Strat for last boss in VT

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• tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Debuff, Debuff and AS(for grabs) or debuff, damage, astral shield. Hallowed ground can help if the group 30% damage bonus is greater than the spike from your damaging dailies(and Val doesn't teleport out of it). I don't really think you're doing anything wrong.
  
  If the team is really low DPS, you're going to fail because eventually Val is going to spawn caskets faster than you can grab them(if you're still about 10% when she spawns her third wave of caskets after the 2nd lightning phase you can call it a day).

  RIP Neverwinter 26/06/2014

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• morsitans Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1,284 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I'd ditch sunburst, to be honest: you need to be close to all your team to really benefit from it, and this is a fight where being relatively spread out seems beneficial (especially with all the casket sprints). DG, AS, HW seems to work ok (HW for the CWs/HRs, mostly). And yes, HG over FS/HoF, because HG is awesome.

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• spani4rd Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 297 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Pretty much sounds like you're doing things fine to me.
  
  I run DG as long as the team isn't dying, which is most of the time. It's more beneficial the more mele I have in the group. Been doing some CW/TR/x2 GWF runs and she just melts with DG.
  If the team needs more healing or sometimes for CW/HR heavy groups I'll use HW instead of DG but I prefer not to. I usually still run SB because I my ranged buddies will normally stand close enough to make SB still useful for procing LS and sharing Foresight, not to mention the good AP/DP gain. But, with randos or whatever they tend to spread out a lot more, then I'd drop SB for HW.
  
  Val is really a DPS race more than anything so minimal healing to keep the group up and as much as you can muster in terms of buffs/debuffs. HG>all your other daily options. The %dmg increase to everybody on you're team will total a lot more dmg than a 40k HoF will.

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• rnewton8 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 131 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Thanks for replies. Your right btw on the skill rotation.... AS for person getting choked, HW slotted, ditched sunburst (due to be way too spread out at times), and DG and HG to boost dps, is the best setup. Normally, I would use Holy Fervor, but had to put in Divine Fortune to keep up with divinty with this setup.
  
  I tried it again last night 2x. The 1st time, I nearly outdps'd the TR at about 4m total dps, so you can imagine that was a fail at the last boss.
  
  Second time with high dps group and everyone pulling their weight felt like easy mode got it 1st try.(too bad the set is no good, unless you really like lifesteal.
  
  ----When did they patch in a dmg % increase to Hallowed Ground? Didn't it used to be only dmg mit and heal if feated? I have it fully feated so dmg % increase, dmg mit and healing is beastly.

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• lihin23nihil Member Posts: 229 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  rnewton8 wrote: »

  ----When did they patch in a dmg % increase to Hallowed Ground?

  
  They didn't patch it in, it has always worked that way.
  
  As others have said - Val is also a dps check. If you are on a team where your Hof/FS is more beneficial than a team buff via HG your team will fail the fight.

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• lazuree Member Posts: 52 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  instead of hw, sometimes I slot in FF/DG/AS because it's kind of a set it and forget it thing and if it crits it outheals an HW.. like 4k ticks with healer's lore i think

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• morsitans Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1,284 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  lazuree wrote: »

  instead of hw, sometimes I slot in FF/DG/AS because it's kind of a set it and forget it thing and if it crits it outheals an HW.. like 4k ticks with healer's lore i think

  
  Makes a lot of sense in a melee-heavy party: I mostly like HW because there's usually at least one CW, and they're not usually facetanking val with the melee (so aren't in the shield). Plus spamming HW on everything more or less on cooldown means I stay topped up too, since that fight seems to be a "pay 3000HP every 2 seconds for the right to remain in this room".

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• lazuree Member Posts: 52 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  morsitans wrote: »

  Makes a lot of sense in a melee-heavy party: I mostly like HW because there's usually at least one CW, and they're not usually facetanking val with the melee (so aren't in the shield). Plus spamming HW on everything more or less on cooldown means I stay topped up too, since that fight seems to be a "pay 3000HP every 2 seconds for the right to remain in this room".

  tbh at that last phase, my mentality is forget the cw... I usually have a hallowed up so I just figure at least they'll live for a bit longer:)

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