Bonethrasher

[Shaffi]

(01-24-2012 12:33 PM)Bane Wrote:  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.

Awesome guide <3 works perfect for us. After a couple of wipes with the ordinary "kite tactic"

[Tysson]

This is how the fight looks like on Republic side.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfA068cpXFU

[Aldoria]

We are having a lot of issues on this boss on NM. It seems like our survivability for the most part is pretty good but we don't seem to have the DPS output to down the boss before the enrage timer. It doesn't help we don't have a smuggler in the group... Though I think our DPS is pretty good since we have no problem downing the first boss of EV on NM (no enrage).

We've tried several strategies... one being all of the range DPS take their own little corner so they don't have to move around as much. It seems to work ok. We try to spread the melee out also on his backside. One thing that is really killing us is his constant target swaps. He would look at a melee and at the last minute decide to turn around and swipe everyone else. I'm not sure how guilds are dealing with the act of randomness. Is everyone popping fort stims instead of other stims?

We seem to hit enrage at around 15% hp left. We can usually get him down to 7-8% through kitting but that's still a lot of HP left. Not sure if people have any advice.

Thanks!

[Tactician]

If you're doing 8man, you can get your tank to respec DPS and just keep the 2 cat adds that spawn at 50% CC'd the rest of the fight. That will bring your DPS up quite a bit on the boss and help with enrage

[Kaedis]

Quote:One thing that is really killing us is his constant target swaps. He would look at a melee and at the last minute decide to turn around and swipe everyone else.

For the record, when he does his last-minute turn around like that, the damage from his swipe still targets his original target. If the melee behind him aren't too close to him (and don't panic and try to run through him), they shouldn't get hit by it, even though he'll be visually be swiping them.

Also, as Tactician stated above, CC those cats and keep them that way.

[Rooks]

This fight is also going to get significantly easier in 1.2 with ToT (target of Target). Not easy, mind you... the fight always has some random weirdness to it. But it should be a bit better to predict where he is going without the need to spam a ToT hotkey.