Cerberean Sentinel - World Boss

Pressa - Heavens Tear wrote: »

b:worried Attention should be paid its the barbs job to cancel that its a aoe and a short range aoe at that Krimson as well as Sentinel its a amp damage he does that and then aoes your sorry butt they survive because they aren't puny like you. What venos need to do at that point is to get 2 sparks bramble hood run in do what they need to do and get the HELL out of there.

Lots of bosses after 70 have random aggro its not a bug its a intended thing in the game to make it harder to keep him away from killing your squishies. I suggest you get 3 barbs to constantly cancel the sucker and or get a bunch of people with canceling abilities. The only way to avoid things like this is to stay out of range with krimson he random aggros and will kill pretty much everything so you have all your DDs fly in the air outside of the aoe while the tank stays on the ground to control the boss with clerics in the air purifying and healing.

Its not a thing against venos it will hit anyone. Thats why until you know you can survive it with bramble hood up you should never get close to a boss without it.

The Summary of this is you failed as venos and didn't use your ablities.

Thank you for the helpful response. I'll admit, I definitely am NOT proficient in using Hood for much of anything yet (looks like it's time to start getting proficient!)...So, basically, for us venos, the plan would need to be to Hood up before doing whatever we wanted to do (nless we were trying to pass a spark, which is basically ALL I really wanted to do, since he needed them badly...), and hopefully, we'd live when he axe'd us? I learned quickly NOT to run, because then he'd chase me to wherever the hell I'd run, and the tank would have to chase after him to make sure he didn't aggro on someone else.

I just have to repeat, it was NOT an aoe that he was hitting us with. He'd single a veno out in the crowd (as I said, I could be flying up with the clerics who were healing the tank, and only I would get axe'd), run to her, no matter how far away she was, and axe her, then go back to the tank. Then go after another veno a very short time later, regardless of what she was doing. Several times, all I had to do was res, and he'd come running towards me, axe me, and go back to the tank.

I'm just a little confused about the "random aggro" thing, though...If random in this case means, "it will kill anyone", why didn't it go for the clerics, archers, BMs, sins, and assassins? I'll accept that maybe the clerics never accumulated any "hate", since all they did was heal and ressurect deads, but what about the others? The way we had it set up, was when someone died, they needed to say so, so one of our clerics on res duty could find them, and nearly all of the people who said they had died were venos, and very rarely barbs who get in the aoe range too long.

Anyway, thanks again, and I think that once I share your words with my factions, we should definitely have a better game plan.

EDIT~
Shev, I thought you'd post. ^_^ I wish you'd been there more, so you could share more of what you experienced. =P

And yeah, it was still a ton of fun. Like I said, I've never had so much fun dying so many times, haha.

Airyll - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Random aggro. It is random for a reason.

However it's a similar story with Element Lord. Every Gamma I've ever run, if we reach the end Element Lord will always chase after a veno should we have on in squad. As in, run through the whole valley right next to Harpy to reach the veno. The only way to avoid this and the following painstaking process of getting Element Lord back to the auras was to have the veno wait in Happy Valley by the forges.

Perhaps certain bosses are more likely to randomly reset aggression and attack on particular class then to reset on another class. A few bosses seem reset happy on one particular class where as another won't. Nothing to worry about and certainly not anything new.

Somehow, I missed this post.

That's really interesting about the Element Lord. Unfortunately, I have never done gamma, or read about it, or anything, so I'm rather uneducated about it, but...The veno can't even just stand there, twiddling her thumbs, watching? He'll still strike and/or chase her down, even if she hasn't hit him?

Thank you, too, for your post.

CapnK - Sanctuary wrote: »

We had the same problem with this boss, except it was a single wizard. *Every* time the wizard would rez, Sentinel would stop whatever it was doing and run over to kill this wizard. Wizard didn't even have time to cast anything, it just killed him any time he rezzed.

Really, only a wizard? He didn't touch the venos (or were there no venos...)?

Thank you for all the input, guys. Keep it coming. And hell, tell me about other WBs, too, please. My faction was planning a World Boss Hunt later this month, and we'll take all the info we can get.

tweakz wrote: »

Isn't aggro radius / aggressiveness level dependent? Maybe it's level and not class.

We had low level venos getting killed, and high level archers not getting killed even once.

So...I don't think so...

Oh, I thought you meant higher levels would take aggro. I had forgotten lower levels will take aggro quicker.

In that case, we also had more higher level venos, and lower level clerics/barbs/BMs. ;D I was one of the highest levels there (there were maybe 5-6 others who were higher than me, only one of which was a veno).

If it was level, the couple of lower-leveled barbs who came would have died, too, but they were only killed when they killed mobs, while in the WB's aoe range.

Yeah, I found that out when a friend and I DD'd on it with another faction...Nasty thing.

Thank you, Bloodfire. I look forward to what you find.