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Lair of the Mad Mage Mechanics and bugs so far.
lardeson
Member Posts: 374 Arc User
First of all i must say despite a few bugs we encountered, i was impressed by the design of the dungeon and especially by the last boss, the mechanics are easy to understand and again the design of this area in particular and the previous zone before this fight is this topnot.
Now on to what i think the mechanics and bugs that need addressing are:
- the mechanic here is quite simple, kill the boss, then when she becomes immune and teleports to the pool, you have to kill mimics. the best way of doing this is having 3 dpses or even 4 and 1 healer. if you inspect the room you'll see that each corner has a glow with different colours, here are where the mimics will spawn. on the other hand you have what i call the alters surrounding the pool, if a mimic manages to reach here without being killed they'll become a golem and yes these golems are a pain in the butt so try to have as less as possible.
Straight after the mimic phase all group together, the best way is for everyone to move to boss, she'll turn one of you into a cocoon and you have to shield and heal the cocoon to full health. after the aoe dps the boss and repeat.
- The second boss here is abit more straightforward but here i recommend having 2 healers and if your tank is an OP with a healer spec, even better, otherwise your other tank should be able to provide you with some shield cos you'll need it. Now the mechanics here are easier. the first part is to dps the worm while staying away from the red areas, stay with ur group ofc, i found easier to just stay on the boss and move away when he does the electric discharge on the ground. At a certain % he'll become immune and start pulling you to the middle, the way to stop the pull is to break the borders/stones that are rolling towards the center, and yes dont get pulled to the center or you are dead. After the borders you all have to immediately group up again and stay close to the boss, this is where healing and shield is important and you'll need to take some electric discharges to the face until he becomes vulnerable again. now just dps and repeat.
- Third boss, you will enjoy this fight tbh. The easiest way to best this boss is staying in the middle and out of the electric floor. i personally dont know what the orange circle does, but we dint stand on it and nothing happend. The important thing here is to kill the boss and more importantly, the crabs, yes he will spawn 4 crabs the first time, one of them will become vulnerable at a time and after a time, another, trust me you dont want all 4 crabs attacking you, so focus on killing anyone that is vulnerable. When the boss drops below a certain % of health he'll teleport to the middle and start charging pilars, you have to destroy all 4 pillars as fast as you can, there's a meter on the right side and im sure you dont want it filled. After pillars all run to the middle as he'll do a huge aoe and possibly kill anyone outside the middle. now just kill crabs and boss and gtg. yup thats it.
As for Bugs we did encounter a few:.
- Second boss, sometimes the electric discharge after borders can be abit overwhelming and do too much damage.
- Also on second boss the electric shield after the first border just lasts longer and longer. is this a bug or an actual mechanic? its pretty painful
- last boss, the only bug here is that sometimes all 4 crabs will be invulnerable at the same time and literally go about 1 shotting the group.
- PD: all 4 crabs fighting at same time i think is a mechanic, there's a conic/triangular Aoe the boss does. the tank or top dps should try aggro the boss to target the aoe at one or two of the grabs. this wakes the crabs up and you can kill them and do the same with others. this way u dont have to put up with all 4 or even more sometimes.
So far so good, thats all i have for this dungeon.
Now on to what i think the mechanics and bugs that need addressing are:
- the mechanic here is quite simple, kill the boss, then when she becomes immune and teleports to the pool, you have to kill mimics. the best way of doing this is having 3 dpses or even 4 and 1 healer. if you inspect the room you'll see that each corner has a glow with different colours, here are where the mimics will spawn. on the other hand you have what i call the alters surrounding the pool, if a mimic manages to reach here without being killed they'll become a golem and yes these golems are a pain in the butt so try to have as less as possible.
Straight after the mimic phase all group together, the best way is for everyone to move to boss, she'll turn one of you into a cocoon and you have to shield and heal the cocoon to full health. after the aoe dps the boss and repeat.
- The second boss here is abit more straightforward but here i recommend having 2 healers and if your tank is an OP with a healer spec, even better, otherwise your other tank should be able to provide you with some shield cos you'll need it. Now the mechanics here are easier. the first part is to dps the worm while staying away from the red areas, stay with ur group ofc, i found easier to just stay on the boss and move away when he does the electric discharge on the ground. At a certain % he'll become immune and start pulling you to the middle, the way to stop the pull is to break the borders/stones that are rolling towards the center, and yes dont get pulled to the center or you are dead. After the borders you all have to immediately group up again and stay close to the boss, this is where healing and shield is important and you'll need to take some electric discharges to the face until he becomes vulnerable again. now just dps and repeat.
- Third boss, you will enjoy this fight tbh. The easiest way to best this boss is staying in the middle and out of the electric floor. i personally dont know what the orange circle does, but we dint stand on it and nothing happend. The important thing here is to kill the boss and more importantly, the crabs, yes he will spawn 4 crabs the first time, one of them will become vulnerable at a time and after a time, another, trust me you dont want all 4 crabs attacking you, so focus on killing anyone that is vulnerable. When the boss drops below a certain % of health he'll teleport to the middle and start charging pilars, you have to destroy all 4 pillars as fast as you can, there's a meter on the right side and im sure you dont want it filled. After pillars all run to the middle as he'll do a huge aoe and possibly kill anyone outside the middle. now just kill crabs and boss and gtg. yup thats it.
As for Bugs we did encounter a few:.
- Second boss, sometimes the electric discharge after borders can be abit overwhelming and do too much damage.
- Also on second boss the electric shield after the first border just lasts longer and longer. is this a bug or an actual mechanic? its pretty painful
- last boss, the only bug here is that sometimes all 4 crabs will be invulnerable at the same time and literally go about 1 shotting the group.
- PD: all 4 crabs fighting at same time i think is a mechanic, there's a conic/triangular Aoe the boss does. the tank or top dps should try aggro the boss to target the aoe at one or two of the grabs. this wakes the crabs up and you can kill them and do the same with others. this way u dont have to put up with all 4 or even more sometimes.
So far so good, thats all i have for this dungeon.
Lardeson CW not Mage. Where's my fireball and my thunderbolt?
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- Temp. Fix: Relog after cutscene, its enough to go to character selection menu and back, this is not an exploit as you aint actually engaged in combat with anything, just a bug fix. Dontezz was the one that noticed this.
-On last boss, there can be a delay on his powers, which sometimes results to still having 3 or 4 crabs op at the same time even if you follow the mechanics, and from what i've noticed, the longer these crabs are left untouched, the more health and damage they have.
- on second boss, yet to tell on what the number of extra golems depend and sometimes you can have 4 and others 10, which makes this fight really painful, and i can tell it has nothing to do with the rocks as we always break almost all of them and leave the boss with little to no gbs. There are just too many of them and they have a ridiculous amount of health, which means regardless how good ur group is, you'll have people dying here and using alot of scrolls.
We were just waiting on reinforcements, but well, there weren't any willing lol. So we sat and waited... and then it was done.