7/16/2009

Flame Leviathan +4, Shaman +5

Flame Leviathan's hard mode has been somewhat of a sticking point for us this week. Various problems have manifested, usually as a result of learning to do the fight with one person being four people. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the challenge of finding what works for Nechja and executing the bosses accordingly. It just takes adaptation of existing strategies into ones workable for her.

Generally, what winds up happening is Nechja being the launched player from our demolishers. We've adapted a strategy that works for another Uld10, in which we launch two shaman up onto FL on the pull, then one demolisher (mine) has a permanent shaman that supplies it with pyrite, and the other launches a shaman at the end of every shutdown, then recieves a replacement shaman from our only motorcycle (as two shaman are constantly being cycled on the secondary demolisher). The goal is to maintain ten stacks of the pyrite debuff at all times (for approximately 100-200k DPS, depending on gear level). A fair amount of this fight has been luck for us, as we've been cornered off by Mimiron's Gaze while being chased by FL, and forced to eat 300k damage, or get punched into oblivion, or we have had plants chewing on one person and one person only, mauling their life before anything can really be done.

Throughout all of our attempts last night and the night prior, the lowest we ever saw FL+4 was 25%. Generally, because Nechja is spending most of her time on Flame Leviathan, breaking his turrets to shut him down, we have difficulties managing the Tower of Life's adds and obtaining more pyrite for the demolishers (siege gunners do attempt to shoot down pyrite when possible, but they also more-or-less have to kill the adds, due to the deadzone and general business of the demolisher pilots). This only became more evident when we finally decided to move on, killed Freya's tower, and one shotted FL+3 with no casualties.

Barriers to success: ~20 million HP, and plants everywhere.

I feel confident that we'll finally manage this fight, it just remains to be seen what changes we need to make it happen (or if it's going to be all luck). Regardless, multiboxer world first for FL+3, wooooooo~

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