Question about Sandstorm in MC - Page 2

Dailon · 05-30-2008, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TANGARTH

they spawn in 2's so I don't know how you got 5 or 7.

Best bet is to mez them, save your shit and burn the named, hit him hard from the start before he stoneskins. Adds have a lot of hp, killing them isn't as effective as mezing even in good groups

In good group you can take down one add before his stoneskin falls. Personally I prefer mezzing all ads and saving dps for named.

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Originally Posted by gandulfy

The groups dps sucked you should never get that many adds

handling 5 that are grouped is freaking simple though

If you do it correct on this mob you will get 0 adds

hmmm you can prevent Sandy from spawning them? Cause couple times we get them right on pull so i just wonder what this correct is.

azakama · 05-30-2008, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Dailon

In good group you can take down one add before his stoneskin falls. Personally I prefer mezzing all ads and saving dps for named.

hmmm you can prevent Sandy from spawning them? Cause couple times we get them right on pull so i just wonder what this correct is.

I've seen single and double adds immediate on pull as well. It seems to be random. If you stifle on pull, it does seem to help, but I haven't conducted an experiment in a quantitative fashion or anything.

Obviously, the faster you burn down SS the less we have to worry about the adds in the first place. I think the only other thing I need more practice at now is cycling. I'm able to mez 7 pretty easy now. Haven't had to deal with 8 on SS (thankfully). My screwups on 6-7 on SS adds is due to cycling. Things get really cluttered in there.

Any tips on this? I'm just using tab and visual confirmation via the arrow. Gets kind of tough when group is standing on top of two adds (who are standing together). I'm using default UI as an FYI. I think I should switch to profit now that I'm getting more and more into endgame now.

Donnfleic · 05-30-2008, 09:05 AM

TRy it with a swash and a mnk

We got sme times no adds because of the interrupts from swashi and mnk

More then one add wave shouldnt happen anyway

Catseyes · 05-30-2008, 12:35 PM

depending on the dps your group provide (and their awarness on stoneskin proc) , you 'll have 1 ,2 or 3 stoneskins procs.
If you have a just OK dps, it can be a good idea to switch on at least one add during the stoneskin. As you can do nothing while, use that time to kill one, they 're tough but not that much.

if your tank has the named on the wall, sometimes the 2nd add pop almost in the wall, and you dont see it (happened to our illy last time).
and he gonna pound your MT massively. Get a little space around sandstorm to see well the adds and mezz them.

SacDaddy · 06-02-2008, 07:09 PM

Now i want a group to just hold Sandstorm for like as long as I can mezz the adds....just to see...

gandulfy · 06-03-2008, 12:02 PM

We always have a monk tanking and a brig pulling. The brig pulls the mob with swipe the monk interupts as much as possible and rest of group dps's with everthing it has. 7 times out of 10 we never get a stoneskin or an add and the mob is dead within a few seconds, the rest of the time we get 1 spawn of adds, I mezz them and then we kill it. Hope that helps.

Valkybix · 06-03-2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Pinski

You could kill them maybe instead of the named first? And if you as an Illusionist can't handle 5 adds, you're a fucking joke. Once all 5 are locked down, you can use exactly 1 mez to keep them all locked down, if you can't then you have issues that nobody here can help you with. This still leaves you with enough time to lock down a 6th with that same mez without issues, a 7th with the short term mez, and an 8th with our encounter mez. 8 is what you should be able to lock down.

Just out of curiousity... what groups and zones are you in where you get 8 adds?

Pinski · 06-03-2008, 02:37 PM

When I get bored and overpull while soloing heroics in Chelsith.