Orochan

She hits all the time, even after she cast her boneshield.

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Orodina

From Test patch notes:

"Summons of the Feaster is no longer affected by mana draining spells and abilities."

So much for that. Just replace power drains with something useful already.

Cenarius

nice, the only mob in... 2 expansions where powerdrains are useful is now fixed... thx SOE

Toranus

Easy strat but take a bit is to just burn Bilithu of the Old Ways to 80% then wait for him to heal himself. Rinse and repeat until hes out of power so he cant do the AE tail swipe.

FYI if he ever gets down to 75% hp he will AE port and hit for like 7500 dmg.

Sotan

I don't get why people are making such a fuss over this. Yes, it was nice to have a reason to power drain. But holy fuck was it boring to go on runs where people did that. There's a few people I love grouping with who power drain this mob, and it's like 5 minutes of just sitting there hitting a heal every now and then. /yawn

My guildies just fight through the teleports. Once you figure out how the debuff works it is not that to burn this guy down in like a minute or two. You just have to bring a group that is not filled with retards.

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Orodina

I'm not so much annoyed at the mob, which is easy enough to beat, as I am at Ilucide making the statement that a reason to use power drain was put in the game, when it looks like it was unintended, and the zone designer is taking it out.

It also annoys me that in most human endeavors if someone thinks of doing something in a different way than intended, that is seen as innovation or thinking outside of the box - a good thing. The devs seem to feel that if you are defeating the mob by a means other that what they thought of, it is bad and needs to be blocked. Power draining the mob didn't make it some easy, short encounter. Unless you have an enchanter, you aren't going to be power draining it much anyway.

agressiv

FYI, if we interpret the patch notes literally the power drain won't affect the teleport. He has a separate ability that puts the uncurable trauma that you can still powerdrain and he won't hit you with. This abilities go off at the same time.

So you'll end up just getting ported - unless they worded it wrong.

agressiv

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Sotan

Interesting but pointless. Without the trauma debuff, the teleport would be merely a momentary annoyance.

I suppose if it works like you say then there's still a reason to power drain him, but really now. Pull him out of the room into the hallway. Teach your group to run to one side of the chamber if they get the trauma, the other side if they don't. Have group wards/reactives up and be ready with group heals for the people who get hit. Unload maximum DPS. Don't suck.

That's all it takes to beat this encounter.

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Anduri

QFE. I just do not understand why they would waste their time doing this "fix". It's not like it was broken in any way.

Please just take power drains off our spells and give us something that actually works.

mwhym

Funniest thing of all is that they will take the time to fix something noone even considered to be broken, when there are tons of other things that need looking into.

Regardless it was a nice moment for my coercer when it actually was fun to have those spells, I actually think it was the first time in years that I actually used them with powerdrain in mind

While I am no SOE hater and i love eq2 with all its flaws it sometimes feel like the people who run the show are totally daft.