Eternity Vault: SOA

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(02-17-2012 12:24 AM)Khadroth Wrote:  The amount of RNG in this fight is rediculous especially drawn out over a 10 minute+ fight. We finally got him down in 8m HM last night. Honestly once we got the ball strat down p2 ceased to be the problem (thanks for the strat btw Petrus), the only trick was the transition to p3 and not triggering it with someone in the air. P3 on the other hand got really annoying with the aggro drops causing him to run out from under the pylons, we had to resort to our DPS shadow taunt swapping with our Guardian tank to make sure Soa would take the hit (our Guardian was insisting he wasn't just dropping aggro after the mind traps). I can say the enrage on this guy is pretty tame, you can last through a good 1-2 more pylon drops after enrage to try and stretch the odds for victory.

Still though the sheer amount of stuff that could/did go wrong makes a pretty long list:
-Ball Ticks killing a person who doesn't flawlessly execute/gets lag
-Soa cycloning someone with VERY low health right after they soak a Ball
-Soa swapping aggro to another player and mind trapping the tank
-Soa swapping aggro to another player and cycloning the tank
-Soa swapping aggro repetitively in p3 and missing the pylon drops
-Phase transitioning with someone Cycloned
-Lagging someone off the platform edge during the decent
-Players getting glitched if they fall too far and being unable to be targeted for rescue/battle rez
-Soa combat glitching between attempts so that he despawns at 10%
-Balls hitting people getting sucked into mind traps
-Balls hitting people coming out of mind traps
-Balls teleporting to your platform and blowing up during phase transitions instead of despawning/evading
-Balls that normally evade bug when their target is mind trapped instead swapping targets and persuing a new person.

And I'm sure I forgot some in there lol... in fact the only thing I can say that didn't happen that you think would have, was people falling through platforms. BW somehow got the coding perfect there. You can stand right on a platform as it falls to a lower point and not fall through it all (though you might die from the fall distance). Alot of those are able to be dealt with like the low hp cyclone target, GS/Snipers can drop their group cover in the middle and mitigate some of the dmg upon landing, but others are just complete bad luck/rng.

Couldn't agree more...

We've been getting him down to phase three consistently, but each time a tank or the tank is getting cycloned just before the phase. Even if we plan and slow down the damage output before-hand, he still throws them up at the inconvenient moment.
Then, he doesn't have the decency to kill off the person, instead bugs them out at the bottom floor so they cannot be revived.

And somewhere I read phase three only had one sphere, we learned fast that it doesn't, even on eight man.

I doubt they'll ever fix all that you listed, but at least half of it would make the fight respectable.