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Old Lion's Court is a simple fight that comes with its own unique challenges. For us it mainly came down to figuring out when to cc which guardian and theory-crafting an optimal comp for it. In the end, for us, the comp is completely flexible but this is what worked for us with the players that we have. Scrapper- This is our main choice as dps due to its high dps uptime and self barrier to sustain during the mechanics. Chronomancer - This is our preferred choice as secondary boon provider due to it's ability to provide high ranged damage and -cc without losing up-time on either boons or dps. Herald - This class is arguably the best option for a main quickness/boon dps. It's has good coverage of most essential boons whilst providing good dps. (And there is not much else I can play.) Druid - As there is more than enough damage taken we felt it was well worth bringing a healer and what Class can do it better than a good old druid. It has high boon uptime, amazing cc and we needed a hero do all the running around and handling mechanics.
[Area] Old Lions Court CM | Tired Scrapper | 6:18iBotFromApple2024-02-22 | Bladesworn main tries to press more than one button per two second
Old Lion's Court is a simple fight that comes with its own unique challenges. For us it mainly came down to figuring out when to cc which guardian and theory-crafting an optimal comp for it. In the end, for us, the comp is completely flexible but this is what worked for us with the players that we have. Scrapper- This is our main choice as dps due to its high dps uptime and self barrier to sustain during the mechanics. Chronomancer - This is our preferred choice as secondary boon provider due to it's ability to provide high ranged damage and -cc without losing up-time on either boons or dps. Herald - This class is arguably the best option for a main quickness/boon dps. It's has good coverage of most essential boons whilst providing good dps. (And there is not much else I can play.) Druid - As there is more than enough damage taken we felt it was well worth bringing a healer and what Class can do it better than a good old druid. It has high boon uptime, amazing cc and we needed a hero do all the running around and handling mechanics.
You can make fun of me for the rotation thoТанкование Энфорсера (Комментарий)iBotFromApple2024-10-05 | Примечание: В этой группе были и опытный коммандер и хил, который был готов откайтить Энфорсера. Роль танка была отжата в образовательных целях. Ни один хил мех не пострадал.Танкование Меха в КО ЦМ (Kaineng Overlook CM)iBotFromApple2024-10-05 | Душный чувак вернулся и рассказывает про танкование меха в КО ЦМ (работает в обычном КО) На 12:09 я отмечаю 4 возможных пути отступления от барража и помечаю путь назад как невозможный. Скорее всего, во шансу успеха он такой же, как у отступления влево или даже немного выше (все ещё хуже, чем идти направо). Но такой вариант я не тестировал, поэтому не уверен, что паттерн барража не поменяетсяLegendary Cerus - Reflect Virt POV (No Markus Strat)iBotFromApple2024-05-01 | 2007 Edgy Edition
Lonely Raiders In Your [Area] is happy to present our latest strike record, Aetherblade Hideout in just 4:50.
We were already planning on redoing our old record since we knew sub 5 minutes was possible. With the addition of maces for the soulbeast and the buff to the piggy we were able to gain more instant cc for the boss phases. This in turn allowing the chronomancers to save more of their cc for the add phases instead.
On my own performance I was prepared to play soulbeast but as one of our usual mesmer players was unable to join I had like 10 minutes of golem practice prior to refresh my muscle memory. As this fight is quite tricky to find a rotation for due to the short phases I apologize in advance to all my mesmer mains.
To talk briefly about why each class was chosen:
Soulbeast - The best burst DPS that you can get. One Wolf Pack is available for every single burst phase, meaning that the damage output that soulbeast can do while providing large amounts of CC was simply unmatched.
Herald - The best boon provider. Provides every boon you could need while also doing very respectable damage.
Chronomancer - The best option as alac support due to their superior cc and high burst.
Deviating from the optimal rotation to prioritize quickness, during spreads and after downstate. Jumps into melee range are to ensure all projectiles from sh2 are hitting
As soon as Costmic Observatory was getting the cm we knew it was the next project to tackle. The fight itself feels a bit lack luster so we only spent two nights on it. First time was just getting comfy and doing some basic class testing. The overall strat was very basic stack up and do our best to pump. The alacrity supports were responsible for grabbing the orbs to use the special action key. So for class choices.
Scourge - This class is just fully capable of doing great damage while bumping barrier, while having easy access to cc. The shades were a great tool to cc anyone getting taunted.
Harbinger - The harbinger just like the scourge had solid access to cc and lots of damage. Due to not really needing any real utility this was a solid choice.
Tempest - Lets be fair xChris on a non ele spec just feels weird. The slot was totally open so since it was his role he got to pick his poison.
Druid - As always the supports get the tough job of carrying the mechanics. Our druid was both our tank and cc specialist. Since the tanking is proximity based he faced Dagda away from the group. When Dagda did her Spinning Nebula it was the job of the druid to tank the shots for the debuff so the dps could focus on having high damage uptime.
The Raid League returns! The idea we had behind our strategy was to maximise our points gained through complete wings for the completion bonus, while minimising downtime on events with set durations. We focused on Salvation Pass, Stronghold of the Faithful, Hall of Chains, and The Key of Ahdashim.
The main splits we did was simultaneous River of Souls and Escort, and to follow that the River group killed Eater of Souls while the escort group cleared gate. After Eater, the Wing 5 group left to help finish Gate, then everyone returned to Wing 5 to finish Statues.
With a more complex boss order it might've been possible to do something similar with Trio, however this means that we would miss out on the portals as matthias pre-event. The time save would be minimal with a large potential for instance problems during swaps, as well as lowman Trio being a lot more risky time-wise with wipes.
For classes we let people play what they were most comfortable on for DPS. We found with runs like this, familiarity with ones class is worth far more in the run when things go wrong as it makes recovery much easier, meaning a much smoother run.
The largest roadblock was trying to prevent Scarlet from triggering mechanics. There seemed to be no consensus as to why she would sometimes spawn projectiles/blues and sometimes not, this left us with a lot of theories to test. Eventually we managed to find the trigger for preventing the mechanics, and subsequently abused it to lower kill times drastically.
To talk briefly about why each class was chosen: Soulbeast - The best burst DPS that you can get. One Wolf Pack is available for every single burst phase, meaning that the damage output that soulbeast can do while providing large amounts of CC was simply unmatched. We had 2 soulbeasts run Leader of the Pack, and the rest used Oppressive Superiority. This was to prevent OWP queuing which would cause damage outside of "Sic 'Em!".
Herald - The best boon provider. Provides every boon you could need while also doing very respectable damage.
Specter - Provides solid Alacrity and hard carries the CCs. Pistol with paralyzation sigil and Basilisk Venom made this spec irreplaceable for the run.
Chronomancer - We learned that it was possible to bring a Chronomancer over a specter as the alacrity provider with some added CC from the heralds. This change managed to increase the group DPS by a good amount as chrono has much more burst than specter.
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