timing alacrity

Higher Grade = better Cooldown -> so max. it
Higher Accuracy = Higher % to succeed hit

Alacrity should be your first attack if you know the mob starts with a skill or elemental attack. Make sure when the mob is spelling the next skill (mostly at half HP or at the last quarter) so spell your alacrity before the mob use his skill. Always watch the Mobs HP for a succeed cancelling MobAttack

if you have enough chi, or a veno passing sparks, toss in a few devours between flesh reams and aggro wont be as big a deal. My alacrity is still at 7, and the cooldown is just a hair too quick, so i always wait a half a sec or so before i use it.

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

well i generally tank the same way I solo:

bestial rage before running up to mob -> alacrity -> flesh ream -> devour (when soloing I reverse devour and alacrity)

Like I said, I can get 2 sometimes 3 in a row canceled, but the fourth does not. This is not just with "holding alacrity". Let me explain in case some of you have mis understood what I meant.

See boss channel (in case of Zimo/qingzi/etc... where it is obvious) -> immediately hit alacrity. Boss does not cast. Flesh ream and Devour to hold agro. Just as alacrity becomes available, boss channels again -> immediately hit alacrity, boss does not cast. Flesh ream and devour to hold agro. Third time boss begins channeling, only this time alacrity has not cooled down just quite yet... I hold alacrity down when I see boss channeling, hoping it cools down in time. Sometimes it gets the job done, others it does not. I'm not lagging at all .. it just doesn't mesh. I dont understand how the cool down can be too quick for one - and too slow for another?

if you dont lag just max aclarity and time properly
that way you can always interupt

lvl 10 alacrity coolsdown just before boss or the mob starts to do a magic attack or w/e. basically you'll hit 1 more time normal then alacrity and you will do it in time

Samthesmile - Sanctuary wrote: »

Lv6/7 is perfect for lv1-80 after that i maxed it and i havent regret it.

ofc after 80, u should be able to know ur barb and the tank role

so is good to keep it at 7 for the early levels, and then max it asap cuz more damage is always accepted

u should be enough experienced to know how to time it, when it will be maxedb:victory

Mobs start to recast their spells after 10-10.5 seconds, so keep alacrity at lvl 6- too late for you but hey. If you keep it at 6 you can just spam the hotkey for when the cooldown is over, then your timing is perfect

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

But I'm not sure when exactly the channel is. Is the channel when he begins to bring them together, and the curse is cast as soon as they point at me? Some insight there would be very helpful.

the channelling is usually shown as a circle under the feet of the boss.

it can be different for every boss-mob:
some1 is icy-white (like anthelope),
someother are like rainbow (mob/polearm) or lightning (like zimo)
and others more are just like an aura that rise ashes/rocks (rock thrower in the swamps)

some bosses have aoe/attacks that just CANT be cancelled (cant tell u which boss atm)



there are bosses who hasent the colored-animations channelling like others (one is wyvern FB51), so u have to get the pattern of the attacks of that boss to know when cast alacrity.

i.e. FB51-WYVERN: is known that this liz will attack for 5 times before using his AOE (stomp on the ground with feet), so u just wait for her to attack 5times and then cast alacrity, to avoid her AOE which hasnt animations


with KONG maybe works the same way, he hasnt channelling-animation so u have to get when he cast it, cuz

all the mobs/boss which doesnt swap aggro, will always follow a patter for his attack

so knowing ur enemy will get a nice advantage b:victoryb:chuckle

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

well i generally tank the same way I solo:

bestial rage before running up to mob -> alacrity -> flesh ream -> devour (when soloing I reverse devour and alacrity)

Like I said, I can get 2 sometimes 3 in a row canceled, but the fourth does not. This is not just with "holding alacrity". Let me explain in case some of you have misunderstood what I meant.

See boss channel (in case of Zimo/qingzi/etc... where it is obvious) -> immediately hit alacrity. Boss does not cast. Flesh ream and Devour to hold agro. Just as alacrity becomes available, boss channels again -> immediately hit alacrity, boss does not cast. Flesh ream and devour to hold agro. Third time boss begins channeling, only this time alacrity has not cooled down just quite yet... I hold alacrity down when I see boss channeling, hoping it cools down in time. Sometimes it gets the job done, others it does not. I'm not lagging at all .. it just doesn't mesh. I dont understand how the cool down can be too quick for one - just right for another - and too slow for a third?

MY FRIEND! I KNOW WHAT U SPEAK OF, AND HAVE FOUND THE SOLUTION!! >8D

K Listen, i have Alacrity lvl 6,(that is still damn decent 10sec cool down) anyways once you run up to the boss and hit alacrity, u use flesh ream and devour (you already know that part) after that, push the back button(it makes your barb stop attacking if your facing the boss. Back button = "S") and your barb stops attacking(Make sure this is when its about to use his magic attack, so you dont loose aggro) once he's about to use his magic attack, alacrity had already cool down.

You press it and it will happen instantly (since your barb isnt attacking it will not slow down your alacricty making you loose the chance to cancel.) After that you just FR, use Beastial rage, surf, stop, cancel, repeat or do w/e you want inbetween those 10 secs. Make sure u stop atleast a sec or so before Alacrity cools down so that way you have time to use it.

And thats how i pretty much cancel all of my bosses. It works for me, and i'v canceled every bosses attack (Unless i get lag..stupid comp)

Another tanking tip~ Always try to keep your chi full for 2 bars(forgot the word ._.' its 3am ;~;) Incase something happens (ie Cleric has to rez someone, the boss hits you a bit too hard and cleric cant catch up, etc) After you use those 2..chi bars (w/e XD god i forgot wat its called!) quickly try to get them up again. Seriously, you wouldnt belive how many times invoke has saved the whole squad's life.

Hope that helped :P

Okami