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nex · 05-01-2012, 07:11 AM

Isnt this caused by a delayed taunt? I am about to check our combat logs as we were taking a lot of damage, but still .. o.O

Lysaira · 05-04-2012, 07:06 AM

In story mode at least we found this fight much easier when we switched to having only one tank. Bombardiers and the droid go down much quicker with the extra dps and the final phase is actually the easiest healing wise. Our tank just slowly kited Kephess around and while damage on him was spiky it wasn't a problem to heal through.

Squishei · 05-04-2012, 08:35 AM

(05-04-2012 07:06 AM)Lysaira Wrote: In story mode at least we found this fight much easier when we switched to having only one tank. Bombardiers and the droid go down much quicker with the extra dps and the final phase is actually the easiest healing wise. Our tank just slowly kited Kephess around and while damage on him was spiky it wasn't a problem to heal through.

I would advise against it to prepare for hard mode. But if you want to do story mode this way, it's your choice. You need one/two off tanks for 8/16 man which need to trade taunts properly and it doesn't hurt to start now when there isn't a serious crutch if it is done incorrectly.

Lucrecien · (This post was last modified: 05-04-2012 03:36 PM by Lucrecien.)

This was happening to us also. We wound up calling it on account of time, but even if we had more time for more attempts I'm not sure what we'd have done differently.

ed: that is to say, the 29k in two seconds thing.

Jizones · 05-13-2012, 02:59 AM

Any tips on burning the bombadiers down before they explode? We have problems on the third one when kephess is running around due to a dps loss. We've read stunning helps, but from what I can tell, it doesn't. One member swears the countdown slows down during the stun, but I wonder if it really does. If not, we are wasting a few global cooldowns to stun instead of dps.

azazael · 05-15-2012, 03:03 AM

(05-13-2012 02:59 AM)Jizones Wrote: Any tips on burning the bombadiers down before they explode? We have problems on the third one when kephess is running around due to a dps loss. We've read stunning helps, but from what I can tell, it doesn't. One member swears the countdown slows down during the stun, but I wonder if it really does. If not, we are wasting a few global cooldowns to stun instead of dps.

Don't waste the GCD on stuns.

Greenthy · 05-15-2012, 05:23 PM

(05-15-2012 03:03 AM)azazael Wrote:
(05-13-2012 02:59 AM)Jizones Wrote: Any tips on burning the bombadiers down before they explode? We have problems on the third one when kephess is running around due to a dps loss. We've read stunning helps, but from what I can tell, it doesn't. One member swears the countdown slows down during the stun, but I wonder if it really does. If not, we are wasting a few global cooldowns to stun instead of dps.

Don't waste the GCD on stuns.

And have your healers help with dots.

I couldn't find it in the guide, but does the random target from the walker only target ppl outside of the main group ?

Fearu · 05-16-2012, 03:01 PM

(05-15-2012 03:03 AM)azazael Wrote: Any tips on burning the bombadiers down before they explode? We have problems on the third one when kephess is running around due to a dps loss. We've read stunning helps, but from what I can tell, it doesn't. One member swears the countdown slows down during the stun, but I wonder if it really does. If not, we are wasting a few global cooldowns to stun instead of dps.

alright so quick things to think about

droids die tank picks up kephess.

Is dps attacking kephess or antcipating the bomb spawn.

If your lacking dps on that third one just tell everyone tank only kephess everyone constantly be looking for that bomb. If you can make everyone dps the bomb 3 seconds faster you can add almost 12k damage it adds up fast.

azazael · 05-17-2012, 01:22 AM

(05-16-2012 03:01 PM)Fearu Wrote: alright so quick things to think about

droids die tank picks up kephess.

Is dps attacking kephess or antcipating the bomb spawn.

If your lacking dps on that third one just tell everyone tank only kephess everyone constantly be looking for that bomb. If you can make everyone dps the bomb 3 seconds faster you can add almost 12k damage it adds up fast.

Took me a minute to figure out why you were quoting me. Jizones the above information is for you Smile

thrakkemarn · 05-18-2012, 03:33 AM

What we've been doing on Hard mode for the 3rd bomber is making all the DPS save all their offensive cooldowns (relics, adrenals etc) to use on him. The reason for this is you typically have everyone helping to DPS the first 2 bombers, but on the 3rd you lose a tank (who is dealing with Kephess) and at least 1 healer (who is keeping up the tank on Kephess). This works like a charm for us, and should apply just as well to Story mode.