Eternity Vault: SOA

[Petrus]

(01-25-2012 12:35 AM)Phalanx Wrote:  We tried some SOA hardmode pulls last night. Maybe I am simple, or it is possible I just was tired and not paying attention to the little details of the lightning balls.

Whichever the reason, how should they be handled now? I think our issue was having people headbutt them and get the tick plus the explosion, it was messy especially with the healers getting mind trapped.

What is the proper handling of the Lightning balls in Hardmode SOA after 1.1?

Thank you in advance.

Whoever gets targeted by the balls gets a DBM style warning in the middle of their screen. That person, especially if they're melee, needs to run away from everyone, and get shielded by a sorc. Once they are, they need to charge right at the ball and blow it up. The idea is to only take 1 tick of the lighting, then the explosion, and to not hit anyone else. Doing this will probably do about 14k or 15k damage, so the really need to be at full health.

Once they take the hit, heal them up, and repeat.

The thing to remember in this fight, is except for mindtraps/soa in p3, (where there are much fewer orbs) this is a TOTAL control fight. Communicate often. You can kite those orbs around until your healer is out of the mind trap, no problem. Don't make the mistake of trying to treat this like a burn fight, and have your members pop the orbs too early.

Wait until they're kited out, healed, and shielded - you have time.