BH69 Nob and Pole

I haven't noticed a change and i'm in that bh range atm. They probably just suck. Haven't had problems with him besides the usual get armor breaked thing. Barbs and bms did used to know how to interrupt, so that could be part of the problem. So many people nowadays kinda suck because it's so hard to get a bh that doesn't have some high level. They don't really learn the game til like 90+. You will notice the same people are similarly incompetent at things like FC. Just my experience.

I recently logged on DW and seeing a Wraithgate squad having problems getting members decided to help out. I think I was on cleric originally but after seeing squad composition I switched to barb (there was a 10x cleric in squad.)

The same level 70 barb, same gear, who had failed to tank Pole on his FB three-ish years ago with 2 non-noob level 7xish clerics healing, had no problem tanking with a level 10x cleric healing, and I don't even think the 10x cleric purified at all, the heals were just that strong.

So no, no changes to the bosses. The players have changed (speed leveled and under geared for the most part.) I've met people in there with rank 1 top still, and otherwise low level gear that I've helped gear up with TT70 afterwards.

I've also run a lot of at-BH-level barbless BH69 runs on 8x cleric and seeker on Raging Tide, and comparing to BH69s on 7x cleric from years ago, they're just as deadly (especially Polearm, though Nob's no walk in the park.) I just used the barb example because he's still the same level, same gear as his FB, sorry if the differences in the rest of the squad made a significant difference.

Agreed, the first time they came through it may have been with a toon they were actually leveling properly and they knew how to use, as did the other people they were doing it with. Flash forward a couple years and now everyone (or at least a large chunk of the squad) FCCed themselves to level 80+ without thinking it might be a good idea to learn how to play this class.

"Oh well I'll learn in BH."

Enter barb who doesn't know how to aggro, sin who doesn't know how to manage his or her aggro, cleric who doesn't know what purge looks like and thinks wellspring is a better heal than IH. Ready? GO!

Jacerai - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I believe this would be the place for it.

Is it the newest fad/thing/hip to say that Nob and/or Pole were changed to "hit harder" with the last update? I have already had three different squads (most of them with barbs that never flesh reamed) where someone (cleric in one, sin in another, barb in the last one) said that Pole and/or Nob were changed.

Most often I hear Pole, since he's the one that armor breaks you. Something I heard from a sin: "He random aggros now!" From a cleric: "He hits harder and spams his debuff more!"
From the last squad's barb: "Wow, they made those bosses 5x harder now!"

Is it just me, or am I listening to people not really understanding the bosses, people who are probably alts and used to running these last two bosses with high level tanks or their own high level?

b:surrender Maybe they have changed something, but I doubt it.

My question, for the TL;DR crowd: Have you noticed any change with Pole and/or Nob of BH69? Or are my squads just...not really thinking things through?

I just solo farm instance 69 with 2 boss and am a barb 97, i did not notice any change on pole and Nob...

oVenusArmanio wrote: »

I haven't noticed a change and i'm in that bh range atm. They probably just suck. Haven't had problems with him besides the usual get armor breaked thing. Barbs and bms did used to know how to interrupt, so that could be part of the problem. So many people nowadays kinda suck because it's so hard to get a bh that doesn't have some high level. They don't really learn the game til like 90+. You will notice the same people are similarly incompetent at things like FC. Just my experience.

LOL!! They don't really learn the game until level 90+... They can't even learn the game at 101+, and the biggest fail thing is that this game does not even take rocket science to learn the game even without them elder begginer gear and R9 and whatever new gear there is.

Pole and Nob hard bosses? Not really. All it takes is a simple purify, they don't hit hard otherwise... I even tanked on veno with a walker using threaten to debuff the damage and just "acted like a sin" with amp. That's all it took me to kill them with no problems as long as the cleric is paying attention to the debuffs. If the cleric is taking too long to purify, I run and holy path away, use bramblehood and go in fox and tank again.