firamas

This is apparently a surprisingly common strategy! =)

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Athropos Cynosure --Red Eye Mountain-- 40 Witchunter [Radiant]
Entropie N'evrending --Unrest-- 80 Mystic [Confirmed] ...retired
Become Death --Nagafen-- 80 Brigand [The Kraken] ...retired
Firamas Slytheryn --Unrest-- 80 Bruiser [Enlightened Dark] ...retired
Firamas Shadowstrike --Tarew Marr-- 70 Monk [Enlightened Dark] ...retired

Blackgate

The Byzola battle isn't necessarily hard but there are some mechanics in it that make absolutely no sense to me. It is up there as one of the more difficult battles in the game although I recall Wuoshi giving us more of a problem back in T7 (Dirty Dozen, not my current guild).

Pinski

How do the mechanics not make sense? He has 2 AEs, 1 is a noxious that does the same damage/power drain where you stand, and 1 is arcane which does more damage/less power drain the closer you are. Then he has his 3 sweet abilities which are made to hurt the person getting them, either killing them, knocking them back, or making them move away from the raid else nearly killing the raid and draining most of their power.

Then he has the 3.5 types of adds! One type being half because it's a failure condition from 1 type, while the other 2 being gimp.

Then again, this is yet another fight with the reasons of clerics are OP'd. Fuck Steadfast.

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Kizee

Better to be OP sometimes than OPed all the time like defilers.

aeeron

gonna have to agree with pinski, we've killed this mob 3 times now and steadfast is the win..

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Crychtonn - Bylar

Randomly getting one shotted from Scornful Gaze is stupid. Only part of the fight that I really hate.

Fomka

qfe, I really hate it. And usually I dont even have time to see detrimental effect so fast I die.

Pinski

Here's a pro-tip, figure out what exactly is Scornful Gaze and why you get damaged. It's not the mob doing damage to you, it's because you did something with something on you.

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Until later...
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But apart from a few good friends We don't take anything on faith
Until later..

Crychtonn - Bylar

I know exactly what it is and what it does. Trying to stop casting, turning off auto attack and killing any DoT's you have on the mob when it lands on you fast enough not to get one shotted is near impossible. Then again your Pinski and probably have insanely leet reaction skills that I don't posses

Blackgate

I understand what goes on with the AEs but I suppose I should not have said that they do not make sense but rather its kind of dumb. The class specific adds that spawn 50+ meters away and don't come to the raid unless attacked but will stand there blasting your group for 2kdmg or more along with stuns/stifles is lame. That is what I was referring to, my bad.