Bonethrasher

[Petrus]

(01-14-2012 01:24 AM)Tapz Wrote:  Last night after subsequent pulls from a wipe, our ops group would spawn right in front of Bonethrasher, letting him Swipe the whole group prior to starting the fight. I'm assuming that's why folks in the thread make reference to resetting the instance and clearing trash again?

This was on 8-man hard mode for reference.

Resetting it fixes it, but we just take the swipe and heal through it. Easier than doing the trash again each wipe, and as long as people are careful for the first 10 seconds after that big swipe, it's not so bad to heal through it.

Either way though, hopefully this gets fixed with the Karagga's Palace update.

[Stab]

Anyone else have an issue where it spawns you above the doorway on a ledge that is too high to drop down from and live? This happened to us after 1 attempt on 16 Hard and then after first attempt 8 hard as well.

[Theril]

(01-14-2012 01:31 AM)Petrus Wrote:  Resetting it fixes it, but we just take the swipe and heal through it. Easier than doing the trash again each wipe, and as long as people are careful for the first 10 seconds after that big swipe, it's not so bad to heal through it.

Either way though, hopefully this gets fixed with the Karagga's Palace update.

This is being fixed in 1.1. The most recent update states:

"Bonethrasher no longer attacks players immediately after they fall into his pit when re-entering after being defeated, allowing players to regroup before engaging."

[OTGryphon]

He reset twice on us today in the middle of the fight.

[Antario]

yeah he's got a tendency to do that, especially if he targets somebody in the acid

my guild is currently sick of this boss, normal mode is fine since you can 4-5 man him and he hits like a wet towel

but the rest is just absolute agony, bugs, random damage
swipes/knockbacks on people that were on the other side of the room

we call him bugthrasher now

[Tiax]

(01-11-2012 11:33 PM)Antario Wrote:  the ToT keybind isnt exactly an option, since you would need a person sacreficing his ability to dps just to check ToT constantly

the dps tolerance is already pretty low

Mayhaps some dps could focus target him and use all abilities with focus-modifier (default: end) while checking ToT?

[geshtar]

Bonetrasher was significantly nerfed in the patch.

We went in to HM 16 man and one shot him without any problems - a very easy boss now and the DPS requirement is not nearly as insane (we had 2 tanks and several undergeared people and still beat him before enrage timer).

His knock back does not knock you back nearly as far, you can be slightly in from the metal ring and be fine now, and his swipe damage hits for much less - which makes this fight much more melee friendly.

[Bane]

http://starwarswarrior.wordpress.com/201...-hardmode/

Quick guide I wrote up for Hardmode 8man Bonethrasher. Hope it helps some players out there. Pretty straightforward fight, but it did give us some grief for a couple of hours, till we changed our approach.

[Movado]

Nice Guide! I like it!

[Hollywood]

(01-21-2012 05:13 AM)geshtar Wrote:  Bonetrasher was significantly nerfed in the patch.

We went in to HM 16 man and one shot him without any problems - a very easy boss now and the DPS requirement is not nearly as insane (we had 2 tanks and several undergeared people and still beat him before enrage timer).

His knock back does not knock you back nearly as far, you can be slightly in from the metal ring and be fine now, and his swipe damage hits for much less - which makes this fight much more melee friendly.

We thought the same. Right after patch, eight and sixteen man raids, we beat him first time.

Went back this past week with same people and wiped nearly ten times over two hours or so.

The main issue? It wasn't random mistakes and getting knocked off the edge, it was the swipe still being completely unavoidable by melee. We just had a string of bad luck everytime he'd go to swipe, he'd turn because the person with threat changed in that moment.

I am so really hoping they make it so that (in accordance with his VERY OBVIOUS animation) he will actually plant his feet and not magically swivel around and hit people.

Then it doesn't matter who has the threat, you just need to move really fast.

Other than that, the 'pillar' strategy works well, if he didn't bug people into the walls when knockback.