Fire II and Freeze on the bugs. Don't go crazy with Flare or you'll pull aggro.

Wave 2:
Kill soldiers one at a time with the other magic damage-dealer in the group. Don't touch the knights.

Wave 3: Burn cooldowns and open up on the dreadnought as soon as it eats the bugs. Make sure it dies ASAP, but don't pull aggro or you'll get a 3.5k cleave to the face.

Wave 4:
Burn down the rooks one at a time. Kill as many of the bugs as possible--don't AE them, just single-target one until it dies, then another until it dies. If you're quick and have good damage you can kill two or three of them.

Wave 5:
Use potions and any other available cooldowns and burn down the dreadnought. Once the DN reaches very low HP, watch your enmity list, but keep throwing fireballs at it until it dies.

Wave 6: Click the "new" (as in, the one that just spawned) Clockwork Soldier from the enmity list. Start spamming Scathe and Swiftcast Fire III to get it to chase you. Burn Sprint and kite it around. When the rook dies, pop Manawall and stop to kill it with your other mage. It'll hit you pretty hard so use Virus on it and burn it fast. Switch to the "old" soldier (the one that the OT started tanking/kiting in Wave 5) and kill it. Switch to the DN afterwards and start killing it. 

Once the melee finishes with the knights, everyone stacks on the DN's butt to make healing easier if Emergency Override starts spamming AE damage on the party.

(02-25-2014, 02:59 PM)synaesthetic Wrote: I pull aggro off i80 tanks without even trying. 

I do Wave 1 the way I do it because I want to save Quelling Strikes for the Wave 5 dreadnought.

Also the rest of your response shows that you're working purely with theory and not experience.

Additionally, BLM is not even close to the best single-target DPS in the game. We're behind MNK, DRG and SMN. My SMN is (slightly) lesser-geared than my BLM and has only 15 points into INT and yet they parse extremely closely.

(02-25-2014, 02:24 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: As far as the kiting, having the BLM do it seems like a recipe for disaster, even with sprint, they pull you back towards them, and you'll only be about to do a fraction of your dps. A i80+ tank and healer can easily manage all four clockworks, and that way you would be losing DPS by having the best DPS class in the game running around kiting mobs.