(02-03-2014, 08:16 PM)ExKage Wrote: To be honest, I'll be watching the videos soon after I make a few CT runs...
But all day while I was at work the words "what in the world is allagan rot anyway?" swirled in my head. I pretty much joined in during the time my friends were wondering if Enrage method would be considered an exploit or not. (I have a vague idea of what it means from my friends and what people have posted).
This is my opinion, but I don't consider it an exploit. Â I am of the opinion that Square has made many raid fights at this point. Â They know the difference between a "hard" enrage and a "soft" enrage.
A "hard" enrage is essentially an insta-kill mechanic. Â It's the, "You took too damn long, bye" moment. Â There is a hard enrage in BCOB - Twintania has a hard enrage.
A "soft" enrage is generally when whatever mechanic kicks in at that point doesn't kill you, but makes it increasingly difficult to keep people alive - i.e. you're running out of time. Â Examples of this in BCOB are Caduceus (your tanks will eventually run out of CDs, and your healers out of mana), Turn 2 (high damage AoE that doesn't outright kill but requires extensive healing that will run your healers out of mana), and Turn 4 (there's a very similar, but much less damaging, AoE that goes out if you take too long killing the last Dreadnaught, that will run your healers OOM and/or cause tank death (due to having to spam AoE heals to keep everyone else alive rather than healing the tank directly) if you don't kill the Dread ASAP).
Square knows what a soft enrage is, and they know what a hard enrage is, and if they intended for Turn 2 to have a hard enrage, it would have a hard enrage. Â It does not have a hard enrage, and I can only conclude that this was an intentional decision on the part of the developers. Â Did they foresee people using this as part of a strategy? Â Hard to say. Â Probably not, as this would not be the first time that players did something developers didn't expect. Â That said, you are not "glitching" anything in this fight by employing the Enrage Strat, so it's not really an exploit. Â Plus, if it was, Square would have already banned people just like they banned groups that killed Twintania by glitching her out.
As far as Allagan Rot goes, it's a mechanic in the fight that has to be passed around to ranged. Â It's passed by proximity, and puts two debuffs on you. Â One prevents you from receiving the Rot again for a certain amount of time. Â The other is the rot itself. Â The rot counts down (buff duration gets lower). Â If it reaches 0 before you've passed it onto someone without the prevention debuff, everyone in the raid dies.