Drusella in Maidens Bugged?

crayme · 02-19-2008, 09:17 AM

Let me first start by saying that I have killed Drusella at least 6 times prior to the latest update and have killed her once since the update which changed how she behaves.

Last night a guild group went in and we cleaned up all of Maidens in about 45 minutes and were ready to kill Drusella for a coercer epic update.

She seems to be completely bugged as we spent at least an hour trying time after time to kill her.

We had someone calling the STOP DPS & GO DPS to avoid doing any damage to her when she put her cage up. We even tried stopping DPS about 5 seconds before the cage went up even though it would be a longer fight, just to make sure noone was damaging her.

Well, she did not always cancel the negative effects on her as the patch notes says she should and even the times when everyone had stopped DPSing her WAY before she put up her cage, I would see her strip most, not all of the negative effects on her and she would still heal. I was the only one with her targeted and the only thing I did was use taunts which cause no damage, in order to keep aggro.

We even made a couple of attempts where we avoided using any DoTs or Debuffs which had any DoT effect and that still wouldnt work, she would still heal, even tho noone was doing any damage to her.

In addition to this problem, although she has always had a memblur/deaggro effect, it seemed much harder to keep aggro on her. She would aggro on a healer with her cage up and all I could do is use the couple of taunts that do no damage that guards get, and we all know how bad those taunts suck, even if they are not resisted.

So, has anyone had a recent experience with her and have any advice? Any Devs that could take a look at the encounter?

The last time I killed her, about a week ago, it was a completely different encounter and that was AFTER the GU42 update. Something is amiss...

Stonewahl
80 Guardian
Nex Inimicis, Butcherblock

Steeltoed · 02-19-2008, 09:20 AM

From what we've seen, she only strips 2 debuffs per person.

the_mo · 02-19-2008, 09:54 AM

- does definitly not strip every buff.
- had a troub with you? his buff procs dmg on your taunts
- you can kill it as easy as it was before, but now it wont even attack you so dont have to worry to get parry below 20%
- her aggro-stuff is really fubar. luckily we had 2 tanks with us last time (zerk+monk), so monk pulled, and zerk had aggro pretty much all through the fight (except monks peel)

crayme · 02-19-2008, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Steeltoed

From what we've seen, she only strips 2 debuffs per person.

Yeah, I did notice she did not always strip all debuffs, is it just damage that will heal her though or any effect? Plus, as I said above, we tried a few times using only attacks that did not leave any effects on her, nothing but pure damage and she still healed....

Also, the patch notes say she does not attack? while her cage is up, we found that to be untrue last night. Also, what about riposte damage, will that heal her? I tried turning my back to her every time her cage went up and nada....

crayme · 02-19-2008, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by the_mo

- does definitly not strip every buff.
- had a troub with you? his buff procs dmg on your taunts
- you can kill it as easy as it was before, but now it wont even attack you so dont have to worry to get parry below 20%
- her aggro-stuff is really fubar. luckily we had 2 tanks with us last time (zerk+monk), so monk pulled, and zerk had aggro pretty much all through the fight (except monks peel)

We had no Troub with us, group was Me(Guard), Coercer, Mystic, Templar, Assasin, Brigand.

Last night she was infact attacking with cage up. I would hit ESC to untarget and she would smack me.

Uyaem · 02-19-2008, 10:08 AM

Ripostes would heal her.
It was stated by the zone designer in a thread on the official forums (can't find it atm) that Drusella would stop auto-attack while the cage is up, but still use spells, so your incoming damage will not be zero at the time, but ripostes should not be possible (this is in fact why she stops auto-attack, to prevent the need for the player to tank with his ass).

Lucutious · 02-19-2008, 10:56 AM

Turn your back and you give teh mob a chance to strike without avoidance check.

Remove your weapon and your fists will miss.

Pinski · 02-19-2008, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucutious

Turn your back and you give teh mob a chance to strike without avoidance check.

Remove your weapon and your fists will miss.

Turning your back to a mob does not remove your avoidance. It only removes base-parry(if you aren't a brawler) and block

Conqueror_Beld · 02-19-2008, 12:09 PM

Pretty simple fight if you're conservative with calling out DPS and use no dots. Killed her again this weekend and never lost aggro.

SKAR · 02-19-2008, 12:24 PM

Best way to do it, is the same way as before. No Dots (because she did NOT drop them as I interpreted she would).

I've never seen a problem with riposting her. Dont need to turn your back. She WILL however re-gain your target - so make sure your auto-atk is not on.

Regardless, someone ALWAYS seems to leave a dot on her the first attempt.... always finding myself inspecting her buff window for dots and calling out anything on her, and tell that person to STOP CASTING THAT GD IT! Once you find out where the dot is coming from and tell that person to stop, its easy-peasy all over again.