Glory of the Hero

[Elsie]

Question for Make It Count:

We're doing this 1 red 2 ambers 2 greens. Really can't see the use of 2 reds, as adds die from the chain fire within 3 sec anyway. BUT - what we had most problems with - drakes disappearing from inventory on death.
Now... Some people report having them AFTER a res. During one of my runs a mage died, we CR-ed him and the drake disappeared. Now, can anyone say for SURE (101%) when and why the drake disappears from your inventory and when and why it stays? Would save a lot of time after those accidental deaths during bosses...

to chain fire the boss not the adds. Green drakes are completely unnecessary and, in fact, are bad for this fight in terms of DPS.

[Vanifae]

Completed.

[Playdoh]

I only have make it count.

[Loras]

Question for Make It Count:

We're doing this 1 red 2 ambers 2 greens. Really can't see the use of 2 reds, as adds die from the chain fire within 3 sec anyway. BUT - what we had most problems with - drakes disappearing from inventory on death.
Now... Some people report having them AFTER a res. During one of my runs a mage died, we CR-ed him and the drake disappeared. Now, can anyone say for SURE (101%) when and why the drake disappears from your inventory and when and why it stays? Would save a lot of time after those accidental deaths during bosses...

to chain fire the boss not the adds. Green drakes are completely unnecessary and, in fact, are bad for this fight in terms of DPS.

Well, 2 greens might be too much, but we'd rather have some backup healing. And no way you can convince me that 1 red can deal more dps than 1 amber on the fight. That's why I tend to believe 1 red 1 green 3 ambers is best.

[Playdoh]

It's not that the red can do more dps, it's that the additional red can hit multiple targets at the same time, eliminating the magic damage of the adds very quickly.

I like the 2 red, 2 amber, 1 green strat. With the ambers actually channeling more than trying to all out dps.

When the ambers channel it boosts the red drakes dps, so the adds are almost one shot by the 2nd red drake. When the red drakes hit the targets it boosts the ambers dps when they do dps.

that leaves 3 fully concentrated dps on the boss.

[kensanity]

In terms of speed, amber drakes are by far the fastest. Granted ruby drakes are very powerful in that the more mobs are around, the more damage their attack does but even having only TWO amber drakes chaining their channeled ability does insane amounts of damage. one channel, at 10 stackhave other start channeling, original break, then start channeling, second break, then start channeling, etc.

gets crazier with even more ambers but of course vent is sometimes needed to account for some server lag or what not.

[Threatco]

Coordinating time stops, yes obvious.

But why do amber drakes have to coordinate theirs channeling?

It seemed like when amber drake, you stake up to 10, do one normal shot and it does massive dmaage, then you channel back to 10.

I did notice sometimes either my stack got to 10 faster, or stayed at a high number after my big shot. So I assume I am just missing how the cooperation works.

Can you please explain in some more detail?

[Worldie]

The channeling generates 1 charge every ~10k damage done. If you use the main nuke it while 4 other people are channeling, you hit for ~100k, generating istantly 10 stacks for those 4. Now, when the switch happens, the 4 people istantly hit for 2-300k damage, the channeling person generates istantly 10 stacks. They switch, so with one nuke from him he generates istantly 10 stacks.

The coordination is needed so it's necesary only one nuke to generate 10 stacks for everyone.
A attacking, BCDE channeling
A hits for 100k
BCDE gain 10 shock charges
A channeling, BCDE attacking
BCDE fire a 300k nuke each
A gains 10 shock charges
A attacking, BCDE channeling
A hits for 100k
BCDE gain 10 shock charges
A channeling, BCDE attacking
BCDE fire a 300k nuke each
A gains 10 shock charges
...

[Invisusira]

Basically, as soon as the "off" drake sees 4 channeling beams, they lance and then channel. As soon as the 4 other drakes see the off drake channeling, they lance and then channel. Repeat until death. Have a different drake be the "off" drake after he phases back in from stage 2.

Also, a note on time stop - have a rotation set up, but don't chain it instantly. Wait for 10-15 seconds after the previous time stop wears off or you'll get diminishing returns.

[Threatco]

why does A do only 100k damage and the others 300k.

And at the start does A have to do it with a bunch of normal attacks that add up to 100k to get BCDE 10 stacks?

[Seloei]

With 10 stacks and someone channeling the rift, the drake takes 150-170k from each. Atleast... thats what i saw. Maybe we didn't do it right.

Also, it's much much more safer to go with 3-2 ambers, because he likes to burst down the solo one, in the 4/1 strat.

And you should use 3 timestops in row at the start. First channeler starts channeling, gets 4/5 stacks calls out for the others to start channeling, timestops (~6-8s into the fight, first set of adds come at 10s). Then he has 10 stacks, blows it when he sees the 3 / 4 channels and the rotation starts

channel -> lance -> channel -> lance. If noone messes it up they will always have max charges and the boss will be in the 60% banish in ~15-20s.

Oh, you use 3 timestops because the first one stops him for 10s, the second for 5s and the last for 2s. But thats enough for him to hit the banish phase so that no whelps spawn. If you have whelps out in banish phase, you mightaswell wipe or you can try to kill off the whelps.

[majorwoo]

I still have my 20 Min Occy to do for my mount (my last one for 2 weeks now, no one wants to go), is the general consensus I have to teach people 5 yellows to do it?

[Loras]

Not at all. Been running this with the same crew of 2 dps rogues and me tanking, they called a discipline priest healer and a mage, their friends. Setup was 1 red (me), 2green, 2 amber. We reached Eregos with like 6-7 min left on the timer. The thing is really not to wipe and to choose the optimal route. For us this was - after 1st boss we fly to the middle ring platform, clear it all, then fly to the 2 small platforms left and right, then boss. So yeah, smart players, no deaths, good route with minimum drakes engaged on the way and then you just need to have the group who can 1-shot eregos.

[Frickit]

finally got lessrabi. the strat invis posted for the amber drakes worked awesome. just need make it count now.